Anthony Afairo Nze is a 21 year old visual artist, cartoonist, and graphic design student from Indiana. Currently attending community college where he majors in Visual Communications. Afairo Nze’s artistic style focuses on the surreal and a very strong use of color. For more of his visual art visit him on Instagram @afairosgallery or for gag cartoons visit him @recklesspeoplecomics.

The main subjects for my artwork are people who are in a state of flux. The figures in my paintings, captured in moments of uncertainty and isolation, are close in proximity but emotionally distant. They are positioned in liminal natural environments—the sun is setting or storms are approaching—with no clear entrance or exit pathway.

Mercury-Marvin Sunderland (he/him) is a transgender autistic gay man from Seattle with Borderline Personality Disorder. He currently attends the Evergreen State College and works for Headline Poetry & Press. He's been published by UC Riverside's Santa Ana River Review, UC Santa Barbara's Spectrum Literary Journal, and The New School's The Inquisitive Eater. He's @Romangodmercury on Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter.

Mercury-Marvin was kind enough to sit down with us and by now you know what we asked him to get things going. 

Christopher Paul Brown is known for his exploration of the unconscious and the serendipitous. This year his work has appeared in twelve periodicals  and one hardcover book. His first photography sale was to the Standard Oil Company of Indiana and his video You Define Single File was nominated for the Golden Gate Award at the 47th San Francisco International Film Festival. He earned a BA in Film from Columbia College Chicago in 1980.

Frances Lefkowitz lent us her story Octopus for the Fall 2020 issue of NUNUM and after we blended it up with the art of Tracy Whiteside we found ourselves with something we couldn't wait to share with the world. 

Frances was kind enough to give us a little of her time and by now you know exactly what the first thing we asked her was.

Frances, what was the first book you remember picking and reading by yourself?