Floriography In Print
We bring different perspectives to the table, but we’re united by a love for purposeful work, thoughtful design, and real connection.
CONTRIBUTORS
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APRIL 2026
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CONTRIBUTORS ✳︎ APRIL 2026 ✳︎
Sabrina Acloque (she/her) is an attorney and poet who is originally from Boston, Massachusetts, and now calls the DC area home. Sabrina loves writing and sharing her poetry through readings and performances. Sabrina's poems are also featured in several poetry anthologies published by Moonstone Press. Her works touch upon themes of cultural identity, love, and social justice. Sabrina has a background in international human rights and domestic civil rights enforcement. She believes in uplifting the voices of those from marginalized communities.
A poet and Black Classicist from New York City, Stephanie Dinsae is a 2019 Smith College graduate with an MFA in Poetry and Literary Translation from Columbia University's School of the Arts. She often writes poetry about myth as it relates to Blackness and her own life, video games, friendship, and the fallibility/flexibility of memory. Most recently, Stephanie has published work with Queer Mushies, Floriography, and The Seventh Wave. She is a 2023 Brooklyn Poets Fall Fellow and a 2025 Ink & Impact Fellow with Lavender Education. Her favorite things to do are dance around to music and obsess over astrology. In case you were wondering, Stephanie has major Libra, Scorpio, and Sagittarius placements.
Mallory Gothelf is a graduate of Northeastern University with a degree in psychology, and an unabashed advocate who has spoken and written extensively about mental health and LGBTQIA+ issues for companies and organizations including: This Is My Brave, Aditum Bio, Zencare.co, The Ruderman Foundation, Active Minds, and Minding Your Mind. She has given over 500 presentations across the country. Utilizing her story and knowledge, she launched a mission driven mental health company, Find Your/self. Her passion for queer stories and mental health inspires her current writing.
Leticia Priebe Rocha is the author of In Lieu of Heartbreak, This is Like (Bottlecap Press, 2024). She earned her bachelor’s from Tufts University, where she was awarded an Academy of American Poets University Poetry Prize. Born in São Paulo, she immigrated to Miami, FL at the age of nine and currently resides in Greater Boston. Her work appears in Here to Stay: Poetry and Prose from the Undocumented Diaspora, Salamander, Rattle, and elsewhere. She is a 2025 Undocupoets Fellow and her work has been supported by the Fine Arts Work Center, Mass Cultural Council, and Cambridge Arts. Leticia is an editor for Yellow Arrow Publishing, teaches various poetry workshops, and loves the moon.
Arwari is a human being drawn to the poetry hidden in things both vast and minuscule. Mixed media works emerge from a curiosity toward the symbols and meanings that surface in everyday life. Guided by whatever material calls at the moment, Arwari finds inspiration in the intricate patterns of nature and the mysteries of the universe. The colors in the art reflect the emotional state of their creation, acting as a visual record of mood and moment.
Carolina Gonzalez is a Lesbian, Hispanic, oral historian and researcher from Longview, Texas and the founder of The Queer Joy Project of East Texas, an archive dedicated to preserving Queer history in East Texas. With this project, she presented at the 2024 Invisible Histories Queer Teach-in and was a fellow at the 2025 Oral History Summer Institute at Columbia University. In her free time, she loves creating and crafting of all kinds, reading, and hiking.
Fin Leary (they/them) is a transgender and autistic author, a program manager at We Need Diverse Books, and a faculty member at Emerson College and GrubStreet. Fin is the 2026 Young Adult Writer-in-Residence at Porter Square Books, and they were a 2024 Lambda Literary Emerging LGBTQ+ Voices Fellow for Young Adult Fiction. Fin is the editor of the science fiction anthology Future States of Stars (OwlCrate Press, 2026). They are a contributor to the young adult horror anthology These Bodies Ain’t Broken edited by Madeline Dyer (Page Street Publishing, 2025). Their fiction has been supported by the McCormack Writing Center (formerly Tin House), Narrative Initiative, Sundress Academy for the Arts, and the Martha's Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing. Fin has performed their poems at The Poetry Brothel Boston, GBH, Boston Poetry Slam, and Boston in 100 Words. Fin lives with their orange literary cat and a rainbow bookshelf outside of Boston, Massachusetts.
Kimm Topping is a writer, educator, and founder of Lavender Education, a creative education and publishing platform that blends storytelling, history, and creative practice. They are the author of GenerationQueer (Lee & Low Books) and creator of community-based public history projects including Mapping Feminist Cambridge and Mapping Queer Cities. Their work has been recognized by Queer History Boston, the Curve Power List, and the Massachusetts Transgender Political Coalition.