feat. Milena London, Jamie Hood, Violet Kupersmith, Greta Rainbow, & Stephanie Wambugu

Milena London is a NYC-based content creator and cinematographer, and the owner of the creative agency The Fox Creative, working across digital platforms. She creates cinematic, narrative-driven content focused on place, atmosphere, and culture. She is also leading efforts to preserve and reintroduce the literary legacy of her mother, author Elaine Kraf, expanding the reach of her novels to contemporary audiences in the U.S. and internationally.

Jamie Hood is the author of Trauma Plot, how to be a good girl, and regards, marcel, a monthly newsletter on Proust and other miscellany. Her essays and criticism have appeared in The Baffler, Bookforum, The Nation, Los Angeles Review of Books, The New Inquiry, The Drift, and elsewhere. She lives in Brooklyn.

Violet Kupersmith is the author of the short story collection The Frangipani Hotel and the novel Build Your House Around My Body, which won the Bard Fiction Prize, was a finalist for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize, was and longlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction. She has been the recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the International Writers’ Workshop, the University of East Anglia, the Fulbright Program, and MacDowell.

Greta Rainbow is an editor at The Creative Independent, an arts columnist for New York Review of Architecture, and lead contributor to Blank, a literary newsletter from Dirt Media. She is Research Editor at BDG and fact-checks for independent authors and outlets. She also makes visual art. Greta has worked for places like Cooper Hewitt, Harper’s, and New York Public Radio. She was a 2025 Writer-in-Residence at the Salzburger Kunstverein in partnership with SPIKE magazine. She grew up in Seattle, attended McGill University in Montreal, and now lives in Brooklyn.

Stephanie Wambugu was born in Mombasa, Kenya in 1998 and grew up in Rhode Island. She lives and works in New York, where she received her MFA from Columbia University. She is an editor of Joyland Magazine. Lonely Crowds is her first novel.

Elaine Kraf (1936-2013) was a writer and painter. She was the author of four published works of fiction: I Am Clarence (1969), The House of Madelaine (1971), Find Him! (1977), and The Princess of 72nd Street (1979)—as well as several unpublished novels, plays, and poetry collections. She was the recipient of two National Endowment for the Arts awards, a 1971 fellowship at the Broad Loaf Writers’ Conference, and a 1977 residency at Yaddo. She was born and lived in New York City.