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SENIOR STAFF

Editor-in-Pants & Publisher
Serah-Marie McMahon has most of a BFA in Fibre Arts that she fully intends to complete one day. Her art practice concentrates on quilt making techniques and DeWitt Clinton. She is a sometime contributor to Broken Pencil and Shameless Magazine, and published the 2008 Puces Pop Program and A Very Basic Introduction to the Sewing Machine zine. She has taught crafty workshops in Montreal but now lives in Toronto and is sadly much less crafty. She keeps house with her three cats and husband Ted.

serahmarie @ wornjournal.com

Managing Editor
G. Stegelmann wrote her first book, The Girl Who Had Long Hair, at the age of six. A poignant story of loss and redemption, it was readily mimeographed by Mrs. Dorothy Ledgley, and added to the permanent collection at Our Lady of Lourdes elementary school library in 1978. After almost graduating high school, she left her home in Delaware, Ontario, to pursue many prestigious retail service jobs before, during, and after completing her undergraduate degree in English at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Coco is also a very successful part-time secretary and video store clerk, occasionally taking on fashion styling and photography projects for personal fulfillment, but almost never financial gain. Now at the end of a well-deserved thirty year break from serious literary endeavour, she is furiously working on thinking about the follow-up to her first book. She is undaunted by the current slump in the mimeograph publishing industry. Coco Buck lives, works, and rides her bike in Toronto, Canada.
g @ wornjournal.com

Editor-in-Shorts and Assistant Publisher
Sara Forsyth grew up in rural Nova Scotia. Over the years she learned how to play the French horn (badly), plié (badly), and make skirts from old jeans (of which she has about a dozen). She went to journalism school on a whim and graduated in 2007. Since then she’s had a successful career as an intern. Sara’s first fashion moment occurred on her fifth birthday, April 10, 1990. She wore: black leggings; an oversize purple tee-shirt, tied in a knot at the waist; pink, peep-toe heels with magenta gems; and her hair was crimped. She’s never been trendier.

saraf @ wornjournal.com

Senior Editor & Academic Liason - New York
Sonya Topolnisky is currently a PhD candidate at the Bard Graduate Center in New York City where she recently completed her MA thesis; What That Hillbilly Cat Dragged In: Elvis Presley’s Transgressive Self-fashioning 1954-1958 focusing on the relationships between dress, subculture and identity construction. Her current research interests center around mid-century America and the intersections between fashion, art, and popular culture. She has worked extensively with early fashion periodicals, with the costume collection at the Museum of the City of New York, and is employed at the Costume Institute at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
sonya @ wornjournal.com

Senior Editor & Books Editor - Montreal
Emily Raine is a Montrealer, a freelance writer, a freedom fighter, a 45 collector, a compulsive reader, a freakbeat connoisseur, a foodie and, above all, a lady. She is also a PhD candidate in the Communications program at McGill University, where she studies political economy and philosophy, music and noise theory, and service labour. While she likes to pretend that she’s really into fashion, Emily is really just one of those people who buys the same four dresses over and over with slightly different details, but the other WORN staff kindly pretend not to notice. She mixes a mean caipiroska cocktail.
emilyr @ wornjournal.com

Copyeditor
Kate Schweishelm’s childhood fashion icon was Annie – post-Daddy Warbucks, of course – after whom she would obsessively style herself so that she could sit on the window sill and wistfully lip-sync along to the film’s soundtrack. She was also the kind of kid who once forgot it was Easter morning because she was too busy filling out a particularly enthralling phonics workbook. When she grew up she got a couple of degrees from McGill and Ryerson in English and Cultural Studies, started a vintage clothing business, and began compulsively collecting examples of the word “everyday” being used incorrectly in an array of high profile ad campaigns and copywriting. She was born and raised in the heart of Toronto, but her own heart belongs to Montreal and Berlin. kate @ wornjournal.com

Website Editor
Carmen Vicente currently lives in Toronto but hopes that will one day change to anything ending in “-urope”. She began her degree in Creative Writing at UBC, but finished at Concordia after tacking on an incredibly useful minor in Hinduism. Carmen’s original life plan growing up was to be a princess, though she has since learned that aside from Grace Kelly, regular old rif rafs are generally excluded from such paths. She considers herself a crafty chica, loves to knit and bead, and even requested spinning lessons (wool not stationary bicycles) for her 19th birthday. For the record, Carmen loves babies, cinnamon buns, and sales.
carmen @ wornjournal.com

Director of Events
Jennifer Carroll spent her earlier years in the company of plastic dolls who she styled to perfection. In time she discovered that inventing elaborate life stories for fashion dolls was no longer socially acceptable amongst other “grownups”, and so was forced to realize other creative outlets. Indecisive and ambitious, Jennifer would later complete a B.A.S. at the University of Guelph where she minored in various theoretical Arts subjects, and apparently majored in “The Cutting Edge.” These days Jennifer lives in Toronto where she writes short stories about petulant children, muses over obscure social engagement art, and alters clothing at her kitchen table. events @ wornjournal.com

BLOG CONTRIBUTORS
Anna Fitzpatrick (anna @ wornjournal.com)
Meaghan Kelly
Anna Cipollone
Hailey Siracky

ART DEPARTMENT
Danielle Sayer production manager and layout design
Michelle Sayer production manager and layout design
Janice Wong art direction consultant
Alexandra Barton design (alexandra @ wornjournal.com)
Chelsea McBroom photoshoots (chelsea @ wornjournal.com)

DISTRIBUTION
Serah-Marie McMahon
Hillary Predko (hillary @ wornjournal.com)

CURRENT TORONTO INTERNS
Stephanie Fereiro (stephanief @ wornjournal.com)
Jaclyn Irvine (jaclyn @ wornjournal.com)
Avyn Omel (avyn @ wornjournal.com)
Anisha Seth (anisha @ wornjournal.com)
Magenta Piroska (magenta @ wornjournal.com)

CURRENT MONTREAL INTERNS
Aseema Kabir
Jennifer Knoll

PAST INTERNS
Carmen Vicente
Sarah Phillips
Hillary Predko
Alexandra Barton
Stephanie Herold
Valentina RossMottley
Esme Hogeveen
Kate Schweishelm
Chelsea McBroom
Anna Fitzpatrick
Victoria Rumi
Laura Hensley
Melissa Kuril
Adey Farah

WORNETTES AT LARGE
Mackenzie Lashbrook
Pascale L. Giorgiev
Lola Lamb
Emily Paige
Ted Kulczycky
Risa Dickens
Bonnie De Kuyper
Bella B.
Tessa Gold-Smith
Meagan Allison-Hancock (meagan @ wornjournal.com)