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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. G. 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. G. 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

Copy Editor
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
Anna Fitzpatrick is currently studying English at York University, which will one day lead to a career where she is paid copious amounts of money to read books and wear pretty clothes. Her writing has appeared in places like Prim, Shameless, and her very sophisticated personal blog If the Sok Fitz. She claims her style icons are Morticia Addams, Patti Smith and Annie Hall, but wears too many sparkles for anybody to actually believe her. She is presently on the quest to find the perfect pair of size 12 shoes that don’t make her look like a duck. If anybody has any leads, you are free to e-mail her.
webeditor @ 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

WORNJOURNAL.COM

regular contributors
Meaghan Kelly
Anna Cipollone
Hailey Siracky
Lucie Goulet

blog copy editor
Stephanie Fereiro (stephanief @ wornjournal.com)

ART DEPARTMENT

production manager and layout design
Danielle Sayer
Michelle Sayer

art direction consultant
Janice Wong

art department
Alexandra Barton (alexandra @ wornjournal.com)

photoshoots
Chelsea McBroom (chelsea @ wornjournal.com)
Avyn Omel (avyn @ wornjournal.com)

DISTRIBUTION
wholesale, online orders, and subscriptions
Serah-Marie McMahon

director of shows, sales, and fairs
Hillary Predko (hillary @ wornjournal.com)

CURRENT TORONTO INTERNS
Anisha Seth (anisha @ wornjournal.com) (senior intern)
Magenta Piroska (magenta @ wornjournal.com) (senior intern)
Ave Smith (ave @ wornjournal.com)
Maximilian Mosher (max @ wornjournal.com)
Marsya Maharani (marsya @ wornjournal.com)
Deua Medeiros (deua @ wornjournal.com)

CURRENT MONTREAL INTERNS
Aseema Kabir
Jennifer Knoll (books @ wornjournal.com)

PAST INTERNS
Stephanie Fereiro (stephanief @ wornjournal.com)
Jaclyn Irvine (jaclyn @ wornjournal.com)
Avyn Omel (avyn @ wornjournal.com)
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

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