Introducing our team of editors for the Spring 2014 issue of Forum Magazine! These are the people who, thanks to your contributions and the help of the graphics department on campus, are able to put together this fantastic magazine every semester.
Katerina Argyres
General Editor
Katerina Argyres is currently enrolled in CCSF and SF State. When she’s not studying, working, or entertaining her dog she likes to watch old movies set in San Francisco and cook. She is currently on a detective novel spree. It is inspiring her to write short mysteries and narrate her daily activities like she is in a noir film.
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Kristine Nodalo
Managing Editor
Drama and Visual Arts Reader
Kristine Nodalo has been living in San Francisco for ten years, but has continually failed to find the cool places where the cool kids hang out. In her spare time, she likes to hole up in her room with a pizza all to herself while watching Downton Abbey. You’ll usually find her hungry and searching for more food, or with her nose in a book.
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Virginia Carrillo
Assistant Managing Editor
Poetry Reader
Virginia Carrillo currently works at a public library. She is a student at City College of San Francisco and wishes to obtain a bachelor’s in English literature. Her house is currently infested with literature books and cats, all around!
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Leith Mahoney-Maver
Social Media Editor
Assistant Non-Fiction Editor
The daughter of two hippies from the Santa Cruz Mountains, the third of four children, left-handed, and she once met David Sedaris while living in Paris, which has been a life highlight. She writes about all of it in a blog called The San Franciscan.
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Osiris Walls
Fiction Editor
Assistant Drama Editor
Poetry Reader
not unlike the moon
dark, pulsing clouds will reveal
My Incandescence
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Brian Fidler
Drama Editor
Assistant Fiction Editor
Brian currently studies English at CCSF and lives in Oakland.
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Sara McKinney
Poetry Editor
Writes, paints, and sings in San Francisco. A South Carolina native, she loves life in the city, but will never forget home. Her favorite color is all of them, and 2014 is going to be her year.
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Elise Stewart
Non-Fiction Editor
Visual Arts Co-Editor
Since graduating from San Francisco State with a Bachelor’s degree in English Literature in 2012, Elise has endeavored to find employment that, in some way or another, would help to facilitate her unwavering wanderlust. After a number of ill-fits–including a short, yet soul-crushing stint as a slampiece in the tech world; a demeaning personal assistantship for a racist psychiatrist; and a dismal temp job at a bridesmaid-dress startup–she has cycled back to the academic bubble. Eager to reassume a place among those with full heads and empty stomachs, Elise has ungrudgingly shelved her travel plans to reenter the figurative space she feels most at home in: that of visual arts and literature.
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Bryan Makishi
Assistant Non-Fiction Editor
Assistant Fiction Editor
Bryan likes to find good books at garage sales and at his coin laundromat’s “Take a book Leave a book” table.
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David Chang
Visual Arts Co-Editor
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Gary Baker
Business and Fundraising Manager
Events Coordinator
Born in the East Bay, Gary has lived all 48 years of his life in the Bay Area. A baseball fan, softball player, music aficionado and pop culture junkie, Gary is also a former music marketing professional. Gary has returned to college to be an English teacher at the high school level. This is his third year as a part-time student at CCSF, and he will be transferring to SFSU in the fall.
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