Re:Echo Journal — Issue 1

Micha Boyett is the author of Blessed Are the Rest of Us and Found: A Story of Questions, Grace, and Everyday Prayer. A poet and disability advocate, she writes about prayer and the wonder of ordinary life.

Abigail Engel lives in Haddon Heights, NJ with her husband (Nick) and dog (Gertrude). She is an active and enthusiastic member of the Resurrection community. She holds a BFA from NYU and a Certificate in Screenwriting from Chapman University.  

Andrew E. Colarusso is author of The Sovereign (2017), Hívado (2022), Black Body Index (2024), and Pettyg-d (2026). He is the owner of Taylor & Co. Books, an indie bookstore in Ditmas Park, Brooklyn, where he grew up.

Calvin Cummings is a writer from Oak Ridge, Tennessee. His work appears in Volume Ø, Soft Union, Blue Arrangements, SARKA, Haskell Industries, and elsewhere. 

Catherine Ricketts is editor-in-chief of Re:Echo Journal. She is the author of The Mother Artist: Portraits of Ambition, Limitation, and Creativity (Broadleaf, 2024). Her essays appear in Image, Comment, The Christian Century, Ploughshares and elsewhere. She lives near Philadelphia and works at Villanova University.

Charlotte Donlon is a writer and spiritual director. In 2020, Broadleaf Books published Charlotte’s first book, The Great Belonging: How Loneliness Leads Us to Each Other. In September, Here Below–a new Eerdmans imprint–will publish Spiritual Direction for Writers: Everyday Rituals for the Writing Life.

Christopher Yates is a philosopher, writer, and occasional woodworker from Crozet, Virginia. He teaches at James Madison University, is an associate fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture, and is a longtime student of, especially, aesthetics and phenomenology.

Heather Lanier’s memoir, Raising a Rare Girl, was a New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice. She is also the author of four poetry collections, including Psalms of Unknowing. She is an associate professor of writing at Rowan University.

John Cunningham leads a culture-engagement fund dedicated to connecting ideas with broader public life. He lives in the Philadelphia area with his wife, three children, and one dog. He wants to talk to you about food, wine, or books.

Laurel Garver is the author of the poetry collection Muddy-Fingered Midnights and three novels: Never Gone, Ever Near, and Almost There. She is managing editor of the Journal of Modern Literature (Indiana UP) and a freelance editor in Philadelphia.

Michael Dechane is the author of The Long Invisible (Wildhouse Publishing, 2024). His poetry has appeared in Image, Spiritus, Tar River Poetry, Lake Effect, and elsewhere. He lives in the historic Stackhouse home in Marshall, NC.

William Mangold has three children and is on the faculty at Drexel University where he teaches interior architecture and design. His work explores the reciprocal relationship between people and place through ideas like home, atmosphere, and social responsibility.

Joshua Stamper is a transdisciplinary artist and composer whose work explores hiddenness, revelation, ephemera, and archive.

He has worked as an orchestral arranger, studio conductor, and session musician for Columbia / Sony BMG and Concord Records, Lionsgate Films, Warner Bros. Pictures, and Legendary Entertainment, and for independent labels Domino, Dead Oceans, Important Records, and Smalltown Supersound.

He has received fellowships from MacDowell, the New Jersey State Council on the Arts, the Speranza Foundation, the BAU Institute at the Camargo Foundation. Joshua’s work has been supported by the American Composers Forum, the NewAm Composers Lab, the Lilly Endowment, the Musical Fund Society of Philadelphia, the Eric Stokes Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts.

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