“Impossible but it happened: a leaf Came to rest, plump and green and fresh as breath, After conducting the breeze in that brief Musical catastrophe called “leaf-death”. As through a camera falling from a cliff, We saw what it saw and felt what it felt, Delightful panic, a delicious whiff [...]

topic: BORDERS medium: TEXT as shared at a PenTales event themed “Royalty” Flying home to Ireland, on Saint Stephen’s day, the 26th of December. The country has been covered with snow, temperatures plunging below zero. It covers the landscape, making all white, all redundant, eerie in disuse, like furniture under [...]

Stephanie Ursula Hodges is fascinated by cities and curious about the people who live in them. She holds a B.A. from Harvard University and is currently studying Urbanism at New York University. The last few years, she spent working in the public sector helping build productive urban spaces in which [...]

PenTales is a pretty awesome group of creative souls, if we may say so ourselves. We started in New York with just two people (Saskia and Stephanie). From there the project grew exponentially. We’ve had countless friends lend a hand or their apartments for salon nights. And, that’s basically the [...]

Verity Oberg grew up with the allied forces in occupied Berlin, shaping her interest in contemporary history and urban development. After studying at New School University (NYC) and Humboldt University (Berlin), Oberg holds private tours of her hometown and recently completed an audio guide to Berlin. She works in the [...]

Royal Young was born and bred on New York’s Lower East Side. He has chats for Interview Magazine and reports on the downtown’s changing arts and culture scene for The Lo Down.

Elise currently resides in Zurich where she works for a nonprofit organization and an Internet company. Passionate about books, at the age of 15 she wanted to open a children’s bookstore. Years have passed by, yet there remains a desire to develop the idea further. Still a bookworm, Elise always [...]

Olivia was born in Rio de Janeiro in a tropical rainstorm. She swiftly moved to Britain for a childhood filled with drizzle. Since then, she has lived on a volcanic island and in various places across Europe. She works at The News, which she occasionally admits to making up (her [...]

Louisa has worked as a journalist and photographer for Vanity Fair and The European among other publications. Disappointed by what people want or don?t want to read every morning, she’s now planning on abandoning journalism to become a full-time writer, or something else entirely. Having grown up in a family [...]

Tiffany is a graduate of CUNY Brooklyn College where she studied English for four years, constantly dreaming about being a creative writing major. What kept her from switching over officially were the voices of those more wise than she repeating over and over again that she would be a starving [...]

Saskia is passionate about exploring communication between people, communities, cultures, and is not ashamed to cry or laugh out loud while reading a good story. She holds an M.A. from the Free University of Berlin in cross-cultural communications, a passion she first explored in her undergraduate studies at New York University?s [...]