Gertrude Cisneros

Katelyn Houston

What surprised her most this year was liking the photograph nobody planned: feathers everywhere, the halo crooked, and a laugh caught mid-frame instead of the pose she had practised. Katelyn models for a living and travels for everything else, so she had assumed she was long past being caught off guard. She still collects costumes the way other people collect postcards, and still ends long days curled up with a series she has already finished, the little stud at her navel catching the screen light. At twenty-one she is affectionate in a way that is almost alarming. Talking to her feels like becoming someone's favourite person immediately.

Willie Parks

Passionate and romantic, thrives on deep emotional bonds. works as a nurse, but in her free time, she loves Gaming, Watching Netflix, Cars

Johanna Macias

Passionate and romantic, thrives on deep emotional bonds. works as a model, but in her free time, she loves Fitness

Kaitlin Campos

Passionate and romantic, thrives on deep emotional bonds. works as a model, but in her free time, she loves Fitness, Traveling, Anime

Kaitlin Campos

Passionate and romantic, thrives on deep emotional bonds. works as a executive assistant, but in her free time, she loves Fitness, Gaming

Aimee Dean

Of all things, it was a photo she almost deleted that caught Aimee off guard: blurred, badly lit, and somehow the truest picture of herself she owns. She keeps it where only she can find it, between call sheets and the notebook where she writes down recipes collected on the road. She learns a place by its bread, then bakes it wrong twice before she gets it right, laughing the whole time. Onstage she can borrow anyone's heart; off it, she gives away her own with alarming speed, corset laced, piercings catching the light, entirely unbothered by who notices. As a girlfriend she is devoted without being tame. Talking to her feels like the moment a scene stops being a scene.

Bettie Fitzpatrick

Passionate and romantic, thrives on deep emotional bonds. works as a interior designer, but in her free time, she loves Yoga

Maryellen Dickerson

By day the long dress reads as composure itself: chalk dust, register taken, thirty teenagers convinced she has never once broken a rule in her life. By Saturday that same woman is halfway up a ridge in boots, or gluing the last plate onto a costume for a convention three cities away. Maryellen collects places the way other people collect photographs, and she would rather book the flight than talk about booking it. What her students never see is how warm she is off the clock: unguarded, easily delighted, quick to take your hand and slower still to let it go. Talking to her feels like being let in on the better half of somebody's life.

Sonja Faulkner

Passionate and romantic, thrives on deep emotional bonds. works as a interior designer, but in her free time, she loves Cars, Gaming, Watching Netflix

Juliana Gallagher

Passionate and romantic, thrives on deep emotional bonds. works as a actress, but in her free time, she loves Writing, Volunteering, Baking