Mahalia Rae

I edit and write web copy for a digital marketing company and have six years of experience working with SEO best practices and web copy marketing strategies.

Outside of copywriting, I have an interest in writing and editing fiction — specifically sci-fi and fantasy. I have interned at a university literary journal, Glint Journal, as a fiction and nonfiction editor and book reviewer. Additionally, I've completed a social media internship for a digital research project on the avant-garde art movement.

Mina Loy - Navigating the Avant-Garde •

Black Artists and the Avant-Garde

The early 20th century avant-garde came to be largely through the charismatic leadership of white, European male artists who wanted to revolutionize art and do away with traditional art and ideas. Antonis Glytzouris notes that many avant-gardists were anti-capitalist and called for fellow artists and citizens alike to abandon the ideals of society and live freely as a “challenge to the bourgeois status quo” (133). Avant-gardists advocated not just for creative freedom, but for economic and socia...
Glint Literary Journal •

Mahalia Cooks’ Review of Janis Thomas’ All That’s Left of Me

All That’s Left of Me, Janis Thomas’ most recently published novel, depicts Emma Davies, who is exhausted by her suburban life and its challenges and tends to take her family for granted. Through Thomas’ use of first-person perspective, the reader is placed in Emma’s shoes, taking on her hardships. Emma’s relationship with her husband has long since gone cold, her seventeen-year-old daughter, Kate, is becoming more independent—and, therefore, more rebellious—and her fifteen-year-old son, Josh, h...