The Loose Leaf Journal
The Loose Leaf Journal
Who We Publish
Some of our contributors are artists, some are professional writers, others were published for the first time by us. But each of our contributors has shared their insightful writing with us. Read more about the creatives behind Loose Leaf below!
Contributors
Acadia Hansen
Alone There Is An Echo
Small Things I, II, III
Acadia Hansen is a writer from Ohio who sometimes pretends to be a photographer as well. Currently, she is a junior studying English in the Honors Tutorial College at Ohio University. She enjoys reading sad, strange, and speculative sapphic fiction, propagating far too many pothos plants, and rewatching sitcoms while playing Wordle.
Autumn Niederhausen
Cades Cove Watermill
Smokey Mountain National Park
Autumn Niederhausen is a retired HR professional and Cincinnati native. She has always had an appreciation for nature and ‘looks’ for opportunities to capture the often ‘overlooked’. Autumn enjoys amateur photography and writing poetry, although most of her time is now spent on her true life’s passion…her family.
Dylan Janos
Do the Bells Still Ring in Burmall?
Dylan Janos was born and raised in a suburb on the outskirts of Cleveland, Ohio, attending Ohio University as an English Literature, Culture, & Writing Major and screenwriting / Digital Storytelling minor. After graduation, he hopes to attain a Master’s in Adolescent-to-Young Adult Education and Multi-Age with Licensure at Ohio University to become a high school English teacher. The idea for the character with a cowboy hat came from his childhood when he used to wear an Indiana Jones hat while playing with friends in the backyard.
Emma Austin
Should's
Emma is a poet from Renton, WA. She recently graduated from WSU with my Bachelor’s in English, Creative Writing. She had worked as a Recovery Coach and editor of the Art catalog By Light and By Darkness, for the last two years at Cougs for Recovery. She also interned at Blood Orange Review literary journal as a poetry and marketing intern. She loves making poems, connecting with fellow writers, and reading as much of the craft as she can.
Hailie Cochran
If I Could Ask a Tree
March On
Hailie Cochran is an emerging poet from Macon, Georgia currently residing in Greensboro, NC and pursuing her MFA in creative writing at UNCG after earning her Bachelor’s in English from Mercer University. Her work appears both online and in print, and her pieces “Pretty Girl Walks into a Bar” and “Nails” placed 2nd and 3rd in the National Columbia Scholastic Press Association Gold Circle Awards in 2022 and 2023, respectively. Her poem “Hysteria” was recognized as a finalist in the 2022 Agnes Scott Writers’s Festival Contest, and she is currently working on her first poetry collection. In her free time, you can find her drinking beer at local breweries with her dog, Cosmo, or losing at Mario Kart against her fiancé, Sean-- all documented on her Instagram, @vanhailie.
John Paul Caponigro
Roots
wrack line plastic
Superfund
Alignment II
John Paul Caponigro is an internationally collected visual artist and published author. He leads unique adventures in the wildest places on earth to help participants make deeper connections with nature and themselves creatively. View his TEDx and Google talks at https://www.johnpaulcaponigro.art/poetry/.
Maggie Hackworth
turkey fork
Maggie Hackworth, is a senior at Ohio University, majoring in journalism news and information with a minor in English. She is the first recipient of the Jane M. Slanker Scholar award.
Mary Birnbaum
Down in the Valley
​Mary Birnbaum‘s work has appeared in The Week, Tahoma Literary Review, Hunger Mountain and Potomac Review. She received the Disquiet Nonfiction Fellowship for a piece published in NinthLetter and the Nonfiction Prize at Crazyhorse for a piece listed as notable in The Best American Essays of 2020. She’s been a finalist for nonfiction prizes at Chattahoochee Review, Hunger Mountain, and for the Conger Beasley Jr. Award at New Letters. She is former Nonfiction Editor at Lunch Ticket, and was a contributor to that journal. She resides in Vista, California, with her husband and two daughters and one good dog and one super disrespectful dog. Mary is a closed captioner, by trade.
Wybie Santiny
Birdsong & Particle Air
neverending storm
old woman's Facebook post
Wybie (they/them) is a junior student at Ohio University, studying Creative Writing & World Religions. They are an avid writer and worldbuilder, whose work has been featured in numerous undergraduate magazines (Over Yonder, Square1, Hullabaloo, luvsick!, Elephant Eyes, etc). In their free time, they enjoy playing Dungeons & Dragons with their buddies.