COLLABORATORS

At Countershade, it’s important to us to work with creatives who still give a shit. Stories need to be in top form, and art is completed by human hands. On this page you’ll find the list of collaborators that have helped form Countershade into what it is today.

(she/her)
@_caitlinliana_
Appears in: Menagerie

Caitlin Robertson

Caitlin is a Public Historian and writer. A lifelong lover of stories, she is a alum of The Evergreen State College and the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. She currently lives in Little Rock and likes spending time with ghosts on the page and in the archives.

Cecilia Meade

(she/her)
Appears in: Menagerie

Cecilia studied literature, creative writing, and politics at The Evergreen State College then went on to teach high school English for as long as she could manage (not long). She draws much of her inspiration from music, and the rest of it from the more dramatic webs of relationships we find ourselves tangled up in. Everything she writes is fantasy, especially the realistic stuff. She lives with her family in Olympia, Washington.

Daniel is a first time writer born in Texas and raised in Olympia, Washington. They attended the Evergreen State College and currently live in the city with their partner and numerous pets. Morta contains just one short story from a collection of half-written ideas from the same universe in which a cataclysmic event creates the backdrop and main motivator to stories of individuals finding their way through impossible times. Themes of loss and personal discovery are central to this collection. Outside of writing, Dan has a great love for historical non-fiction with a focus on stories of individuals and daily life from the medieval period of Africa, Asia, and Europe.

(they/them)
@gardenvarietytoad
Appears in: Menagerie

Daniel Valdez

Marck is a storyteller with a restless spirit. Once a high school dropout who spent several years growing up homeless with his single mother, he went on to earn two literary degrees, as well as writing and directing stage plays and short films.

In his debut novella, The New Kid's Revelation, he examines the burdens of childhood and the hazards that too often shape young lives. Based in Utah with his family, Marck writes to capture and share the stories that echo in his heart.

(he/him)
@nevernotmark
Appears in: Menagerie

Marck Thomas Wilder

(she/her)
@heckboi
Appears in: Menagerie

Samantha Kalweit

Samantha is a German-Panamanian artist with degrees in microbiology and pharmaceutical sciences. She incorporates her passion for animals and nature into her work, oftentimes with a dark, cheeky twist. Some yeast she did lab work on recently got shot out into space on the I.S.S., and she got published in a paper for it.

(they/them)
@kelakeala_art
linktr.ee/kelakeala
Appears in: Menagerie

Kela Kealakai

Kela is a Pittsburgh-based sicko who loves puppets, posting, and drawing little pictures for friends.

(they/them)
@thistlebreath
thistlebreath.com
Appears in: Menagerie

Frances Gregory

Frances has been making poetry zines since 2009, playing in bands since 2004, and messing with other media as long as they can remember. They currently have one published book, Love is Not Enough, with Left Bank Books out of Seattle, Washington.

(she/her)
@peccadillian
Appears in: Menagerie

Katherine Smith

Katherine is an internet illusive toad stool.

(he/him)
@fo0dnippl3
fo0dnippl3.bandcamp.com 
Appears in: Menagerie

Christian Carpenter

Christian Carpenter produces garish, pixelated or otherwise artifact-laden imagery that evokes the roughest edges of cyberspace culture. He spent a lot of time online as a child and it remains to be seen if that was a good thing.

(she/they)
@hyphalstudios
Appears in: Menagerie

Adrienne Rustwood

Adrienne is a freelance artist and copy editor from Olympia, Washington. She graduated from The Evergreen State College, and put her lifelong love of, “Um, actually, this sentence is missing a comma…” to use as the copy editor for its literary arts magazine, Vanishing Point. While attending, she studied natural history and found her passion for Pacific Northwest plants and wildlife, which often serve as her inspiration as a botanical illustrator and sculptor. She spends her time working at a locally owned curiosity shop where she sells her art and often gives free (and unsolicited) ecology micro-lectures on its taxidermied critters.

(she/her)
@gmglimmerglass
Appears in: Family Prehistory

Genevieve Glassy

Genevieve Glassy lives tucked in the Pacific Northwest woods, where nature’s colors, patterns, and textures constantly spark her curiosity. Her current work is a collection of layered monoprint illustrations in vibrant watercolor, gouache, and drawing inks, blending natural textures with themes of folklore and myth. With a background in graphic design, illustration, and teaching, she keeps her creative process playful, curious, and full of heart.

(they/them)
@red.tabby.illustration
Appears in: Menagerie

Red Sergent

Red is lifelong Pacific Northwest- based artist. They live with their partner on their small homestead raising chickens. When they are not doing art, they enjoy playing the violin and going on road trips with their dog and two cats.

Wyatt Andrews is an illustrator currently based in Savannah, Georgia. Having graduated Savannah College of Art and Design, he is now combining his passions of animals and illustration into a growing enterprise. Wyatt currently runs Wise Ape Comics, a series on Instagram that has recently passed fifty thousand followers. With Wise Ape he hopes to entertain and educate his followers about our closest relatives, and cement himself in the new wave of webcomic artists.

(he/him)
@wise_ape_comics
Appears in: Family Prehistory

Wyatt Andrews

Emily Stepp is a paleoartist and illustrator specializing in creature design living in Eastern Washington. Often she focuses on dinosaur depictions in pop-culture paleomedia. Emily's art has been featured on cards in the recent officially licensed Jurassic Park TCG, makes an appearance in an infographic panel at the American Museum of Natural History in New York, and in collaboration with various franchises including the Primitive War novel series. She's also illustrated several children's books throughout the years. When she's not drawing, she can be found photographing or raising modern avian dinosaurs, hanging out with her cats, or swimming every time the water is warm enough.

(she/her)
@emilysteppart
patreon.com/EmilyStepp
Appears in: Family Prehistory