Lindsey is a freelance illustrator, muralist, and event organizer living in Philadelphia, PA. She is also a poet and a yoga teacher. It was her connection to a vegan cafe she loves called Lightbox that made her start writing regularly and attending the open mics they hosted there every Friday night.

Feeling as if it was her calling to do so, Lindsey hatched the idea of a zine ( a small paperback publication) called COLLIDE to further the range of the words that so deeply impacted her at these events. The idea for the project was to pair local visual artists with poets like the ones she met at Lightbox in a collaborative theme across two pages of the magazine.

Each artist or writer featured in Collide's issues gets a place on the shelf of one of seven Philly bookstores, a feat even Lindsey is still shocked she was able to do since the project began in May 2022.

Lindsey will talk more about the future of Collide and how creatives can apply (for free!) to be featured in Issue 3, debuting hopefully in mid to late February.