The Lazuli Staff
Sakina B. Fakhri | Evgenia Barsheva | Diana McClure
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Sakina B. FakhriCo-founder / Editor (2015-present)Sakina B. Fakhri is a novelist and screenwriter based in Brooklyn. She received her B.A. in literature from Northwestern University and her M.A. from New York University. Her literary aesthetic tends towards theme-driven ornate prose, lyrical fiction, controlled absurdism, and political satire. Her first novel, The Speech of Flowers and Voiceless Things, probes the idea of a web of globalized mistranslations against a backdrop of a personable philanthropic enterprise and a caricaturesque dictator. Her first short film, "The Word Trader," debuted in 2013 at the Cannes Film Festival Court Metrage; her second short film, “Corner Piece,” was the winner of the 2015 Los Angeles Movie Award for Best Screenplay. She continues to develop television and feature film concepts as she writes her second novel, which intertwines motifs of micro-trading, blindness, particle physics, and ballet.
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Evgenia BarshevaCo-founder / Illustrator (2015-present)Evgenia Barsheva is a New York-based illustrator, musician and florist. Originally from Moscow, her artistic work across genres speaks to nuanced poetic tendencies laced with emotional expressiveness.
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Diana McClureCo-founder / Co-editor (2015-2020)Diana McClure is a writer and photographer. Based in Brooklyn, Diana’s art writing and photographs are meditations on joy, spatial design, objects and social inquiry. Her work aims to bring people and their environments into positive relationships. www.dianamcclure.com
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