Aria Chiodo is an Associate Editor at The Mantle. You can email her at aria [at] themantle.com.
She hails from New Mexico but is now based in Astoria, New York. She writes personal essays, short stories, and travel essays, but her first love is cinema.
A glimpse at the career of the godmother of New Wave
A Collaboration to Bring Langston Hughes’s “The Black Clown” to Life
Democracy is a lot more than the halls of government.
Helpful tips for a newly awakened activist.
Continue the conversation, and strengthen the movement.
A review of Liwaa Yazji's 'Goats' and Edouard Elvis Bvouma's 'In War as in Games'
Part of our 'When Women's Voices Rise' Roundtable discussion
An Interview with playwright Nelson Diaz-Marcano