Aria Chiodo is an Associate Editor at The Mantle. You can email her at aria [at] themantle.net
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.
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