Justin Finley is our Social Media Coordinator. Justin is a writer, painter, and Cancer from Chicago. He changed his plans to join the Air Force after military school to study Creative Writing at Columbia College Chicago where he would enjoy smoke breaks with Sam Plauche between classes. His debut book, I Saw, was published this year with A Jabber Publication. Justin is color blind but enjoys the effect this has on different shades of orange and pink. His favorite time is 8:32 PM on Fridays. He looks to his dreams when writing fiction and to his diary when creating non-fiction and poetry. The scariest movie he has ever seen is Final Destination 2 (the car one).

Lane Lake is a software engineer based in chicago. Originally from Atlanta, Georgia, Lane Lake came to Chicago due to his love for public transportation, disdain for traffic (he no longer drives), and need for something different. Since arriving here, he has fallen in love with the community aspects of the city and how they intersect with the music scene. He does freelance website design around the Chicago area, and you can contact him @bigbrainlanetrain on Instagram for work. 

Sam Tucker is a freelance photojournalist based in Chicago who strives to make pictures exciting in nature, and graphic in quality. He loves the energetic and chaotic nature of people, whether it’s reporting on the edge of a protest, or front row at a ear-bleeding, shoulder-to-shoulder live show. When Sam isn’t on the clock at Raging Opossum or freelancing stories on the West Side, he’s walking Michigan Avenue - camera in hand - capturing the beautiful chaos that emerges from thousands of people that fill the busy downtown area of Chicago. Black and white photographs, movement, and firing from the hip are keys to his photographic style. His favorite book is Hell's Angels: A Strange and Terrible Saga, by Hunter S. Thompson.  He is always inspired by street photography greats like Bruce Gilden and Garry Winogrand. He aims to make a place for himself in our highly visual world. Sam’s midwestern roots have created an unabated love for cheese curds.

Sarah Hobson is an artist who, while once lived in Chicago, now resides in Massachusetts. Her illustrations utilize intricate detail and definitive line work to create environmentally surrealistic scenes. Her favorite book is Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut and her favorite food is the pretzel. She has a prolific body of work, which can be found on her Instagram, @hob.is.dead

Samuel Plauche is a Chicago writer of novels, short stories, and poems. His writing style and preferences are those stories that take real world hardships and blend it with the absurd, or memoirs and autobiographies for non-fiction. Some of his favorite books include The Strawberry Statement by James Simon Kunen, Bastard Out of Carolina by Dorothy Allison, Jitterbug Perfume by Tom Robbins, and the poetry of Etheridge Knight and Patti Smith. His own work includes the novel As The Rain Falls (which can be purchased on the Raging Opossum Press website), the short story Bits of Love, and the poems My Protector's Song, Where Joy Lies, On and Off and On and Off, My Personal Saint, and Unbridled To You, Unbroken From You. For more information about Samuel Plauche or to read his written work, you can find his website (www.samuelplauche.com) or on Instagram @sam.plauche. His favorite vegetable to eat is the brussels sprout.