Growing up between trees and streams, Alexa Morang takes the cold bite of Maine winters and the warm spray of ocean water with her to her current home in Bushwick, Brooklyn. She spent her childhood with her three siblings building teepees, which has since translated (she's convinced) to her love of lines.
She uses those lines throughout her work in Cult. Magazine, a culture publication she founded in 2012. Cult. aims to display the diverse experience of individuals throughout Hunter College, and the experience within a city as fast-paced as New York. Cult. is a forum for discussion of art, music, style, health and beauty, as well as a creative outlet for up-and-coming journalists and photographers.
Now, Morang walks on concrete sidewalks and is inspired by the right angles of Manhattan. She hopes to take those lines in her work in media and film, maybe even include some scenes of the places she is so passionate towards. She fell in love with the Empire State Building and its art-deco style ten years ago, and has since returned year after year to marvel at its size. Now, her work as a Creative Writing and Media majors focuses on finding the happy medium between nature and industry, a fixation within her prose.
For now the city streets and magazine industry will hold her hopeful dream of an editor. Eventually she hopes to build a legacy in the publishing world (Vogue, here I come) that can stand 101 stories high, but for now a rooftop in Brooklyn with the single tree outside is quite enough.
She uses those lines throughout her work in Cult. Magazine, a culture publication she founded in 2012. Cult. aims to display the diverse experience of individuals throughout Hunter College, and the experience within a city as fast-paced as New York. Cult. is a forum for discussion of art, music, style, health and beauty, as well as a creative outlet for up-and-coming journalists and photographers.
Now, Morang walks on concrete sidewalks and is inspired by the right angles of Manhattan. She hopes to take those lines in her work in media and film, maybe even include some scenes of the places she is so passionate towards. She fell in love with the Empire State Building and its art-deco style ten years ago, and has since returned year after year to marvel at its size. Now, her work as a Creative Writing and Media majors focuses on finding the happy medium between nature and industry, a fixation within her prose.
For now the city streets and magazine industry will hold her hopeful dream of an editor. Eventually she hopes to build a legacy in the publishing world (Vogue, here I come) that can stand 101 stories high, but for now a rooftop in Brooklyn with the single tree outside is quite enough.
