MID-HEAVEN was born in love and with the desire to create a space for art pushed to the sidelines of pop culture and falls in between what’s trendy and niche. We embrace the ordinary, the ethereal, the ultimately insane, the melodramatic, magical, theatrical art that weird and sad girls create.

Founding Editor-in-Chief

KAILAH FIGUEROA is a rhetorical engineer, a memory archivist, and a part-time prose stylist. Her writing has appeared in Homology lit, Perhappened, Prose Online, Anti-Heroin Chic, Rivercraft, and others. She is completing her BA in Creative Writing at Susquehanna University where she was a recipient of the Janet Weis Creative Writing Award, currently she is a Peer Mentor for the Center for Diversity and Inclusion and the Vice President for Membership for the Nation Organization: Forum for Undergraduate Student Editors (F.U.S.E). Along with founding Mid-Heaven in 2019, Figueroa writes The Saddest Girl in _______ a monthly newsletter for commonplace meditations. In 2021, she was a recipient of the Arts, Activism, and Social Justice Fulbright at the University of Bristol’s Summer School. You can find her online @kailahfigueroa and kailahfigueroa.com

Creative Director

TAMIRA SLADE is a Music Producer from Baltimore, MD. She comes from several generations of painters & singers. With that, she still considers Timbaland the person who introduced her to making music. From an early age, Tamira could be seen either drawing portraits or making beats on the family computer. Her musical influences are Timbaland, PartyNextDoor, Lauryn Hill, DeVonte Swing, and Mary J. Blige. After being diagnosed with Autism at the age of 17, Tamira continues to find solace in expressing herself through music in hopes to inspire and build a platform for other neurodivergent Black girls whose voices would otherwise be unheard. “I’m happy to be an inspiration for the next little black girl, no matter how big or small of a role I play, just to show them it’s possible to touch Saturn’s Rings”-TAMIRA, THE GREAT

Assistant Editor

SARAH DIVER is a twenty-year-old modern music student from Ireland. She specialises in vocals and songwriting, and is re-learning to write creatively after taking a long break. Her work has been published by Rookie, Gurls Talk, The Loud Journal, and Mid-Heaven.