As a former reporter for the Valley Stream and Lynbrook/East Rockaway Herald from 2010-11, Clarissa Hamlin knows how to find the heart in any story. In fact, she lives for it. She began to write poetry, songs, and fictional stories while growing up in Long Island, NY, where she still lives. Clarissa earned a B.A. in English from Syracuse University in 2009. She described working for the Long Island Herald as a worthwhile task of following the very pulse that keeps a community alive. Now, Clarissa has set her sights on the Big Apple’s bright lights as a writer for GALO Magazine. Trading in her suburban community beat to hit the city’s streets, she hopes to inspire readers. Ultimately, she dreams of writing screenplays and books, and taking her passion for acting and dance to Hollywood. You can follow her on Twitter @reesiepieces13 and check out her blog, “The Written Revolution.”
Clarissa Hamlin — Author
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Wines That Rock: A Robust Revolution in Taste
In 2009, the legendary music of The Rolling Stones was reincarnated in a most fascinating, avant-garde manner. Winemaker Mark Beaman was deep in experimentation, listening to the group’s iconic album Forty Licks at...
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The Caribbean: The Meeting Place of the Modern World
If finding a friend in a large crowd can be seen as daunting, then identifying international arenas of ideas and goods exchanged must be incredibly exhausting. Yet that is the grand undertaking it took to create the...
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Kareem Ralph Amin: The Abstract Imagination
It was a poignant work of art, marked with a “dark, intense, and melancholy-colored feeling”; a result of lingering emotional remnants left by the untimely death of his stepmother in 2006.
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Appeasing to the Soul: A Conversation with Renowned Vegan Chef and Author Mark Reinfeld
Selecting and gathering the most flavor-bursting ingredients like zucchini or avocado — commingled customarily in a cardinal of ways in various kitchen laboratories of sorts across the world — to create...
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‘Think Like a Man’ Ruminates On a Funny and Logical Approach to Love
Sometimes finding your ideal soul mate is like playing a game of chess; you develop the best strategy, a specific set of moves to obtain your goal. In executing it, you try to move past any defenses without putting...