Cult Stories

The Body International Inc. Team

Syran Warner– Editor
Minneapolis, MN, USASyran Warner wrote stories at the alternative weekly City Pages in Minneapolis for over 12 years. Loves working with enthusiastic writers, talking about basketball, and watching old episodes of Dateline before bed.

Connie Coppersmith– Copy Editor
Minneapolis, MN, USA

Connie Coppersmith is a filmmaker and art school snob with a love story that there’s only one of. She is working on something remarkable and is very polite when something just doesn’t work. Superhero.

Lisa Mildred– Writer
Philadelphia, PA, USALisa Mildred is writer, comedian, and podcast host with a deep interest in cults. She’s shot assault rifles with the moonies and made a trip to visit militant rastafarians. Also, she’s hilarious. Her debut at TBI was a two part Story about Amish immersion.

Loserhands– Artist
Melbourne, australia

Loserhands is a visual artist from australia who makes surreal, irreverent profiles documenting culture through her unique and often hilarious lens. When TBI need an artist down under she was our first choice and she killed it when we asked her to make portraits of cult members.

Vibedoubt– Artist
New York, NY, USAVibedoubt is a street artist from New York City. His art has been featured in Juxtapose Magazine and on walls and train cars all over the country. He doesn’t have any pets.

Jahera– Artist
Nairobi, Kenya

Art was and still remains to be my first best friend.

More contributors coming soon…

Spore– Research
New Jersey, USA

spore is a religious studies student at an ivy league college on the east coast. she’s who we found to interpret religious texts of a cult called the body. If it weren’t for her we’d still be clueless about the most important texts in our catalogue. She likes to forage mushrooms and write her own music.

Esther Waceke– Writer
Ngong, Kenya

I am Esther Waceke, a free spirited and an open-minded freelance writer and blogger from Kenya. I understand only the little things in life matter the most and I appreciate life as I live it every day on its own. And having won many battles, I am confident in me.

Ezekiel Gacee– writer
Atlanta, USA

Typically writes for digital marketing when he’s not working on stories about cult leaders. Does something called B2B and B2C professionally. Has an interest in blood atonement and mormon cults. Potentially a Braves fan. Definitely likes to read the LA Times.

Maddie F– Writer
Long Beach, CA, USA

Maddie F is a professional SEO writer with a deep fascination with True Crime and Cults. She once lived in a neighborhood in Japan where a member of Aum Shinrikyo was busted which deepened her passion for these types of Stories. Maddie originated a story about the Heaven’s Gate website that became “Left Alive And Unchanged,” The most popular article in TBI history.

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Jamo Lorswal- Writer
Austin, TX, USA

Jamo Lorswal began writing songs in high school, plays in college then met a young aspiring writer he wrote a novel with. He also works on screenplays. as a practicing journalist Jamo has written for The Oakland Post, The FRank Report, Texas Hemp Reporter and THe Body International. He’s is presently studying naturalopathy.