“I’ve always wiggled around a lot, I was a very theatrical child and grew up with music in my house.” Arian Keddell

If you're from Elmira you probably know about Jordan Brooks, native Elmiran and celebrity stylist who’s currently making big moves in the LA

Cameron Collins currently lives, works and writes in St. Louis, MO, but he’ll always consider himself an upstate New Yorker.

Elizabeth Marks moved with her family from New England to a 220-acre dairy farm on East Hill in Elmira when she was 7 years old.

“As quaint as Elmira was, it wasn’t a safe place for me to prosper,” says Robert Rumsey, former Southern Tier resident turned makeup artist

Sometimes I wonder if I count as a Southern Tier expat because I was born and raised in Maryland.

“Life choices made me competitive” says Apalachin native and NASA Astronaut Doug Hurley.

I left the Southern Tier in 2010 because I had been laid off, during the Great Recession