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CONTRIBUTOR BIOGRAPHIES
CARTER STEINMANN is a queer poet, visual artist, woodworker, and doula. She grew up in the bay area and attended Mills College where she studied gender and sexuality studies and studio art. Her work has been published in the Humble Pie and Lavender Review lit journals. Her first chapbook, 'Sticky', was recently published by Headmistress Press.
CINDY RINNE creates art and writes in San Bernardino, CA. She brings myth to life in contemporary context. Cindy is the author of spider with wings (Jamii Publishing), Quiet Lantern is forthcoming (Turning Point), Breathe in Daisy, Breathe out Stones is forthcoming (FutureCycle Press), and she co-authored Speaking Through Sediment with Michael Cooper (ELJ Publications). Her poem, “Mapping”was nominated for the Liakoura Award by Pirene’s Fountain. She is a translator. Her poetry appeared or is forthcoming in Gulf Stream Literary Magazine, Driftwood Press, The Honest Ulsterman (Ireland), Snapdragon: A Journal of Art & Healing, Naugatuck River Review, Zoomoozophone, Eternal Haunted Summer, Cactus Heart Press, and others.
COLIN KEATING is a 2013 graduate of the University of Oregon’s English and Creative Writing programs, and have previously been published in People, Gap Tooth, Oregon Voice, and Unbound. His poems draw on everything from Rilke Burger King ad copy and are usually kept in locked boxes, deep underground.
DANIEL PRAVDA’s poetry has recently appeared in Vine Leaves, The American Dissident, Dos Passos Review, Gihon River Review, Poetica, Asinine, and Solo Novo. He has published one book, A Bird in the Hand Is a Dumb Bird, in 2011, and is looking to publish a new manuscript.
DESSA BAYROCK is an ex-journalist and Canadian grad student. Her work has previously appeared in The Cascade, The Louden Singletree and with People Holding. She is a staunch supporter of breakfast for dinner and the oxford comma, and is currently working on a cycle of dream-based poems.
GERARDO PACHECO is Mayan and a recipient of a Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference Work-Study Scholarship and the Joseph Henry Jackson Award. His poems and essays have appeared and are forthcoming from Black Lawrence Press, Grantmakers in the Arts, San Francisco Foundation, Amistad Howard-University, La Bloga Online Magazine, Poets Responding to SB1070 and The University of Arizona Press. His first full-length collection, This Is Crow Land, is also forthcoming from Jambu Press.
HOWIE GOOD’s latest poetry collection is Dark Specks in a Blue Sky from Another New Calligraphy. He is recipient of the 2015 Press Americana Prize for Poetry for his forthcoming collection Dangerous Acts Starring Unstable Elements.
JACK BUCK is originally from Michigan, but now lives and teaches English to 8th graders in Denver, Colorado. He is the fiction editor for The Harpoon Review. He thanks you for reading his work.
JAY SHEETS studies creative writing at Goddard College and is a former poetry editor for the literary journal, Duende. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Hermeneutic Chaos, Aleola, Sundog Lit, Albion Review, The Light Ekphrastic, Enclave, Entropy, and The Legendary. He is a member of the Academy of American Poets and lives in Brooklyn, New York.
JAYME RUSSELL received her M.A. in Poetry from Ohio University and her MFA in Poetry from The University of Notre Dame. Her work can be found in Black Warrior Review, PANK, Tiny Donkey, Prelude, Tender-Loin, and Columbia Poetry Review.
JENNIFER DEBIE is an MA student currently enrolled at the University College Cork in Cork, Ireland. Her previous publications are few, mostly with the Oasis literary magazine published by Angelo State University, where she earned her undergraduate degree. She also have a publication pending with Sound Historian, an oral history publication produced by Texas State University.
JOSEPH MCDERMOTT grew up in the central coast area of california among the row crops reaching towards the sky with every turn of the earth, afternoon cows masticating the morning graze again, the soft smell of wild lilac and dry oak, and morning fog rolling through low hills that burned off to dry afternoons. found himself in the arid rocks, sky, and people of arizona during adolescence. learned a path to walk while earning degrees in english literature and critical theory at cal poly and mills college where he taught literature and writing for a few years. these and uncounted experiences imbue his view on how he captures his experienced world. likes landscape, culture, memory, little people, moments locked, moments fluid, acceptance, and how they all go together to create the sublime.
MAISIE FULLERTON is an Oakland based artist who's work stems from a central investigation into control and archetypal sexual power dynamics. Using video, photography, and installation, she creates a raw and sticky platform to consider the grotesque, hypersexualization, the misogynist legacy, shame, and the alienating aspects of the female sexual experience.
MARK BAUMER lives in Providence Rhode Island. He works in a library. His website is: thebaumer.com.
MATT TREASE is an artist, poet and IT Administrator living in Seattle, WA. His poems have appeared in The Cordite Poetry Review, filling Station, Otoliths, small po(r)tions, Hotel Amerika, and Fact Simile, and other publications. He is the author of the chapbook, Later Heaven: Production Cycles (busylittle1way designs).
MEGAN JACOBS is a recent graduate from the English program at Mills College. She is originally from Utah, and is currently living in Oakland and loving it. She generally spends her time reading, taking walks through the neighborhood, writing little things down here and there, and lingering in cemeteries.
PETER BURZYNSKI is a third-year PhD student in and Graduate Assistant Coordinator of Creative Writing-Poetry at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. He holds a B.A. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, a M.F.A. in Poetry from The New School University, and a M.A. in Polish Literature from Columbia University. In between his studies, he has worked as a chef in New York City and Milwaukee. In addition, he works as a Teaching Assistant and an occasional adjunct. He is also an Assistant Editor for the cream city review. His poetry has appeared or is forthcoming from The Best American Poetry Blog, Thin Air, Prick of the Spindle, Working Stiff, Thrush Poetry Review, Your Impossible Voice, RHINO, and Forklift Ohio, amongst others.
REX LEONOWICZ - if dionysus were an intersectional feminist performing artist/poet, then dionysus rex renee leonowicz would be. rex is a working class trans/queer/non-binary femme from queens, nyc. s/he's obsessed with cats, life as drag, self-professed freaks, & sparkles. some of their work can be found in it’s night in san francisco, but it’s sunny in oakland, the queer south, lambda literary’s poetry spotlight, gertrude journal, shampoo, etc. s/he loves e-mail and new friends, so get in touch at [email protected] if you feel so inclined!
SANDER STEINS grew up in a working class family in the village of Berg en Dal, located in the wooded area south of his place of birth. In 2009 he held his first solo exhibition in Beek-Ubbergen (The Netherlands). After that followed a very productive phase in which he shot thousands of pictures for his projects 'Forest' and 'Construct/Destruct', and produced countless drawings. He has participated in many group exhibitions all over the world, including cities like Berlin, Los Angeles and Beijing, and his work has been published in various media, including Cosmopolitan Hong Kong and Advanced Photoshop.
CINDY RINNE creates art and writes in San Bernardino, CA. She brings myth to life in contemporary context. Cindy is the author of spider with wings (Jamii Publishing), Quiet Lantern is forthcoming (Turning Point), Breathe in Daisy, Breathe out Stones is forthcoming (FutureCycle Press), and she co-authored Speaking Through Sediment with Michael Cooper (ELJ Publications). Her poem, “Mapping”was nominated for the Liakoura Award by Pirene’s Fountain. She is a translator. Her poetry appeared or is forthcoming in Gulf Stream Literary Magazine, Driftwood Press, The Honest Ulsterman (Ireland), Snapdragon: A Journal of Art & Healing, Naugatuck River Review, Zoomoozophone, Eternal Haunted Summer, Cactus Heart Press, and others.
COLIN KEATING is a 2013 graduate of the University of Oregon’s English and Creative Writing programs, and have previously been published in People, Gap Tooth, Oregon Voice, and Unbound. His poems draw on everything from Rilke Burger King ad copy and are usually kept in locked boxes, deep underground.
DANIEL PRAVDA’s poetry has recently appeared in Vine Leaves, The American Dissident, Dos Passos Review, Gihon River Review, Poetica, Asinine, and Solo Novo. He has published one book, A Bird in the Hand Is a Dumb Bird, in 2011, and is looking to publish a new manuscript.
DESSA BAYROCK is an ex-journalist and Canadian grad student. Her work has previously appeared in The Cascade, The Louden Singletree and with People Holding. She is a staunch supporter of breakfast for dinner and the oxford comma, and is currently working on a cycle of dream-based poems.
GERARDO PACHECO is Mayan and a recipient of a Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference Work-Study Scholarship and the Joseph Henry Jackson Award. His poems and essays have appeared and are forthcoming from Black Lawrence Press, Grantmakers in the Arts, San Francisco Foundation, Amistad Howard-University, La Bloga Online Magazine, Poets Responding to SB1070 and The University of Arizona Press. His first full-length collection, This Is Crow Land, is also forthcoming from Jambu Press.
HOWIE GOOD’s latest poetry collection is Dark Specks in a Blue Sky from Another New Calligraphy. He is recipient of the 2015 Press Americana Prize for Poetry for his forthcoming collection Dangerous Acts Starring Unstable Elements.
JACK BUCK is originally from Michigan, but now lives and teaches English to 8th graders in Denver, Colorado. He is the fiction editor for The Harpoon Review. He thanks you for reading his work.
JAY SHEETS studies creative writing at Goddard College and is a former poetry editor for the literary journal, Duende. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Hermeneutic Chaos, Aleola, Sundog Lit, Albion Review, The Light Ekphrastic, Enclave, Entropy, and The Legendary. He is a member of the Academy of American Poets and lives in Brooklyn, New York.
JAYME RUSSELL received her M.A. in Poetry from Ohio University and her MFA in Poetry from The University of Notre Dame. Her work can be found in Black Warrior Review, PANK, Tiny Donkey, Prelude, Tender-Loin, and Columbia Poetry Review.
JENNIFER DEBIE is an MA student currently enrolled at the University College Cork in Cork, Ireland. Her previous publications are few, mostly with the Oasis literary magazine published by Angelo State University, where she earned her undergraduate degree. She also have a publication pending with Sound Historian, an oral history publication produced by Texas State University.
JOSEPH MCDERMOTT grew up in the central coast area of california among the row crops reaching towards the sky with every turn of the earth, afternoon cows masticating the morning graze again, the soft smell of wild lilac and dry oak, and morning fog rolling through low hills that burned off to dry afternoons. found himself in the arid rocks, sky, and people of arizona during adolescence. learned a path to walk while earning degrees in english literature and critical theory at cal poly and mills college where he taught literature and writing for a few years. these and uncounted experiences imbue his view on how he captures his experienced world. likes landscape, culture, memory, little people, moments locked, moments fluid, acceptance, and how they all go together to create the sublime.
MAISIE FULLERTON is an Oakland based artist who's work stems from a central investigation into control and archetypal sexual power dynamics. Using video, photography, and installation, she creates a raw and sticky platform to consider the grotesque, hypersexualization, the misogynist legacy, shame, and the alienating aspects of the female sexual experience.
MARK BAUMER lives in Providence Rhode Island. He works in a library. His website is: thebaumer.com.
MATT TREASE is an artist, poet and IT Administrator living in Seattle, WA. His poems have appeared in The Cordite Poetry Review, filling Station, Otoliths, small po(r)tions, Hotel Amerika, and Fact Simile, and other publications. He is the author of the chapbook, Later Heaven: Production Cycles (busylittle1way designs).
MEGAN JACOBS is a recent graduate from the English program at Mills College. She is originally from Utah, and is currently living in Oakland and loving it. She generally spends her time reading, taking walks through the neighborhood, writing little things down here and there, and lingering in cemeteries.
PETER BURZYNSKI is a third-year PhD student in and Graduate Assistant Coordinator of Creative Writing-Poetry at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. He holds a B.A. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, a M.F.A. in Poetry from The New School University, and a M.A. in Polish Literature from Columbia University. In between his studies, he has worked as a chef in New York City and Milwaukee. In addition, he works as a Teaching Assistant and an occasional adjunct. He is also an Assistant Editor for the cream city review. His poetry has appeared or is forthcoming from The Best American Poetry Blog, Thin Air, Prick of the Spindle, Working Stiff, Thrush Poetry Review, Your Impossible Voice, RHINO, and Forklift Ohio, amongst others.
REX LEONOWICZ - if dionysus were an intersectional feminist performing artist/poet, then dionysus rex renee leonowicz would be. rex is a working class trans/queer/non-binary femme from queens, nyc. s/he's obsessed with cats, life as drag, self-professed freaks, & sparkles. some of their work can be found in it’s night in san francisco, but it’s sunny in oakland, the queer south, lambda literary’s poetry spotlight, gertrude journal, shampoo, etc. s/he loves e-mail and new friends, so get in touch at [email protected] if you feel so inclined!
SANDER STEINS grew up in a working class family in the village of Berg en Dal, located in the wooded area south of his place of birth. In 2009 he held his first solo exhibition in Beek-Ubbergen (The Netherlands). After that followed a very productive phase in which he shot thousands of pictures for his projects 'Forest' and 'Construct/Destruct', and produced countless drawings. He has participated in many group exhibitions all over the world, including cities like Berlin, Los Angeles and Beijing, and his work has been published in various media, including Cosmopolitan Hong Kong and Advanced Photoshop.