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CONTRIBUTOR BIOGRAPHIES
Alicja Rose
Allen Forrest is a graphic artist and painter who was born in Canada and bred in the U.S. He has created cover art and illustrations for literary publications and books. He is the winner of the Leslie Jacoby Honor for Art at San Jose State University's Reed Magazine and his Bel Red painting series is part of the Bellevue College Foundation's permanent art collection. Forrest's expressive drawing and painting style is a mix of avant-garde expressionism and post-Impressionist elements reminiscent of van Gogh, creating emotion on canvas.
Chelsey Weber-Smith also writes country music and rambles around the United States building campfires and hoping for the best. She is a graduate of the University of Virginia's MFA program in poetry and has written and self-published two chapbooks, a travel memoir, and recorded two full-length albums. She was recently nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Her work has been published in BOAAT, Transom, Cactus Heart, Wu-Wei Fashion Mag, the James Franco Review, and elsewhere. She currently lives in her truck, Old Handsome.
Darren Demaree is the author of six poetry collections, most recently Many Full Hands Applauding Inelegantly (2016, 8th House Publishing). He is the Managing Editor of the Best of the Net Anthology and Ovenbird Poetry. He is currently living in Columbus, Ohio with his wife and children.
Dusty Neu is a poet and translator from rural California with an MFA from Brown University. He co-translated Alessandro de Francesco's Remote Vision from the Italian (Punctum Books) and his poetry has appeared in VOLT, Pear Noir!, and 3am. He lives and works in Rhode Island.
Edward Lee's poetry, short stories, non-fiction and photography have been published in magazines in Ireland, England and America, including The Stinging Fly, Acumen and Smiths Knoll. His debut poetry collection "Playing Poohsticks On Ha'Penny Bridge" was published in 2010. He is currently working towards a second collection.
Hailey Sounart recently graduated from Mills College with a BA in Dance and a BS in Biology. She loves to explore the intricacies of movement from the human level to the molecular and will continue to deepen this process.
Ivy Johnson is a poet and performance artist in Oakland, CA. Her book, As They Fall, is a pack of 110 notecards for aelatoric ritual, and was published by Timeless, Infinite Light in 2013. She is co-founder of The Third Thing, a feminist performance poetics collaboration with Kate Robinson. They have a self-titled chapbook from Portable Press @ Yo-Yo Labs which was published summer 2016. She is currently working on a book of poetry about the ecstatic entitled Born Again.
Javier Perez is a Salvadoran-American poet, teaching artist and MA student at the University of Cape Town. He is co-founder of Swarthmore College's spoken-word collective OASIS (Our Art Spoken in Soul); a resident poet of the Cape Town-based collective, Lingua Franca Spoken Word Movement; and co-founder of the CYPHER (Cape Youth Poetry Hub for Expression & Rhythm). Javier's work appears in Acentos Review, Badilisha Poetry, and New Contrast Literary Journal.
John Paul Davis lives, works and writes in New York. His poems have apeared in numerous journals and his first collection, Crown Prince Of Rabbits, is forthcoming in December 2016, published by Great Weather For Media. You can find out more about him at http://www.johnpauldavis.org.
Judah Levenson is a dancer, poet, and educator based in Brooklyn. He recently returned to the East Coast after 5 years in the Bay Area where he was teaching, writing, and studying dance at Laney College. Now in NYC, he is teaching at two middle schools, working on completing a poetry chapbook, interning with Movement Research, and performing with The Commons Choir.
Kaila Philo is a freelance writer based in Baltimore, MD. While she writes primarily arts criticism and reportage at the moment, she intends on pursuing a career as a novelist someday.
Katherine LaRue works at an ice cream parlor by day and on a book of poetry called Getting Better Machine by night. She lives in Portland, Oregon.
Kristin Peterson is a poet and filmmaker based in Milwaukee, WI. She has had her poetry published in the Great Lakes Review, Burdock '12, drupe fruits and by pity milk press, as well as with Rogue Agent, Ichnos, Juked and Flag + Void. She continues to write film scripts, poetry chapbooks and children's stories. Her delight in science, humor and media informs her poetry.
Meg Boyles is a senior at Hendrix College, where she studies creative writing and religious studies. Recognized by the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards and The Eudora Welty Foundation, Meg has attended the New York State Summer Writers Institute and the Kenyon Review Writers Workshop. Her poetry has most recently appeared in B O D Y, Verse Daily, and The Rising Phoenix Review. She is also a poetry reader for The Adroit Journal.
Naomi Washer is a multimedia writer and the Editor-in-Chief and Publisher of Ghost Proposal. She holds an MFA in Nonfiction from Columbia College Chicago and a BA in Dance, Theatre, and Literature from Bennington College. Her interdisciplinary choreography has been performed by a variety of companies across New England and Chicago. Her essays, poems, fictions, and Cambodian translations have appeared in TYPO, Maudlin House, Ampersand Review, wigleaf, Blue Mesa Review, Essay Daily, St. Petersburg Review, and Poor Claudia, among other journals.
Ricky Garni was born in Miami and grew up in Florida and Maine. He works as a graphic designer by day and writes music by night. COO, a tiny collection of short prose printed on college lined paper with found materials such as coins, stamps and feathers, was recently released by Bitterzoet Press.
Rose Knapp is a poet, producer, and multimedia artist. She has publications in Chicago Literati, Visitant, BlazeVOX, OccuPoetry, Danse Macabre, and others. She currently lives and works in Manhattan.
Allen Forrest is a graphic artist and painter who was born in Canada and bred in the U.S. He has created cover art and illustrations for literary publications and books. He is the winner of the Leslie Jacoby Honor for Art at San Jose State University's Reed Magazine and his Bel Red painting series is part of the Bellevue College Foundation's permanent art collection. Forrest's expressive drawing and painting style is a mix of avant-garde expressionism and post-Impressionist elements reminiscent of van Gogh, creating emotion on canvas.
Chelsey Weber-Smith also writes country music and rambles around the United States building campfires and hoping for the best. She is a graduate of the University of Virginia's MFA program in poetry and has written and self-published two chapbooks, a travel memoir, and recorded two full-length albums. She was recently nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Her work has been published in BOAAT, Transom, Cactus Heart, Wu-Wei Fashion Mag, the James Franco Review, and elsewhere. She currently lives in her truck, Old Handsome.
Darren Demaree is the author of six poetry collections, most recently Many Full Hands Applauding Inelegantly (2016, 8th House Publishing). He is the Managing Editor of the Best of the Net Anthology and Ovenbird Poetry. He is currently living in Columbus, Ohio with his wife and children.
Dusty Neu is a poet and translator from rural California with an MFA from Brown University. He co-translated Alessandro de Francesco's Remote Vision from the Italian (Punctum Books) and his poetry has appeared in VOLT, Pear Noir!, and 3am. He lives and works in Rhode Island.
Edward Lee's poetry, short stories, non-fiction and photography have been published in magazines in Ireland, England and America, including The Stinging Fly, Acumen and Smiths Knoll. His debut poetry collection "Playing Poohsticks On Ha'Penny Bridge" was published in 2010. He is currently working towards a second collection.
Hailey Sounart recently graduated from Mills College with a BA in Dance and a BS in Biology. She loves to explore the intricacies of movement from the human level to the molecular and will continue to deepen this process.
Ivy Johnson is a poet and performance artist in Oakland, CA. Her book, As They Fall, is a pack of 110 notecards for aelatoric ritual, and was published by Timeless, Infinite Light in 2013. She is co-founder of The Third Thing, a feminist performance poetics collaboration with Kate Robinson. They have a self-titled chapbook from Portable Press @ Yo-Yo Labs which was published summer 2016. She is currently working on a book of poetry about the ecstatic entitled Born Again.
Javier Perez is a Salvadoran-American poet, teaching artist and MA student at the University of Cape Town. He is co-founder of Swarthmore College's spoken-word collective OASIS (Our Art Spoken in Soul); a resident poet of the Cape Town-based collective, Lingua Franca Spoken Word Movement; and co-founder of the CYPHER (Cape Youth Poetry Hub for Expression & Rhythm). Javier's work appears in Acentos Review, Badilisha Poetry, and New Contrast Literary Journal.
John Paul Davis lives, works and writes in New York. His poems have apeared in numerous journals and his first collection, Crown Prince Of Rabbits, is forthcoming in December 2016, published by Great Weather For Media. You can find out more about him at http://www.johnpauldavis.org.
Judah Levenson is a dancer, poet, and educator based in Brooklyn. He recently returned to the East Coast after 5 years in the Bay Area where he was teaching, writing, and studying dance at Laney College. Now in NYC, he is teaching at two middle schools, working on completing a poetry chapbook, interning with Movement Research, and performing with The Commons Choir.
Kaila Philo is a freelance writer based in Baltimore, MD. While she writes primarily arts criticism and reportage at the moment, she intends on pursuing a career as a novelist someday.
Katherine LaRue works at an ice cream parlor by day and on a book of poetry called Getting Better Machine by night. She lives in Portland, Oregon.
Kristin Peterson is a poet and filmmaker based in Milwaukee, WI. She has had her poetry published in the Great Lakes Review, Burdock '12, drupe fruits and by pity milk press, as well as with Rogue Agent, Ichnos, Juked and Flag + Void. She continues to write film scripts, poetry chapbooks and children's stories. Her delight in science, humor and media informs her poetry.
Meg Boyles is a senior at Hendrix College, where she studies creative writing and religious studies. Recognized by the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards and The Eudora Welty Foundation, Meg has attended the New York State Summer Writers Institute and the Kenyon Review Writers Workshop. Her poetry has most recently appeared in B O D Y, Verse Daily, and The Rising Phoenix Review. She is also a poetry reader for The Adroit Journal.
Naomi Washer is a multimedia writer and the Editor-in-Chief and Publisher of Ghost Proposal. She holds an MFA in Nonfiction from Columbia College Chicago and a BA in Dance, Theatre, and Literature from Bennington College. Her interdisciplinary choreography has been performed by a variety of companies across New England and Chicago. Her essays, poems, fictions, and Cambodian translations have appeared in TYPO, Maudlin House, Ampersand Review, wigleaf, Blue Mesa Review, Essay Daily, St. Petersburg Review, and Poor Claudia, among other journals.
Ricky Garni was born in Miami and grew up in Florida and Maine. He works as a graphic designer by day and writes music by night. COO, a tiny collection of short prose printed on college lined paper with found materials such as coins, stamps and feathers, was recently released by Bitterzoet Press.
Rose Knapp is a poet, producer, and multimedia artist. She has publications in Chicago Literati, Visitant, BlazeVOX, OccuPoetry, Danse Macabre, and others. She currently lives and works in Manhattan.