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contributor biographies
FERNANDO BADHARO
MARION BOYER has published two poetry chapbooks and a full length poetry collection. Her poetry book, “The Clock of the Long Now” (2009), published by Mayapple Press, was nominated for the Pushcart Award and the Lenore Marshall Award. Grayson Books awarded her chapbook "Composing the Rain” first place in their 2014 chapbook competition. Finishing Line Press published her chapbook, “Green”, in 2003. She has won various poetry awards including first place in the 2008 international poetry competition sponsored by the Science Fiction Poetry Association. Her poetry most recently appeared in Crab Orchard Review and The Tishman Review. Her poems have been published in numerous literary journals including Folio, Hayden’s Ferry Review, Spoon River Poetry Review, South Carolina Review, Asimov's Science Fiction, and The Midwest Quarterly. She is a professor emeritus of Communication courses at Kalamazoo Valley Community College in Michigan, and moved recently to an eastern suburb of Cleveland.
JOSH BYER is an artist residing in Vancouver, Canada. His clients & collaborators include 20th Century Fox, Armada Records, Armin van Buuren, Best Buy, Brightlight Pictures, The Canadian University Press, CBC, Gutter, ill.Gates, Interscope, Keystone Entertainment, Laidback Luke, McClelland & Stewart, MTV, NBC, New Line Cinema, Nissan, The Ottawa Citizen, R3HAB, Simon Fraser University, Southam News, Sony Entertainment, Spinnin' Records, Staples, SyFy, Trevor Guthrie, USC, Victory Square Publications, and The Yale Record. A Juno and Journey Prize nominee, Josh is also a grant recipient of the Canada Council for the Arts. His work has won awards from the Montreal World Film Festival, the Northwestern Film Festival, the LEOs, and Kodak Canada. In the summer of 2015, Josh was awarded his first Gold record from Sony Canada. Featured in hundreds of publications, Byer's artwork has been exhibited in Los Angeles, Toronto, and Vancouver alongside Picasso, Dali, Matisse, and the Group of Seven. Licensed by international manufacturers such as Trademark Global, The Metaverse Corporation, and Chamton Pty.
ERICA CHARIS-MOLLING is a creative writing instructor for Berklee Online. Her writing has been published in Crab Fat, Broad!, The Yellow Chair, Rain, Party, & Disaster Society, Anchor, Vinyl and Entropy. She’s a Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference alum and is currently pursuing her M.F.A. in Creative Writing at Antioch University.
SANDY COOMER is a mixed media artist, published poet, and endurance athlete. She has participated in art shows and has exhibited her art in local galleries. She incorporates her love of poetry and words in all her pieces, often hiding secret messages of affirmation within the work. She is the founding editor of the online poetry journal, Rockvale Review, as well as a poetry mentor in the AWP Writer to Writer Mentorship program. Sandy loves color, nature, birds, poetry, racing in endurance sports, and playing the piano.
JAMES CROAL JACKSON is the author of “The Frayed Edge of Memory” (Writing Knights Press, 2017). His poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in FLAPPERHOUSE, After the Pause, The Indianapolis Review, and elsewhere. He edits The Mantle. Find him in Columbus, Ohio or at jimjakk.com
TROY CUNIO lives in Orlando. His work has appeared in Voicemail Poems, Baphash, Great Weather for Media, Beech Street Review, and others. Yes, he would like a hug.
BARBARA DANIELS’ “Rose Fever” was published by WordTech Press and her chapbooks “Moon Kitchen”, “Black Sails” and “Quinn & Marie” by Casa de Cinco Hermanas Press. She received three Individual Artist Fellowships from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts and earned an MFA in poetry at Vermont College.
DARREN DEMAREE is the author of six poetry collections, most recently “Many Full Hands Applauding Inelegantly” (2016, 8th House Publishing). His seventh collection “Two Towns Over” was recently selected the winner of the Louise Bogan Award from Trio House Press, and is due out March 2018. 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.
ELEANOR GRAY
CATIE HANNIGAN is a poet and visual artist from Maine. She is the author of two chapbooks: “What Once Was There Is The Most Beautiful Thing” (DIAGRAM 2015) and “Water Fragments” (Tammy Journal 2017). Her work has appeared in Big Big Wednesday, SUSAN / The Journal, and The New Farmer's Almanac, among others. She has received fellowships from Haystack Mountain School of Crafts and Stonecoast Writers Conference. She received her MFA from Vermont College of Fine Arts and currently lives in Oregon.
ANTONI HIDALGO is a Mollet del Vallés, Barcelona-based artist, has studied labour relations at the University of Barcelona, and has made some collective and individual exhibitions and combines the artistic work in the environment with the creative photography. His work represents the place where we are, where we live our routines. Day after day without possibility of change, because we can only contemplate what happens, where the only possibility of change is..., the Art. But we realize we are alone.
NEDA KERENDIAN is a visual artist who is a little obsessed with the process of creating. She could often be found trying to find new and exciting ways to play with materials. More of her work could be found on linedwithsilver.com
MEGAN MERCHANT lives in the tall pines of Prescott, AZ. She is the author of two full-length poetry collections: “Gravel Ghosts” (Glass Lyre Press, 2016), “The Darks Humming” (2015 Lyrebird Award Winner, Glass Lyre Press, 2017), four chapbooks, and a forthcoming children's book with Philomel Books. She was awarded the 2016-2017 COG Literary Award, judged by Juan Felipe Herrera. She is an Editor at The Comstock Review and you can find her work at meganmerchant.wix.com/poet
DAVID MORGAN O’CONNOR is from a small village on Lake Huron called Grand Bend. After many nomadic years, he is based in Albuquerque, where a short story collection progresses. He contributors monthly to; The Review Review and New Pages. His writing has appeared in; Barcelona Metropolitan, Collective Exiles, Across the Margin, Headland, Cecile's Writers, The Great American Lit Mag, Bohemia, Beechwood, Fiction Magazine, After the Pause, The Great American Lit Mag (Pushcart nomination) , The New Quarterly and The Guardian. Tweeting: @dmoconnorwrites and website: davidmorganoconnor.com
ALEX PARTON’S fiction has appeared in Writing Without Walls, Prick of the Spindle, and Hypertext Review. He is currently based in Mexico City. Visit alexjparton.com
FABRICE POUSSIN teaches French and English at Shorter University and is the advisor for The Chimes, the Shorter University award winning poetry and arts publication.. Author of novels and poetry, his work has appeared in Kestrel, Symposium, La Pensee Universelle, and dozens of other magazines. His photography has been published in The Front Porch Review, the San Pedro River Review and more than 300 other publications in the United States and abroad.
JENNIFER RAMSEY originally from North Carolina, Jennifer Ramsey is an artist and Montessori teacher living in Colorado. She received her MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. www.jenniferramseyart.com
STEPHEN RATCLIFFE has published more than twenty books of poetry, including most recently sound of wave in channel (Editions Eclipse, 2016, the fifth volume in his ongoing series of 1,000-page books written in 1,000 consecutive days, all available at http://eclipsearchive.org/editions.html), Painting (Chax, 2014), and Selected Days (Counterpath, 2012), which won The Poetry Center Book Award. He has also written three books of literary criticism, Reading the Unseen: (Offstage) Hamlet (Counterpath, 2010), Listening to Reading (SUNY Press, 2000), and Campion: On Song (Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1981). His ongoing series of daily poems-plus-photographs can be found at Temporality (stephenratcliffe.blogspot.com). He lives in Bolinas, California.
EMMA ROULETTE (b. 1994, South Florida) is a teacher and illustrator based in Barcelona.
JAY SHEETS is a poet, writer, and researcher. His debut book, “The Hour Wasp”, was released by April Gloaming Publishing in 2017. Sheets' poems and writing have appeared in numerous journals and magazines. He received a BFA in Creative Writing from Goddard College in Vermont and currently lives in Plymouth, Massachusetts.
CONNOR SIMONS currently studies English Language Literature at Central Washington University. He has lived in the Pacific Northwest his entire life. His poetry and translations have appeared in the Santa Clara Review, Manastash Literary Journal, and Adelaide Literary Journal.
ANDY STALLINGS lives in Deerfield, MA, where he teaches English at Deerfield Academy. His second collection with Rescue Press, “Paradise,” will come out in 2018. He has four young children, and coaches cross country running.
SOPHIE VANHOMWEGEN lives and works in Brussels. She studied Fine Arts at KASK Ghent (2006 - 2011) and followed a post-academic program in Sint-Lukas Brussel (2011 - 2013). Her work consists mainly of collages on paper and digital works (prints, video, sound). She uses collage techniques to generate an alienating and highly surrealistic universe that reflects on the overflow of manipulated images surrounding us. The constant exposure to a huge amount of - in her eyes - disturbing imagery in advertisement (magazines, posters, television) triggers and pushes her to work with these images. Through the images found in advertisement we are told what is beautiful or sexy, what is ugly or despicable. The artist reflects on these matters by changing roles. She becomes the one who manipulates the images instead of being manipulated. In the process of deconstruction and reconstruction her intention is to give a different reading on the messages carried by the images she uses. The artist criticizes the absurdness of repetitive messages spread through advertisement by revealing the act of manipulation instead of trying to hide it.
JIM ZOLA is a poet and photographer living in North Carolina.
MARION BOYER has published two poetry chapbooks and a full length poetry collection. Her poetry book, “The Clock of the Long Now” (2009), published by Mayapple Press, was nominated for the Pushcart Award and the Lenore Marshall Award. Grayson Books awarded her chapbook "Composing the Rain” first place in their 2014 chapbook competition. Finishing Line Press published her chapbook, “Green”, in 2003. She has won various poetry awards including first place in the 2008 international poetry competition sponsored by the Science Fiction Poetry Association. Her poetry most recently appeared in Crab Orchard Review and The Tishman Review. Her poems have been published in numerous literary journals including Folio, Hayden’s Ferry Review, Spoon River Poetry Review, South Carolina Review, Asimov's Science Fiction, and The Midwest Quarterly. She is a professor emeritus of Communication courses at Kalamazoo Valley Community College in Michigan, and moved recently to an eastern suburb of Cleveland.
JOSH BYER is an artist residing in Vancouver, Canada. His clients & collaborators include 20th Century Fox, Armada Records, Armin van Buuren, Best Buy, Brightlight Pictures, The Canadian University Press, CBC, Gutter, ill.Gates, Interscope, Keystone Entertainment, Laidback Luke, McClelland & Stewart, MTV, NBC, New Line Cinema, Nissan, The Ottawa Citizen, R3HAB, Simon Fraser University, Southam News, Sony Entertainment, Spinnin' Records, Staples, SyFy, Trevor Guthrie, USC, Victory Square Publications, and The Yale Record. A Juno and Journey Prize nominee, Josh is also a grant recipient of the Canada Council for the Arts. His work has won awards from the Montreal World Film Festival, the Northwestern Film Festival, the LEOs, and Kodak Canada. In the summer of 2015, Josh was awarded his first Gold record from Sony Canada. Featured in hundreds of publications, Byer's artwork has been exhibited in Los Angeles, Toronto, and Vancouver alongside Picasso, Dali, Matisse, and the Group of Seven. Licensed by international manufacturers such as Trademark Global, The Metaverse Corporation, and Chamton Pty.
ERICA CHARIS-MOLLING is a creative writing instructor for Berklee Online. Her writing has been published in Crab Fat, Broad!, The Yellow Chair, Rain, Party, & Disaster Society, Anchor, Vinyl and Entropy. She’s a Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference alum and is currently pursuing her M.F.A. in Creative Writing at Antioch University.
SANDY COOMER is a mixed media artist, published poet, and endurance athlete. She has participated in art shows and has exhibited her art in local galleries. She incorporates her love of poetry and words in all her pieces, often hiding secret messages of affirmation within the work. She is the founding editor of the online poetry journal, Rockvale Review, as well as a poetry mentor in the AWP Writer to Writer Mentorship program. Sandy loves color, nature, birds, poetry, racing in endurance sports, and playing the piano.
JAMES CROAL JACKSON is the author of “The Frayed Edge of Memory” (Writing Knights Press, 2017). His poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in FLAPPERHOUSE, After the Pause, The Indianapolis Review, and elsewhere. He edits The Mantle. Find him in Columbus, Ohio or at jimjakk.com
TROY CUNIO lives in Orlando. His work has appeared in Voicemail Poems, Baphash, Great Weather for Media, Beech Street Review, and others. Yes, he would like a hug.
BARBARA DANIELS’ “Rose Fever” was published by WordTech Press and her chapbooks “Moon Kitchen”, “Black Sails” and “Quinn & Marie” by Casa de Cinco Hermanas Press. She received three Individual Artist Fellowships from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts and earned an MFA in poetry at Vermont College.
DARREN DEMAREE is the author of six poetry collections, most recently “Many Full Hands Applauding Inelegantly” (2016, 8th House Publishing). His seventh collection “Two Towns Over” was recently selected the winner of the Louise Bogan Award from Trio House Press, and is due out March 2018. 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.
ELEANOR GRAY
CATIE HANNIGAN is a poet and visual artist from Maine. She is the author of two chapbooks: “What Once Was There Is The Most Beautiful Thing” (DIAGRAM 2015) and “Water Fragments” (Tammy Journal 2017). Her work has appeared in Big Big Wednesday, SUSAN / The Journal, and The New Farmer's Almanac, among others. She has received fellowships from Haystack Mountain School of Crafts and Stonecoast Writers Conference. She received her MFA from Vermont College of Fine Arts and currently lives in Oregon.
ANTONI HIDALGO is a Mollet del Vallés, Barcelona-based artist, has studied labour relations at the University of Barcelona, and has made some collective and individual exhibitions and combines the artistic work in the environment with the creative photography. His work represents the place where we are, where we live our routines. Day after day without possibility of change, because we can only contemplate what happens, where the only possibility of change is..., the Art. But we realize we are alone.
NEDA KERENDIAN is a visual artist who is a little obsessed with the process of creating. She could often be found trying to find new and exciting ways to play with materials. More of her work could be found on linedwithsilver.com
MEGAN MERCHANT lives in the tall pines of Prescott, AZ. She is the author of two full-length poetry collections: “Gravel Ghosts” (Glass Lyre Press, 2016), “The Darks Humming” (2015 Lyrebird Award Winner, Glass Lyre Press, 2017), four chapbooks, and a forthcoming children's book with Philomel Books. She was awarded the 2016-2017 COG Literary Award, judged by Juan Felipe Herrera. She is an Editor at The Comstock Review and you can find her work at meganmerchant.wix.com/poet
DAVID MORGAN O’CONNOR is from a small village on Lake Huron called Grand Bend. After many nomadic years, he is based in Albuquerque, where a short story collection progresses. He contributors monthly to; The Review Review and New Pages. His writing has appeared in; Barcelona Metropolitan, Collective Exiles, Across the Margin, Headland, Cecile's Writers, The Great American Lit Mag, Bohemia, Beechwood, Fiction Magazine, After the Pause, The Great American Lit Mag (Pushcart nomination) , The New Quarterly and The Guardian. Tweeting: @dmoconnorwrites and website: davidmorganoconnor.com
ALEX PARTON’S fiction has appeared in Writing Without Walls, Prick of the Spindle, and Hypertext Review. He is currently based in Mexico City. Visit alexjparton.com
FABRICE POUSSIN teaches French and English at Shorter University and is the advisor for The Chimes, the Shorter University award winning poetry and arts publication.. Author of novels and poetry, his work has appeared in Kestrel, Symposium, La Pensee Universelle, and dozens of other magazines. His photography has been published in The Front Porch Review, the San Pedro River Review and more than 300 other publications in the United States and abroad.
JENNIFER RAMSEY originally from North Carolina, Jennifer Ramsey is an artist and Montessori teacher living in Colorado. She received her MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. www.jenniferramseyart.com
STEPHEN RATCLIFFE has published more than twenty books of poetry, including most recently sound of wave in channel (Editions Eclipse, 2016, the fifth volume in his ongoing series of 1,000-page books written in 1,000 consecutive days, all available at http://eclipsearchive.org/editions.html), Painting (Chax, 2014), and Selected Days (Counterpath, 2012), which won The Poetry Center Book Award. He has also written three books of literary criticism, Reading the Unseen: (Offstage) Hamlet (Counterpath, 2010), Listening to Reading (SUNY Press, 2000), and Campion: On Song (Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1981). His ongoing series of daily poems-plus-photographs can be found at Temporality (stephenratcliffe.blogspot.com). He lives in Bolinas, California.
EMMA ROULETTE (b. 1994, South Florida) is a teacher and illustrator based in Barcelona.
JAY SHEETS is a poet, writer, and researcher. His debut book, “The Hour Wasp”, was released by April Gloaming Publishing in 2017. Sheets' poems and writing have appeared in numerous journals and magazines. He received a BFA in Creative Writing from Goddard College in Vermont and currently lives in Plymouth, Massachusetts.
CONNOR SIMONS currently studies English Language Literature at Central Washington University. He has lived in the Pacific Northwest his entire life. His poetry and translations have appeared in the Santa Clara Review, Manastash Literary Journal, and Adelaide Literary Journal.
ANDY STALLINGS lives in Deerfield, MA, where he teaches English at Deerfield Academy. His second collection with Rescue Press, “Paradise,” will come out in 2018. He has four young children, and coaches cross country running.
SOPHIE VANHOMWEGEN lives and works in Brussels. She studied Fine Arts at KASK Ghent (2006 - 2011) and followed a post-academic program in Sint-Lukas Brussel (2011 - 2013). Her work consists mainly of collages on paper and digital works (prints, video, sound). She uses collage techniques to generate an alienating and highly surrealistic universe that reflects on the overflow of manipulated images surrounding us. The constant exposure to a huge amount of - in her eyes - disturbing imagery in advertisement (magazines, posters, television) triggers and pushes her to work with these images. Through the images found in advertisement we are told what is beautiful or sexy, what is ugly or despicable. The artist reflects on these matters by changing roles. She becomes the one who manipulates the images instead of being manipulated. In the process of deconstruction and reconstruction her intention is to give a different reading on the messages carried by the images she uses. The artist criticizes the absurdness of repetitive messages spread through advertisement by revealing the act of manipulation instead of trying to hide it.
JIM ZOLA is a poet and photographer living in North Carolina.