ISSUE 5 CONTRIBUTORS
Robert Beveridge (he/him) makes noise (xterminal.bandcamp.com) and writes poetry in Akron, OH. Recent/upcoming appearances in Collective Unrest, Cough Syrup, and Blood & Bourbon, among others.
Joanie Braddock is a trans poet completing her undergraduate degree in creative writing at the University of North Carolina at Asheville. Her work has been published in Headwaters, UNC Asheville's quarterly literary journal, the local Pansy Fest Zine, and her poem "St John in the Wilderness" received an honorable mention in the Association of Writer's & Writing Programs' 2019 Intro Journals Project. Her work captures an ethics of curiosity, parsing the intimately personal and the painfully cryptic with tenderness, wonder, and care. She believes in cultivating and sustaining community through art, political, and personal work (which are often the same) as a means of resisting alienation.
Kailyn Coslett is a writer from LA county who mainly focuses on poetry and shorter forms of fiction. She's currently enrolled at a creative writing conservatory. She hasn't yet been published, but looks forward to emerging as a new writer.
After seven years of competitive gymnastics, Zaji Cox shifted to dance at fifteen, training in as many styles as she could at local Portland studios. At seventeen, she narrowed her focus to ballet and contemporary, training and performing with the Ballet Repertory Theatre of New Mexico and the New Mexico Ballet Company. After studying dance as a minor at the University of Houston, she returned to Portland to join Polaris Dance Theatre for their 2016-2017 season. She has been a guest dancer with various companies and live musicians, locally and out-of-state. A writer as well, in her art she seeks to explore the process of self-reflection and the complexity of self-discovery.
Jennifer Dines is a mother of three daughters and English as a New Language Teacher in the Boston Public Schools. She is a National Board Certified Teacher and state-certified reading specialist. Jennifer loves to sing, do yoga, run, and spend Saturday afternoons at the Hyde Park Branch of the Boston Public Library.
Jonathan Fischer is a poet, artist, and writer from New Jersey. Jonathan writes short stories, poetry, nonfiction, and dabbles in other forms of literary experimentation. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Literary Orphans, Futures Trading Lit Magazine, The Chiron Review, Driftwood Press, and others.
Dyamond Gordon is a Jamaican painter who excels in the use of color and movement and the art of utilizing her skills to convey her emotions. She explores the potentials of color and tonal scales, visual appeal and volume within a two-dimensional framework. Her art is visual poetry bursting forth with relentless energetic expression. Dyamond has developed her own visual vocabulary and inimitable style. She invites us to view the world as a magical, fluid and invigorating panorama.
Glen Hogard lives in Calgary, Alberta, Canada and completed a MA in creative writing at the University of Calgary and an undergrad degree at York University in Toronto. He has published in various chapbook anthologies and has just completed a book-length poetry collection, of which, the submitted poetry is a selection. Each poem was written and edited within a 24-hour period and is assigned that day it was written in sequence as the title. The poems are compressed walks off a lyrical plank within the pressure of that day. Some of his poems will be included in an upcoming issue of Filling Station. His agreement with Twitter can be found @saaski2
Russell Henry Holbert (he/him) is a Pittsburgh-based composer, performer, and poet. His work centers around the domestic sphere, having now worked on three opera projects involving moms. He received his BFA in Music from Carnegie Mellon University. Russell currently spends most of his days with his cats, Ben, Jerry, & Edie.
Meira Kerr-Jarrett is a poet working and writing out of Jerusalem, where she lives with her husband and two kids. Her work has been featured in Lumina, Rio Grande Review, and elsewhere.
David Koehn's first full-length manuscript, Twine, now available from Bauhan Publishing, won the 2013 May Sarton Poetry Prize. David just released Compendium (Omnidawn Publishing 2017), a collection of Donald Justice's take on prosody. David's second full-length collection, Scatterplot, is due out from Omnidawn Publishing in 2020.
Madeline Lauver is a poet and documentary filmmaker from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and currently based in Germany. Her work has been published in The Cauldron and Cellar Door. Madeline's creative interests include multimedia poetry, anti-binary thought, and lakes.
Alex LeGrys attends Bard College.
Isabel Estrada Lugo is a sophomore at Hollins University. Her work has previously appeared in Litmus, Cargoes, and TRACK//FOUR. When she’s not writing, she enjoys browsing the candy aisle at the local Mexican grocery store and taking pictures of strange looking trees. She’s from South Carolina.
D. Lupo writes, dances, and translates in New York. Their writing has appeared at Bone & Ink, Arcturus, and elsewhere.
Madeline Mags is a candidate for graduation at Columbia College Chicago, majoring in Fiction Writing. She recently completed a year-long study abroad course in the city of Bath, England, the landscape and culture of which has a large influence on her writing. While in Bath, she was active in the Spoken Word and Performance Poetry scene, reading at popular open mics such as Milk, Rhyme and Reason, That’s What She Said, and Raise the Bar. She is currently working on her first novel. You can find more of her work online, at madelinemags.com.
Born in 1997, Bianca Mancin, after attending art school, graduated from the Albertina Academy of fine arts of Turin (Italy), where she deepened her interests, exploring the fields of visual art, graphic design, photography, typography. Now she’s continuing her academic studies with a master's degree in the public art sector. She is a multidisciplinary artist characterized by a minimalist and synthetic approach that is reflected in the message inherent in his works. Her works have been exhibited in personal and collective exhibitions in Turin, Naples and Rome.
Bukunmi Oyewole is a travel and documentary photographer who loves to see the world through the lens of his camera. He has traveled round Nigeria, visiting over 19 states on photo tours and documentaries. One of his many dreams is to travel round the world, capturing astonishing moments with his camera. His passion for photography and striking pictorial skills earned him a feature on six editions of Blueprint Magazine, Foxhole Magazine, The Agbowo Magazine, Penumbra, Turnpike magazine, and a host of others.
Emily Petersen is currently a third year Liberal Studies and Creative Writing student at Georgia College and State University. Since experiencing gender-based violence in high school, she has devoted herself and her studies toward empowering and giving a voice to women who have experienced any sort of oppression at the hands of others.
Fabrice Poussin teaches French and English at Shorter University. Author of novels and poetry, his work has appeared in Kestrel, Symposium, The Chimes, and many other magazines. His photography has been published in The Front Porch Review, the San Pedro River Review as well as other publications.
Rebecca Resinski is a professor of Classics at Hendrix College and one of the editors of Heron Tree, an online poetry journal. She also designs and produces pamphlets and chapbooks under the imprint Cuckoo Grey.
Fabio Sassi makes photos and acrylics putting a quirky twist to his subjects. Sometimes he employs an unusual perspective that gives a new angle of view using what is hidden, discarded or considered to have no worth by the mainstream. Fabio lives in Bologna, Italy. His work can be viewed at www.fabiosassi.foliohd.com
Nora Treatbaby is a queer poet and essayist. Most recently her work has been featured in The Shotgun Paper and The Weakly. She lives in New Orleans, and she does not spend her time.
Jacob Troia is a poet and an undergraduate student of American Literature at the University of Illinois at Chicago and is a recipient of the Liberal Arts and Sciences Undergraduate Research Initiative there for his manuscript, Quindecims. His work often seeks to echo the natural themes of the Romantic Era while also grappling with the friction of modern society.
Steven Tutino was born in Montréal, Canada, and is a writer, poet, painter and personal trainer. He is currently a graduate student at Concordia University in the process of completing an M.A. in Theological Studies. His artwork has appeared in numerous journals and magazines including TreeHouse Arts, Montréal Writes, Spadina Literary Review, The Montréal Gazette, From Whispers to Roars, The Indianapolis Review, After Happy Hour and Apricity Magazine.
T.D. Walker is the author of Small Waiting Objects (CW Books, 2019). Her poems and stories have appeared in Strange Horizons, Web Conjunctions, The Cascadia Subduction Zone, Luna Station Quarterly, and elsewhere. She draws on both her grounding in literary studies and her experience as a computer programmer in writing poetry and fiction. https://www.tdwalker.net
Emma Wynn received her masters degree from Harvard Divinity School and teaches Philosophy & Religion at a boarding school in rural Connecticut, where she lives with her partner and two children. Her poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in Coffin Bell Journal, Sky Island Journal, and West Trade Review.
Joanie Braddock is a trans poet completing her undergraduate degree in creative writing at the University of North Carolina at Asheville. Her work has been published in Headwaters, UNC Asheville's quarterly literary journal, the local Pansy Fest Zine, and her poem "St John in the Wilderness" received an honorable mention in the Association of Writer's & Writing Programs' 2019 Intro Journals Project. Her work captures an ethics of curiosity, parsing the intimately personal and the painfully cryptic with tenderness, wonder, and care. She believes in cultivating and sustaining community through art, political, and personal work (which are often the same) as a means of resisting alienation.
Kailyn Coslett is a writer from LA county who mainly focuses on poetry and shorter forms of fiction. She's currently enrolled at a creative writing conservatory. She hasn't yet been published, but looks forward to emerging as a new writer.
After seven years of competitive gymnastics, Zaji Cox shifted to dance at fifteen, training in as many styles as she could at local Portland studios. At seventeen, she narrowed her focus to ballet and contemporary, training and performing with the Ballet Repertory Theatre of New Mexico and the New Mexico Ballet Company. After studying dance as a minor at the University of Houston, she returned to Portland to join Polaris Dance Theatre for their 2016-2017 season. She has been a guest dancer with various companies and live musicians, locally and out-of-state. A writer as well, in her art she seeks to explore the process of self-reflection and the complexity of self-discovery.
Jennifer Dines is a mother of three daughters and English as a New Language Teacher in the Boston Public Schools. She is a National Board Certified Teacher and state-certified reading specialist. Jennifer loves to sing, do yoga, run, and spend Saturday afternoons at the Hyde Park Branch of the Boston Public Library.
Jonathan Fischer is a poet, artist, and writer from New Jersey. Jonathan writes short stories, poetry, nonfiction, and dabbles in other forms of literary experimentation. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Literary Orphans, Futures Trading Lit Magazine, The Chiron Review, Driftwood Press, and others.
Dyamond Gordon is a Jamaican painter who excels in the use of color and movement and the art of utilizing her skills to convey her emotions. She explores the potentials of color and tonal scales, visual appeal and volume within a two-dimensional framework. Her art is visual poetry bursting forth with relentless energetic expression. Dyamond has developed her own visual vocabulary and inimitable style. She invites us to view the world as a magical, fluid and invigorating panorama.
Glen Hogard lives in Calgary, Alberta, Canada and completed a MA in creative writing at the University of Calgary and an undergrad degree at York University in Toronto. He has published in various chapbook anthologies and has just completed a book-length poetry collection, of which, the submitted poetry is a selection. Each poem was written and edited within a 24-hour period and is assigned that day it was written in sequence as the title. The poems are compressed walks off a lyrical plank within the pressure of that day. Some of his poems will be included in an upcoming issue of Filling Station. His agreement with Twitter can be found @saaski2
Russell Henry Holbert (he/him) is a Pittsburgh-based composer, performer, and poet. His work centers around the domestic sphere, having now worked on three opera projects involving moms. He received his BFA in Music from Carnegie Mellon University. Russell currently spends most of his days with his cats, Ben, Jerry, & Edie.
Meira Kerr-Jarrett is a poet working and writing out of Jerusalem, where she lives with her husband and two kids. Her work has been featured in Lumina, Rio Grande Review, and elsewhere.
David Koehn's first full-length manuscript, Twine, now available from Bauhan Publishing, won the 2013 May Sarton Poetry Prize. David just released Compendium (Omnidawn Publishing 2017), a collection of Donald Justice's take on prosody. David's second full-length collection, Scatterplot, is due out from Omnidawn Publishing in 2020.
Madeline Lauver is a poet and documentary filmmaker from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and currently based in Germany. Her work has been published in The Cauldron and Cellar Door. Madeline's creative interests include multimedia poetry, anti-binary thought, and lakes.
Alex LeGrys attends Bard College.
Isabel Estrada Lugo is a sophomore at Hollins University. Her work has previously appeared in Litmus, Cargoes, and TRACK//FOUR. When she’s not writing, she enjoys browsing the candy aisle at the local Mexican grocery store and taking pictures of strange looking trees. She’s from South Carolina.
D. Lupo writes, dances, and translates in New York. Their writing has appeared at Bone & Ink, Arcturus, and elsewhere.
Madeline Mags is a candidate for graduation at Columbia College Chicago, majoring in Fiction Writing. She recently completed a year-long study abroad course in the city of Bath, England, the landscape and culture of which has a large influence on her writing. While in Bath, she was active in the Spoken Word and Performance Poetry scene, reading at popular open mics such as Milk, Rhyme and Reason, That’s What She Said, and Raise the Bar. She is currently working on her first novel. You can find more of her work online, at madelinemags.com.
Born in 1997, Bianca Mancin, after attending art school, graduated from the Albertina Academy of fine arts of Turin (Italy), where she deepened her interests, exploring the fields of visual art, graphic design, photography, typography. Now she’s continuing her academic studies with a master's degree in the public art sector. She is a multidisciplinary artist characterized by a minimalist and synthetic approach that is reflected in the message inherent in his works. Her works have been exhibited in personal and collective exhibitions in Turin, Naples and Rome.
Bukunmi Oyewole is a travel and documentary photographer who loves to see the world through the lens of his camera. He has traveled round Nigeria, visiting over 19 states on photo tours and documentaries. One of his many dreams is to travel round the world, capturing astonishing moments with his camera. His passion for photography and striking pictorial skills earned him a feature on six editions of Blueprint Magazine, Foxhole Magazine, The Agbowo Magazine, Penumbra, Turnpike magazine, and a host of others.
Emily Petersen is currently a third year Liberal Studies and Creative Writing student at Georgia College and State University. Since experiencing gender-based violence in high school, she has devoted herself and her studies toward empowering and giving a voice to women who have experienced any sort of oppression at the hands of others.
Fabrice Poussin teaches French and English at Shorter University. Author of novels and poetry, his work has appeared in Kestrel, Symposium, The Chimes, and many other magazines. His photography has been published in The Front Porch Review, the San Pedro River Review as well as other publications.
Rebecca Resinski is a professor of Classics at Hendrix College and one of the editors of Heron Tree, an online poetry journal. She also designs and produces pamphlets and chapbooks under the imprint Cuckoo Grey.
Fabio Sassi makes photos and acrylics putting a quirky twist to his subjects. Sometimes he employs an unusual perspective that gives a new angle of view using what is hidden, discarded or considered to have no worth by the mainstream. Fabio lives in Bologna, Italy. His work can be viewed at www.fabiosassi.foliohd.com
Nora Treatbaby is a queer poet and essayist. Most recently her work has been featured in The Shotgun Paper and The Weakly. She lives in New Orleans, and she does not spend her time.
Jacob Troia is a poet and an undergraduate student of American Literature at the University of Illinois at Chicago and is a recipient of the Liberal Arts and Sciences Undergraduate Research Initiative there for his manuscript, Quindecims. His work often seeks to echo the natural themes of the Romantic Era while also grappling with the friction of modern society.
Steven Tutino was born in Montréal, Canada, and is a writer, poet, painter and personal trainer. He is currently a graduate student at Concordia University in the process of completing an M.A. in Theological Studies. His artwork has appeared in numerous journals and magazines including TreeHouse Arts, Montréal Writes, Spadina Literary Review, The Montréal Gazette, From Whispers to Roars, The Indianapolis Review, After Happy Hour and Apricity Magazine.
T.D. Walker is the author of Small Waiting Objects (CW Books, 2019). Her poems and stories have appeared in Strange Horizons, Web Conjunctions, The Cascadia Subduction Zone, Luna Station Quarterly, and elsewhere. She draws on both her grounding in literary studies and her experience as a computer programmer in writing poetry and fiction. https://www.tdwalker.net
Emma Wynn received her masters degree from Harvard Divinity School and teaches Philosophy & Religion at a boarding school in rural Connecticut, where she lives with her partner and two children. Her poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in Coffin Bell Journal, Sky Island Journal, and West Trade Review.