Contributors
K. B. Baltz grew up in a Cosmic Hamlet by the Sea, a month early and sideways. She has been doing things backward ever since. You can find some of her other work in The Confessionalist Zine, Grey Thoughts, and Atlas and Alice.
Katherine Beam is a waitress in Bristol, England, although originally from the Washington, D.C. metro area. She has enjoyed writing, particularly poetry, since she was a child.
Maria Berardi’s work has appeared in local and national magazines and online (13 Magazine, Voca Femina, Mothering, the Opiate, getborn and most recently Twyckenham Notes, SOUTH BROADWAY GHOST SOCIETY, 8th st. publishing guild, Luna Luna, Leaping Clear, DASH, Heirlock, From Whispers to Roars, Panoply, The Moving Force, Good Works Review, Hole in the Head Review, Braided Way, Jelly Bucket, and forthcoming in LIT and ONE ART; the annual anthologies from 8th st. publishing guild and New Feathers; and next year’s Texas Poetry Calendar by Kallisto Gaia Press), as well as at the Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities, in Arvada, Colorado, in collaboration with installation artist Bonnie Ferrill Roman. Her first collection, Cassandra Gifts, was published in 2013 by Turkey Buzzard Press, and she is currently at work on her second, entitled Pagan, from which this poem is excerpted. She lives in the Front Range foothills west of Denver at precisely 8,888 feet above sea level.
Liza Michelle Bevams is a storyteller exploring life in the Rocky Mountains. She is currently working on her first novel. You can find her work at LizaMichelle.com.
Rose Mary Boehm is a German-born British national living and writing in Lima, Peru. Her poetry has been published widely in mostly US poetry reviews (online and print). Her fourth poetry collection, The Rain Girl, was published by Chaffinch Press at the end of August 2020. To find out more, visit her website: https://www.rose-mary-boehm-poet.com/
Yolande Brener and Danielle Imara’s collaboration started in 2014, when they revised and self-published their memoirs: Imara’s CRACK, and Brener’s Holy Candy. In 2019, they cocreated the short film Y&I, conceived from opposite sides of the Atlantic, and filmed in London. This was published by The Night Heron Barks. Following short collaborative films were by necessity filmed via Zoom: Y&I Lockdown, Y&I go outside, and Y&I Changing All the Time. Matters: A Rising is their first documentary. See their work at www.brenimara.com.
Joanna B. Brewer is a Littleton, Colorado-based writer. She enjoys writing literary fiction that deals with the horrific and absurd. Previously, she has written a novella that was shortlisted for the 2017 Plaza Literary Prize (now the Great Story Project), and she had the privilege of workshopping her in-progress novel with Tin House in 2018. In 2020, she was a Writer’s Digest Annual Writing Competition winner (tenth place in literary fiction).
Lorraine Caputo is a documentary poet, translator, and travel writer. Her works appear in over 180 journals in Canada, the US, Latin America, Europe, Asia, Australia, and Africa, and twelve chapbooks of poetry—including Caribbean Nights (Red Bird Chapbooks, 2014), Notes from the Patagonia (dancing girl press, 2017) and On Galápagos Shores (dancing girl press, 2019). She also authors travel narratives, articles, and guidebooks. Caputo has done over 200 literary readings, from Alaska to Patagonia. She travels through Latin America, listening to the voices of the pueblos and Earth. Follow her travels at www.facebook.com/lorrainecaputo.wanderer and http://latinamericawanderer.wordpress.com.
Shannon Cuthbert is a writer and artist living in Brooklyn. Her poems have appeared in Amethyst Review, Bangor Literary Review, and First Literary Review-East, among others. Her work is forthcoming in Dodging the Rain, Hamilton Stone Review, Déraciné Magazine, and Ink Sweat and Tears, among others.
Dawnia Darkstone, AKA Letsglitchit (she/they), has been at the forefront of brute force, non-coding-based glitch art for close to ten years. She is coadministrator of Glitch Artists Collective and affiliated groups on Facebook and has been exhibited in London, Paris, Zagreb, San Francisco, Minneapolis, and her novel work with sonification has been featured in Vice Magazine.Her most recent work has involved bringing glitch art into the real world once again with glitched embroidery and experiments with reverse sonification and live-motion collage. You can find links to her various pursuits at letsglitchit.com. She presently lives in Arizona with her partner, friends, and some funny little critters.
Susan Darlington’s poetry regularly explores the female experience through nature-based symbolism and stories of transformation. It has been published in Fragmented Voices, Algebra of Owls, Dreams Walking, and Anti-Heroin Chic, among others. Her debut collection, Under the Devil’s Moon, was published by Penniless Press Publications (2015). Follow her @S_sanDarlington.
Thomas Elson’s short stories, poetry, and flash fiction have been published in numerous venues, such as Calliope, The Cabinet of Heed, Pinyon, Lunaris Review, A New Ulster, The Lampeter Review, The Selkie, and Adelaide. He divides his time between Northern California and Western Kansas.
Christian Hennie is a visual artist from Oslo, Norway, working in many media: video, drawing, painting, sculpture, performance and so on. He is focusing more on videos these days, making art music videos, this year, together with sound artist Thor Viggo Fauske. Works from this project can be found on the YouTube channel MultiKemosabi. To see new and old work from Christian, visit his web page: http://christianhennie.com.
Gary Martin Hughes’s short stories and flash fiction have appeared online and in magazines, including Necessary Fiction, The Honest Ulsterman and The Cabinet of Heed. Born in Ireland, he currently lives in England and tweets @GaryMartinHugh1.
Cameron Morse was diagnosed with a glioblastoma in 2014. With a 14.6-month life expectancy, he entered the creative writing program at the University of Missouri—Kansas City and, in 2018, graduated with an M.F.A. His poems have been published in numerous magazines, including New Letters, Bridge Eight, Portland Review and South Dakota Review. His first poetry collection, Fall Risk, won Glass Lyre Press's 2018 Best Book Award. His latest is Baldy (Spartan Press, 2020). He lives with his wife Lili and two children in Blue Springs, Missouri, where he serves as poetry editor for Harbor Review. For more information, check out his Facebook page (https://www.facebook.com/cameronmorsepoems) or website (https://cameronmorsepoems.wordpress.com/).
Don Noel is retired from four decades’ prizewinning print and broadcast journalism in Hartford, CT. He took his MFA in creative writing from Fairfield University in 2013 and has since published more than five dozen short stories. He still has three longer works to place. His website is www.dononoel.com.
Ayhan Özer was born in Gaziantep in 1977. In 2013, he founded the Gaziantep University painting department. He still works as an associate professor there. He has participated in many national and international art events.
Tom Russell became interested in poetry in 1981. Before then, he thought all the poets were long dead. He wrote poetry until 1984, at which time he took a thirty-year coffee break from writing. He works for the Omaha Public Library in Omaha, Nebraska.
Wendy Lou Schmidt has been writing short stories, essays, and poetry for the last ten years. She is also a mixed media artist. Written pieces have been published in Chicago Literati, City Lake Poets, Literary Hatchet, Moon Magazine, Rebelle Society, and Wallopzine, to name a few. Art pieces have been published in Rat’s Ass Review, Three Drops from a Cauldron, The Horror Zine, Young Ravens Review, Kissing Dynamite and Still Point Gallery.
Paul Tanner has been earning minimum wage, and writing about it, for too long. He was shortlisted for the Erbacce 2020 poetry prize. Shop Talk was published by Penniless Press in 2019. No Refunds: Poems and Cartoons from Your Local Supermarket is out now, from Alien Buddha Press.
Joel H. Vega lives in Arnhem, The Netherlands, where he works as freelance editor. His recent poems have appeared in Versal (Amsterdam), Poetry Salzburg Review, North Dakota Quarterly, and other literary journals in the the US, Philippines, Germany, France and the UK. His first poetry collection, Drift, won in 2019 the Philippines annual National Book Award for Best Poetry Book in English and the Philippine Literary Arts Council Award for the same category.
Don Edward Walicek lives in San Juan, Puerto Rico, where he teaches at the University of Puerto Rico’s Río Piedras campus. His poetry has been published in Califragile, A Literary Journal of Climate and Social Justice and The Wild Word. He and Jessica Adams are coeditors of the volume Guantánamo and American Empire: The Humanities Respond (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018). In 2019, he was a Fulbright Scholar as well as a Fellow of the American Council of Learned Societies.
Melody Wang is a poet residing in sunny Southern California with her dear husband. She holds an MSW from the University of Southern California and currently works at the Beckman Research Institute of the City of Hope. She dabbles in piano composition and enjoys hiking, baking, and playing with dogs.
Marilyn Wegner lives in San Diego, California. She enjoys the act of creating and considers herself an intuitive mixed media artist. She likes to let her art build on itself and take her to unexpected places.
Kyle Wright is a Chicago-based writer, musician, and visual artist. He has published two chapbooks with Really Serious Literature, and his first novella, In Control, is forthcoming from Bizarro Pulp Press. His work has appeared most recently in After Hours Press, Subterranean Blue Poetry, and Bleached Butterfly. He is editor-in-chief of the online journal Abandoned Library Press. He has surfed couches across Europe, lived on a mountain in Colorado, worked as a wedding DJ, and played folk music at old folks’ homes. He lives with his partner and their cat, Chickpea.
Ellen Wynne received a B.A. in English/creative writing from Agnes Scott College in 2012 and is currently pursuing a master’s in language and literacy education at the University of Georgia. In her poetry, she seeks to play with language to communicate her subjective experience of the world, and to unsettle the boundary between self, other, and environment.
Katherine Beam is a waitress in Bristol, England, although originally from the Washington, D.C. metro area. She has enjoyed writing, particularly poetry, since she was a child.
Maria Berardi’s work has appeared in local and national magazines and online (13 Magazine, Voca Femina, Mothering, the Opiate, getborn and most recently Twyckenham Notes, SOUTH BROADWAY GHOST SOCIETY, 8th st. publishing guild, Luna Luna, Leaping Clear, DASH, Heirlock, From Whispers to Roars, Panoply, The Moving Force, Good Works Review, Hole in the Head Review, Braided Way, Jelly Bucket, and forthcoming in LIT and ONE ART; the annual anthologies from 8th st. publishing guild and New Feathers; and next year’s Texas Poetry Calendar by Kallisto Gaia Press), as well as at the Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities, in Arvada, Colorado, in collaboration with installation artist Bonnie Ferrill Roman. Her first collection, Cassandra Gifts, was published in 2013 by Turkey Buzzard Press, and she is currently at work on her second, entitled Pagan, from which this poem is excerpted. She lives in the Front Range foothills west of Denver at precisely 8,888 feet above sea level.
Liza Michelle Bevams is a storyteller exploring life in the Rocky Mountains. She is currently working on her first novel. You can find her work at LizaMichelle.com.
Rose Mary Boehm is a German-born British national living and writing in Lima, Peru. Her poetry has been published widely in mostly US poetry reviews (online and print). Her fourth poetry collection, The Rain Girl, was published by Chaffinch Press at the end of August 2020. To find out more, visit her website: https://www.rose-mary-boehm-poet.com/
Yolande Brener and Danielle Imara’s collaboration started in 2014, when they revised and self-published their memoirs: Imara’s CRACK, and Brener’s Holy Candy. In 2019, they cocreated the short film Y&I, conceived from opposite sides of the Atlantic, and filmed in London. This was published by The Night Heron Barks. Following short collaborative films were by necessity filmed via Zoom: Y&I Lockdown, Y&I go outside, and Y&I Changing All the Time. Matters: A Rising is their first documentary. See their work at www.brenimara.com.
Joanna B. Brewer is a Littleton, Colorado-based writer. She enjoys writing literary fiction that deals with the horrific and absurd. Previously, she has written a novella that was shortlisted for the 2017 Plaza Literary Prize (now the Great Story Project), and she had the privilege of workshopping her in-progress novel with Tin House in 2018. In 2020, she was a Writer’s Digest Annual Writing Competition winner (tenth place in literary fiction).
Lorraine Caputo is a documentary poet, translator, and travel writer. Her works appear in over 180 journals in Canada, the US, Latin America, Europe, Asia, Australia, and Africa, and twelve chapbooks of poetry—including Caribbean Nights (Red Bird Chapbooks, 2014), Notes from the Patagonia (dancing girl press, 2017) and On Galápagos Shores (dancing girl press, 2019). She also authors travel narratives, articles, and guidebooks. Caputo has done over 200 literary readings, from Alaska to Patagonia. She travels through Latin America, listening to the voices of the pueblos and Earth. Follow her travels at www.facebook.com/lorrainecaputo.wanderer and http://latinamericawanderer.wordpress.com.
Shannon Cuthbert is a writer and artist living in Brooklyn. Her poems have appeared in Amethyst Review, Bangor Literary Review, and First Literary Review-East, among others. Her work is forthcoming in Dodging the Rain, Hamilton Stone Review, Déraciné Magazine, and Ink Sweat and Tears, among others.
Dawnia Darkstone, AKA Letsglitchit (she/they), has been at the forefront of brute force, non-coding-based glitch art for close to ten years. She is coadministrator of Glitch Artists Collective and affiliated groups on Facebook and has been exhibited in London, Paris, Zagreb, San Francisco, Minneapolis, and her novel work with sonification has been featured in Vice Magazine.Her most recent work has involved bringing glitch art into the real world once again with glitched embroidery and experiments with reverse sonification and live-motion collage. You can find links to her various pursuits at letsglitchit.com. She presently lives in Arizona with her partner, friends, and some funny little critters.
Susan Darlington’s poetry regularly explores the female experience through nature-based symbolism and stories of transformation. It has been published in Fragmented Voices, Algebra of Owls, Dreams Walking, and Anti-Heroin Chic, among others. Her debut collection, Under the Devil’s Moon, was published by Penniless Press Publications (2015). Follow her @S_sanDarlington.
Thomas Elson’s short stories, poetry, and flash fiction have been published in numerous venues, such as Calliope, The Cabinet of Heed, Pinyon, Lunaris Review, A New Ulster, The Lampeter Review, The Selkie, and Adelaide. He divides his time between Northern California and Western Kansas.
Christian Hennie is a visual artist from Oslo, Norway, working in many media: video, drawing, painting, sculpture, performance and so on. He is focusing more on videos these days, making art music videos, this year, together with sound artist Thor Viggo Fauske. Works from this project can be found on the YouTube channel MultiKemosabi. To see new and old work from Christian, visit his web page: http://christianhennie.com.
Gary Martin Hughes’s short stories and flash fiction have appeared online and in magazines, including Necessary Fiction, The Honest Ulsterman and The Cabinet of Heed. Born in Ireland, he currently lives in England and tweets @GaryMartinHugh1.
Cameron Morse was diagnosed with a glioblastoma in 2014. With a 14.6-month life expectancy, he entered the creative writing program at the University of Missouri—Kansas City and, in 2018, graduated with an M.F.A. His poems have been published in numerous magazines, including New Letters, Bridge Eight, Portland Review and South Dakota Review. His first poetry collection, Fall Risk, won Glass Lyre Press's 2018 Best Book Award. His latest is Baldy (Spartan Press, 2020). He lives with his wife Lili and two children in Blue Springs, Missouri, where he serves as poetry editor for Harbor Review. For more information, check out his Facebook page (https://www.facebook.com/cameronmorsepoems) or website (https://cameronmorsepoems.wordpress.com/).
Don Noel is retired from four decades’ prizewinning print and broadcast journalism in Hartford, CT. He took his MFA in creative writing from Fairfield University in 2013 and has since published more than five dozen short stories. He still has three longer works to place. His website is www.dononoel.com.
Ayhan Özer was born in Gaziantep in 1977. In 2013, he founded the Gaziantep University painting department. He still works as an associate professor there. He has participated in many national and international art events.
Tom Russell became interested in poetry in 1981. Before then, he thought all the poets were long dead. He wrote poetry until 1984, at which time he took a thirty-year coffee break from writing. He works for the Omaha Public Library in Omaha, Nebraska.
Wendy Lou Schmidt has been writing short stories, essays, and poetry for the last ten years. She is also a mixed media artist. Written pieces have been published in Chicago Literati, City Lake Poets, Literary Hatchet, Moon Magazine, Rebelle Society, and Wallopzine, to name a few. Art pieces have been published in Rat’s Ass Review, Three Drops from a Cauldron, The Horror Zine, Young Ravens Review, Kissing Dynamite and Still Point Gallery.
Paul Tanner has been earning minimum wage, and writing about it, for too long. He was shortlisted for the Erbacce 2020 poetry prize. Shop Talk was published by Penniless Press in 2019. No Refunds: Poems and Cartoons from Your Local Supermarket is out now, from Alien Buddha Press.
Joel H. Vega lives in Arnhem, The Netherlands, where he works as freelance editor. His recent poems have appeared in Versal (Amsterdam), Poetry Salzburg Review, North Dakota Quarterly, and other literary journals in the the US, Philippines, Germany, France and the UK. His first poetry collection, Drift, won in 2019 the Philippines annual National Book Award for Best Poetry Book in English and the Philippine Literary Arts Council Award for the same category.
Don Edward Walicek lives in San Juan, Puerto Rico, where he teaches at the University of Puerto Rico’s Río Piedras campus. His poetry has been published in Califragile, A Literary Journal of Climate and Social Justice and The Wild Word. He and Jessica Adams are coeditors of the volume Guantánamo and American Empire: The Humanities Respond (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018). In 2019, he was a Fulbright Scholar as well as a Fellow of the American Council of Learned Societies.
Melody Wang is a poet residing in sunny Southern California with her dear husband. She holds an MSW from the University of Southern California and currently works at the Beckman Research Institute of the City of Hope. She dabbles in piano composition and enjoys hiking, baking, and playing with dogs.
Marilyn Wegner lives in San Diego, California. She enjoys the act of creating and considers herself an intuitive mixed media artist. She likes to let her art build on itself and take her to unexpected places.
Kyle Wright is a Chicago-based writer, musician, and visual artist. He has published two chapbooks with Really Serious Literature, and his first novella, In Control, is forthcoming from Bizarro Pulp Press. His work has appeared most recently in After Hours Press, Subterranean Blue Poetry, and Bleached Butterfly. He is editor-in-chief of the online journal Abandoned Library Press. He has surfed couches across Europe, lived on a mountain in Colorado, worked as a wedding DJ, and played folk music at old folks’ homes. He lives with his partner and their cat, Chickpea.
Ellen Wynne received a B.A. in English/creative writing from Agnes Scott College in 2012 and is currently pursuing a master’s in language and literacy education at the University of Georgia. In her poetry, she seeks to play with language to communicate her subjective experience of the world, and to unsettle the boundary between self, other, and environment.