Contributors
C. J. Anderson-Wu (吳介禎) is a Taiwanese writer who has published two collections about Taiwan’s military dictatorship: Impossible to Swallow (2017) and The Surveillance (2020). Currently, she is working on her third book, Endangered Youth—to Hong Kong. Her short stories have been shortlisted for a number of international literary awards, including the Art of Unity Creative Award by the International Human Rights Art Festival. She also won the Strands Lit International Flash Fiction Competition, and the Invisible City Blurred Genre Literature Competition. Find her on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/cjandersonwu1/
Crisosto Apache is from the Mescalero Apache Reservation in New Mexico (US) and lives in Lakewood, Colorado. They are Mescalero, Chiricahua Apache, and Diné. Crisosto holds an MFA from the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, New Mexico. They are an associate professor of English and editor-at-large for The Offing magazine. They currently live in the Denver metro area. Crisosto’s first poetry collection is GENESIS (Lost Alphabet). Their second poetry collection is Ghostword (Gnashing Teeth Publication). Winner of the Publishing Triangle’s 2023 Betty Berzon Emerging Writers Award and a Colorado Authors League 2023 Poetry Finalist.
Darwin Bell is a San Francisco–based photographer who specializes in urban street photography/abstracts. He was born in Seattle but considers San Francisco his home and muse and finds inspiration on every street of his chosen city. More of his work can be seen on his Instagram page (https://www.instagram.com/darwinbell/) or Flickr page (www.flickr.com/photos/darwinbell).
Noah Berlatsky (he/him) has a poetry collection forthcoming from Ben Yehuda press and chapbooks from above/ground, LJMcD Communications, and Origami Poetry Project. He tweets too much at @nberlat and scribbles longer at Everything is Horrible (https://noahberlatsky.substack.com/).
Stevie Cornell is a singer/songwriter and recent transplant to Sonoma County. He was a veteran of the early SF punk scene in the seventies and went on to form the popular Bay Area Americana band the Movie Stars, which morphed into the retro-country band Red Meat in the early nineties. After moving to rural Vermont to raise a family early in the century, he is back in California and launching a belated solo career. His website is at steviecornell.com.
Elizabeth Wilson Davies (@LizWilsonDavies) is a poet from Pembrokeshire in west Wales, United Kingdom. She has an MA in creative writing and a PhD in post-colonial literatures and has received a New Writer’s Bursary and mentoring support through the Literature Wales scheme.
Deborah DeNicola’s most recent book is The Impossible (Kelsay Press, 2021). Previous poetry books include Original Human, from Word Tech Communications, Where Divinity Begins from Alice James Books, several chapbooks, and a memoir, The Future That Brought Her Here (Ibis Press, 2009). She won The Packingtown Review’s Analytical Essay Award in 2008 and the Carol Bly Short Story Award in 2013. She edited the anthology Orpheus & Company: Contemporary Poems on Greek Mythology, from UPNE. Among other awards, Deborah has received an NEA Fellowship in poetry. She works as a freelance editor and adjunct professor. Her website: intuitivegateways.com.
Marcello Di Donato studied scenography at the Academy of Fine Art in Naples. In the mid-1980s, he chose to dedicate himself to photography. He has been frequently invited to exhibit his work in numerous public and private galleries. A professor of photography at the Frosinone Academy of Fine Art, he currently lives and works in Rome. For further information about his work: www.marcellodidonato.it
Jeffrey Dreiblatt is a poet, artist, and volunteer firefighter. His work has been published in New Feathers Anthology, The Madison Rag, Bluepepper, and other publications across the English-speaking world. He lives in Copake, New York.
Katie Hughbanks’s photography has been recognized internationally, including two honors from the London Photo Festival. Her photos appear in various publications, including recently in Peatsmoke Journal, In Parentheses, and L’Esprit Literary Review. Her poetry chapbook, Blackbird Songs, was published by Prolific Press in 2019, and her short story collection (It’s Time) will be released by Finishing Line Press in June 2024. She teaches English and creative writing in Louisville, Kentucky.
Intuinna is a merging of her name (Inna Petrusevica) and an intuition—the inner force that she trusts in her creative practice, the force that melds thoughts and symbols, feelings and emotions into paintings and art objects. Thanks to its power, in the end of 2021, she began her conscious artistic path.
At this moment she is particularly interested in the theme of change. How quickly a person wants and can change in a collapsing world. She is
looking to the light side of humanity, without forgetting or denying the dark one.
Oh-Kyung Jang is an interdisciplinary artist working with body, voice, text, and installations. She creates projects exploring topics of performative time and space, embodiment of feelings and emotions, and boundaries between individuals and society. She captures subtlety in life that reveals our true identity. Trained as a choreographer and vocalist, she explores means of expression blurring the traditional boundaries of arts by emphasizing the process of making art. Her recent work covers the topics of female identity and sexuality. She also makes political and ritualistic performances. To see more of her work go to https://ohkyungjang.com/, or, on Instagram, @okj909.
Akari Komura is a Japanese composer-vocalist. Her breadth of work spans chamber ensemble, multimedia/electronic, dance, and vocal music. Her works have been presented at the Atlantic Music Festival, Composers Conference, Montreal Contemporary Music Lab, Nief-Norf, and soundSCAPE. She holds an M.M. in composition from the University of Michigan and a B.A. in vocal arts from the University of California, Irvine. Her major teachers include Evan Chambers, Roshanne Etezady, and Stephen Rush. She is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in composition at the University of CaliforniaSan Diego. To learn more, see her website: akarikomura.com.
Maryna Krazhova is an immigrant from Belarus who mostly writes in foreign languages. Due to her interesting background and education in political science and conflict resolution, she writes a lot about human conflict. She currently works as an interpreter for Ukrainian refugees and spends her free time with her six-year-old daughter.
Richard LeDue (he/him) lives in Norway House, Manitoba, Canada. He has been published both online and in print. He is the author of nine books of poetry. His latest book, It Could Be Worse, is forthcoming from Alien Buddha Press in May 2023.
Alexander Limarev, freelance artist, mail art artist, poet, visual poet, and curator from Russia/Siberia, has participated in more than one thousand international projects and exhibitions. His artworks are part of private and museum collections of seventy-two countries, and his art and poetry have been featured in various online publications, including Expoesia Visual Experimental, Undergroundbooks.0rg, Boek861, Tip of yhe Knife, Bukowski Erasure Poetry Anthology (Silver Birch Press), Briller Magazine, Brave New Word Magazine, Simulacro, Zoomoozophone Review, Iconic Lit, Caravel Literary Arts Journal, Metazen, Maintenant, The Broken Plate, The Gambler Mag, New Feathers Anthology, Degenerate Literature, Tuck Magazine, Ekphrastic Review, Sonic Boom Journal, Mush/Mum Mag, Utsanga, Bateau Ivre, Killer Whale Journal, Angry Old Man Magazine, and more.
Bruce McRae, a Canadian musician, is a multiple Pushcart nominee with poems published in hundreds of magazines such as Poetry, Rattle and the North American Review. The winner of the 2020 Libretto prize and author of four poetry collections and seven chapbooks, his poems have been performed and broadcast globally.
Anna Melnikova is a professional artist, associate professor, master of art history. She was born on June 14, 1986, in Belarus. In 2011, she graduated from the department of graphic design of the Belarusian State Academy of Arts, and in 2012, she graduated from the Belarusian State Academy of Arts with a degree in art history. She worked as an associate professor of the department of graphic design of the Belarusian State Academy of Arts from 2011 to 2022, Minsk (Belarus). Since 2022, she has been a chair of the graphic design section of the Belarusian Union of Artists.
Her creative work is in the field of graphics and art photography (the main activity is focused on experimental and alternative photography and ancient manual techniques). She has been a participant in more than one hundred national and international exhibitions and projects, including seven personal exhibitions, and she is a laureate and finalist of national and international competitions and projects.
Muiread O’Hanlon is an emerging Irish writer who grew up near Belfast during the Troubles. She lives in the north-west of England and began writing fiction in November 2022, following a lumpectomy which turned out to be benign but which challenged her to do something creative. She is a member of Writers Ink online writing community and is currently working on her debut novel set in the 1960s in the north of Ireland. Follow her on Instagram @muireadohanlonauthor or Facebook at Muiread O’Hanlon.
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.
Drew Pisarra, a participating poet in the Whitney Biennial 2022, is the author of two sonnet collections, Periodic Boyfriends (2023) and Infinity Standing Up (2019), and two short story collections, You’re Pretty Gay (2021) and Publick Spanking (1996). He is also the author of two radio plays, The Strange Case of Nick M. (2021) and Price in Purgatory (2023).
Hanna Plotnikava works with a wide range of techniques—oil and acrylic painting techniques, mosaics, encaustic art. The artist uses female images from history and folklore, myths and literature, putting masks on herself and her contemporaries, reacting with their help to events from life and the world around. To see more of her work, go to https://www.instagram.com/hanna.plotnikava.
Daniel Espinosa Ponce always had an attraction for ancient history, nature, stars, and especially, towards pre-Columbian cultures and their religiosity. His main interest has been focused on spirituality, cosmology and shamanic practices. His sculptural work is related to the collection and transformation of forgotten raw materials such as fragments of pre-Columbian ceramics (found by chance on the shores of Ecuadorian beaches), stone, wood, or scrap. He also works in painting and illustration.
He completed his studies at the Faculty of Fine Arts at the Universidad San Francisco de Quito, Ecuador (2005), and later a postgraduate course in city management and creative entrepreneurship at the Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Argentina (2015).
His artistic works are permanently exhibited in Ecuador, Venezuela, El Salvador, the United States, France, Italy, the UK, and Sweden. He has won some relevant awards, such as the USFQ Plastic Arts Award (2005), honorable mention at the National Sculpture Biennial, Ibarra 2021 and the Special Prize ARS–Sustainability and Art at Laguna Art Prize in Venice, Italy (2023).
In the field of management, he directed Pentasiete Art Studio for ten years (2011–2020), a cultural center dedicated to teaching visual arts, promoting, and exhibiting emerging art. Subsequently, he directed La Minga Gallery (2020–2022). In both spaces, he has organized more than 140 art exhibitions, concerts, fairs, and performing arts presentations. He currently lives in Göteborg, Sweden.
To see more of his work, visit www.espinosaponceart.com.
Aliaksandra Rameika is an urban planner and policy designer by profession, an advocate of social change in action, an explorer by passion, and a flamenco dancer in a dream—a Belarusian in search of my place in the world.
Pamela Richardson is a writer and martial artist who lives in Charlotte, North Carolina, with her husband. She owns a Taekwondo studio, where she teaches children and adults martial arts and empowerment self-defense. She has published or has forthcoming work in The Main Street Rag, Roi Fainéant, and Footnote, among others, and has won the Nazim Hikmet Poetry Competition. Her work has also been featured in the public arts project Poetry in Plain Sight.
Heather Sager lives in Illinois, where she writes poetry and fiction. Her most recent writing appears in The Basilisk Tree, Litbop, Backwards Trajectory, Black Poppy Review, The Closed Eye Open, Remington Review, Magma, Spinozablue, and more journals.
Yana Sanko is a social anthropologist, poet, and activist from Minsk, Belarus. She has been living in exile since 2020, after participating in protests against rigged elections in Belarus. Currently, she lives between Sweden, where she is studying for her master’s degree, and Lithuania, where her family and fieldwork are. Her research is focused on care and solidarity tensions among political refugees from Belarus. She writes anthropological and autoethnographic poetry in Belarusian and English, in which she works with subjects of family history, displacement, and multilingual experiences. Her poetry and short stories were published in Belarusian magazines and anthologies, such as Dzejaslou and Rasciajennie, as well as online.
Victor Senkov was born in Mogilev, Belarus. Victor is an accomplished visual artist, photographer, curator, and member of the Belarusian Union of Artists. He is interested in concept art, video art, art photo, concept photography, alternative photography and printing. He has participated in more than thirty national and international exhibitions, and was recently nominated for the National Prize for the Fine Arts 2019–2020 for the project Memory Remains.
He has organized and worked on more than twenty national and international exhibitions and curatorial projects of photography and graphic art with government and private galleries and museums as a curator. His prints are held in galleries in Slovenia, Ecuador, and private collections in Australia, the UK, New Zealand, the USA, Germany, Denmark, Italy, Austria, Lithuania, France, Russia, Sweden, Belarus, Ukraine, and Poland. Victor Senkov’s interests are represented by the gallery of classic and modern art ART Gallery (Belarus), DK GALLERY (Belarus), ART FABRIKA Gallery (Belarus) and 5X7 GALLERY (USA). He still lives and works in Minsk, Belarus. To see more of his work, go to https://www.instagram.com/victor_senkov.
Karl Sherlock, a disabled, queer poet and writer, has recent work that has appeared or is forthcoming in After Happy Hour, Broken Lens, Cathexis North West, Lime Hawk, Mollyhouse, RockPaperPoem, Stone Boat, Science Write Now, Tinge, Wordgathering, and others, as well as in anthologies such as The Ending Hasn’t Happened Yet. He is a Sundress 2014 “Best of the Net” finalist for his memoir about marrying a conversion therapy torture survivor. A professor of writing, he lives and teaches from home in El Cajon, California, where he care-gives to his critically ill husband, Max.
Riayn Spaero is a writer, independent filmmaker, and performance artist. Her work has appeared in or at LIGEIA, Rogue Agent, Autofocus, The Believer, Longreads.com, The Elizabeth Street Garden and McNally Jackson Poetry Reading Series, The Bushwick Daily, and The Columbus International Film + Video Festival. Spaero is embracing changes to her plan, while reconnecting with her culture’s healing arts and the words and rituals of her grandmother.
Olga Suvorova (b.1977, USSR) is a visual artist, working in ceramics, with а strong interest in research on earth material. She has a background in computer science, and after having two children, Olga changed her professional path. She began her artistic practice with evening classes at Art Academy and went to the St Petersburg School of Fashion. After graduation, she focused more on ceramic art and research. She exhibited at national exhibitions, including the Ural Triennial of Decorative Arts (2022), Ceramics on the Grass (St. Petersburg, 2021), and a group exhibition at the Artists’ Union (St. Petersburg, 2011, 2022, 2023), Home and Caucas exhibitions in Moscow, 2023.
Giovanni Verga, a Berlin-based composer, stands as a versatile artist, deeply engaged in both performance and composition in the realms of electroacoustic and acousmatic music. His vision extends beyond traditional boundaries, encompassing music, theater, and contemporary performance. Throughout his career, Giovanni Verga has showcased in diverse and notable projects. His achievements include composition premiers, album releases, tours and collaborations with renowned artists and institutions. For further information about his work please visit https://www.giovanniverga.net/.
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.
Mike Wilson’s work has appeared in magazines, including Amsterdam Quarterly, Mud Season Review, The Pettigru Review, Still: The Journal, The Coachella Review, and in Mike’s book, Arranging Deck Chairs on the Titanic (Rabbit House Press, 2020). He resides in Lexington, Kentucky, and can be found at mikewilsonwriter.com.
Christopher Woods is a writer and photographer who lives in Texas. He has published a novel, The Dream Patch, a prose collection, Under a Riverbed Sky and a book of stage monologues for actors, Heart Speak. His novella, Hearts in the Dark, was published in an anthology by Running Wild Press in Los Angeles. His poetry chapbook, What Comes, What Goes, was published by Kelsay Books (kelsaybooks.com). He has received residencies from the Ucross Foundation and the Edward Albee Foundation, and a grant from the Mary Roberts Rinehart Foundation. You can find more of his work at https://christopherwoods.zenfolio.com.
Crisosto Apache is from the Mescalero Apache Reservation in New Mexico (US) and lives in Lakewood, Colorado. They are Mescalero, Chiricahua Apache, and Diné. Crisosto holds an MFA from the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, New Mexico. They are an associate professor of English and editor-at-large for The Offing magazine. They currently live in the Denver metro area. Crisosto’s first poetry collection is GENESIS (Lost Alphabet). Their second poetry collection is Ghostword (Gnashing Teeth Publication). Winner of the Publishing Triangle’s 2023 Betty Berzon Emerging Writers Award and a Colorado Authors League 2023 Poetry Finalist.
Darwin Bell is a San Francisco–based photographer who specializes in urban street photography/abstracts. He was born in Seattle but considers San Francisco his home and muse and finds inspiration on every street of his chosen city. More of his work can be seen on his Instagram page (https://www.instagram.com/darwinbell/) or Flickr page (www.flickr.com/photos/darwinbell).
Noah Berlatsky (he/him) has a poetry collection forthcoming from Ben Yehuda press and chapbooks from above/ground, LJMcD Communications, and Origami Poetry Project. He tweets too much at @nberlat and scribbles longer at Everything is Horrible (https://noahberlatsky.substack.com/).
Stevie Cornell is a singer/songwriter and recent transplant to Sonoma County. He was a veteran of the early SF punk scene in the seventies and went on to form the popular Bay Area Americana band the Movie Stars, which morphed into the retro-country band Red Meat in the early nineties. After moving to rural Vermont to raise a family early in the century, he is back in California and launching a belated solo career. His website is at steviecornell.com.
Elizabeth Wilson Davies (@LizWilsonDavies) is a poet from Pembrokeshire in west Wales, United Kingdom. She has an MA in creative writing and a PhD in post-colonial literatures and has received a New Writer’s Bursary and mentoring support through the Literature Wales scheme.
Deborah DeNicola’s most recent book is The Impossible (Kelsay Press, 2021). Previous poetry books include Original Human, from Word Tech Communications, Where Divinity Begins from Alice James Books, several chapbooks, and a memoir, The Future That Brought Her Here (Ibis Press, 2009). She won The Packingtown Review’s Analytical Essay Award in 2008 and the Carol Bly Short Story Award in 2013. She edited the anthology Orpheus & Company: Contemporary Poems on Greek Mythology, from UPNE. Among other awards, Deborah has received an NEA Fellowship in poetry. She works as a freelance editor and adjunct professor. Her website: intuitivegateways.com.
Marcello Di Donato studied scenography at the Academy of Fine Art in Naples. In the mid-1980s, he chose to dedicate himself to photography. He has been frequently invited to exhibit his work in numerous public and private galleries. A professor of photography at the Frosinone Academy of Fine Art, he currently lives and works in Rome. For further information about his work: www.marcellodidonato.it
Jeffrey Dreiblatt is a poet, artist, and volunteer firefighter. His work has been published in New Feathers Anthology, The Madison Rag, Bluepepper, and other publications across the English-speaking world. He lives in Copake, New York.
Katie Hughbanks’s photography has been recognized internationally, including two honors from the London Photo Festival. Her photos appear in various publications, including recently in Peatsmoke Journal, In Parentheses, and L’Esprit Literary Review. Her poetry chapbook, Blackbird Songs, was published by Prolific Press in 2019, and her short story collection (It’s Time) will be released by Finishing Line Press in June 2024. She teaches English and creative writing in Louisville, Kentucky.
Intuinna is a merging of her name (Inna Petrusevica) and an intuition—the inner force that she trusts in her creative practice, the force that melds thoughts and symbols, feelings and emotions into paintings and art objects. Thanks to its power, in the end of 2021, she began her conscious artistic path.
At this moment she is particularly interested in the theme of change. How quickly a person wants and can change in a collapsing world. She is
looking to the light side of humanity, without forgetting or denying the dark one.
Oh-Kyung Jang is an interdisciplinary artist working with body, voice, text, and installations. She creates projects exploring topics of performative time and space, embodiment of feelings and emotions, and boundaries between individuals and society. She captures subtlety in life that reveals our true identity. Trained as a choreographer and vocalist, she explores means of expression blurring the traditional boundaries of arts by emphasizing the process of making art. Her recent work covers the topics of female identity and sexuality. She also makes political and ritualistic performances. To see more of her work go to https://ohkyungjang.com/, or, on Instagram, @okj909.
Akari Komura is a Japanese composer-vocalist. Her breadth of work spans chamber ensemble, multimedia/electronic, dance, and vocal music. Her works have been presented at the Atlantic Music Festival, Composers Conference, Montreal Contemporary Music Lab, Nief-Norf, and soundSCAPE. She holds an M.M. in composition from the University of Michigan and a B.A. in vocal arts from the University of California, Irvine. Her major teachers include Evan Chambers, Roshanne Etezady, and Stephen Rush. She is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in composition at the University of CaliforniaSan Diego. To learn more, see her website: akarikomura.com.
Maryna Krazhova is an immigrant from Belarus who mostly writes in foreign languages. Due to her interesting background and education in political science and conflict resolution, she writes a lot about human conflict. She currently works as an interpreter for Ukrainian refugees and spends her free time with her six-year-old daughter.
Richard LeDue (he/him) lives in Norway House, Manitoba, Canada. He has been published both online and in print. He is the author of nine books of poetry. His latest book, It Could Be Worse, is forthcoming from Alien Buddha Press in May 2023.
Alexander Limarev, freelance artist, mail art artist, poet, visual poet, and curator from Russia/Siberia, has participated in more than one thousand international projects and exhibitions. His artworks are part of private and museum collections of seventy-two countries, and his art and poetry have been featured in various online publications, including Expoesia Visual Experimental, Undergroundbooks.0rg, Boek861, Tip of yhe Knife, Bukowski Erasure Poetry Anthology (Silver Birch Press), Briller Magazine, Brave New Word Magazine, Simulacro, Zoomoozophone Review, Iconic Lit, Caravel Literary Arts Journal, Metazen, Maintenant, The Broken Plate, The Gambler Mag, New Feathers Anthology, Degenerate Literature, Tuck Magazine, Ekphrastic Review, Sonic Boom Journal, Mush/Mum Mag, Utsanga, Bateau Ivre, Killer Whale Journal, Angry Old Man Magazine, and more.
Bruce McRae, a Canadian musician, is a multiple Pushcart nominee with poems published in hundreds of magazines such as Poetry, Rattle and the North American Review. The winner of the 2020 Libretto prize and author of four poetry collections and seven chapbooks, his poems have been performed and broadcast globally.
Anna Melnikova is a professional artist, associate professor, master of art history. She was born on June 14, 1986, in Belarus. In 2011, she graduated from the department of graphic design of the Belarusian State Academy of Arts, and in 2012, she graduated from the Belarusian State Academy of Arts with a degree in art history. She worked as an associate professor of the department of graphic design of the Belarusian State Academy of Arts from 2011 to 2022, Minsk (Belarus). Since 2022, she has been a chair of the graphic design section of the Belarusian Union of Artists.
Her creative work is in the field of graphics and art photography (the main activity is focused on experimental and alternative photography and ancient manual techniques). She has been a participant in more than one hundred national and international exhibitions and projects, including seven personal exhibitions, and she is a laureate and finalist of national and international competitions and projects.
Muiread O’Hanlon is an emerging Irish writer who grew up near Belfast during the Troubles. She lives in the north-west of England and began writing fiction in November 2022, following a lumpectomy which turned out to be benign but which challenged her to do something creative. She is a member of Writers Ink online writing community and is currently working on her debut novel set in the 1960s in the north of Ireland. Follow her on Instagram @muireadohanlonauthor or Facebook at Muiread O’Hanlon.
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.
Drew Pisarra, a participating poet in the Whitney Biennial 2022, is the author of two sonnet collections, Periodic Boyfriends (2023) and Infinity Standing Up (2019), and two short story collections, You’re Pretty Gay (2021) and Publick Spanking (1996). He is also the author of two radio plays, The Strange Case of Nick M. (2021) and Price in Purgatory (2023).
Hanna Plotnikava works with a wide range of techniques—oil and acrylic painting techniques, mosaics, encaustic art. The artist uses female images from history and folklore, myths and literature, putting masks on herself and her contemporaries, reacting with their help to events from life and the world around. To see more of her work, go to https://www.instagram.com/hanna.plotnikava.
Daniel Espinosa Ponce always had an attraction for ancient history, nature, stars, and especially, towards pre-Columbian cultures and their religiosity. His main interest has been focused on spirituality, cosmology and shamanic practices. His sculptural work is related to the collection and transformation of forgotten raw materials such as fragments of pre-Columbian ceramics (found by chance on the shores of Ecuadorian beaches), stone, wood, or scrap. He also works in painting and illustration.
He completed his studies at the Faculty of Fine Arts at the Universidad San Francisco de Quito, Ecuador (2005), and later a postgraduate course in city management and creative entrepreneurship at the Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Argentina (2015).
His artistic works are permanently exhibited in Ecuador, Venezuela, El Salvador, the United States, France, Italy, the UK, and Sweden. He has won some relevant awards, such as the USFQ Plastic Arts Award (2005), honorable mention at the National Sculpture Biennial, Ibarra 2021 and the Special Prize ARS–Sustainability and Art at Laguna Art Prize in Venice, Italy (2023).
In the field of management, he directed Pentasiete Art Studio for ten years (2011–2020), a cultural center dedicated to teaching visual arts, promoting, and exhibiting emerging art. Subsequently, he directed La Minga Gallery (2020–2022). In both spaces, he has organized more than 140 art exhibitions, concerts, fairs, and performing arts presentations. He currently lives in Göteborg, Sweden.
To see more of his work, visit www.espinosaponceart.com.
Aliaksandra Rameika is an urban planner and policy designer by profession, an advocate of social change in action, an explorer by passion, and a flamenco dancer in a dream—a Belarusian in search of my place in the world.
Pamela Richardson is a writer and martial artist who lives in Charlotte, North Carolina, with her husband. She owns a Taekwondo studio, where she teaches children and adults martial arts and empowerment self-defense. She has published or has forthcoming work in The Main Street Rag, Roi Fainéant, and Footnote, among others, and has won the Nazim Hikmet Poetry Competition. Her work has also been featured in the public arts project Poetry in Plain Sight.
Heather Sager lives in Illinois, where she writes poetry and fiction. Her most recent writing appears in The Basilisk Tree, Litbop, Backwards Trajectory, Black Poppy Review, The Closed Eye Open, Remington Review, Magma, Spinozablue, and more journals.
Yana Sanko is a social anthropologist, poet, and activist from Minsk, Belarus. She has been living in exile since 2020, after participating in protests against rigged elections in Belarus. Currently, she lives between Sweden, where she is studying for her master’s degree, and Lithuania, where her family and fieldwork are. Her research is focused on care and solidarity tensions among political refugees from Belarus. She writes anthropological and autoethnographic poetry in Belarusian and English, in which she works with subjects of family history, displacement, and multilingual experiences. Her poetry and short stories were published in Belarusian magazines and anthologies, such as Dzejaslou and Rasciajennie, as well as online.
Victor Senkov was born in Mogilev, Belarus. Victor is an accomplished visual artist, photographer, curator, and member of the Belarusian Union of Artists. He is interested in concept art, video art, art photo, concept photography, alternative photography and printing. He has participated in more than thirty national and international exhibitions, and was recently nominated for the National Prize for the Fine Arts 2019–2020 for the project Memory Remains.
He has organized and worked on more than twenty national and international exhibitions and curatorial projects of photography and graphic art with government and private galleries and museums as a curator. His prints are held in galleries in Slovenia, Ecuador, and private collections in Australia, the UK, New Zealand, the USA, Germany, Denmark, Italy, Austria, Lithuania, France, Russia, Sweden, Belarus, Ukraine, and Poland. Victor Senkov’s interests are represented by the gallery of classic and modern art ART Gallery (Belarus), DK GALLERY (Belarus), ART FABRIKA Gallery (Belarus) and 5X7 GALLERY (USA). He still lives and works in Minsk, Belarus. To see more of his work, go to https://www.instagram.com/victor_senkov.
Karl Sherlock, a disabled, queer poet and writer, has recent work that has appeared or is forthcoming in After Happy Hour, Broken Lens, Cathexis North West, Lime Hawk, Mollyhouse, RockPaperPoem, Stone Boat, Science Write Now, Tinge, Wordgathering, and others, as well as in anthologies such as The Ending Hasn’t Happened Yet. He is a Sundress 2014 “Best of the Net” finalist for his memoir about marrying a conversion therapy torture survivor. A professor of writing, he lives and teaches from home in El Cajon, California, where he care-gives to his critically ill husband, Max.
Riayn Spaero is a writer, independent filmmaker, and performance artist. Her work has appeared in or at LIGEIA, Rogue Agent, Autofocus, The Believer, Longreads.com, The Elizabeth Street Garden and McNally Jackson Poetry Reading Series, The Bushwick Daily, and The Columbus International Film + Video Festival. Spaero is embracing changes to her plan, while reconnecting with her culture’s healing arts and the words and rituals of her grandmother.
Olga Suvorova (b.1977, USSR) is a visual artist, working in ceramics, with а strong interest in research on earth material. She has a background in computer science, and after having two children, Olga changed her professional path. She began her artistic practice with evening classes at Art Academy and went to the St Petersburg School of Fashion. After graduation, she focused more on ceramic art and research. She exhibited at national exhibitions, including the Ural Triennial of Decorative Arts (2022), Ceramics on the Grass (St. Petersburg, 2021), and a group exhibition at the Artists’ Union (St. Petersburg, 2011, 2022, 2023), Home and Caucas exhibitions in Moscow, 2023.
Giovanni Verga, a Berlin-based composer, stands as a versatile artist, deeply engaged in both performance and composition in the realms of electroacoustic and acousmatic music. His vision extends beyond traditional boundaries, encompassing music, theater, and contemporary performance. Throughout his career, Giovanni Verga has showcased in diverse and notable projects. His achievements include composition premiers, album releases, tours and collaborations with renowned artists and institutions. For further information about his work please visit https://www.giovanniverga.net/.
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.
Mike Wilson’s work has appeared in magazines, including Amsterdam Quarterly, Mud Season Review, The Pettigru Review, Still: The Journal, The Coachella Review, and in Mike’s book, Arranging Deck Chairs on the Titanic (Rabbit House Press, 2020). He resides in Lexington, Kentucky, and can be found at mikewilsonwriter.com.
Christopher Woods is a writer and photographer who lives in Texas. He has published a novel, The Dream Patch, a prose collection, Under a Riverbed Sky and a book of stage monologues for actors, Heart Speak. His novella, Hearts in the Dark, was published in an anthology by Running Wild Press in Los Angeles. His poetry chapbook, What Comes, What Goes, was published by Kelsay Books (kelsaybooks.com). He has received residencies from the Ucross Foundation and the Edward Albee Foundation, and a grant from the Mary Roberts Rinehart Foundation. You can find more of his work at https://christopherwoods.zenfolio.com.