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issue 73 - part 1
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lindsey morrison grant james aitchinson zarah alam daniel f. bradley patrick burr angela caporaso irene cooper seth crook sascha engel david felix jesse goring natasha holmes jd howse lucy hulton ave jeanne ventresca |
issue 73 - part 2
part 2, featuring:
jim zola haley jenkins christiana jasutan sam kemp cecilia kennedy l kiew kathryn anna marshall joshua martin síofra mcsherry jane monach john rodzvilla samuel rogers dorene o’brien jp seabright tyler walter |
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biographies - issue 73
PART 1
Lindsey Morrison Grant
Self-identifying as a neurodiverse, two-spirit, elder storyteller rooted in The Pacific Northwest, Lindsey Morrison Grant attributes success, if not salvation, to a superlative support network, mindfulness practice, and daily creative expression in words, sounds and images.... and, oh-yes, furbabies!
James Aitchinson
Zarah Alam
Zarah Alam is an aspiring novelist and poet from Birmingham. She is studying English and Creative Writing at the University of Birmingham and is a HarperCollins Author Academy graduate. Her poetry has featured in Gully Collective’s first zine, Thawra Online Literary Magazine and her University’s student newspaper Redbrick and the Writers’ Bloc journal. At present, Zarah is exploring belonging, ancestry, and the legacy of Empire in her creative dissertation.
Twitter: @zarah_writes
Daniel F. Bradley
Daniel f. Bradley, has been active in the Toronto mirco press scene since the mid 1980's. Recently he had a book of visual poems published called "Dust Helvetica" by SIMULACRUM PRESS.
Patrick Burr
Patrick Burr is based in the Washington, DC, area and Riga, Latvia. He has lived on three continents and in eight cities since 2013. He is finishing up editing on two novels. Other stories live with Misery Tourism, Merion West, the Dewdrop, etc. See more at wpburr.com; find him on Twitter @WPBurr.
Angela Caporaso
Angela Caporaso is an Italian artist focusing on artists books and visual poetry, working with the mediums of collage, trash-art and, more recently, digital formats. Since her first exhibitions, which date back to the eighties, she has revealed a constant strain towards new expressive languages. This constant research led Angela to contaminate sign with colour, font with image, literature with painting, as though one single medium was not sufficient to express her complex imaginative world.
http://www.angelacaporaso.com/
Irene Cooper
Irene Cooper’s writings appear in The Feminist Wire, phoebe, Utterance, Denver Quarterly, The Manifest-Station, The Rumpus, Witness, and elsewhere. She is the author of Committal, speculative spyfy about family (Vegetarian Alcoholic Press 2020) and spare change:poems (FLP 2021). She lives with her people and a corgi in Oregon.
Seth Crook
Seth Crook is transitioning into a seal. His poems have appeared in such places as The Rialto, Magma, Poetry Scotland. Some were recently translated into Dutch for Terras. He appears in recent anthologies such as Places of Poetry (One World), Language of Salt (Fragmented Voices). His word-visual poems have appeared in Streetcake, Dreich, Fragmented Voices, The Projectionist's Playground, Selcouth Station, Cerasus Poetry, and The Centenary Collection (Speculative). A few of his visual poems, including some from Streetcake, appear in his new pamphlet Chalked on The Path from Dreich Press.
Sascha Engel
After teaching at U.S. universities for a few years, Sascha Engel now lives in Cork, Ireland. He is the founder and co-editor of Strukturriss, a journal specializing in anarchic dissolutions of text, and has been published in a few academic and non-academic outlets.
About Sascha’s piece: This text is part of a series grappling with the idea that the predecessors of our alphabet are not deficient, but remain interesting in their own right. It engages Linear B, the writing of the ancient Mycenaean people who predate Archaic Greece by about three hundred years. This script system is syllabic and based on a vowel shift, which is applied here in various ways to a contemporary text.
David Felix
David Felix is an English visual poet who lives in Denmark. His writing has featured in galleries, anthologies, festival performances and in over sixty publications worldwide. As a child of artists, magicians and tailors he is still perfectly comfortable with a paint rag, a silk handkerchief, and a velvet mouchoir.
Jesse Goring
Jesse Goring is an aspiring writer from Australia, currently studying Creative Writing in Manchester.
Natasha Holmes
Natasha is based in northern England and writes mainly for children and theatre. As a recent @mumwrite graduate, she is finding her voice in flash fiction, poetry and creative non-fiction. Her poetry has featured on The Babel Tower Notice Board, Adjacent Pineapple and the MumWrite anthology. She can be found at Twitter: @TellTaleHeart most days.
JD Howse
JD Howse is a poet who works across text, film, and collage with particular interests in form and structure, hauntology and media, autism and sexuality. He has a BA in English and MA in Creative Writing from Royal Holloway, University of London and works in print production. His poetry has recently appeared in Babel Tower Notice Board, Spam, Fruit, Datableed, and Rewilding. He curates PermeableBarrier, an online journal for film art, video poetry, and internet-based writing, and previously organised Theatre of Failure with Sarah Dawson, a night of live experimental writing by LGBT+ poets.
Lucy Hulton
Lucy Hulton is an MA student in Creative Writing: Innovation and Experiment at the University of Salford. She has an interest in humans' interactions with the un/natural world and enjoys composing poetry made of overheard conversations, bits of trash, and unlikely pairings. She tweets: @lucechulton
Ave Jeanne Ventresca
Ave Jeanne Ventresca (aka: ave jeanne) is the author of nine chapbooks of poetry that reflect social and environmental concerns. Her most recent collection, Noticing The Colors of Ordinary, was released in the summer of 2019. She edited the acclaimed literary magazine Black Bear Review, and served as publisher of Black Bear Publications for twenty years. Her award winning poetry (contemporary and Asian) has been widely published internationally within commercial and literary magazines, in print and online. Ave Jeanne was nominated for the Pushcart Prize for 2019.
PART 2
Jim Zola
Jim Zola is a poet and photographer living in North Carolina.
Haley Jenkins
Haley Jenkins is an experimental poet living in Surrey, UK. Her debut book 'Nekorb' was published by Veer Books in 2017 and she runs Selcouth Station Press. In her spare time she procrastinates, seeks to lower her plastic waste, drinks far too much tea and adds to her quirky sock collection. She is honoured to have been published in many journals/magazines.
Christiana Jasutan
Christiana Jasutan is a Chinese-Indonesian writer who loves to explore identity, childhood, love, the body, and mental health in both the forms of prose and poetry. She is interested to stretch her metaphors and enjoys experimenting with different forms of writing. Connect with Christi at Twitter @ChristiJasutan, or see more of her work at @cacaolatte.writes on Instagram.
Sam Kemp
Sam Kemp is an experimental poet from the South West. He lives in London and teaches Creative Writing and enjoys playing around with found text on Photoshop. He aims to put things together which don’t want to be together.
Cecilia Kennedy
Cecilia Kennedy taught English and Spanish courses in Ohio before moving to Washington state and publishing short stories in various magazines and anthologies. The Places We Haunt is her first short story collection. You can find her DIY humor blog and other adventures/achievements here: (https://fixinleaksnleeksdiy.blog/). Twitter: @ckennedyhola
L Kiew
A chinese-malaysian living in London, L Kiew works as a charity sector leader and accountant. She holds a MSc in Creative Writing and Literary Studies from Edinburgh University. Her debut pamphlet The Unquiet was published by Offord Road Books in 2019. She was longlisted in the 2019 National Poetry Competition and was a 2019/2020 London Library Emerging Writer. L Kiew is currently working on her first collection.
Kathryn Anna Marshall
Kathryn Anna Marshall is a writer based in Shropshire. She recently returned to writing following diagnosis with M.E.. Kathryn has work published or forthcoming in places like Popshot Quarterly, Mslexia, The Dawntreader and Words for the Wild, and was longlisted for Paper Swans Press single poem competiton in 2020. Kathryn is currently a columnist for Spelt magazine, and is working on her first pamphlet.
Joshua Martin
Joshua Martin is a Philadelphia based writer and filmmaker, who currently works in a library. He is the author of the book Vagabond fragments of a hole (Schism Neuronics). He has had pieces previously published in The Vital Sparks, Breakwater Review, Ink & Voices, The Free Library of the Internet Void, and Paragraph Line. His films have screened at various film festivals including The Pineapple Underground Film Festival, New Filmmakers, Film Al Fresco, Views from the Underground, and The Shooting Wall Film Festival.
Síofra McSherry
Síofra McSherry is a Northern Irish poet living in Berlin with her cat Haiti. Her pamphlet Requiem was the PBS Spring Pamphlet Choice 2020.
Jane Monach
Jane Monach explores poetry and writing with a number of groups in Sheffield and Derbyshire; convenes some workshopping and zoom performance sessions. Her other life has included jobs in the voluntary and statutory sector in mental health, teaching and therapy; children and grandchildren; lots of walking, playing of all sorts...
John Rodzvilla
John Rodzvilla teaches in the Publishing and Writing programs at Emerson College in Boston. His work has appeared in Harvard Review, gorse, and DecomP.
Samuel Rogers
Samuel Rogers is a poet-critic, and a Senior Lecturer at UWE Bristol. His work has appeared in Tears in the Fence, English, and Symbiosis. He is finalising a monograph which re-reads movements of twentieth-century poetry through ideas of place and identity. In his own poetry, Sam explores the constrictions and possibilities of literary form, using some elements of found text and visual structures. He is also a Co-Editor of the Modern Language Review.
Dorene O’Brien
Dorene O’Brien’s stories have won the Red Rock Review Mark Twain Award for Short Fiction, the Chicago Tribune Nelson Algren Award, the New Millennium Writings Fiction Prize, and the international Bridport Prize. She is an NEA, a Vermont Studio Center, and a Hemingway-Pfeiffer creative writing fellow. Her work has been nominated for multiple Pushcart prizes, has been published in special Kindle editions, and has appeared in the Best of Carve Magazine, Short Story Review, Southern Humanities Review, Detroit Noir, and others. Voices of the Lost and Found, her first fiction collection, won the USA Best Book Award for Short Fiction. Her fiction chapbook, Ovenbirds and Other Stories, won the Wordrunner Chapbook Prize in 2018. Her second full-length collection, What It Might Feel Like to Hope, released in 2019, won a 2019 gold medal in the Independent Publishers Book Awards (IPPY). She is currently writing a literary/Sci-Fi hybrid novel.
JP Seabright
JP Seabright is a queer writer living in London. Their work can be found in Babel Tower Notice Board, Fugitives & Futurists, Full House, Untitled Voices, Streetcake and elsewhere. Occasionally they can be found hanging out on Twitter @errormessage and blogging about music: https://randomrecordreview.wordpress.com
Tyler Walter
Tyler (he/they) is 23 and from the UK. They like learning new things and watching videos of fruit rotting. His Instagram is @transwritings.
PART 1
Lindsey Morrison Grant
Self-identifying as a neurodiverse, two-spirit, elder storyteller rooted in The Pacific Northwest, Lindsey Morrison Grant attributes success, if not salvation, to a superlative support network, mindfulness practice, and daily creative expression in words, sounds and images.... and, oh-yes, furbabies!
James Aitchinson
Zarah Alam
Zarah Alam is an aspiring novelist and poet from Birmingham. She is studying English and Creative Writing at the University of Birmingham and is a HarperCollins Author Academy graduate. Her poetry has featured in Gully Collective’s first zine, Thawra Online Literary Magazine and her University’s student newspaper Redbrick and the Writers’ Bloc journal. At present, Zarah is exploring belonging, ancestry, and the legacy of Empire in her creative dissertation.
Twitter: @zarah_writes
Daniel F. Bradley
Daniel f. Bradley, has been active in the Toronto mirco press scene since the mid 1980's. Recently he had a book of visual poems published called "Dust Helvetica" by SIMULACRUM PRESS.
Patrick Burr
Patrick Burr is based in the Washington, DC, area and Riga, Latvia. He has lived on three continents and in eight cities since 2013. He is finishing up editing on two novels. Other stories live with Misery Tourism, Merion West, the Dewdrop, etc. See more at wpburr.com; find him on Twitter @WPBurr.
Angela Caporaso
Angela Caporaso is an Italian artist focusing on artists books and visual poetry, working with the mediums of collage, trash-art and, more recently, digital formats. Since her first exhibitions, which date back to the eighties, she has revealed a constant strain towards new expressive languages. This constant research led Angela to contaminate sign with colour, font with image, literature with painting, as though one single medium was not sufficient to express her complex imaginative world.
http://www.angelacaporaso.com/
Irene Cooper
Irene Cooper’s writings appear in The Feminist Wire, phoebe, Utterance, Denver Quarterly, The Manifest-Station, The Rumpus, Witness, and elsewhere. She is the author of Committal, speculative spyfy about family (Vegetarian Alcoholic Press 2020) and spare change:poems (FLP 2021). She lives with her people and a corgi in Oregon.
Seth Crook
Seth Crook is transitioning into a seal. His poems have appeared in such places as The Rialto, Magma, Poetry Scotland. Some were recently translated into Dutch for Terras. He appears in recent anthologies such as Places of Poetry (One World), Language of Salt (Fragmented Voices). His word-visual poems have appeared in Streetcake, Dreich, Fragmented Voices, The Projectionist's Playground, Selcouth Station, Cerasus Poetry, and The Centenary Collection (Speculative). A few of his visual poems, including some from Streetcake, appear in his new pamphlet Chalked on The Path from Dreich Press.
Sascha Engel
After teaching at U.S. universities for a few years, Sascha Engel now lives in Cork, Ireland. He is the founder and co-editor of Strukturriss, a journal specializing in anarchic dissolutions of text, and has been published in a few academic and non-academic outlets.
About Sascha’s piece: This text is part of a series grappling with the idea that the predecessors of our alphabet are not deficient, but remain interesting in their own right. It engages Linear B, the writing of the ancient Mycenaean people who predate Archaic Greece by about three hundred years. This script system is syllabic and based on a vowel shift, which is applied here in various ways to a contemporary text.
David Felix
David Felix is an English visual poet who lives in Denmark. His writing has featured in galleries, anthologies, festival performances and in over sixty publications worldwide. As a child of artists, magicians and tailors he is still perfectly comfortable with a paint rag, a silk handkerchief, and a velvet mouchoir.
Jesse Goring
Jesse Goring is an aspiring writer from Australia, currently studying Creative Writing in Manchester.
Natasha Holmes
Natasha is based in northern England and writes mainly for children and theatre. As a recent @mumwrite graduate, she is finding her voice in flash fiction, poetry and creative non-fiction. Her poetry has featured on The Babel Tower Notice Board, Adjacent Pineapple and the MumWrite anthology. She can be found at Twitter: @TellTaleHeart most days.
JD Howse
JD Howse is a poet who works across text, film, and collage with particular interests in form and structure, hauntology and media, autism and sexuality. He has a BA in English and MA in Creative Writing from Royal Holloway, University of London and works in print production. His poetry has recently appeared in Babel Tower Notice Board, Spam, Fruit, Datableed, and Rewilding. He curates PermeableBarrier, an online journal for film art, video poetry, and internet-based writing, and previously organised Theatre of Failure with Sarah Dawson, a night of live experimental writing by LGBT+ poets.
Lucy Hulton
Lucy Hulton is an MA student in Creative Writing: Innovation and Experiment at the University of Salford. She has an interest in humans' interactions with the un/natural world and enjoys composing poetry made of overheard conversations, bits of trash, and unlikely pairings. She tweets: @lucechulton
Ave Jeanne Ventresca
Ave Jeanne Ventresca (aka: ave jeanne) is the author of nine chapbooks of poetry that reflect social and environmental concerns. Her most recent collection, Noticing The Colors of Ordinary, was released in the summer of 2019. She edited the acclaimed literary magazine Black Bear Review, and served as publisher of Black Bear Publications for twenty years. Her award winning poetry (contemporary and Asian) has been widely published internationally within commercial and literary magazines, in print and online. Ave Jeanne was nominated for the Pushcart Prize for 2019.
PART 2
Jim Zola
Jim Zola is a poet and photographer living in North Carolina.
Haley Jenkins
Haley Jenkins is an experimental poet living in Surrey, UK. Her debut book 'Nekorb' was published by Veer Books in 2017 and she runs Selcouth Station Press. In her spare time she procrastinates, seeks to lower her plastic waste, drinks far too much tea and adds to her quirky sock collection. She is honoured to have been published in many journals/magazines.
Christiana Jasutan
Christiana Jasutan is a Chinese-Indonesian writer who loves to explore identity, childhood, love, the body, and mental health in both the forms of prose and poetry. She is interested to stretch her metaphors and enjoys experimenting with different forms of writing. Connect with Christi at Twitter @ChristiJasutan, or see more of her work at @cacaolatte.writes on Instagram.
Sam Kemp
Sam Kemp is an experimental poet from the South West. He lives in London and teaches Creative Writing and enjoys playing around with found text on Photoshop. He aims to put things together which don’t want to be together.
Cecilia Kennedy
Cecilia Kennedy taught English and Spanish courses in Ohio before moving to Washington state and publishing short stories in various magazines and anthologies. The Places We Haunt is her first short story collection. You can find her DIY humor blog and other adventures/achievements here: (https://fixinleaksnleeksdiy.blog/). Twitter: @ckennedyhola
L Kiew
A chinese-malaysian living in London, L Kiew works as a charity sector leader and accountant. She holds a MSc in Creative Writing and Literary Studies from Edinburgh University. Her debut pamphlet The Unquiet was published by Offord Road Books in 2019. She was longlisted in the 2019 National Poetry Competition and was a 2019/2020 London Library Emerging Writer. L Kiew is currently working on her first collection.
Kathryn Anna Marshall
Kathryn Anna Marshall is a writer based in Shropshire. She recently returned to writing following diagnosis with M.E.. Kathryn has work published or forthcoming in places like Popshot Quarterly, Mslexia, The Dawntreader and Words for the Wild, and was longlisted for Paper Swans Press single poem competiton in 2020. Kathryn is currently a columnist for Spelt magazine, and is working on her first pamphlet.
Joshua Martin
Joshua Martin is a Philadelphia based writer and filmmaker, who currently works in a library. He is the author of the book Vagabond fragments of a hole (Schism Neuronics). He has had pieces previously published in The Vital Sparks, Breakwater Review, Ink & Voices, The Free Library of the Internet Void, and Paragraph Line. His films have screened at various film festivals including The Pineapple Underground Film Festival, New Filmmakers, Film Al Fresco, Views from the Underground, and The Shooting Wall Film Festival.
Síofra McSherry
Síofra McSherry is a Northern Irish poet living in Berlin with her cat Haiti. Her pamphlet Requiem was the PBS Spring Pamphlet Choice 2020.
Jane Monach
Jane Monach explores poetry and writing with a number of groups in Sheffield and Derbyshire; convenes some workshopping and zoom performance sessions. Her other life has included jobs in the voluntary and statutory sector in mental health, teaching and therapy; children and grandchildren; lots of walking, playing of all sorts...
John Rodzvilla
John Rodzvilla teaches in the Publishing and Writing programs at Emerson College in Boston. His work has appeared in Harvard Review, gorse, and DecomP.
Samuel Rogers
Samuel Rogers is a poet-critic, and a Senior Lecturer at UWE Bristol. His work has appeared in Tears in the Fence, English, and Symbiosis. He is finalising a monograph which re-reads movements of twentieth-century poetry through ideas of place and identity. In his own poetry, Sam explores the constrictions and possibilities of literary form, using some elements of found text and visual structures. He is also a Co-Editor of the Modern Language Review.
Dorene O’Brien
Dorene O’Brien’s stories have won the Red Rock Review Mark Twain Award for Short Fiction, the Chicago Tribune Nelson Algren Award, the New Millennium Writings Fiction Prize, and the international Bridport Prize. She is an NEA, a Vermont Studio Center, and a Hemingway-Pfeiffer creative writing fellow. Her work has been nominated for multiple Pushcart prizes, has been published in special Kindle editions, and has appeared in the Best of Carve Magazine, Short Story Review, Southern Humanities Review, Detroit Noir, and others. Voices of the Lost and Found, her first fiction collection, won the USA Best Book Award for Short Fiction. Her fiction chapbook, Ovenbirds and Other Stories, won the Wordrunner Chapbook Prize in 2018. Her second full-length collection, What It Might Feel Like to Hope, released in 2019, won a 2019 gold medal in the Independent Publishers Book Awards (IPPY). She is currently writing a literary/Sci-Fi hybrid novel.
JP Seabright
JP Seabright is a queer writer living in London. Their work can be found in Babel Tower Notice Board, Fugitives & Futurists, Full House, Untitled Voices, Streetcake and elsewhere. Occasionally they can be found hanging out on Twitter @errormessage and blogging about music: https://randomrecordreview.wordpress.com
Tyler Walter
Tyler (he/they) is 23 and from the UK. They like learning new things and watching videos of fruit rotting. His Instagram is @transwritings.
