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issue 91
issue 91, featuring:
COVER: mike callaghan
jane ayres
lilly besser
daniel john brennan
evan h brisson
ronita chattopadhyay
dario roberto dioli
s.c. flynn
luca fois
james knight
ethan kwak
amy marques
pauline mccarthy
stephanie powell
dave read
lucy rumble
ali znaidi
COVER: mike callaghan
jane ayres
lilly besser
daniel john brennan
evan h brisson
ronita chattopadhyay
dario roberto dioli
s.c. flynn
luca fois
james knight
ethan kwak
amy marques
pauline mccarthy
stephanie powell
dave read
lucy rumble
ali znaidi
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biographies - issue 91
Jane Ayers
UK based neurodivergent writer Jane Ayres re-discovered poetry studying for a part-time Creative Writing MA at the University of Kent, which she completed in 2019 at the age of 57. In 2020, she was longlisted for the Rebecca Swift Foundation Women Poets’ Prize. In 2021, she was nominated for Best of the Net, shortlisted for the Aesthetica Creative Writing Award and a winner of the Laurence Sterne Prize. Her first collection edible was published by Beir Bua Press (July 2022). Her micro-chapbook my lost womb still sings to me is published by Porkbelly Press (October 2023)
Lilly Besser
Lilly Besser is a university student entering her third year in Creative Writing. She is a newbie at experimental fiction, but thoroughly enjoyed creating this piece.
Daniel Brennan
Daniel Brennan (he/him) is a queer writer and coffee devotee from New York. Sometimes he is in love, but just as often he is not. His poetry has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize, and has appeared in numerous publications, including The Penn Review, Sky Island Journal, and ONE ART. He can be found on Twitter and Instagram: @dannyjbrennan
Evan Brisson
Evan H. Brisson works at a public library in Raleigh, North Carolina where he facilitates a poetry club that meets on the third Tuesday of each month. He has also taught writing and literature classes at Central Piedmont Community College in Charlotte, North Carolina.
Mike Callaghan
Mike Callaghan’s work focuses on the intimate cycles of self-preservation and mortality - in a moment when frameworks of relationships are at once prominently visible and exhaustively hidden. His work has appeared in publications, including ZYZZYVA, Der Greif, Streetcake Magazine and The Shanghai Literary Review. Also, his work has appeared in exhibitions, including at Griffin Museum of Photography, Marin Museum of Contemporary Art, Soho Photo Gallery and PhotoIreland. Mike earned an MFA from San Francisco Art Institute.
Ronita Chattopadhyay
Ronita Chattopadhyay (she/her) finds refuge in words. She became a poet in public in end 2022. Since then, her writings (poetry and prose) have appeared in The Hooghly Review, Roi Fainéant Press, streetcake magazine, Akéwì Magazine, RIC Journal among others, and in anthologies by Querencia Press and Sídhe Press. She lives with her family in Kolkata, India, and loves books, mountains and tea.
Dario (Roberto) Dioli
Dario Roberto Dioli explores signs, senses and meanings with linear and visual poetry, asemic writing, collage and Dada performances. His aperiodical micropress name is Asatami Legesse. He published some poetry collections in Italy and Romania. His latest works are in Word for/ word, Cutbow Quarterly, Ranger, Ouste, 3 A.M.Magazine, Hello America Stereo Cassette.
S.C. Flynn
S.C. Flynn was born in a small town in Australia of Irish origin and now lives in Dublin. His poetry has been published in more than a hundred magazines in more than ten countries. His forthcoming collections are “The Colour of Extinction” (Renard Press, October 2024) and “An Ocean Called Hope” (Downingfield Press, May 2025).
Luca Fois
Luca Fois is a librarian living in Edinburgh and in the liminal space between languages. He loves discussing poetry, writing, and discovering new words. You can find him in a local café thinking about the right word to end a sentence, or on X @cuttinghail. He is lately obsessed with death and relationships.
James Knight
James Knight is a poet, artist and performer based in the UK. Recent books include Cosmic Horror (Hem Press) and Lacunae (Paper View Books). He runs visual poetry press Steel Incisors. Twitter/X: @badbadpoet. Website: thebirdking.com. Instagram: @jkbirdking.
Ethan Kwak
Ethan Kwak is a Korean American writer who grew up in Singapore and now lives in Southern California. He mainly writes of the surreal and autobiographical.
Amy Marques
Amy Marques has been known to call books friends and is on a first name basis with many fictional characters. She has been nominated for multiple awards and has visual art, poetry, and prose published in journals such as Streetcake Magazine, South Florida Poetry Journal, Fictive Dream, Anti-Heroin Chic, Ghost Parachute, Chicago Quarterly Review, and Gone Lawn. She is the editor and visual artist for the Duets anthology and has an erasure poetry book coming out in 2024 with Full Mood Publishing. More at https://amybookwhisperer.wordpress.com.
Pauline McCarthy
Pauline is a self-taught artist who discovered the joy of painting late in life. She works mainly with acrylics as she loves the easy-going nature of this medium. She adores texture and loves nothing more than plying on the paint, pushing it around and coaxing the image she wants onto her canvas. Born and bred in Middlesbrough, she counts herself lucky to have inspirational landscapes and seascapes on her doorstep. Her paintings are an expression of her sense of pleasure and pride of the North East.
Stephanie Powell
Stephanie Powell is a poet based in Naarm / Melbourne. Her latest collection of poetry is Gentle Creatures (Vagabond Press, 2023). atticpoet.com
Dave Read
Dave Read is a Canadian poet living in Calgary. He has two chapbooks of asemic writing, Notebook and Brutish and Short, available from Paper View Press. His work can be found on his blog davereadpoetry.blogspot.com.
Lucy Rumble
Lucy Rumble is a writer from Essex. Her work has been published in Crow & Cross Keys, Rust and Moth, and Needle Poetry, among others. Find her on Instagram @lucyrumble.writes, X @rumblewrites or read her blog at https://rumblewrites.substack.com/
Ali Znaidi
Ali Znaidi (b.1977) lives in Redeyef, Tunisia. He is the author of several chapbooks, including Experimental Ruminations (Fowlpox Press, 2012), Moon’s Cloth Embroidered with Poems (Origami Poems Project, 2012), Bye, Donna Summer! (Fowlpox Press, 2014), Taste of the Edge (Kind of a Hurricane Press, 2014), Mathemaku x5 (Spacecraft Press, 2015), Austere Lights (Locofo Chaps: an imprint of Moria Books, 2017), Gazes of Wrath (Mount Analogue Press, 2017), and Against Darkness (Pen & Anvil Press, 2018). For more, visit aliznaidi.blogspot.com or follow him on X (formerly Twitter): @AliZnaidi.
Jane Ayers
UK based neurodivergent writer Jane Ayres re-discovered poetry studying for a part-time Creative Writing MA at the University of Kent, which she completed in 2019 at the age of 57. In 2020, she was longlisted for the Rebecca Swift Foundation Women Poets’ Prize. In 2021, she was nominated for Best of the Net, shortlisted for the Aesthetica Creative Writing Award and a winner of the Laurence Sterne Prize. Her first collection edible was published by Beir Bua Press (July 2022). Her micro-chapbook my lost womb still sings to me is published by Porkbelly Press (October 2023)
Lilly Besser
Lilly Besser is a university student entering her third year in Creative Writing. She is a newbie at experimental fiction, but thoroughly enjoyed creating this piece.
Daniel Brennan
Daniel Brennan (he/him) is a queer writer and coffee devotee from New York. Sometimes he is in love, but just as often he is not. His poetry has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize, and has appeared in numerous publications, including The Penn Review, Sky Island Journal, and ONE ART. He can be found on Twitter and Instagram: @dannyjbrennan
Evan Brisson
Evan H. Brisson works at a public library in Raleigh, North Carolina where he facilitates a poetry club that meets on the third Tuesday of each month. He has also taught writing and literature classes at Central Piedmont Community College in Charlotte, North Carolina.
Mike Callaghan
Mike Callaghan’s work focuses on the intimate cycles of self-preservation and mortality - in a moment when frameworks of relationships are at once prominently visible and exhaustively hidden. His work has appeared in publications, including ZYZZYVA, Der Greif, Streetcake Magazine and The Shanghai Literary Review. Also, his work has appeared in exhibitions, including at Griffin Museum of Photography, Marin Museum of Contemporary Art, Soho Photo Gallery and PhotoIreland. Mike earned an MFA from San Francisco Art Institute.
Ronita Chattopadhyay
Ronita Chattopadhyay (she/her) finds refuge in words. She became a poet in public in end 2022. Since then, her writings (poetry and prose) have appeared in The Hooghly Review, Roi Fainéant Press, streetcake magazine, Akéwì Magazine, RIC Journal among others, and in anthologies by Querencia Press and Sídhe Press. She lives with her family in Kolkata, India, and loves books, mountains and tea.
Dario (Roberto) Dioli
Dario Roberto Dioli explores signs, senses and meanings with linear and visual poetry, asemic writing, collage and Dada performances. His aperiodical micropress name is Asatami Legesse. He published some poetry collections in Italy and Romania. His latest works are in Word for/ word, Cutbow Quarterly, Ranger, Ouste, 3 A.M.Magazine, Hello America Stereo Cassette.
S.C. Flynn
S.C. Flynn was born in a small town in Australia of Irish origin and now lives in Dublin. His poetry has been published in more than a hundred magazines in more than ten countries. His forthcoming collections are “The Colour of Extinction” (Renard Press, October 2024) and “An Ocean Called Hope” (Downingfield Press, May 2025).
Luca Fois
Luca Fois is a librarian living in Edinburgh and in the liminal space between languages. He loves discussing poetry, writing, and discovering new words. You can find him in a local café thinking about the right word to end a sentence, or on X @cuttinghail. He is lately obsessed with death and relationships.
James Knight
James Knight is a poet, artist and performer based in the UK. Recent books include Cosmic Horror (Hem Press) and Lacunae (Paper View Books). He runs visual poetry press Steel Incisors. Twitter/X: @badbadpoet. Website: thebirdking.com. Instagram: @jkbirdking.
Ethan Kwak
Ethan Kwak is a Korean American writer who grew up in Singapore and now lives in Southern California. He mainly writes of the surreal and autobiographical.
Amy Marques
Amy Marques has been known to call books friends and is on a first name basis with many fictional characters. She has been nominated for multiple awards and has visual art, poetry, and prose published in journals such as Streetcake Magazine, South Florida Poetry Journal, Fictive Dream, Anti-Heroin Chic, Ghost Parachute, Chicago Quarterly Review, and Gone Lawn. She is the editor and visual artist for the Duets anthology and has an erasure poetry book coming out in 2024 with Full Mood Publishing. More at https://amybookwhisperer.wordpress.com.
Pauline McCarthy
Pauline is a self-taught artist who discovered the joy of painting late in life. She works mainly with acrylics as she loves the easy-going nature of this medium. She adores texture and loves nothing more than plying on the paint, pushing it around and coaxing the image she wants onto her canvas. Born and bred in Middlesbrough, she counts herself lucky to have inspirational landscapes and seascapes on her doorstep. Her paintings are an expression of her sense of pleasure and pride of the North East.
Stephanie Powell
Stephanie Powell is a poet based in Naarm / Melbourne. Her latest collection of poetry is Gentle Creatures (Vagabond Press, 2023). atticpoet.com
Dave Read
Dave Read is a Canadian poet living in Calgary. He has two chapbooks of asemic writing, Notebook and Brutish and Short, available from Paper View Press. His work can be found on his blog davereadpoetry.blogspot.com.
Lucy Rumble
Lucy Rumble is a writer from Essex. Her work has been published in Crow & Cross Keys, Rust and Moth, and Needle Poetry, among others. Find her on Instagram @lucyrumble.writes, X @rumblewrites or read her blog at https://rumblewrites.substack.com/
Ali Znaidi
Ali Znaidi (b.1977) lives in Redeyef, Tunisia. He is the author of several chapbooks, including Experimental Ruminations (Fowlpox Press, 2012), Moon’s Cloth Embroidered with Poems (Origami Poems Project, 2012), Bye, Donna Summer! (Fowlpox Press, 2014), Taste of the Edge (Kind of a Hurricane Press, 2014), Mathemaku x5 (Spacecraft Press, 2015), Austere Lights (Locofo Chaps: an imprint of Moria Books, 2017), Gazes of Wrath (Mount Analogue Press, 2017), and Against Darkness (Pen & Anvil Press, 2018). For more, visit aliznaidi.blogspot.com or follow him on X (formerly Twitter): @AliZnaidi.