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issue 74 - part 1
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józsef bíró fizza abbas doug bolling rebecca burton elizabeth m castillo yuan changing seth crook shiksha s dheda roy duffield peyton ellas federico federici ameek mark goodwin jasmine kaur michelle moloney king elee kraljii gardiner martha lane |
issue 74 - part 2
part 2, featuring:
sarah mather manuel paul lópez juan pablo martinez cajiga louise mather jay merill stephen c. middleton emilee prado constantin preda jen schneider anna shelton thea smiley gerry stewart michael steffen sage tyrtle amaury wonderling jack young |
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biographies - issue 74
PART 1
József Bíró
József Bíró is a Hungarian poet , writer, visual artist and performer. He has published 35 books and booklets, held 9 individual exhibitions and been involved with over 700 group exhibitions worldwide. He has also performed all around the world. He is the recipient of the Hungarian Gold Cross of Merit, the Recognition of Artistic Ouvre and the Attila József Prize.
Fizza Abbas
Fizza Abbas is a Freelance Content Writer based in Karachi, Pakistan. She is fond of poetry and music. Her works have been published on quite a few platforms including Poetry Village and Poetry Pacific.
Doug Bolling
Doug Bolling lives next door to Chicago and is working on a Collection of experimental writing. His work has appeared in indefinite space, BlazeVOX, Literary Heist, 0toliths, s/word and Literary Yard among others. He has received Best of the Net and Pushcart nominations and several awards.
Rebecca Burton
Rebecca Burton is a poet and a visual artist living in Bristol in the UK. When not typing away in her spare room she works in mental health and mothers her three year old daughter.
Elizabeth M Castillo
Elizabeth M Castillo is a British-Mauritian poet, writer, language teacher and small-press promoter. She lives in Paris with her family and two cats. When not writing poetry, she can be found working on her podcast or webcomic, pottering about her garden, or writing a variety of different things under a variety of pen names in a bunch of different languages. In her writing Elizabeth explores themes of race & ethnicity, motherhood, womanhood, language, love, loss and grief, and a touch of magical realism. She has words in, or upcoming in Selcouth Station Press, Pollux Journal, Revista Purgante, Fahmidan Journal, Fevers of the Mind Press, Melbourne Culture Corner, Epoch Press, among others. Her bilingual, debut poetry collection "Cajoncito: Poems on Love, Loss, y Otras Locuras" is out later this year.
Yuan Changing
Yuan Changming hails with Allen Yuan from poetrypacific.blogspot.ca. Credits include Pushcart nominations and appearances in Best of the Best Canadian Poetry (2008-17) & BestNewPoemsOnline, among others. Recently, Yuan served on the jury for Canada's 44th National Magazine Awards (poetry category).
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.
Shiksha S Dheda
Shiksha Dheda uses writing to express her internal and external struggles and journeys, inclusive of her OCD and depression roller-coaster ventures. Sometimes, she dabbles in photography, painting, and baking lopsided layered cakes. She rambles annoyingly at Twitter: @ShikshaWrites
Roy Duffield
Roy Duffield is a working-class writer and translator, and art editor over at the literary journal, Anti-Heroin Chic. He was honoured to be chosen to perform at the 2019 Beat Literary Festival in Barcelona, is a winner of the 2021 Robert Allen Micropoem Contest and his poetry and translations have recently been seen entering such nefarious establishments as The London Reader; Untitled: Voices; Strukturriss; the Voces Emergentes de la Literatura anthology (Alborismos); Plástico; The Rush; BlazeVOX; Harpy Hybrid Review; Bloom (Red Penguin Press); Waymark (Kennesaw State University Press) and Fragments.
Peyton Ellas
Peyton Ellas' work has appeared in Gihon River Review, OnTheBus, Backhome, debaser and elsewhere. They live in the foothills of California's Sierra Nevada mountains.
Federico Federici
Federico Federici is a conceptual artist working in the fields of writing, video art, installations and physics. His works have appeared in international journals and anthologies including «3:AM Magazine», «Art in America», «Jahrbuch der Lyrik», «Poet Lore», «Sand», «The Manhattan Review» and others. Among his books: “Liner notes for a Pithecanthropus Erectus sketchbook” (2018), “A private notebook of winds” (2019), “Transcripts from demagnetized tapes” (2021), “Lettere d'amore a Peter Rabbit” curated by Paolo Giovannetti (2021), “Profilo Minore” curated by Andrea Cortellessa (2021).
Ameek
Ameek is an English and Creative Writing student at the University of Birmingham. She may be found having allergic reactions to vanilla poetry or walking with her friends.
Mark Goodwin
Mark Goodwin has published with various poetry houses, including KFS, Leafe Press, Longbarrow Press, The Red Ceilings Press, & Shearsman Books. His poetry was included in The Ground Aslant – An Anthology of Radical Landscape Poetry, edited by Harriet Tarlo (Shearsman Books 2011) & The Footing edited by Brian Lewis (Longbarrow Press 2013). Some of his sound-enhanced poetry can be listened to here: https://markgoodwin-poet-sound-artist.bandcamp.com . Mark lives with his partner on a narrowboat, just north of Leicester.
Jasmine Kaur
Jasmine Kaur (she/her) is a queer writer/artist from Punjab, India, though currently living in Sri Lanka. She likes to surround herself with stories and poetics in any medium, including audio, video, still images and performance. Some of her work has been published or is forthcoming in Stellium, Tilt (by Queerabad), Polemical Zine and VAYAVYA. At the moment she's making her way through a Masters in Philosophy at Delhi University. You can find her at https://sites.google.com/view/jasmine-kaur/ or @trying0000 on Twitter and @jasmineismeltingintosummer on Instagram.
Michelle Moloney King
Michelle Moloney King {she/her} is an experimental poet, visual poet, editor of Beir Bua Journal and Press and a primary school teacher. A mother and living with her family in Co. Tipperary, Ireland with a degree in computer science, post grad in education & is Master Hypnotherapist, Moloney King is interested in family life in flux, the plurality of time, and the surreal-absurdism of life.Pushcart Nominee 2021. Visual Artists Ireland member. Published in M58, 3AM Magazine, Streetcake, Strukturriss, and Mercurius amongst others. www.MichelleMoloneyKing.com
Elee Kraljii Gardiner
Elee Kraljii Gardiner is the author of two poetry books, Trauma Head, winner of the Cogswell Award for Literary Excellence, and serpentine loop, nominated for the Souster Award. She is the editor of the anthologies Against Death: 35 Essays on Living, a finalist for the Montaigne Medal and Hoffer Grand Prize, and V6A: Writing from Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside, a City of Vancouver Book Award finalist. She founded Thursdays Writing Collective, a beloved non-profit organization, and through its ten years she edited and published nine of its anthologies. Originally from Boston, Elee lives on the traditional and unceded territories of the Squamish, Tsleil-Waututh and Musqueam Peoples, where she works at Vancouver Manuscript Intensive. eleekg.com
Martha Lane
Martha Lane is a writer by the sea. Her flash (almost exclusively about grief) has been published by Perhappened Mag, Sledgehammer Lit, Free Flash Fiction, Bandit and Reflex Fiction among others. Too many projects is her natural state. Tweets at @poor_and_clean.
PART 2
Sarah Mather
Sarah is an artist, actress, poet - having recently been published by The Bounds Green Book Writers, Last Leaves Mag, Nottingham C.A.N and Bloodmoon Poetry. Her latest Art Commission can be seen in the Resus Ward and A+E Department of Chelsea and Westminster Hospital. Sarah trained as an actress at The Central School of Speech and Drama in London and is completing an MSc in Mindfulness at the University of Aberdeen.
Manuel Paul López
Manuel Paul López’s books include Nerve Curriculum (Futurepoem, forthcoming), These Days of Candy (Noemi Press, Akrilica Series 2017), The Yearning Feed (University of Notre Dame Press, 2013), winner of the Ernest Sandeen Poetry Prize, and Death of a Mexican and Other Poems (Bear Star Press, 2006). He also co-edited two anthologies, Reclaiming Our Stories 2 (City Works Press, 2020) and Reclaiming Our Stories (City Works, 2017), both generated from a community-based writers’ workshop of the same name that he’s co-facilitated since 2016 in Southeast San Diego. A CantoMundo fellow, his work has been published in Bilingual Review, Denver Quarterly, Fairy Tale Review, Hanging Loose, Huizache, New American Writing, Puerto del Sol, and ZYZZYVA, among others. He lives in San Diego and teaches at San Diego City College.
Juan Pablo Martinez Cajiga
Juan-Pablo Martínez Cajiga was born in Mexico on a Monday. He writes about life, family and football in Revista Puskas and Revista Purgante, which he also co-edits. His first Children's Picture Book "¿En dónde estás, A?" (A, where are you?) is out now with Editorial Gato Blanco. He has also been know to dabble in graphic design.
Louise Mather
Louise Mather is a poet and writer from Northern England. She is the editor and creator of Acropolis Journal. Her work is published or forthcoming in magazines such as Fly on the Wall Press, The Cabinet of Heed, Nymphs, Feral and Dust Poetry Magazine. She writes about ancestry, rituals, endometriosis, fatigue and mental health. You can find her on Twitter @lm2020uk
Jay Merill
Jay Merill lives in London UK and has 2 fiction collections - 'Astral Bodies' and 'God of the Pigeons', (Salt Publishing). More is forthcoming from Del Sol Review, Hobart, PsychoPomp, The London Magazine and Sublunary Editions. Further work has been published in A-Minor, The Blue Nib, CHEAP POP, The Citron Review, Entropy, Epiphany, FRiGG, Gravel, Heavy Feather Review, Jellyfish Review, Map Literary, matchbook, New World Writing, Occulum, Pithead Chapel, Prairie Schooner, SmokeLong Quarterly, Thrice Fiction, Upstreet Literary Journal and Wigleaf. Twitter - @JayMerill
Stephen C. Middleton
Stephen C. Middleton is a writer working in London, England. He has had five books published, including A Brave Light (Stride) and Worlds of Pain / Shades of Grace (Poetry Salzburg) and has been in several anthologies, including Paging Doctor Jazz (Shoestring), & From Hepworth’s Garden Out (Shearsman, 2010). For several years he was editor of Ostinato, a magazine of jazz and jazz related poetry, and The Tenormen Press. He has been in magazines worldwide.
Emilee Prado
Emilee Prado is an emerging writer whose literary fiction and essays have been published in CRAFT, Orca, Anak Sastra, and elsewhere. She also writes about film. She holds a master’s in creative writing from the University of Edinburgh and a bachelor’s in film studies from the University of Colorado Boulder. You can find her online at emileepradoauthor.com
Constantin Preda
Constantin Preda is a London based poet. His work has appeared in ‘Ambit’, 'Poetry Scotland’, ‘POEM Magazine', ‘Lighthouse Journal’ and ‘Structo’ among many others. He translates from Romanian, focusing on Nichita Stănescu and Mircea Cărtărescu and also writes about art for various journals.
Jen Schneider
Jen Schneider is an educator, attorney, and writer. She lives, writes, and works in small spaces throughout Philadelphia. She is a Best of the Net nominee. Her work appears in The Popular Culture Studies Journal, Toho Journal, The New Verse News, Zingara Poetry Review, Streetlight Magazine, Chaleur Magazine, LSE Review of Books, and other literary and scholarly journals.
Anna Shelton
Anna Shelton is a writer, teacher and editor living in Cambridgeshire. Her poem ‘Black Fen’ inspired her first ever folk song, which was published in June 2021 in the North Cambridge Folk Project Songbook. She has recently been published in Coven Poetry.
Find her on Twitter: @annavshelton and Instagram: @annasheltonwrites
Thea Smiley
Thea Smiley is a writer from Suffolk. Their poetry and prose have been shortlisted for the Bridport Prize, and their stories published in anthologies, and their plays have appeared at the INK and HighTide Festivals and toured with Wonderful Beast Theatre Company. They’re currently working on a new play and a collection of poetry.
Gerry Stewart
Gerry Stewart is a poet, creative writing tutor and editor based in Finland. Her poetry collection Post-Holiday Blues was published by Flambard Press, UK. Totems is to be published by Hedgehog Poetry Press in 2021. Her writing blog can be found at http://thistlewren.blogspot.fi/ and @grimalkingerry on Twitter.
Michael Steffen
Michael Steffen's fourth poetry collection, Blood Narrative, was recently published by Main Street Rag Press. New work has appeared in Chiron Review, Constellations and The Comstock Review. Michael is a graduate of the MFA writing program at Vermont College and currently lives in Buffalo, NY.
Sage Tyrtle
Sage Tyrtle's stories have been featured on NPR, CBC and PBS. She's a Moth GrandSLAM winner. Her work is available or upcoming in Pithead Chapel, Bayou Magazine, and Mslexia. She hasn't owned a smartphone since 2014, which is just one of the ways she lives as if it's still the Analog Age.
Amaury Wonderling
Amaury Wonderling is a London-based poet and filmmaker. He holds a Master’s Degree in Physics and a Bachelor’s Degree in Screenwriting. He enjoys doing cartwheels when drunk. He has been published in the magazines Blithe Spirit and The Cannon's Mouth. His poems have been commended in the National Poetry Competition, the Grindstone Literary Prize and the Poetry for Good Competition.
Jack Young
Jack Young is a writer and participatory educator living in Bristol. He writes experimental fiction and non-fiction and have been published by Entropy, 3 A:M, Burning House Press, Caught by the River, Epoqué Press, amongst others. He’s also currently working on a series of texts and participatory events as part of a residency with Spike Island Gallery, Bristol, called ‘The Body-Forest’, which will explore ways we might decentre the human and expand our notions of interspecies solidarity whilst thinking about community, time, desire and language.
PART 1
József Bíró
József Bíró is a Hungarian poet , writer, visual artist and performer. He has published 35 books and booklets, held 9 individual exhibitions and been involved with over 700 group exhibitions worldwide. He has also performed all around the world. He is the recipient of the Hungarian Gold Cross of Merit, the Recognition of Artistic Ouvre and the Attila József Prize.
Fizza Abbas
Fizza Abbas is a Freelance Content Writer based in Karachi, Pakistan. She is fond of poetry and music. Her works have been published on quite a few platforms including Poetry Village and Poetry Pacific.
Doug Bolling
Doug Bolling lives next door to Chicago and is working on a Collection of experimental writing. His work has appeared in indefinite space, BlazeVOX, Literary Heist, 0toliths, s/word and Literary Yard among others. He has received Best of the Net and Pushcart nominations and several awards.
Rebecca Burton
Rebecca Burton is a poet and a visual artist living in Bristol in the UK. When not typing away in her spare room she works in mental health and mothers her three year old daughter.
Elizabeth M Castillo
Elizabeth M Castillo is a British-Mauritian poet, writer, language teacher and small-press promoter. She lives in Paris with her family and two cats. When not writing poetry, she can be found working on her podcast or webcomic, pottering about her garden, or writing a variety of different things under a variety of pen names in a bunch of different languages. In her writing Elizabeth explores themes of race & ethnicity, motherhood, womanhood, language, love, loss and grief, and a touch of magical realism. She has words in, or upcoming in Selcouth Station Press, Pollux Journal, Revista Purgante, Fahmidan Journal, Fevers of the Mind Press, Melbourne Culture Corner, Epoch Press, among others. Her bilingual, debut poetry collection "Cajoncito: Poems on Love, Loss, y Otras Locuras" is out later this year.
Yuan Changing
Yuan Changming hails with Allen Yuan from poetrypacific.blogspot.ca. Credits include Pushcart nominations and appearances in Best of the Best Canadian Poetry (2008-17) & BestNewPoemsOnline, among others. Recently, Yuan served on the jury for Canada's 44th National Magazine Awards (poetry category).
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.
Shiksha S Dheda
Shiksha Dheda uses writing to express her internal and external struggles and journeys, inclusive of her OCD and depression roller-coaster ventures. Sometimes, she dabbles in photography, painting, and baking lopsided layered cakes. She rambles annoyingly at Twitter: @ShikshaWrites
Roy Duffield
Roy Duffield is a working-class writer and translator, and art editor over at the literary journal, Anti-Heroin Chic. He was honoured to be chosen to perform at the 2019 Beat Literary Festival in Barcelona, is a winner of the 2021 Robert Allen Micropoem Contest and his poetry and translations have recently been seen entering such nefarious establishments as The London Reader; Untitled: Voices; Strukturriss; the Voces Emergentes de la Literatura anthology (Alborismos); Plástico; The Rush; BlazeVOX; Harpy Hybrid Review; Bloom (Red Penguin Press); Waymark (Kennesaw State University Press) and Fragments.
Peyton Ellas
Peyton Ellas' work has appeared in Gihon River Review, OnTheBus, Backhome, debaser and elsewhere. They live in the foothills of California's Sierra Nevada mountains.
Federico Federici
Federico Federici is a conceptual artist working in the fields of writing, video art, installations and physics. His works have appeared in international journals and anthologies including «3:AM Magazine», «Art in America», «Jahrbuch der Lyrik», «Poet Lore», «Sand», «The Manhattan Review» and others. Among his books: “Liner notes for a Pithecanthropus Erectus sketchbook” (2018), “A private notebook of winds” (2019), “Transcripts from demagnetized tapes” (2021), “Lettere d'amore a Peter Rabbit” curated by Paolo Giovannetti (2021), “Profilo Minore” curated by Andrea Cortellessa (2021).
Ameek
Ameek is an English and Creative Writing student at the University of Birmingham. She may be found having allergic reactions to vanilla poetry or walking with her friends.
Mark Goodwin
Mark Goodwin has published with various poetry houses, including KFS, Leafe Press, Longbarrow Press, The Red Ceilings Press, & Shearsman Books. His poetry was included in The Ground Aslant – An Anthology of Radical Landscape Poetry, edited by Harriet Tarlo (Shearsman Books 2011) & The Footing edited by Brian Lewis (Longbarrow Press 2013). Some of his sound-enhanced poetry can be listened to here: https://markgoodwin-poet-sound-artist.bandcamp.com . Mark lives with his partner on a narrowboat, just north of Leicester.
Jasmine Kaur
Jasmine Kaur (she/her) is a queer writer/artist from Punjab, India, though currently living in Sri Lanka. She likes to surround herself with stories and poetics in any medium, including audio, video, still images and performance. Some of her work has been published or is forthcoming in Stellium, Tilt (by Queerabad), Polemical Zine and VAYAVYA. At the moment she's making her way through a Masters in Philosophy at Delhi University. You can find her at https://sites.google.com/view/jasmine-kaur/ or @trying0000 on Twitter and @jasmineismeltingintosummer on Instagram.
Michelle Moloney King
Michelle Moloney King {she/her} is an experimental poet, visual poet, editor of Beir Bua Journal and Press and a primary school teacher. A mother and living with her family in Co. Tipperary, Ireland with a degree in computer science, post grad in education & is Master Hypnotherapist, Moloney King is interested in family life in flux, the plurality of time, and the surreal-absurdism of life.Pushcart Nominee 2021. Visual Artists Ireland member. Published in M58, 3AM Magazine, Streetcake, Strukturriss, and Mercurius amongst others. www.MichelleMoloneyKing.com
Elee Kraljii Gardiner
Elee Kraljii Gardiner is the author of two poetry books, Trauma Head, winner of the Cogswell Award for Literary Excellence, and serpentine loop, nominated for the Souster Award. She is the editor of the anthologies Against Death: 35 Essays on Living, a finalist for the Montaigne Medal and Hoffer Grand Prize, and V6A: Writing from Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside, a City of Vancouver Book Award finalist. She founded Thursdays Writing Collective, a beloved non-profit organization, and through its ten years she edited and published nine of its anthologies. Originally from Boston, Elee lives on the traditional and unceded territories of the Squamish, Tsleil-Waututh and Musqueam Peoples, where she works at Vancouver Manuscript Intensive. eleekg.com
Martha Lane
Martha Lane is a writer by the sea. Her flash (almost exclusively about grief) has been published by Perhappened Mag, Sledgehammer Lit, Free Flash Fiction, Bandit and Reflex Fiction among others. Too many projects is her natural state. Tweets at @poor_and_clean.
PART 2
Sarah Mather
Sarah is an artist, actress, poet - having recently been published by The Bounds Green Book Writers, Last Leaves Mag, Nottingham C.A.N and Bloodmoon Poetry. Her latest Art Commission can be seen in the Resus Ward and A+E Department of Chelsea and Westminster Hospital. Sarah trained as an actress at The Central School of Speech and Drama in London and is completing an MSc in Mindfulness at the University of Aberdeen.
Manuel Paul López
Manuel Paul López’s books include Nerve Curriculum (Futurepoem, forthcoming), These Days of Candy (Noemi Press, Akrilica Series 2017), The Yearning Feed (University of Notre Dame Press, 2013), winner of the Ernest Sandeen Poetry Prize, and Death of a Mexican and Other Poems (Bear Star Press, 2006). He also co-edited two anthologies, Reclaiming Our Stories 2 (City Works Press, 2020) and Reclaiming Our Stories (City Works, 2017), both generated from a community-based writers’ workshop of the same name that he’s co-facilitated since 2016 in Southeast San Diego. A CantoMundo fellow, his work has been published in Bilingual Review, Denver Quarterly, Fairy Tale Review, Hanging Loose, Huizache, New American Writing, Puerto del Sol, and ZYZZYVA, among others. He lives in San Diego and teaches at San Diego City College.
Juan Pablo Martinez Cajiga
Juan-Pablo Martínez Cajiga was born in Mexico on a Monday. He writes about life, family and football in Revista Puskas and Revista Purgante, which he also co-edits. His first Children's Picture Book "¿En dónde estás, A?" (A, where are you?) is out now with Editorial Gato Blanco. He has also been know to dabble in graphic design.
Louise Mather
Louise Mather is a poet and writer from Northern England. She is the editor and creator of Acropolis Journal. Her work is published or forthcoming in magazines such as Fly on the Wall Press, The Cabinet of Heed, Nymphs, Feral and Dust Poetry Magazine. She writes about ancestry, rituals, endometriosis, fatigue and mental health. You can find her on Twitter @lm2020uk
Jay Merill
Jay Merill lives in London UK and has 2 fiction collections - 'Astral Bodies' and 'God of the Pigeons', (Salt Publishing). More is forthcoming from Del Sol Review, Hobart, PsychoPomp, The London Magazine and Sublunary Editions. Further work has been published in A-Minor, The Blue Nib, CHEAP POP, The Citron Review, Entropy, Epiphany, FRiGG, Gravel, Heavy Feather Review, Jellyfish Review, Map Literary, matchbook, New World Writing, Occulum, Pithead Chapel, Prairie Schooner, SmokeLong Quarterly, Thrice Fiction, Upstreet Literary Journal and Wigleaf. Twitter - @JayMerill
Stephen C. Middleton
Stephen C. Middleton is a writer working in London, England. He has had five books published, including A Brave Light (Stride) and Worlds of Pain / Shades of Grace (Poetry Salzburg) and has been in several anthologies, including Paging Doctor Jazz (Shoestring), & From Hepworth’s Garden Out (Shearsman, 2010). For several years he was editor of Ostinato, a magazine of jazz and jazz related poetry, and The Tenormen Press. He has been in magazines worldwide.
Emilee Prado
Emilee Prado is an emerging writer whose literary fiction and essays have been published in CRAFT, Orca, Anak Sastra, and elsewhere. She also writes about film. She holds a master’s in creative writing from the University of Edinburgh and a bachelor’s in film studies from the University of Colorado Boulder. You can find her online at emileepradoauthor.com
Constantin Preda
Constantin Preda is a London based poet. His work has appeared in ‘Ambit’, 'Poetry Scotland’, ‘POEM Magazine', ‘Lighthouse Journal’ and ‘Structo’ among many others. He translates from Romanian, focusing on Nichita Stănescu and Mircea Cărtărescu and also writes about art for various journals.
Jen Schneider
Jen Schneider is an educator, attorney, and writer. She lives, writes, and works in small spaces throughout Philadelphia. She is a Best of the Net nominee. Her work appears in The Popular Culture Studies Journal, Toho Journal, The New Verse News, Zingara Poetry Review, Streetlight Magazine, Chaleur Magazine, LSE Review of Books, and other literary and scholarly journals.
Anna Shelton
Anna Shelton is a writer, teacher and editor living in Cambridgeshire. Her poem ‘Black Fen’ inspired her first ever folk song, which was published in June 2021 in the North Cambridge Folk Project Songbook. She has recently been published in Coven Poetry.
Find her on Twitter: @annavshelton and Instagram: @annasheltonwrites
Thea Smiley
Thea Smiley is a writer from Suffolk. Their poetry and prose have been shortlisted for the Bridport Prize, and their stories published in anthologies, and their plays have appeared at the INK and HighTide Festivals and toured with Wonderful Beast Theatre Company. They’re currently working on a new play and a collection of poetry.
Gerry Stewart
Gerry Stewart is a poet, creative writing tutor and editor based in Finland. Her poetry collection Post-Holiday Blues was published by Flambard Press, UK. Totems is to be published by Hedgehog Poetry Press in 2021. Her writing blog can be found at http://thistlewren.blogspot.fi/ and @grimalkingerry on Twitter.
Michael Steffen
Michael Steffen's fourth poetry collection, Blood Narrative, was recently published by Main Street Rag Press. New work has appeared in Chiron Review, Constellations and The Comstock Review. Michael is a graduate of the MFA writing program at Vermont College and currently lives in Buffalo, NY.
Sage Tyrtle
Sage Tyrtle's stories have been featured on NPR, CBC and PBS. She's a Moth GrandSLAM winner. Her work is available or upcoming in Pithead Chapel, Bayou Magazine, and Mslexia. She hasn't owned a smartphone since 2014, which is just one of the ways she lives as if it's still the Analog Age.
Amaury Wonderling
Amaury Wonderling is a London-based poet and filmmaker. He holds a Master’s Degree in Physics and a Bachelor’s Degree in Screenwriting. He enjoys doing cartwheels when drunk. He has been published in the magazines Blithe Spirit and The Cannon's Mouth. His poems have been commended in the National Poetry Competition, the Grindstone Literary Prize and the Poetry for Good Competition.
Jack Young
Jack Young is a writer and participatory educator living in Bristol. He writes experimental fiction and non-fiction and have been published by Entropy, 3 A:M, Burning House Press, Caught by the River, Epoqué Press, amongst others. He’s also currently working on a series of texts and participatory events as part of a residency with Spike Island Gallery, Bristol, called ‘The Body-Forest’, which will explore ways we might decentre the human and expand our notions of interspecies solidarity whilst thinking about community, time, desire and language.
