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issue 100, featuring:
COVER: julia biggs
michael drezin
merridawn duckler
andrew graber
richard holinger
tallulah howarth
linda king
louise mather
r i miller
jennifer mills kerr
gwen sayers
dylan tulk
mark valentine
nathan whiting
christopher woods
jeffrey zable
COVER: julia biggs
michael drezin
merridawn duckler
andrew graber
richard holinger
tallulah howarth
linda king
louise mather
r i miller
jennifer mills kerr
gwen sayers
dylan tulk
mark valentine
nathan whiting
christopher woods
jeffrey zable
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biographies - issue 100
Julia Biggs
Julia Biggs is a poet, writer, collage artist and freelance art historian. She lives in Cambridge, UK. Her micro-chapbook ROLES was published by Ghost City Press in 2025, and her work has appeared in Osmosis Press, Ink Sweat & Tears, Streetcake Magazine, RIC Journal, Inkfish Magazine and elsewhere. Find her on Twitter/X @Chiaroscuro1897, on Bluesky @chiaroscuro1897.bsky.social or via her website: https://juliabiggs1.wixsite.com/juliabiggs
Michael Drezin
Michael is a lawyer who once wrote a Please excuse my child from school note for a client’s son. The son was. He felt he was onto something, kept his day job, and began writing at night. This is one of the stories he wrote.
Merridawn Duckler
Merridawn Duckler is a writer and visual artist and the author of INTERSTATE (dancing girl press) IDIOM (Harbor Review) MISSPENT YOUTH (rinky dink press) and the flash fiction collection ARRANGEMENT(Southernmost Books.) She’s the winner of the Beulah Rose poetry prize from Smartish Pace, the Elizabeth Sloane Tyler Memorial Award Woven Tale Press,judged by Ann Beattie, the CNF prize from Invisible City judged by Heather Cristle and the Drama prize from Arts and Letters at Georgia College. Work in Best Small Fictions 2025. Writing, projects, works at www.merridawnduckler.com
Andrew Graber
Andrew is a self-taught visual artist who tries to create his own unique ambiguous styles.
Some interests of his include singing, trying to learn new languages, and when in the mood, writing poetry and fiction.
Richard Holinger
Richard Holinger’s work has recently appeared in Chautauqua, SIR, Cleaver, Whitefish Review, Cutleaf, and elsewhere. Nominations include the Pushcart Prize, Best of the Net, Best Small Fictions, and Best Microfiction 2025. His short fiction collection, Unimaginable Things, is forthcoming from Main Street Rag Publications. He lives in rural northern Illinois.
Tallulah Howarth
Tallulah Howarth is a Leeds-based multidisciplinary creative, a graduate of the MA in Writing Poetry at Newcastle University, and Coordinator of the Writing Squad. They are particularly passionate about Polish jazz, foraging and archives. Her work is observational and intimate, and can be found @tallulahhowarthcreative (Instagram) or at tallulahhowarth.com
Linda King
Linda King is the author of five poetry collections including Reality Wayfarers (Shoe Music Press, 2015) and No Dimes for the Dancing Gypsies (BlazeVox Books, 2019). Her work has appeared in numerous literary journals (including Streetcake) in Canada and internationally. King lives and writes on The sunshine Coast of British Columbia, Canada.
R I Miller
R I Miller lives in Maine. He has published work in: Glint Literary Journal, Book of Matches, Underside Stories and other literary journals. He has also published a novel, "The Touch of Bark, the Feel of Stone."
Jennifer Mills Kerr
Jennifer Mills Kerr lives in Northern California. Her poetry has been recently published in January House, Moss Trill, & Neologism. Lit-amorous, she is constantly seeking the next amazing poem to read, savour, and share. www.JenniferMillsKerrPoet.com.
Louise Mather
Louise Mather is a writer from Northern England and editor of Acropolis Journal. Her work is published in The North, Acumen, Dust Poetry, Lucy Writers Platform, Black Cat Poetry Press, Broken Sleep Books and Fly on the Wall Press. Her pamphlet ‘The Dredging of Rituals’ was Black Bough book of the month. Twitter @lm2020uk IG: louise.mather.uk
Gwen Sayers
Gwen Sayers has an MA Creative Writing. Her chap book Ghost Sojourn won Fool for Poetry Chapbook Competition, and is a Poetry Book Society recommendation. Winner of the Magma Poetry Competition, she is a 2025 SFPA Rhysling Award finalist. Her poetry has been widely published in magazines and anthologies.
Dylan Tulk
Dylan Tulk is a rebellious Australian-born writer of uncanny poems and haunting songs. His work can be found in a handful of journals, including Fifth Wheel Press's 4th issue of Garland, the Eber and Wein October 2025 anthology Figments of Twilight, and multiple volumes of Centripetal, the journal of the English Department at Plymouth State University. In his free time Dylan enjoys listening to The Beatles and building IKEA furniture.
Mark Valentine
Mark Valentine curates found art from the street and by chance. His visual work has appeared in 3:AM Magazine, M58, Typo, #Ranger Magazine, To Call and elsewhere.
Nathan Whiting
Nathan Whiting has performed Contemporary dance in New York and Bhutto in Japan, run over 100 aces longer than a marathon and contemplates on urban nature. His work has appeared in Utracile, Otoliths, The South Dakota Review, Quarter After Eight and a few other journals.
Christopher Woods
Christopher Woods is a writer and photographer who lives in Texas. His monologue show, Twelve from Texas, was performed in NYC by Equity Library Theatre. His monologues have been performed most recently at Equity Library Theatre in NYC, The Invisible Theatre in Tucson and the Pro English Theatre in Kiev, Ukraine. He has received residencies from The Edward Albee Foundation and The Ucross Foundation. Gallery - https://christopherwoods.zenfolio.com/f861509283
Jeffrey Zable
Jeffrey Zable is a teacher, conga drummer/percussionist who plays for dance classes and rumbas around the San Francisco Bay Area, and a writer of poetry, flash-fiction, and non-fiction. He's published five chapbooks and his writing has appeared in hundreds
of literary magazines and anthologies. His selected poetry, "When I'm Dead and Felling Blue" is now available from Amazon or directly from Androgyne Books.
Julia Biggs
Julia Biggs is a poet, writer, collage artist and freelance art historian. She lives in Cambridge, UK. Her micro-chapbook ROLES was published by Ghost City Press in 2025, and her work has appeared in Osmosis Press, Ink Sweat & Tears, Streetcake Magazine, RIC Journal, Inkfish Magazine and elsewhere. Find her on Twitter/X @Chiaroscuro1897, on Bluesky @chiaroscuro1897.bsky.social or via her website: https://juliabiggs1.wixsite.com/juliabiggs
Michael Drezin
Michael is a lawyer who once wrote a Please excuse my child from school note for a client’s son. The son was. He felt he was onto something, kept his day job, and began writing at night. This is one of the stories he wrote.
Merridawn Duckler
Merridawn Duckler is a writer and visual artist and the author of INTERSTATE (dancing girl press) IDIOM (Harbor Review) MISSPENT YOUTH (rinky dink press) and the flash fiction collection ARRANGEMENT(Southernmost Books.) She’s the winner of the Beulah Rose poetry prize from Smartish Pace, the Elizabeth Sloane Tyler Memorial Award Woven Tale Press,judged by Ann Beattie, the CNF prize from Invisible City judged by Heather Cristle and the Drama prize from Arts and Letters at Georgia College. Work in Best Small Fictions 2025. Writing, projects, works at www.merridawnduckler.com
Andrew Graber
Andrew is a self-taught visual artist who tries to create his own unique ambiguous styles.
Some interests of his include singing, trying to learn new languages, and when in the mood, writing poetry and fiction.
Richard Holinger
Richard Holinger’s work has recently appeared in Chautauqua, SIR, Cleaver, Whitefish Review, Cutleaf, and elsewhere. Nominations include the Pushcart Prize, Best of the Net, Best Small Fictions, and Best Microfiction 2025. His short fiction collection, Unimaginable Things, is forthcoming from Main Street Rag Publications. He lives in rural northern Illinois.
Tallulah Howarth
Tallulah Howarth is a Leeds-based multidisciplinary creative, a graduate of the MA in Writing Poetry at Newcastle University, and Coordinator of the Writing Squad. They are particularly passionate about Polish jazz, foraging and archives. Her work is observational and intimate, and can be found @tallulahhowarthcreative (Instagram) or at tallulahhowarth.com
Linda King
Linda King is the author of five poetry collections including Reality Wayfarers (Shoe Music Press, 2015) and No Dimes for the Dancing Gypsies (BlazeVox Books, 2019). Her work has appeared in numerous literary journals (including Streetcake) in Canada and internationally. King lives and writes on The sunshine Coast of British Columbia, Canada.
R I Miller
R I Miller lives in Maine. He has published work in: Glint Literary Journal, Book of Matches, Underside Stories and other literary journals. He has also published a novel, "The Touch of Bark, the Feel of Stone."
Jennifer Mills Kerr
Jennifer Mills Kerr lives in Northern California. Her poetry has been recently published in January House, Moss Trill, & Neologism. Lit-amorous, she is constantly seeking the next amazing poem to read, savour, and share. www.JenniferMillsKerrPoet.com.
Louise Mather
Louise Mather is a writer from Northern England and editor of Acropolis Journal. Her work is published in The North, Acumen, Dust Poetry, Lucy Writers Platform, Black Cat Poetry Press, Broken Sleep Books and Fly on the Wall Press. Her pamphlet ‘The Dredging of Rituals’ was Black Bough book of the month. Twitter @lm2020uk IG: louise.mather.uk
Gwen Sayers
Gwen Sayers has an MA Creative Writing. Her chap book Ghost Sojourn won Fool for Poetry Chapbook Competition, and is a Poetry Book Society recommendation. Winner of the Magma Poetry Competition, she is a 2025 SFPA Rhysling Award finalist. Her poetry has been widely published in magazines and anthologies.
Dylan Tulk
Dylan Tulk is a rebellious Australian-born writer of uncanny poems and haunting songs. His work can be found in a handful of journals, including Fifth Wheel Press's 4th issue of Garland, the Eber and Wein October 2025 anthology Figments of Twilight, and multiple volumes of Centripetal, the journal of the English Department at Plymouth State University. In his free time Dylan enjoys listening to The Beatles and building IKEA furniture.
Mark Valentine
Mark Valentine curates found art from the street and by chance. His visual work has appeared in 3:AM Magazine, M58, Typo, #Ranger Magazine, To Call and elsewhere.
Nathan Whiting
Nathan Whiting has performed Contemporary dance in New York and Bhutto in Japan, run over 100 aces longer than a marathon and contemplates on urban nature. His work has appeared in Utracile, Otoliths, The South Dakota Review, Quarter After Eight and a few other journals.
Christopher Woods
Christopher Woods is a writer and photographer who lives in Texas. His monologue show, Twelve from Texas, was performed in NYC by Equity Library Theatre. His monologues have been performed most recently at Equity Library Theatre in NYC, The Invisible Theatre in Tucson and the Pro English Theatre in Kiev, Ukraine. He has received residencies from The Edward Albee Foundation and The Ucross Foundation. Gallery - https://christopherwoods.zenfolio.com/f861509283
Jeffrey Zable
Jeffrey Zable is a teacher, conga drummer/percussionist who plays for dance classes and rumbas around the San Francisco Bay Area, and a writer of poetry, flash-fiction, and non-fiction. He's published five chapbooks and his writing has appeared in hundreds
of literary magazines and anthologies. His selected poetry, "When I'm Dead and Felling Blue" is now available from Amazon or directly from Androgyne Books.
