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issue 84
issue 84, featuring:
cover: louise mather
aja beech
donald b campbell
seth crook
mike daniels
stephanie ivanova
christina kassesian
joseph kerschbaum
francesca leader
aaron lelito
amy marques
louise mather
florence ng
kaz ogino
constantin preda
danni storm
christian ward
katy wimhurst
cover: louise mather
aja beech
donald b campbell
seth crook
mike daniels
stephanie ivanova
christina kassesian
joseph kerschbaum
francesca leader
aaron lelito
amy marques
louise mather
florence ng
kaz ogino
constantin preda
danni storm
christian ward
katy wimhurst
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biographies - issue 84
Aja Beech
Aja Beech is an author and organizer living in America. Her poetry, commentary, journalism, short stories, and other works can be found internationally. She has worked on campaigns to ensure equity for people of all abilities, fair pay, victims’ rights, ending the death penalty, and criminal justice reform. More on her work can be found at authorajabeech.org
Donald B Campbell
Donald B. Campbell teaches English as Second/Additional Language teacher to refugees and other immigrants in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada. His writing--including poetry, plays, short stories and journalism--has been chosen in competitions and has appeared in newspapers, magazines and print anthologies, as well as on provincial and national CBC Radio. He is a member of the League of Canadian Poets.
Seth Crook
Seth Crook loves sea slugs. His poems have appeared in such places as The Rialto, Magma, Pennine Platform, Poetry Scotland, Poetry Salzburg Review, Channel, Firth, Confluence, Streetcake. In recent anthologies such as A470 (Arachne), In.spire (Fragmented Voices), The Centenary Collection (Speculative), Places of Poetry (One World). He has a pamphlet of visual poems Chalked On The Path (Dreich).
Mike Daniels
Mike Daniels lives in the Snack Food Capital of the World, Hanover, Pennsylvania, where he can be seen at the used bookstore and passing Amish buggies.
Stephanie Ivanova
Stephanie Ivanova is a Bulgarian artist, currently studying Creative Writing at the University of Greenwich, London.
Christina Kassesian
Christina Kassesian is a translator, writer, editor, musician, and poet. She was born in Nicosia, Cyprus, in 1976, and she lives in Athens, Greece where she works and creates. Her writings, articles, short stories, and poems have been published in several local magazines, and literary websites. In her free time, she plays the guitar for the local indie band Bokomolech, takes photos for her friends, and she pets her cat named Fika.
Joseph Kerschbaum
Joseph Kerschbaum’s most recent publications include Mirror Box (Main St Rag Press, 2020) and Distant Shores of a Split Second (Louisiana Literature Press, 2018). His recent work has appeared in Reunion: The Dallas Review, Hamilton Stone Review, The Inflectionist Review, Main Street Rag, In Parentheses, and Umbrella Factory. Joseph lives in Bloomington, Indiana with his family.
Francesca Leader
Francesca Leader is a self-taught, Pushcart-nominated writer originally from Western Montana. She has poetry published or forthcoming in the Sho Poetry Journal, Frost Meadow Review, Door is a Jar, Harpy Hybrid Review, Pluvia Litmag, Roi Fainéant, the Stoneboat Literary Journal, Bullshit Lit, Cutbow Quarterly, and elsewhere. Her translation of an ancient Japanese poem won the Society of Classical Poets’ 2021 Poetry Translation Competition. Learn more about her work at inabucketthebook.wordpress.com.
Aaron Lelito
Aaron Lelito is a visual artist and writer from Buffalo, NY. In his photographic work, he is primarily drawn to the patterns and imagery of nature. His images have been published as cover art in Red Rock Review, Peatsmoke Journal, and The Scriblerus. His work has also appeared in Barzakh Magazine, Novus Literary Arts Journal, Humana Obscura, EcoTheo Review, and SPECTRA Poets. He is editor in chief of the art & literature website Wild Roof Journal.
Amy Marques
Amy Marques grew up between languages and places and learned, from an early age, the multiplicity of narratives. She penned children’s books, barely read medical papers, and numerous letters before turning to short fiction and visual poetry. She is a Pushcart Prize, Best Small Fictions, and Best of the Net nominee and has work published in journals and anthologies including Streetcake Magazine, MoonPark Review, Bending Genres, Gone Lawn, Ghost Parachute, Chicago Quarterly Review, and Reservoir Road Literary Review. You can read more at https://amybookwhisperer.wordpress.com
Louise Mather
Louise Mather is a writer from Northern England and founding editor of Acropolis Journal. A finalist in the Streetcake Poetry Prize and Nominated Best of the Net, her work is published in various print and online literary journals including The North, Acumen, Fly on the Wall Press, Dust Poetry Magazine, Cape and Ink, Sweat and Tears. Her debut pamphlet ‘The Dredging of Rituals’ was out in 2021. She writes about ancestry, rituals, endometriosis, fatigue and mental health. Twitter @lm2020uk IG: louise.mather.uk
Florence Ng
Florence’s first poetry collection Wild Boar in Victoria Harbour was published by Kubrick in 2019. She read her poems in the Hong Kong International Literary Festival in 2021 and 2023. She is the editor of the online poetry magazine Pause for Paws.
Kaz Ogino
Kaz is a Japanese Canadian visual artist who is hooked on poetry and the intersection of art, perception, and philosophy. This piece started as automatic-drawing created during a 2021 Toronto International Festival of Author’s Festival of the 'Global Poetry Slam' event (poetry and performance of Alexandra Stewart) . She completed the work with images that are part of her 2023 “Equanimity” series and can be found in Instagram @artbykaz.ca.
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, especially Nichita Stănescu and Mircea Cărtărescu and also writes about art for various journals.
Danni Storm
Danni Storm is an artist, poet and musician based in Copenhagen. Danni is the co-editor of Addenda, a journal for new writing in the Scandinavian languages. Work by Danni Storm may be found at: dannistorm.xyz
Christian Ward
Christian Ward is a UK-based writer who has recently appeared in The Dewdrop, Dodging the Rain, Blue Unicorn, The Seventh Quarry, Bluepepper, Tipton Poetry Journal, The Amazine and Rye Whiskey Review.
Katy Wimhurst
Katy Wimhurst’s first collection of short stories was Snapshots of the Apocalypse (2022). Her fiction has been published in numerous magazines including The Guardian, Cafe Irreal, and ShooterLit. Her visual poems have appeared in magazines like Ric Journal, 3AM, Steel Incisors, Dreampop Press and The Babel Tower. Her first book of visual poems, Fifty-One Trillion Bits, is to be published by Trickhouse Press.
Aja Beech
Aja Beech is an author and organizer living in America. Her poetry, commentary, journalism, short stories, and other works can be found internationally. She has worked on campaigns to ensure equity for people of all abilities, fair pay, victims’ rights, ending the death penalty, and criminal justice reform. More on her work can be found at authorajabeech.org
Donald B Campbell
Donald B. Campbell teaches English as Second/Additional Language teacher to refugees and other immigrants in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada. His writing--including poetry, plays, short stories and journalism--has been chosen in competitions and has appeared in newspapers, magazines and print anthologies, as well as on provincial and national CBC Radio. He is a member of the League of Canadian Poets.
Seth Crook
Seth Crook loves sea slugs. His poems have appeared in such places as The Rialto, Magma, Pennine Platform, Poetry Scotland, Poetry Salzburg Review, Channel, Firth, Confluence, Streetcake. In recent anthologies such as A470 (Arachne), In.spire (Fragmented Voices), The Centenary Collection (Speculative), Places of Poetry (One World). He has a pamphlet of visual poems Chalked On The Path (Dreich).
Mike Daniels
Mike Daniels lives in the Snack Food Capital of the World, Hanover, Pennsylvania, where he can be seen at the used bookstore and passing Amish buggies.
Stephanie Ivanova
Stephanie Ivanova is a Bulgarian artist, currently studying Creative Writing at the University of Greenwich, London.
Christina Kassesian
Christina Kassesian is a translator, writer, editor, musician, and poet. She was born in Nicosia, Cyprus, in 1976, and she lives in Athens, Greece where she works and creates. Her writings, articles, short stories, and poems have been published in several local magazines, and literary websites. In her free time, she plays the guitar for the local indie band Bokomolech, takes photos for her friends, and she pets her cat named Fika.
Joseph Kerschbaum
Joseph Kerschbaum’s most recent publications include Mirror Box (Main St Rag Press, 2020) and Distant Shores of a Split Second (Louisiana Literature Press, 2018). His recent work has appeared in Reunion: The Dallas Review, Hamilton Stone Review, The Inflectionist Review, Main Street Rag, In Parentheses, and Umbrella Factory. Joseph lives in Bloomington, Indiana with his family.
Francesca Leader
Francesca Leader is a self-taught, Pushcart-nominated writer originally from Western Montana. She has poetry published or forthcoming in the Sho Poetry Journal, Frost Meadow Review, Door is a Jar, Harpy Hybrid Review, Pluvia Litmag, Roi Fainéant, the Stoneboat Literary Journal, Bullshit Lit, Cutbow Quarterly, and elsewhere. Her translation of an ancient Japanese poem won the Society of Classical Poets’ 2021 Poetry Translation Competition. Learn more about her work at inabucketthebook.wordpress.com.
Aaron Lelito
Aaron Lelito is a visual artist and writer from Buffalo, NY. In his photographic work, he is primarily drawn to the patterns and imagery of nature. His images have been published as cover art in Red Rock Review, Peatsmoke Journal, and The Scriblerus. His work has also appeared in Barzakh Magazine, Novus Literary Arts Journal, Humana Obscura, EcoTheo Review, and SPECTRA Poets. He is editor in chief of the art & literature website Wild Roof Journal.
Amy Marques
Amy Marques grew up between languages and places and learned, from an early age, the multiplicity of narratives. She penned children’s books, barely read medical papers, and numerous letters before turning to short fiction and visual poetry. She is a Pushcart Prize, Best Small Fictions, and Best of the Net nominee and has work published in journals and anthologies including Streetcake Magazine, MoonPark Review, Bending Genres, Gone Lawn, Ghost Parachute, Chicago Quarterly Review, and Reservoir Road Literary Review. You can read more at https://amybookwhisperer.wordpress.com
Louise Mather
Louise Mather is a writer from Northern England and founding editor of Acropolis Journal. A finalist in the Streetcake Poetry Prize and Nominated Best of the Net, her work is published in various print and online literary journals including The North, Acumen, Fly on the Wall Press, Dust Poetry Magazine, Cape and Ink, Sweat and Tears. Her debut pamphlet ‘The Dredging of Rituals’ was out in 2021. She writes about ancestry, rituals, endometriosis, fatigue and mental health. Twitter @lm2020uk IG: louise.mather.uk
Florence Ng
Florence’s first poetry collection Wild Boar in Victoria Harbour was published by Kubrick in 2019. She read her poems in the Hong Kong International Literary Festival in 2021 and 2023. She is the editor of the online poetry magazine Pause for Paws.
Kaz Ogino
Kaz is a Japanese Canadian visual artist who is hooked on poetry and the intersection of art, perception, and philosophy. This piece started as automatic-drawing created during a 2021 Toronto International Festival of Author’s Festival of the 'Global Poetry Slam' event (poetry and performance of Alexandra Stewart) . She completed the work with images that are part of her 2023 “Equanimity” series and can be found in Instagram @artbykaz.ca.
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, especially Nichita Stănescu and Mircea Cărtărescu and also writes about art for various journals.
Danni Storm
Danni Storm is an artist, poet and musician based in Copenhagen. Danni is the co-editor of Addenda, a journal for new writing in the Scandinavian languages. Work by Danni Storm may be found at: dannistorm.xyz
Christian Ward
Christian Ward is a UK-based writer who has recently appeared in The Dewdrop, Dodging the Rain, Blue Unicorn, The Seventh Quarry, Bluepepper, Tipton Poetry Journal, The Amazine and Rye Whiskey Review.
Katy Wimhurst
Katy Wimhurst’s first collection of short stories was Snapshots of the Apocalypse (2022). Her fiction has been published in numerous magazines including The Guardian, Cafe Irreal, and ShooterLit. Her visual poems have appeared in magazines like Ric Journal, 3AM, Steel Incisors, Dreampop Press and The Babel Tower. Her first book of visual poems, Fifty-One Trillion Bits, is to be published by Trickhouse Press.
