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issue 92
issue 92, featuring:
COVER: brendan bray
jenkin benson
beatriu delaveda
clive donovan
aidan grey -
john grey
amy marques
james b. nicola
jack sullivan
COVER: brendan bray
jenkin benson
beatriu delaveda
clive donovan
aidan grey -
john grey
amy marques
james b. nicola
jack sullivan
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biographies - issue 92
Brendan Bray
Brendan Bray is a graduate from the University of Lincoln. He enjoys creating poetry that focuses on collage and visual aspects. He has had work published in DIAGRAM, Beaver Magazine and Baby Teeth Journal. He can be found on Twitter @BrendanBray777.
Jenkin Benson
Jenkin is a 3rd year PhD student at the University of Notre Dame. He primarily studies the literary interchange between Ireland, Wales, and the Black Atlantic, focusing on writers like James Joyce, David Jones, and Claude McKay. He is also a poet and a musician interested in bending and estranging language. You can find his work here: https://www.chillsubs.com/user/siencynapbened
Beatriu Delaveda
Beatriu Delaveda is the pseudonym of a former resident of Chester who has written five books as well as two chapbooks of visual poetry. The poetry, fiction, and non-fiction of BD have been published in, among others, the Guardian, Atlantic, New York Times, McSweeney’s, The Journal, Sugar House, Orbis, fleeting, Mobius, 3 am, Mudlark, Paterson Literary Review, Pennine Platform, Boomerlit, streetcake, Plume, Storm Cellar, The Galway Review, Mercurius, morphrog, mono, Tupelo Quarterly, The Bamboo Hut and Clapboard House, where they won a short story prize.
Cive Donovan
Clive Donovan is the author of two poetry collections, The Taste of Glass [Cinnamon Press 2021] and Wound Up With Love [Lapwing 2022] and is published in a wide variety of magazines including Acumen, Agenda, Crannog, Popshot, Prole, Stand and Streetcake. He lives in Totnes, Devon, UK. He was a Pushcart and Forward Prize nominee for 2022’s best individual poems.
Aidan Grey
Aidan is a bureaucrat working in the Washington, DC area with an interest in policy memoranda, red tape, and the State’s monopoly on violence. They enjoy reading and writing stories that ask interesting questions about power, government, and religion, and that imagine worlds unbound by the prejudices of this one.
John Grey
John Grey is an Australian poet, US resident, recently published in New World Writing, North Dakota Quarterly and Lost Pilots. Latest books, ”Between Two Fires”, “Covert” and “Memory Outside The Head” are available through Amazon. Work upcoming in California Quarterly, Birmingham Arts Journal, La Presa and Shot Glass Journal.
Amy Marques
Amy Marques has been known to call books friends and is on a first name basis with many fictional characters. She’s been nominated for multiple awards, longlisted twice in Wigleaf 50, and has visual art, poetry, and prose published in journals such as Streetcake Magazine, South Florida Poetry Journal, Fictive Dream, Unlost, Ghost Parachute, Bright Flash Literary Review, Chicago Quarterly Review, and Gone Lawn. She is the editor and visual artist for the Duets anthology and author and artist of the erasure poetry book PARTS (with Full Mood Publishing). More at https://amybookwhisperer.wordpress.com.
James B. Nicola
James B. Nicola’s poetry has appeared internationally in erbacce, Cannon’s Mouth, Recusant, Snakeskin, The South, Orbis, and Poetry Wales (UK); Innisfree and Interpreter’s House (Ireland); Poetry Salzburg (Austria), mgversion2>datura (France); Gradiva (Italy); EgoPHobia (Romania); the Istanbul Review (Turkey); Sand and The Transnational (Germany), in the latter of which his work appears in German translation; Harvests of the New Millennium (India); Kathmandu Tribune (Nepal); and Samjoko (Korea). His eight full-length collections (2014-2023) include most recently Fires of Heaven: Poems of Faith and Sense, Turns & Twists, and Natural Tendencies. His nonfiction book Playing the Audience won a Choice magazine award.
Jack Sullivan
Jack is a queer writer and visual artist living in Brooklyn, NY. His prose, poetry, and pencil clippings can be found in JAKE, BODEGA, GHOST CITY REVIEW, OROBOROS, and THIMBLE LIT.
Brendan Bray
Brendan Bray is a graduate from the University of Lincoln. He enjoys creating poetry that focuses on collage and visual aspects. He has had work published in DIAGRAM, Beaver Magazine and Baby Teeth Journal. He can be found on Twitter @BrendanBray777.
Jenkin Benson
Jenkin is a 3rd year PhD student at the University of Notre Dame. He primarily studies the literary interchange between Ireland, Wales, and the Black Atlantic, focusing on writers like James Joyce, David Jones, and Claude McKay. He is also a poet and a musician interested in bending and estranging language. You can find his work here: https://www.chillsubs.com/user/siencynapbened
Beatriu Delaveda
Beatriu Delaveda is the pseudonym of a former resident of Chester who has written five books as well as two chapbooks of visual poetry. The poetry, fiction, and non-fiction of BD have been published in, among others, the Guardian, Atlantic, New York Times, McSweeney’s, The Journal, Sugar House, Orbis, fleeting, Mobius, 3 am, Mudlark, Paterson Literary Review, Pennine Platform, Boomerlit, streetcake, Plume, Storm Cellar, The Galway Review, Mercurius, morphrog, mono, Tupelo Quarterly, The Bamboo Hut and Clapboard House, where they won a short story prize.
Cive Donovan
Clive Donovan is the author of two poetry collections, The Taste of Glass [Cinnamon Press 2021] and Wound Up With Love [Lapwing 2022] and is published in a wide variety of magazines including Acumen, Agenda, Crannog, Popshot, Prole, Stand and Streetcake. He lives in Totnes, Devon, UK. He was a Pushcart and Forward Prize nominee for 2022’s best individual poems.
Aidan Grey
Aidan is a bureaucrat working in the Washington, DC area with an interest in policy memoranda, red tape, and the State’s monopoly on violence. They enjoy reading and writing stories that ask interesting questions about power, government, and religion, and that imagine worlds unbound by the prejudices of this one.
John Grey
John Grey is an Australian poet, US resident, recently published in New World Writing, North Dakota Quarterly and Lost Pilots. Latest books, ”Between Two Fires”, “Covert” and “Memory Outside The Head” are available through Amazon. Work upcoming in California Quarterly, Birmingham Arts Journal, La Presa and Shot Glass Journal.
Amy Marques
Amy Marques has been known to call books friends and is on a first name basis with many fictional characters. She’s been nominated for multiple awards, longlisted twice in Wigleaf 50, and has visual art, poetry, and prose published in journals such as Streetcake Magazine, South Florida Poetry Journal, Fictive Dream, Unlost, Ghost Parachute, Bright Flash Literary Review, Chicago Quarterly Review, and Gone Lawn. She is the editor and visual artist for the Duets anthology and author and artist of the erasure poetry book PARTS (with Full Mood Publishing). More at https://amybookwhisperer.wordpress.com.
James B. Nicola
James B. Nicola’s poetry has appeared internationally in erbacce, Cannon’s Mouth, Recusant, Snakeskin, The South, Orbis, and Poetry Wales (UK); Innisfree and Interpreter’s House (Ireland); Poetry Salzburg (Austria), mgversion2>datura (France); Gradiva (Italy); EgoPHobia (Romania); the Istanbul Review (Turkey); Sand and The Transnational (Germany), in the latter of which his work appears in German translation; Harvests of the New Millennium (India); Kathmandu Tribune (Nepal); and Samjoko (Korea). His eight full-length collections (2014-2023) include most recently Fires of Heaven: Poems of Faith and Sense, Turns & Twists, and Natural Tendencies. His nonfiction book Playing the Audience won a Choice magazine award.
Jack Sullivan
Jack is a queer writer and visual artist living in Brooklyn, NY. His prose, poetry, and pencil clippings can be found in JAKE, BODEGA, GHOST CITY REVIEW, OROBOROS, and THIMBLE LIT.
