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issue 72 - part 1
part 1, featuring:
richard biddle jane ayres stephen bett cassie birk helen bowie belinda bradley lauren busser seth crook sean ennis david felix claire hm stephanie king j.i. kleinberg liam konemann |
issue 72 - part 2
part 2, featuring:
maría josé maddox martha lane aura martin louise mather maria messias mendes jay parr ann pedone gretchen rockwell sylvia santiago jp seabright remi seamon mitchell solomon laura stanley caitlin stobie katy wimhurst |
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biographies - issue 72
PART 1
Richard Biddle
Richard Biddle is an experimental poet and visual artist. His work has appeared in numerous zines and anthologies.
He has published 2 books of visual poetry: Messages From Elsewhere - An Alien Graffiti (Timglaset Press) and CONSCIOUSNESS (Penteract Press). His latest book 'On the Same Page' is due to be published this year by Timglaset Press.
You can follow him on Twitter @littledeaths68 or visit his website: richardbiddle.com
Jane Ayres
Based in the UK, Jane Ayres re-discovered poetry studying for a part-time MA in Creative Writing at the University of Kent,
which she completed in 2019 at the age of 57. She is fascinated by hybrid poetry/prose experimental forms and has work published or accepted in Confluence, Postscript, Dissonance, The Agonist, Lighthouse, Viscaria, The Sock Drawer, Streetcake, The North, The Poetry Village, Scrittura, Door is a Jar, Marble, Agapanthus, Confingo, Crow & Cross Keys, Kissing Dynamite and The Forge.
Stephen Bett
Stephen Bett is a widely and internationally published Canadian poet with 24 books in print. His personal papers are archived
in the “Contemporary Literature Collection” at Simon Fraser University. His website is stephenbett.com
Cassie Birk
Cassie Birk is a graduate of the University of Iowa. Her work has been featured in Funny Looking Dog Quarterly, GLITCHWORDS,
The Daily Drunk, and others. She is currently in the Pacific Northwest, lost. Find her on Twitter @BirkCassie.
Helen Bowie
Helen Bowie is a writer, performer, and charity worker based in London. Helen's work is featured or upcoming
in Beir Bua Journal, How2BBad Zine and Liminal Transit Review, among others. Helen has one cat and several bafflingly strong opinions about extremely trivial matters, which she tweets about as @helensulis
Belinda Bradley
Belinda Bradley is a queer poet who recently graduated with a First Class Honours in Creative Writing at Roehampton University.
They run a blog called @belindablogs. They attempt many hobbies such as crocheting, painting and photography - but they always come back to poetry in the end.
Lauren Busser
Lauren Busser is an award-winning writer of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. She is currently a graduate student at NYU where she's pursuing her master's in Integrated Digital Media and an Associate Editor at Tell-Tale TV. Her work has appeared in Best Small Fictions 2020, Cotton Xenomorph, Popshot Quarterly, Cease, Cows, and others. You can find more of her work at laurenbusser.com.
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).
Sean Ennis
Sean Ennis is the author of CHASE US: Stories (Little A) and his fiction has recently appeared in New World Writing, Diagram, HAD, Bending Genres and Has. More of his work can be found at seanennis.net
David Felix
David Felix is an English visual poet who lives in Denmark. His writing has featured in galleries, anthologies, festival performances
and in over sixty publications worldwide. As a child of artists, magicians and tailors he is still perfectly comfortable with a paint rag, a silk handkerchief, and a velvet mouchoir.
Claire HM
Claire HM (she/they) is a poet, fabulist and hag. She writes and reads tarot as an act of self healing that is an invitation for others to create the stories they need to access healing too. She has recently been published in Black Flowers Literary Journal, streetcake 68, Mooky Chick and in Cape Magazine. 'How to Bring Him Back' her debut novella (a story framed by a spell to let go of the past)
will be published by Fly on the Wall press in October 2021,
(IG and Twitter: @clairehmwriter)
Stephanie King
Stephanie King is a past winner of the Quarterly West Novella Prize and the Lilith Short Fiction Prize, with stories also appearing in CutBank, Entropy, and Hobart. She received her MFA from Bennington and serves on the board of the Philadelphia Writers’ Conference. You can find her online at stephanieking.net or Twitter @stephstephking.
J.I. Kleinberg
Three-time nominee for Pushcart and Best of the Net awards, artist, poet, and freelance writer J.I. Kleinberg lives in Bellingham, Washington, USA, and on Instagram @jikleinberg.
Liam Konemann
Liam Konemann is a queer Australian writer based in London. In 2019 he participated in Spread the Word’s London Writers Awards, and in 2020 placed second in Streetcake Magazine's Experimental Writing Prize. He writes music journalism, fiction and poetry, and
is studying for an MSt in Creative Writing at the University of Oxford.
PART 2
María José Maddox
María José Maddox is a Chilean artist based in Denver, CO. She earned a Ph.D. in Latin American Literature from the University of Colorado Boulder in 2019. These days, she teaches, translates, and volunteers for the non-profit "Observatorio de las Américas," which she co-founded along with her friends and colleagues Juan García Oyervides and Javier Muñoz Díaz.
Martha Lane
Martha Lane writes in short bursts between wrangling two small children. They are an inspiration and hinderance in equal measure. Her flash has been published by Perhappened Mag, Bandit and Reflex Fiction among others. She's incredibly bored of lockdown. Tweets at @poor_and_clean.
Aura Martin
Aura Martin is the author of the chapbook Those Embroidered Suns (Lazy Adventurer Publishing) and the micro-chapbook Thumbprint Lizards (Maverick Duck Press). Her poems have appeared in EX/POST MAGAZINE, Kissing Dynamite, perhappened mag, and elsewhere. In Aura’s free time, she likes to run and take road trips. Find her on Twitter @instamartin17.
Louise Mather
Louise Mather is a poet from Northern England. You can find her on Twitter @lm2020uk and her work is published or forthcoming in magazines such as Fly on the Wall Press, Odd Magazine, The Cabinet of Heed, Versification, Crow & Cross Keys and Dust Poetry Magazine. She is currently putting together a cat-themed poetry anthology called Feline Utopia.
Maria Messias Mendes
Maria is an artist and writer in prose, poetry and drama. After living in Germany and Portugal, she moved to London to
study English with Creative Writing at Queen Mary University of London. Her work is focused on art that addresses injustices
in the world in a way that might contribute to a more equal future. She is interested in the concept of translation, as well as form and how it communicates affective experiences.
Jay Parr
Jay Parr lives with his partner and their daughter in Greensboro, North Carolina (USA), where he is a non-tenure track lecturer in the online Humanities program at UNCG.
Ann Pedone
Ann is the author The Medea Notebooks (forthcoming, Etruscan Books), and of the chapbooks The Bird Happened (Leave Books), perhaps there is a sky we don’t know: a re-imagining of sappho. (Cup and Dagger Press) as well as DREAM/WORK and Everywhere You Put Your Mouth (Halas Press.) Her work has recently appeared in Narrative Magazine, Abralemin, Menacing Hedge, Contemporary Verse 2, The Phare, West Trade Review, The Open Page Literary Journal, SAND, and The Shore.
Gretchen Rockwell
Gretchen Rockwell is a queer poet currently living in Scotland. Xe is the author of the forthcoming chapbook Lexicon of Future Selves (Vegetarian Alcoholic Press) and two microchapbooks; xer work has most recently appeared in AGNI, perhappened mag, Whale Road Review, and elsewhere. Gretchen enjoys writing poetry about gender, history, myth, science, space, and unusual connections –
find xer at www.gretchenrockwell.com or on Twitter at @daft_rockwell.
Sylvia Santiago
Sylvia Santiago's writing has appeared in Janus Literary, Gasher, deathcap, and elsewhere. She resides in western Canada, but can occasionally be found wandering on Twitter @sylviasays2
JP Seabright
JP Seabright is a queer writer living in London, who has had poetry published in three anthologies, short stories published online and in print, and various pieces shortlisted, longlisted and highly commended. Occasionally they can be found hanging out on Twitter @errormessage and blogging about music at https://randomrecordreview.wordpress.com
Remi Seamon
Remi Seamon is a Lower Sixth student living Cambridge, England. She's had a scattering of small publications, most recently in Unlost, and received an honourable mention in the Foyle Young Poet of the Year award. Despite its best efforts, A-Level English has not yet managed to stamp out her love of literature.
Mitchell Solomon
Mitchell Solomon is a Jewish writer with work appearing in The West Review, Analogies & Allegories, Near Window, Pages Penned in Pandemic, GLITCHWORDS, and hopefully forthcoming in Streetcake, Ploughshares, and the New Yorker. He lives in San Francisco.
Laura Stanley
Laura is currently studying a MA in Creative Writing. In 2020, she won the Staunch Short Story Prize. Her poetry has been
published in Ink, Sweat & Tears and in Speak Up: An Anthology of Young Voices.
Caitlin Stobie
Caitlin Stobie is a writer and researcher based in Leeds, where she is collaborating with biophysicists on a project titled Blurred Lines: Life, Matter, Poetry. Her writing has appeared in Berfrois, SPAM, Tears in the Fence, and elsewhere. She is an editorial assistant at Stand and a founding editor of Epizootics.
Katy Wimhurst
Katy Wimhurst’s first collection of short stories, Snapshots of the Apocalypse, is to be published by Fly on the Wall Press. Her fiction has been published in numerous magazines and anthologies including The Guardian, Writers’ Forum, Cafe Irreal, and ShooterLit. Her visual poems have appeared (or are soon to appear) in Ric Journal, Steel Incisors, The Babel Tower, Dreampop Press, Talking All the Time About Strawberries, Indianapolis Review, and Seaborne Magazine. She is severely affected by the illness M.E.
PART 1
Richard Biddle
Richard Biddle is an experimental poet and visual artist. His work has appeared in numerous zines and anthologies.
He has published 2 books of visual poetry: Messages From Elsewhere - An Alien Graffiti (Timglaset Press) and CONSCIOUSNESS (Penteract Press). His latest book 'On the Same Page' is due to be published this year by Timglaset Press.
You can follow him on Twitter @littledeaths68 or visit his website: richardbiddle.com
Jane Ayres
Based in the UK, Jane Ayres re-discovered poetry studying for a part-time MA in Creative Writing at the University of Kent,
which she completed in 2019 at the age of 57. She is fascinated by hybrid poetry/prose experimental forms and has work published or accepted in Confluence, Postscript, Dissonance, The Agonist, Lighthouse, Viscaria, The Sock Drawer, Streetcake, The North, The Poetry Village, Scrittura, Door is a Jar, Marble, Agapanthus, Confingo, Crow & Cross Keys, Kissing Dynamite and The Forge.
Stephen Bett
Stephen Bett is a widely and internationally published Canadian poet with 24 books in print. His personal papers are archived
in the “Contemporary Literature Collection” at Simon Fraser University. His website is stephenbett.com
Cassie Birk
Cassie Birk is a graduate of the University of Iowa. Her work has been featured in Funny Looking Dog Quarterly, GLITCHWORDS,
The Daily Drunk, and others. She is currently in the Pacific Northwest, lost. Find her on Twitter @BirkCassie.
Helen Bowie
Helen Bowie is a writer, performer, and charity worker based in London. Helen's work is featured or upcoming
in Beir Bua Journal, How2BBad Zine and Liminal Transit Review, among others. Helen has one cat and several bafflingly strong opinions about extremely trivial matters, which she tweets about as @helensulis
Belinda Bradley
Belinda Bradley is a queer poet who recently graduated with a First Class Honours in Creative Writing at Roehampton University.
They run a blog called @belindablogs. They attempt many hobbies such as crocheting, painting and photography - but they always come back to poetry in the end.
Lauren Busser
Lauren Busser is an award-winning writer of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. She is currently a graduate student at NYU where she's pursuing her master's in Integrated Digital Media and an Associate Editor at Tell-Tale TV. Her work has appeared in Best Small Fictions 2020, Cotton Xenomorph, Popshot Quarterly, Cease, Cows, and others. You can find more of her work at laurenbusser.com.
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).
Sean Ennis
Sean Ennis is the author of CHASE US: Stories (Little A) and his fiction has recently appeared in New World Writing, Diagram, HAD, Bending Genres and Has. More of his work can be found at seanennis.net
David Felix
David Felix is an English visual poet who lives in Denmark. His writing has featured in galleries, anthologies, festival performances
and in over sixty publications worldwide. As a child of artists, magicians and tailors he is still perfectly comfortable with a paint rag, a silk handkerchief, and a velvet mouchoir.
Claire HM
Claire HM (she/they) is a poet, fabulist and hag. She writes and reads tarot as an act of self healing that is an invitation for others to create the stories they need to access healing too. She has recently been published in Black Flowers Literary Journal, streetcake 68, Mooky Chick and in Cape Magazine. 'How to Bring Him Back' her debut novella (a story framed by a spell to let go of the past)
will be published by Fly on the Wall press in October 2021,
(IG and Twitter: @clairehmwriter)
Stephanie King
Stephanie King is a past winner of the Quarterly West Novella Prize and the Lilith Short Fiction Prize, with stories also appearing in CutBank, Entropy, and Hobart. She received her MFA from Bennington and serves on the board of the Philadelphia Writers’ Conference. You can find her online at stephanieking.net or Twitter @stephstephking.
J.I. Kleinberg
Three-time nominee for Pushcart and Best of the Net awards, artist, poet, and freelance writer J.I. Kleinberg lives in Bellingham, Washington, USA, and on Instagram @jikleinberg.
Liam Konemann
Liam Konemann is a queer Australian writer based in London. In 2019 he participated in Spread the Word’s London Writers Awards, and in 2020 placed second in Streetcake Magazine's Experimental Writing Prize. He writes music journalism, fiction and poetry, and
is studying for an MSt in Creative Writing at the University of Oxford.
PART 2
María José Maddox
María José Maddox is a Chilean artist based in Denver, CO. She earned a Ph.D. in Latin American Literature from the University of Colorado Boulder in 2019. These days, she teaches, translates, and volunteers for the non-profit "Observatorio de las Américas," which she co-founded along with her friends and colleagues Juan García Oyervides and Javier Muñoz Díaz.
Martha Lane
Martha Lane writes in short bursts between wrangling two small children. They are an inspiration and hinderance in equal measure. Her flash has been published by Perhappened Mag, Bandit and Reflex Fiction among others. She's incredibly bored of lockdown. Tweets at @poor_and_clean.
Aura Martin
Aura Martin is the author of the chapbook Those Embroidered Suns (Lazy Adventurer Publishing) and the micro-chapbook Thumbprint Lizards (Maverick Duck Press). Her poems have appeared in EX/POST MAGAZINE, Kissing Dynamite, perhappened mag, and elsewhere. In Aura’s free time, she likes to run and take road trips. Find her on Twitter @instamartin17.
Louise Mather
Louise Mather is a poet from Northern England. You can find her on Twitter @lm2020uk and her work is published or forthcoming in magazines such as Fly on the Wall Press, Odd Magazine, The Cabinet of Heed, Versification, Crow & Cross Keys and Dust Poetry Magazine. She is currently putting together a cat-themed poetry anthology called Feline Utopia.
Maria Messias Mendes
Maria is an artist and writer in prose, poetry and drama. After living in Germany and Portugal, she moved to London to
study English with Creative Writing at Queen Mary University of London. Her work is focused on art that addresses injustices
in the world in a way that might contribute to a more equal future. She is interested in the concept of translation, as well as form and how it communicates affective experiences.
Jay Parr
Jay Parr lives with his partner and their daughter in Greensboro, North Carolina (USA), where he is a non-tenure track lecturer in the online Humanities program at UNCG.
Ann Pedone
Ann is the author The Medea Notebooks (forthcoming, Etruscan Books), and of the chapbooks The Bird Happened (Leave Books), perhaps there is a sky we don’t know: a re-imagining of sappho. (Cup and Dagger Press) as well as DREAM/WORK and Everywhere You Put Your Mouth (Halas Press.) Her work has recently appeared in Narrative Magazine, Abralemin, Menacing Hedge, Contemporary Verse 2, The Phare, West Trade Review, The Open Page Literary Journal, SAND, and The Shore.
Gretchen Rockwell
Gretchen Rockwell is a queer poet currently living in Scotland. Xe is the author of the forthcoming chapbook Lexicon of Future Selves (Vegetarian Alcoholic Press) and two microchapbooks; xer work has most recently appeared in AGNI, perhappened mag, Whale Road Review, and elsewhere. Gretchen enjoys writing poetry about gender, history, myth, science, space, and unusual connections –
find xer at www.gretchenrockwell.com or on Twitter at @daft_rockwell.
Sylvia Santiago
Sylvia Santiago's writing has appeared in Janus Literary, Gasher, deathcap, and elsewhere. She resides in western Canada, but can occasionally be found wandering on Twitter @sylviasays2
JP Seabright
JP Seabright is a queer writer living in London, who has had poetry published in three anthologies, short stories published online and in print, and various pieces shortlisted, longlisted and highly commended. Occasionally they can be found hanging out on Twitter @errormessage and blogging about music at https://randomrecordreview.wordpress.com
Remi Seamon
Remi Seamon is a Lower Sixth student living Cambridge, England. She's had a scattering of small publications, most recently in Unlost, and received an honourable mention in the Foyle Young Poet of the Year award. Despite its best efforts, A-Level English has not yet managed to stamp out her love of literature.
Mitchell Solomon
Mitchell Solomon is a Jewish writer with work appearing in The West Review, Analogies & Allegories, Near Window, Pages Penned in Pandemic, GLITCHWORDS, and hopefully forthcoming in Streetcake, Ploughshares, and the New Yorker. He lives in San Francisco.
Laura Stanley
Laura is currently studying a MA in Creative Writing. In 2020, she won the Staunch Short Story Prize. Her poetry has been
published in Ink, Sweat & Tears and in Speak Up: An Anthology of Young Voices.
Caitlin Stobie
Caitlin Stobie is a writer and researcher based in Leeds, where she is collaborating with biophysicists on a project titled Blurred Lines: Life, Matter, Poetry. Her writing has appeared in Berfrois, SPAM, Tears in the Fence, and elsewhere. She is an editorial assistant at Stand and a founding editor of Epizootics.
Katy Wimhurst
Katy Wimhurst’s first collection of short stories, Snapshots of the Apocalypse, is to be published by Fly on the Wall Press. Her fiction has been published in numerous magazines and anthologies including The Guardian, Writers’ Forum, Cafe Irreal, and ShooterLit. Her visual poems have appeared (or are soon to appear) in Ric Journal, Steel Incisors, The Babel Tower, Dreampop Press, Talking All the Time About Strawberries, Indianapolis Review, and Seaborne Magazine. She is severely affected by the illness M.E.
