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issue 86
issue 86, featuring:
cover: stephanie ivanova
katelynn bishop
frank carellini
dah
christa king
dave read
mims sully
ilias tsagas
phil wood
jessica wright
cover: stephanie ivanova
katelynn bishop
frank carellini
dah
christa king
dave read
mims sully
ilias tsagas
phil wood
jessica wright
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biographies - issue 86
Katelynn Bishop
Katelynn Bishop (she/hers) is a writer and sociology professor living in California. She is Assistant Editor of BWQ, which features women-identifying and non-binary people with diverse non-binary sexualities.
Frank Carellini
[see genome for full answers - otherwise, idk, i like the color pink]
DAH
DAH is a multiple Pushcart Prize and Best Of The Net nominee, and the author of eleven books of poetry. DAH lives in Berkeley, California, where he is working on his twelfth poetry collection while simultaneously working on his first collection of short fiction and his first crime noir novel.
Stephanie Ivanova
Stephanie Ivanova is a Bulgarian artist, currently studying Creative Writing at the University of Greenwich, London.
Christa King
Christa King has always lived in the West. The landscapes, experiences and people of New Mexico, Arizona, Colorado, and Idaho inspire and inform her writing. She received a BA in Creative Writing at the age of 51, and a Master’s Degree in Library Sciences in 2012, both from the University of Arizona. Her poems have appeared in Canyon Voices, Blue Mesa Review, El Portal, 805 and other literary journals.
Dave Read
Dave Read is a Canadian poet living in Calgary. He has two chapbooks of asemic writing, Notebook and Brutish and Short, available from Paper View Press. His work can be found on his blog davereadpoetry.blogspot.com.
Mims Sully
Mims Sully is from Sussex, England. She's been published widely in magazines and anthologies including in Prole, Popshot, And Other Poems, Ink, Sweat and Tears and previously in Streetcake, which earned her a Best of the Net nomination 2023. A winner of the Visual Verse Autumn Writing Prize 2022, she is currently working on her debut pamphlet of poems.
Ilias Tsagas
Ilias Tsagas is a Greek poet writing in English and in Greek. His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in journals like: Apogee, Ambit, Under the Radar, Poetry Wales, Sand, FU Review and Plumwood Mountain; and in anthologies like: Addiction and Recovery by Acid Bath Publishing, Disease by Carnaval Press and Deviance by Toothgrinder Press. Instagram: @Ilias.Tsagas
Phil Wood
Phil Wood was born in Wales. He has worked in statistics, education, shipping, and a biscuit factory. He enjoys chess and learning German. His writing can be found in various places, including recently : Fragmented Voices, Gwyllion, Kleksograph, and a featured collaboration with photographer John Winder at Abergavenny Small Press.
Jessica Wright
Jessica Wright is a historian and writer based in West Yorkshire. Her work has been published in journals such as Michigan Quarterly Review, Queerlings Magazine, and Foglifter Journal. Her first book, The Care of the Brain in Early Christianity, came out with University of California Press in 2022. She teaches in the Lifelong Learning Centre at the University of Leeds.
Katelynn Bishop
Katelynn Bishop (she/hers) is a writer and sociology professor living in California. She is Assistant Editor of BWQ, which features women-identifying and non-binary people with diverse non-binary sexualities.
Frank Carellini
[see genome for full answers - otherwise, idk, i like the color pink]
DAH
DAH is a multiple Pushcart Prize and Best Of The Net nominee, and the author of eleven books of poetry. DAH lives in Berkeley, California, where he is working on his twelfth poetry collection while simultaneously working on his first collection of short fiction and his first crime noir novel.
Stephanie Ivanova
Stephanie Ivanova is a Bulgarian artist, currently studying Creative Writing at the University of Greenwich, London.
Christa King
Christa King has always lived in the West. The landscapes, experiences and people of New Mexico, Arizona, Colorado, and Idaho inspire and inform her writing. She received a BA in Creative Writing at the age of 51, and a Master’s Degree in Library Sciences in 2012, both from the University of Arizona. Her poems have appeared in Canyon Voices, Blue Mesa Review, El Portal, 805 and other literary journals.
Dave Read
Dave Read is a Canadian poet living in Calgary. He has two chapbooks of asemic writing, Notebook and Brutish and Short, available from Paper View Press. His work can be found on his blog davereadpoetry.blogspot.com.
Mims Sully
Mims Sully is from Sussex, England. She's been published widely in magazines and anthologies including in Prole, Popshot, And Other Poems, Ink, Sweat and Tears and previously in Streetcake, which earned her a Best of the Net nomination 2023. A winner of the Visual Verse Autumn Writing Prize 2022, she is currently working on her debut pamphlet of poems.
Ilias Tsagas
Ilias Tsagas is a Greek poet writing in English and in Greek. His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in journals like: Apogee, Ambit, Under the Radar, Poetry Wales, Sand, FU Review and Plumwood Mountain; and in anthologies like: Addiction and Recovery by Acid Bath Publishing, Disease by Carnaval Press and Deviance by Toothgrinder Press. Instagram: @Ilias.Tsagas
Phil Wood
Phil Wood was born in Wales. He has worked in statistics, education, shipping, and a biscuit factory. He enjoys chess and learning German. His writing can be found in various places, including recently : Fragmented Voices, Gwyllion, Kleksograph, and a featured collaboration with photographer John Winder at Abergavenny Small Press.
Jessica Wright
Jessica Wright is a historian and writer based in West Yorkshire. Her work has been published in journals such as Michigan Quarterly Review, Queerlings Magazine, and Foglifter Journal. Her first book, The Care of the Brain in Early Christianity, came out with University of California Press in 2022. She teaches in the Lifelong Learning Centre at the University of Leeds.
