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issue 68 - part 1
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amber rollinson phoebe anson leia butler jenni brooks luis cuauhtémoc berriozábal maría deguzmán rachel dennis sanjyokta deshmukh clive donovan ana dukakis amanda earl teo eve claire hm lucy hulton louise mather |
issue 68 - part 2
part 2, featuring:
angela caporaso zainab ismail sofia kaloterakis claire loader sarah loverock tristan moss paul robert mullen donnarkevic laura pearson tyler plofker brad rose k.t. slattery grace tompkins anannya uberoi ellen uttley |
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biographies - issue 68
Phoebe Anson
Phoebe Anson is about to start her third year studying English Literature at The University of Sheffield. She plans to study a Masters in Creative Writing after she finishes. She loves all kinds of poetry, a few favourite poets of hers include Rachael Allen, Alice Oswald, and Patricia Lockwood. When she is not writing, she can be found searching for new writers or using her sewing machine to alter thrift shop clothes.
Leia Butler
Leia Butler is a creative writing student who enjoys creating strong visual poetry. Her favourite kinds of poetry are ones she would frame and put on her wall. This is what she tries to strive for in her own work.
Jenni Brooks
Jenni a freelance journalist and has written articles for the online magazines Kettle Magazine and The Overtake. She also wrote the script for the spoken word film, Women and Autism, which won an Autism Uncut Award at BAFTA HQ.
Luis Cuauhtémoc Berriozábal
Luis resides in California. He works in the mental health field in Los Angeles.
His poems have appeared online and in print. His recent work has appeared in
Otoliths, Unlikely Stories, and Yellow Mama Webzine.
Angela Caporaso
Angela Caporaso is an Italian artist focusing on artists books and visual poetry, working with the mediums of collage, trash-art and, more recently, digital formats. Since her first exhibitions, which date back to the eighties, she has revealed a constant strain towards new expressive languages. This constant research led Angela to contaminate sign with colour, font with image, literature with painting, as though one single medium was not sufficient to express her complex imaginative world.
http://www.angelacaporaso.com/
María DeGuzmán
María DeGuzmán is a scholar, conceptual photographer, and music composer / sound designer. She has published photography in The Grief Diaries, Coffin Bell, Typehouse Literary Magazine, Map Literary, Two Hawks Quarterly, Harbor Review, The Halcyone, and Gulf Stream Literary Magazine as well as Alluvian and Ponder Review (forthcoming); two creative nonfiction photo-text pieces, one in Oyster River Pages and the other in La Piccioletta Barca; photo prose poetry in Landlocked Magazine; poetry in The Kentucky Poetry Review, The Cape Rock, and Empty Mirror; and short stories in Mandorla: New Writing from the Americas, Huizache: The Magazine of Latino Literature, Sinister Wisdom, and Obelus Journal. She has also published three scholarly books: Spain’s Long Shadow: The Black Legend, Off-Whiteness, and Anglo-American Empire (Minnesota Press, 2005); Buenas Noches, American Culture: Latina/o Aesthetics of Night (Indiana University Press, 2012); and Understanding John Rechy (University of South Carolina Press, 2019). Her SoundCloud website may be found at: https://soundcloud.com/mariadeguzman.
Rachel Dennis
Rachel lives in Bristol and identifies as working class. She has been writing poetry for a number of years. She enjoys running round muddy forests with a map and compass and solving cryptic crosswords.
Sanjyokta Deshmukh
Sanjyokta 'Yukta' Deshmukh is a Welsh-Indian poet currently studying a B.A. in the United Kingdom. She has been previously published both in print as well as online in Eclectica Magazine and The Skinny Poetry Journal. Her work was also shortlisted for the Love the Words 2020 competition in celebration of International Dylan Thomas day.
Clive Donovan
Clive Donovan devotes himself full-time to poetry and has published in a wide variety of magazines including The Journal, Agenda, Erbacce, Poetry Salzburg Review, Prole, Stand and The Transnational. He lives in the creative atmosphere of Totnes in Devon, U.K. often walking along the River Dart for inspiration. He is hoping to entice a publisher to print a first collection.
Ana Dukakis
Ana is a writer and narrative designer. She enjoys writing experimental fiction, short stories, and interactive games. In her spare time you’ll find her playing Tetris, bookmarking recipes to try “in the future”, and plotting out one-shot tabletop RPGs.
Amanda Earl
Amanda Earl’s life’s work is the Vispo Bible, with a goal to translate every book, chapter and verse of the Bible into visual poetry.
Work has been published as chapbooks and leaflets by publishers in Canada, Sweden and UK. In 2020 pieces from the Vispo Bible were included in online exhibits by Mellom Press and Poem Atlas. Earl’s vispo has also been published in the last vispo: anthology: visual poetry 1998-2008 (Fantagraphics, 2012).
For more vispo, visit EleanorIncognito.blogspot.ca. or connect with Amanda on Twitter @KikiFolle
Teo Eve
Teo Eve is a poet and short story writer based in Nottingham. Teo's poetry has appeared in 404 Ink Magazine and -algia. Teo's short story 'To Be Seen' won the 20-25 category for Nottingham UNESCO City of Literature's MyVoice competition, and appears in its Speak Up anthology. Teo is currently editing the second issue of Voices for the Nottingham Poetry Exchange.
Claire HM
Claire HM teaches English and literacy to refugee and migrant communities in Birmingham, UK. She has studied Gender, Education and Creative Writing as a postgrad. Alongside her writing Claire's biggest passions are tarot, intersectional feminism and kitchen witchery. A long time ago her poetry appeared in the Rialto and Magma.
Lucy Hulton
Lucy is a creative writer from the North West, England. Having spent her childhood in France, she now enjoys reading and writing experimental poetry in both English and French. She has recently completed her BA (Hons) in English literature and creative writing at the University of Salford; ‘dead language’, ‘Job 14’, and ‘Agough Sonney’ are her first published works.
Zainab Ismail
Zainab Ismail is a poet and software engineer from London. She completed a BA in English Literature with Creative Writing at the University of Greenwich. Her poetry has appeared in The Fortnightly Review, Tears In The Fence, Skin Deep Magazine and elsewhere.
Sofia Kaloterakis
Sofia Kaloterakis is a freelance writer and researcher currently studying in the RMA program Media Arts and Performance studies at Utrecht University. She is interested in fictional universes, science fiction and any type of non-conventional exploration of language and poetics. She has published a short story on the Italian platform eks&tra and also articles and papers on media art aesthetics.
Claire Loader
Claire Loader is a New Zealand born writer now living in County Galway, Ireland. Her work has appeared in various publications, including Crannóg, The Cormorant & The Cabinet of Heed.
Sarah Loverock
Sarah Loverock (she/her) is a writer, poet, and MA Creative Writing student. She has been previously published in Streetcake, ang(st) zine, Perhappened and Pussy Magic. She loves all things witchy and spiritual, history and mythology, and cute animals. She is available on Twitter @asoftblueending.
Louise Mather
Louise Mather is a writer and poet from England. You can find her on Twitter @lm2020uk
Tristan Moss
Tristan Moss lives in York with his partner and two youngish children, who are running feral around the house at this very moment. He has recently had poems published in Ink Sweat & Tears, Snakeskin and Obsessed with Pipework. He has also recently edited a themed edition (Environs) of Snakeskin Poetry Webzine.
Paul Robert Mullen
Paul Robert Mullen is a poet, musician, lecturer, radio presenter, traveller and sociable loner from Liverpool, U.K. He has four published poetry collections: curse this blue raincoat (2017), testimony (2018), 35 (2018) and disintegration (2020). He has been widely published in magazines worldwide. Paul is the co-founder and editor of The Broken Spine Artist Collective.
Donnarkevic
donnarkevic: Buckhannon, WV. MFA National University. Recent work is forthcoming in The Centifictionist, Blue Collar Review, and Ancient Paths.
Laura Pearson
Laura Pearson is a writer, poet, proud northerner and feminist. She’s currently looking for a home for her poetry collection. She tweets from @LauraPearson01
Tyler Plofker
Tyler is a writer focused primarily on short stories and flash fiction. He currently resides in Manhattan.
Amber Rollinson
Amber Rollinson is 23 and currently studying on the MSt Creative Writing at Oxford. She started making cyanotypes during lockdown - an alternative photography process where light sensitive chemicals turn blue when exposed to UV light. Originally part of an illustrated poetry collection for her portfolio, the images often consider the human in landscape and the idea of place. She can be found @wild_log on Instagram
Brad Rose
Brad Rose was born and raised in Los Angeles and lives in Boston. He is the author of three collections of poetry and flash fiction, Pink X-Ray (Big Table Publishing, 2015), de/tonations (Nixes Mate Press, 2020), and Momentary Turbulence (Cervena Barva Press, 2020). His fourth collection, WordinEdgeWise, is forthcoming in 2021 from Cervena Barva Press. Brad’s website is:
www.bradrosepoetry.com
Selected readings can be heard at https://soundcloud.com/bradrose1
A list of publications is available at: http://bradrosepoetry.com/2019/03/a-list-of-publications/
K.T. Slattery
K.T. Slattery was born in Memphis, Tennessee, and grew up just across the state line in Mississippi. A graduate of Spring Hill College in Mobile, Alabama, she now lives in the West of Ireland with her husband and an ever-increasing amount of rescue pets.
Twitter: @KTSlattery1
Grace Tompkins
Grace Tompkins is a prize-winning author and artists currently living in Manchester. She graduated from Newcastle University, garnering the highest-grade dissertation in her class and winning the Cowan, Johnson and Watson Prize for Best File of Original Literary Work. She likes long walks on the beach, grilled cheese sandwiches, and Hubert Selby jnr.
Anannya Uberoi
Anannya Uberoi (she/her) is a full-time software engineer and part-time tea connoisseur based in Madrid. Her poems and short stories have appeared in Jaggery, LandLocked, Deep Wild Journal, Tipton Poetry Journal, Lapis Lazuli, and Marías at Sampaguitas. Her writing has also featured on The Delhi Walla and The Dewdrop, among other literary blogs.
http://anannyauberoi.com/
Ellen Uttley
Ellen Uttley is a working class writer and mother-of-two, from a mining town in northern England. She enjoys working across a number of different genres and themes, with poetry and prose covering everything from motherhood to Ancient Greece. Her prose has appeared in the Hive anthology Surfing the Twilight, and her poetry has appeared in Serotonin Poetry and Lucky Pierre.
Phoebe Anson
Phoebe Anson is about to start her third year studying English Literature at The University of Sheffield. She plans to study a Masters in Creative Writing after she finishes. She loves all kinds of poetry, a few favourite poets of hers include Rachael Allen, Alice Oswald, and Patricia Lockwood. When she is not writing, she can be found searching for new writers or using her sewing machine to alter thrift shop clothes.
Leia Butler
Leia Butler is a creative writing student who enjoys creating strong visual poetry. Her favourite kinds of poetry are ones she would frame and put on her wall. This is what she tries to strive for in her own work.
Jenni Brooks
Jenni a freelance journalist and has written articles for the online magazines Kettle Magazine and The Overtake. She also wrote the script for the spoken word film, Women and Autism, which won an Autism Uncut Award at BAFTA HQ.
Luis Cuauhtémoc Berriozábal
Luis resides in California. He works in the mental health field in Los Angeles.
His poems have appeared online and in print. His recent work has appeared in
Otoliths, Unlikely Stories, and Yellow Mama Webzine.
Angela Caporaso
Angela Caporaso is an Italian artist focusing on artists books and visual poetry, working with the mediums of collage, trash-art and, more recently, digital formats. Since her first exhibitions, which date back to the eighties, she has revealed a constant strain towards new expressive languages. This constant research led Angela to contaminate sign with colour, font with image, literature with painting, as though one single medium was not sufficient to express her complex imaginative world.
http://www.angelacaporaso.com/
María DeGuzmán
María DeGuzmán is a scholar, conceptual photographer, and music composer / sound designer. She has published photography in The Grief Diaries, Coffin Bell, Typehouse Literary Magazine, Map Literary, Two Hawks Quarterly, Harbor Review, The Halcyone, and Gulf Stream Literary Magazine as well as Alluvian and Ponder Review (forthcoming); two creative nonfiction photo-text pieces, one in Oyster River Pages and the other in La Piccioletta Barca; photo prose poetry in Landlocked Magazine; poetry in The Kentucky Poetry Review, The Cape Rock, and Empty Mirror; and short stories in Mandorla: New Writing from the Americas, Huizache: The Magazine of Latino Literature, Sinister Wisdom, and Obelus Journal. She has also published three scholarly books: Spain’s Long Shadow: The Black Legend, Off-Whiteness, and Anglo-American Empire (Minnesota Press, 2005); Buenas Noches, American Culture: Latina/o Aesthetics of Night (Indiana University Press, 2012); and Understanding John Rechy (University of South Carolina Press, 2019). Her SoundCloud website may be found at: https://soundcloud.com/mariadeguzman.
Rachel Dennis
Rachel lives in Bristol and identifies as working class. She has been writing poetry for a number of years. She enjoys running round muddy forests with a map and compass and solving cryptic crosswords.
Sanjyokta Deshmukh
Sanjyokta 'Yukta' Deshmukh is a Welsh-Indian poet currently studying a B.A. in the United Kingdom. She has been previously published both in print as well as online in Eclectica Magazine and The Skinny Poetry Journal. Her work was also shortlisted for the Love the Words 2020 competition in celebration of International Dylan Thomas day.
Clive Donovan
Clive Donovan devotes himself full-time to poetry and has published in a wide variety of magazines including The Journal, Agenda, Erbacce, Poetry Salzburg Review, Prole, Stand and The Transnational. He lives in the creative atmosphere of Totnes in Devon, U.K. often walking along the River Dart for inspiration. He is hoping to entice a publisher to print a first collection.
Ana Dukakis
Ana is a writer and narrative designer. She enjoys writing experimental fiction, short stories, and interactive games. In her spare time you’ll find her playing Tetris, bookmarking recipes to try “in the future”, and plotting out one-shot tabletop RPGs.
Amanda Earl
Amanda Earl’s life’s work is the Vispo Bible, with a goal to translate every book, chapter and verse of the Bible into visual poetry.
Work has been published as chapbooks and leaflets by publishers in Canada, Sweden and UK. In 2020 pieces from the Vispo Bible were included in online exhibits by Mellom Press and Poem Atlas. Earl’s vispo has also been published in the last vispo: anthology: visual poetry 1998-2008 (Fantagraphics, 2012).
For more vispo, visit EleanorIncognito.blogspot.ca. or connect with Amanda on Twitter @KikiFolle
Teo Eve
Teo Eve is a poet and short story writer based in Nottingham. Teo's poetry has appeared in 404 Ink Magazine and -algia. Teo's short story 'To Be Seen' won the 20-25 category for Nottingham UNESCO City of Literature's MyVoice competition, and appears in its Speak Up anthology. Teo is currently editing the second issue of Voices for the Nottingham Poetry Exchange.
Claire HM
Claire HM teaches English and literacy to refugee and migrant communities in Birmingham, UK. She has studied Gender, Education and Creative Writing as a postgrad. Alongside her writing Claire's biggest passions are tarot, intersectional feminism and kitchen witchery. A long time ago her poetry appeared in the Rialto and Magma.
Lucy Hulton
Lucy is a creative writer from the North West, England. Having spent her childhood in France, she now enjoys reading and writing experimental poetry in both English and French. She has recently completed her BA (Hons) in English literature and creative writing at the University of Salford; ‘dead language’, ‘Job 14’, and ‘Agough Sonney’ are her first published works.
Zainab Ismail
Zainab Ismail is a poet and software engineer from London. She completed a BA in English Literature with Creative Writing at the University of Greenwich. Her poetry has appeared in The Fortnightly Review, Tears In The Fence, Skin Deep Magazine and elsewhere.
Sofia Kaloterakis
Sofia Kaloterakis is a freelance writer and researcher currently studying in the RMA program Media Arts and Performance studies at Utrecht University. She is interested in fictional universes, science fiction and any type of non-conventional exploration of language and poetics. She has published a short story on the Italian platform eks&tra and also articles and papers on media art aesthetics.
Claire Loader
Claire Loader is a New Zealand born writer now living in County Galway, Ireland. Her work has appeared in various publications, including Crannóg, The Cormorant & The Cabinet of Heed.
Sarah Loverock
Sarah Loverock (she/her) is a writer, poet, and MA Creative Writing student. She has been previously published in Streetcake, ang(st) zine, Perhappened and Pussy Magic. She loves all things witchy and spiritual, history and mythology, and cute animals. She is available on Twitter @asoftblueending.
Louise Mather
Louise Mather is a writer and poet from England. You can find her on Twitter @lm2020uk
Tristan Moss
Tristan Moss lives in York with his partner and two youngish children, who are running feral around the house at this very moment. He has recently had poems published in Ink Sweat & Tears, Snakeskin and Obsessed with Pipework. He has also recently edited a themed edition (Environs) of Snakeskin Poetry Webzine.
Paul Robert Mullen
Paul Robert Mullen is a poet, musician, lecturer, radio presenter, traveller and sociable loner from Liverpool, U.K. He has four published poetry collections: curse this blue raincoat (2017), testimony (2018), 35 (2018) and disintegration (2020). He has been widely published in magazines worldwide. Paul is the co-founder and editor of The Broken Spine Artist Collective.
Donnarkevic
donnarkevic: Buckhannon, WV. MFA National University. Recent work is forthcoming in The Centifictionist, Blue Collar Review, and Ancient Paths.
Laura Pearson
Laura Pearson is a writer, poet, proud northerner and feminist. She’s currently looking for a home for her poetry collection. She tweets from @LauraPearson01
Tyler Plofker
Tyler is a writer focused primarily on short stories and flash fiction. He currently resides in Manhattan.
Amber Rollinson
Amber Rollinson is 23 and currently studying on the MSt Creative Writing at Oxford. She started making cyanotypes during lockdown - an alternative photography process where light sensitive chemicals turn blue when exposed to UV light. Originally part of an illustrated poetry collection for her portfolio, the images often consider the human in landscape and the idea of place. She can be found @wild_log on Instagram
Brad Rose
Brad Rose was born and raised in Los Angeles and lives in Boston. He is the author of three collections of poetry and flash fiction, Pink X-Ray (Big Table Publishing, 2015), de/tonations (Nixes Mate Press, 2020), and Momentary Turbulence (Cervena Barva Press, 2020). His fourth collection, WordinEdgeWise, is forthcoming in 2021 from Cervena Barva Press. Brad’s website is:
www.bradrosepoetry.com
Selected readings can be heard at https://soundcloud.com/bradrose1
A list of publications is available at: http://bradrosepoetry.com/2019/03/a-list-of-publications/
K.T. Slattery
K.T. Slattery was born in Memphis, Tennessee, and grew up just across the state line in Mississippi. A graduate of Spring Hill College in Mobile, Alabama, she now lives in the West of Ireland with her husband and an ever-increasing amount of rescue pets.
Twitter: @KTSlattery1
Grace Tompkins
Grace Tompkins is a prize-winning author and artists currently living in Manchester. She graduated from Newcastle University, garnering the highest-grade dissertation in her class and winning the Cowan, Johnson and Watson Prize for Best File of Original Literary Work. She likes long walks on the beach, grilled cheese sandwiches, and Hubert Selby jnr.
Anannya Uberoi
Anannya Uberoi (she/her) is a full-time software engineer and part-time tea connoisseur based in Madrid. Her poems and short stories have appeared in Jaggery, LandLocked, Deep Wild Journal, Tipton Poetry Journal, Lapis Lazuli, and Marías at Sampaguitas. Her writing has also featured on The Delhi Walla and The Dewdrop, among other literary blogs.
http://anannyauberoi.com/
Ellen Uttley
Ellen Uttley is a working class writer and mother-of-two, from a mining town in northern England. She enjoys working across a number of different genres and themes, with poetry and prose covering everything from motherhood to Ancient Greece. Her prose has appeared in the Hive anthology Surfing the Twilight, and her poetry has appeared in Serotonin Poetry and Lucky Pierre.
