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issue 93
issue 93, featuring:
COVER: luca fois
fred briggs
barlow crassmont
alexey deyneko
samuel lorraine goldsmith
paul green
erin jamieson
amy marques
carol schoder
calla smith
jeffrey allen tobin
theodore wallbanger
COVER: luca fois
fred briggs
barlow crassmont
alexey deyneko
samuel lorraine goldsmith
paul green
erin jamieson
amy marques
carol schoder
calla smith
jeffrey allen tobin
theodore wallbanger
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biographies - issue 93
Fred Briggs
Fred Briggs is a graduate of Stony Brook University where he majored in English Literature with an emphasis on 17th Century poetry. An award-winning poet, his work has been published in several journals and online. See more of his poetry on Facebook: The Poet’s Cloak – The Poetry of Fred Briggs
Barlow Crassmont
Barlow Crassmont has lived in the USA, Eastern Europe, Middle East and China. When not teaching or writing, he dabbles in juggling, solving the Rubik’s Cube, and learning other languages. He has been published by British Science Fiction Association, Wilderness House Literary Review, and in the upcoming 41st anthology of Writers of the Future.
Alexey Deyneko
Alexey is a pacifist who lives and contemplates the interconnections between different art forms in Sydney, the city that inspires him in a variety of delightful ways. He is a Pushcart Prize nominee and his micro-chapbook, Non-Fungible Token, is published by the Origami Poems Project. His work has appeared in Jersey Devil Press, The Raven Review, New Note Poetry, dadakuku, Quibble, #Ranger, Punk Monk Magazine, 82 Star Review, Molecule, and is forthcoming in Sugar House Review, Failed Haiku, and Mercurius.
Luca Fois
Luca Fois is a poet living in Edinburgh, in the liminal space between languages. He loves poetry, writing, and vibing with the chaos and the weird in his life. You can find him in a local café thinking about the right word to end a line, but also lurking on X @cuttinghail. Lately, he's obsessed with death and relationships. Other of his works have appeared on Streetcake Magazine, Tiny Wren Lit, Corvus Review, Black Stone/White Stone and Spark to flame.
Samuel Lorraine Goldsmith
Samuel Lorraine Goldsmith (he/him/his) is a former musician who lives in Richmond, California, with his family. A lawyer by trade, he continues to obey an existential compulsion to write and rewrite poetry and prose. He writes so as to be a river, not a lake. His poetry is forthcoming in *82 Review.
Paul Green
Paul Green’s work includes ‘The Gestaltbunker - Selected Poems’ (Shearsman Books 2012), and the novels 'The Qliphoth’ (Libros Libertad 2007) and 'Beneath the Pleasure Zones I and II’ (Mandrake 2014, 2016). His plays for radio and stage are collected in ‘Babalon and Other Plays’ (Scarlet Imprint 2015). He has had poems recently published in Black Box Manifold and the Poetry ID anthology Hold Your Fire. More at his website:paulgreenwriter.co.uk
Erin Jamieson
Erin Jamieson’s writing has been published in over eighty literary magazines, including two Pushcart Prize nominations. She is the author of four poetry chapbooks, including Fairytales (Bottle Cap Press. Her debut novel (Sky of Ashes, Land of Dreams) was published by Type Eighteen Books.
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, BOOTH, Bright Flash Literary Review, Chicago Quarterly Review, and Gone Lawn. She is the editor and visual artist for the Duetsanthology and author and artist of the found poetry book PARTS. More at https://amybookwhisperer.wordpress.com.
Carol Schoder
Carol Schoder is a visual artist and writer who currently lives in the Chicago area. Carol writes poetry, prose, creative nonfiction and hybrid pieces. She enjoys painting, photography and creating one-of-a-kind artist books.
Calla Smith
Calla Smith lives and writes in Buenos Aires, Argentina. She enjoys continuing to discover all the forgotten corners of the city she has come to call home. She has published a collection of flash fiction “What Doesn’t Kill You”, and her work can also be found in several literary journals.
Jeffery Allen Tobin
Jeffery Allen Tobin is a political scientist and researcher based in South Florida. His extensive body of work primarily explores U.S. foreign policy, democracy, national security, and migration. He has been writing poetry and prose for more than 30 years.
Theodore Wallbanger
Berthed from mischievous leprechauns near technicolor shadow lands surrounding Honah Lee, Theodore Wallbanger rides mysterious sparkle railcars bursting with crunchy cotton candy clouds dispatched from slippery erotic massage vixens who rage pillow laugh hourly within a splintered transportation module that screams along butterscotch wonder tracks forming vibrations for audiences across Sugar Hill Mountain.
Fred Briggs
Fred Briggs is a graduate of Stony Brook University where he majored in English Literature with an emphasis on 17th Century poetry. An award-winning poet, his work has been published in several journals and online. See more of his poetry on Facebook: The Poet’s Cloak – The Poetry of Fred Briggs
Barlow Crassmont
Barlow Crassmont has lived in the USA, Eastern Europe, Middle East and China. When not teaching or writing, he dabbles in juggling, solving the Rubik’s Cube, and learning other languages. He has been published by British Science Fiction Association, Wilderness House Literary Review, and in the upcoming 41st anthology of Writers of the Future.
Alexey Deyneko
Alexey is a pacifist who lives and contemplates the interconnections between different art forms in Sydney, the city that inspires him in a variety of delightful ways. He is a Pushcart Prize nominee and his micro-chapbook, Non-Fungible Token, is published by the Origami Poems Project. His work has appeared in Jersey Devil Press, The Raven Review, New Note Poetry, dadakuku, Quibble, #Ranger, Punk Monk Magazine, 82 Star Review, Molecule, and is forthcoming in Sugar House Review, Failed Haiku, and Mercurius.
Luca Fois
Luca Fois is a poet living in Edinburgh, in the liminal space between languages. He loves poetry, writing, and vibing with the chaos and the weird in his life. You can find him in a local café thinking about the right word to end a line, but also lurking on X @cuttinghail. Lately, he's obsessed with death and relationships. Other of his works have appeared on Streetcake Magazine, Tiny Wren Lit, Corvus Review, Black Stone/White Stone and Spark to flame.
Samuel Lorraine Goldsmith
Samuel Lorraine Goldsmith (he/him/his) is a former musician who lives in Richmond, California, with his family. A lawyer by trade, he continues to obey an existential compulsion to write and rewrite poetry and prose. He writes so as to be a river, not a lake. His poetry is forthcoming in *82 Review.
Paul Green
Paul Green’s work includes ‘The Gestaltbunker - Selected Poems’ (Shearsman Books 2012), and the novels 'The Qliphoth’ (Libros Libertad 2007) and 'Beneath the Pleasure Zones I and II’ (Mandrake 2014, 2016). His plays for radio and stage are collected in ‘Babalon and Other Plays’ (Scarlet Imprint 2015). He has had poems recently published in Black Box Manifold and the Poetry ID anthology Hold Your Fire. More at his website:paulgreenwriter.co.uk
Erin Jamieson
Erin Jamieson’s writing has been published in over eighty literary magazines, including two Pushcart Prize nominations. She is the author of four poetry chapbooks, including Fairytales (Bottle Cap Press. Her debut novel (Sky of Ashes, Land of Dreams) was published by Type Eighteen Books.
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, BOOTH, Bright Flash Literary Review, Chicago Quarterly Review, and Gone Lawn. She is the editor and visual artist for the Duetsanthology and author and artist of the found poetry book PARTS. More at https://amybookwhisperer.wordpress.com.
Carol Schoder
Carol Schoder is a visual artist and writer who currently lives in the Chicago area. Carol writes poetry, prose, creative nonfiction and hybrid pieces. She enjoys painting, photography and creating one-of-a-kind artist books.
Calla Smith
Calla Smith lives and writes in Buenos Aires, Argentina. She enjoys continuing to discover all the forgotten corners of the city she has come to call home. She has published a collection of flash fiction “What Doesn’t Kill You”, and her work can also be found in several literary journals.
Jeffery Allen Tobin
Jeffery Allen Tobin is a political scientist and researcher based in South Florida. His extensive body of work primarily explores U.S. foreign policy, democracy, national security, and migration. He has been writing poetry and prose for more than 30 years.
Theodore Wallbanger
Berthed from mischievous leprechauns near technicolor shadow lands surrounding Honah Lee, Theodore Wallbanger rides mysterious sparkle railcars bursting with crunchy cotton candy clouds dispatched from slippery erotic massage vixens who rage pillow laugh hourly within a splintered transportation module that screams along butterscotch wonder tracks forming vibrations for audiences across Sugar Hill Mountain.
