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issue 101
issue 101, featuring:
COVER: mike callaghan
amber angel
abraham aondoana
seth crook
dario roberto dioli
clive donovan
david earl williams
ann marie hendry
sarah james/leavesley
j.i. kleinberg
mark w kumming
kb nelson
dr. tara zafft
COVER: mike callaghan
amber angel
abraham aondoana
seth crook
dario roberto dioli
clive donovan
david earl williams
ann marie hendry
sarah james/leavesley
j.i. kleinberg
mark w kumming
kb nelson
dr. tara zafft
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biographies - issue 101
Amber Angel
Amber (she/they) is a California-based writer and poet. Her work usually revolves around loss, heartbreak, or some wacky commentary on our modern world. She loves trying new pastries and going on long solitary walks. She is experimenting…
Abraham Aondoana
Abraham Aondoana is a writer and poet. He is a recipient of Idembeka Creative Writing Workshop 2026. His poem was shortlisted for Interwoven Anthology 2025 (Renard Press). His works has appeared in Kalahari Review, San Pedro River Review, Mayari Literature, Zoetic Press, Temple in a City Journal, Underbelly Press.
Mike Callaghan
Mike Callaghan’s work focuses on fragmentation, rearrangement and reinterpretation -- considering the intimate cycles of identity, self-preservation and mortality -- in a moment when frameworks of relationships are at once prominently visible and exhaustively
hidden. His images and poemish things have appeared in numerous publications, including ZYZZYVA, Defunkt Magazine, Barzakh, Rhino Poetry, NonBinary Review, StreetCake Magazine and The Shanghai Literary Review. Also, his work has appeared in exhibitions globally, including at Griffin Museum of Photography, Marin Museum of Contemporary Art, Soho Photo Gallery, Center for Photographic Art and PhotoIreland. Mike Callaghan earned an MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute.
Seth Crook
Seth Crook taught philosophy at various universities for a number of years. He lives on Mull, loves sea slugs. His poems have been widely published, appearing in such places as The Rialto, Magma, Butcher's Dog, Gutter, Poetry Scotland, Causeway, Poetry Salzburg Review, Pennine Platform. His concrete poetry frequently appears in Streetcake and he has a pamphlet of concrete poems "Chalked On The Path" (Dreich Press). His poems have twice been selected as "Best Scottish Poems Of The Year" by the Scottish Poetry Library.
Dario Roberto Dioli
Dario Roberto Dioli is a linear and visual poet, asemic writer and dada performer. In 2024 he published a bilingual book of poetry titled “Ciò che rimane del niente/ Ce Rāmāne din nimic” (Cosmopoli/Eikon, Bacau, Romania) and a visual chapbook titled “They are coming” (Paper view books, Leiria, Portugal). Together with his wife Zewditu under the name Legesse they joined Guido Oldani's “Realismo terminale” poetry movement during Book City Milano 2024 and also under the name Asatami Legesse Edizioni they mainly publish linear and visual poetry. You can find several of his contributions in Italy, the United States, France, Austria and the United Kingdom. Instagram and Facebook: Dario Roberto Dioli.
Ann Marie Hendry
Ann Marie Hendry writes dark stories, particularly contemporary Gothic fiction. She lives in the Scottish Borders. @quiteoutdoorsy
J.I. Kleinberg
J.I. Kleinberg lives in Bellingham, Washington, USA. Chapbooks of her visual poems, How to pronounce the wind (Paper View Books) and Desire’s Authority (Ravenna Press Triple Series No. 23), were published in 2023; a full-length volume, She needs the river (Poem Atlas), was published in 2024.
Sarah James/Leveasley
Sarah James/Leavesley is a poet, fiction writer, journalist and photographer. Her latest collections are Darling Blue (Indigo Dreams, 2025), which won the Geoff Stevens Memorial Poetry Prize 2024, and Blood Sugar, Sex, Magic (Verve Poetry Press 2022). Website: www.sarah-james.co.uk.
Mark W Kumming
Mark is a former English/ESL teacher. He promotes poetry at the St. Louis Poetry Center and The Babler Poetry Society. His poem, Breakfast, was a finalist for the James H. Nash Poetry Contest sponsored by The St. Louis Poetry Center in 2024. His work has also appeared in The Cape Rock Journal, MainSqueeze Magazine, JackDaw Haiku, The Main Street Rag and forthcoming in The Lily Poetry Review.
KB Nelson
KB Nelson is a Rhysling-nominated writer of poetry and speculative fiction. Her poems have appeared in over two dozen journals. Her chapbook Muse of Natural History was published in June 2021. KB has resided from coast to coast in Canada, in Arizona, and in New Zealand. She currently lives, writes, and hikes the beaches and forests on B.C.’s Sunshine Coast.
David Earl Williams
David Earl Williams is The Absurdilachian, a writer of absurdist anti-dada dadaist poetry for sure as hell rollin' in the aisles, barkin' at the moon, screechin' in p.h.d.-ese dada-dogmatic times. To learn more about The Absurdilachian simply Google: David Earl Williams poetry. You'll find poems, reviews, links to his 2! collections and the presses that host him.
Dr. Tara Zafft
Dr. Tara Zafft, writer and educator, is most recently Winner of the Moonlit Getaway Poetry Prize. Her work has appeared in Rumors, Secrets and Lies, Poems about Abortion, Pregnancy and Choice, Aether Avenue Press, The San Diego Poetry Annual, Vita and the Woolf Literary Journal, and Dumbo Press. Tara holds a BA in Russian Literature from UC San Diego and a Ph.D. in Modern Languages from the University of Bath, UK. Her work explores themes of motherhood, belonging, war, and personal and collective trauma.
Amber Angel
Amber (she/they) is a California-based writer and poet. Her work usually revolves around loss, heartbreak, or some wacky commentary on our modern world. She loves trying new pastries and going on long solitary walks. She is experimenting…
Abraham Aondoana
Abraham Aondoana is a writer and poet. He is a recipient of Idembeka Creative Writing Workshop 2026. His poem was shortlisted for Interwoven Anthology 2025 (Renard Press). His works has appeared in Kalahari Review, San Pedro River Review, Mayari Literature, Zoetic Press, Temple in a City Journal, Underbelly Press.
Mike Callaghan
Mike Callaghan’s work focuses on fragmentation, rearrangement and reinterpretation -- considering the intimate cycles of identity, self-preservation and mortality -- in a moment when frameworks of relationships are at once prominently visible and exhaustively
hidden. His images and poemish things have appeared in numerous publications, including ZYZZYVA, Defunkt Magazine, Barzakh, Rhino Poetry, NonBinary Review, StreetCake Magazine and The Shanghai Literary Review. Also, his work has appeared in exhibitions globally, including at Griffin Museum of Photography, Marin Museum of Contemporary Art, Soho Photo Gallery, Center for Photographic Art and PhotoIreland. Mike Callaghan earned an MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute.
Seth Crook
Seth Crook taught philosophy at various universities for a number of years. He lives on Mull, loves sea slugs. His poems have been widely published, appearing in such places as The Rialto, Magma, Butcher's Dog, Gutter, Poetry Scotland, Causeway, Poetry Salzburg Review, Pennine Platform. His concrete poetry frequently appears in Streetcake and he has a pamphlet of concrete poems "Chalked On The Path" (Dreich Press). His poems have twice been selected as "Best Scottish Poems Of The Year" by the Scottish Poetry Library.
Dario Roberto Dioli
Dario Roberto Dioli is a linear and visual poet, asemic writer and dada performer. In 2024 he published a bilingual book of poetry titled “Ciò che rimane del niente/ Ce Rāmāne din nimic” (Cosmopoli/Eikon, Bacau, Romania) and a visual chapbook titled “They are coming” (Paper view books, Leiria, Portugal). Together with his wife Zewditu under the name Legesse they joined Guido Oldani's “Realismo terminale” poetry movement during Book City Milano 2024 and also under the name Asatami Legesse Edizioni they mainly publish linear and visual poetry. You can find several of his contributions in Italy, the United States, France, Austria and the United Kingdom. Instagram and Facebook: Dario Roberto Dioli.
Ann Marie Hendry
Ann Marie Hendry writes dark stories, particularly contemporary Gothic fiction. She lives in the Scottish Borders. @quiteoutdoorsy
J.I. Kleinberg
J.I. Kleinberg lives in Bellingham, Washington, USA. Chapbooks of her visual poems, How to pronounce the wind (Paper View Books) and Desire’s Authority (Ravenna Press Triple Series No. 23), were published in 2023; a full-length volume, She needs the river (Poem Atlas), was published in 2024.
Sarah James/Leveasley
Sarah James/Leavesley is a poet, fiction writer, journalist and photographer. Her latest collections are Darling Blue (Indigo Dreams, 2025), which won the Geoff Stevens Memorial Poetry Prize 2024, and Blood Sugar, Sex, Magic (Verve Poetry Press 2022). Website: www.sarah-james.co.uk.
Mark W Kumming
Mark is a former English/ESL teacher. He promotes poetry at the St. Louis Poetry Center and The Babler Poetry Society. His poem, Breakfast, was a finalist for the James H. Nash Poetry Contest sponsored by The St. Louis Poetry Center in 2024. His work has also appeared in The Cape Rock Journal, MainSqueeze Magazine, JackDaw Haiku, The Main Street Rag and forthcoming in The Lily Poetry Review.
KB Nelson
KB Nelson is a Rhysling-nominated writer of poetry and speculative fiction. Her poems have appeared in over two dozen journals. Her chapbook Muse of Natural History was published in June 2021. KB has resided from coast to coast in Canada, in Arizona, and in New Zealand. She currently lives, writes, and hikes the beaches and forests on B.C.’s Sunshine Coast.
David Earl Williams
David Earl Williams is The Absurdilachian, a writer of absurdist anti-dada dadaist poetry for sure as hell rollin' in the aisles, barkin' at the moon, screechin' in p.h.d.-ese dada-dogmatic times. To learn more about The Absurdilachian simply Google: David Earl Williams poetry. You'll find poems, reviews, links to his 2! collections and the presses that host him.
Dr. Tara Zafft
Dr. Tara Zafft, writer and educator, is most recently Winner of the Moonlit Getaway Poetry Prize. Her work has appeared in Rumors, Secrets and Lies, Poems about Abortion, Pregnancy and Choice, Aether Avenue Press, The San Diego Poetry Annual, Vita and the Woolf Literary Journal, and Dumbo Press. Tara holds a BA in Russian Literature from UC San Diego and a Ph.D. in Modern Languages from the University of Bath, UK. Her work explores themes of motherhood, belonging, war, and personal and collective trauma.
