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issue 78 - part 1
part 1, featuring:
briony hughes (cover) galia admoni j. archer avary jane ayres lorelei bacht charley barnes atlas booth chris campbell seth crook kristin entler teo eve teddy l. friedline sylee gore nancy jorgensen richard kitchen |
issue 78 - part 2
part 2, featuring:
dave read (cover) james knight alex law amy marques steph morris lindy newns k.a. nielsen jamie ottewell michał kamil piotrowski paridhi poddar alicia j rouverol sylvia santiago mims sully amanda williams phil wood |
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biographies - issue 78
Galia Admoni
Galia Admoni is a writer, musician, crafter, and Head of English, media and film at a school in London. She has been published in Bad Lilies, Atrium, Dear Reader, Streetcake and is forthcoming in Anthropocene magazine and Zero Readers. She has also featured on Eat the Storms poetry podcast. She has lectured at the Shakespeare Institute, BFI, British Library and is on the committee for the London Association for the Teaching of English. Follow her on Twitter @galiamelon
J. Archer Avary
J. Archer Avary (he/him) is a Pushcart prize nominated poet. His debut poetry collection Reverse Into Space is set for a May 2022 release via Alien Buddha Press. He lives on South Tyneside with his wife. Twitter: @j_archer_avary
Jane Ayers
UK neurodivergent writer, Jane Ayres completed a Creative Writing MA at the University of Kent in 2019 aged 57. In 2021, she was nominated for Best of the Net, shortlisted for the Aesthetica Creative Writing Award and a Laurence Sterne Prize winner. Her first collection 'edible' is published by Beir Bua Press in July 2022.
Lorelei Bacht
Lorelei Bacht enjoys tinkering with words. Sometimes, beauty happens. Some recent / upcoming work in Harpy Hybrid Review, Beir Bua, Backslash Lit, Sinking City, Mercurius, The Selkie, Abridged and elsewhere. Also on Twitter: @bachtlorelei and on Instagram: @lorelei.bacht.writer
Dr Charley Barnes
Dr Charley Barnes is a lecturer in Creative and Professional Writing at the University of Wolverhampton. She has published a number of solo and collaborative poetry works, most recently 'Myth | Woman' that she co-authored with Claire Walker. Charley also writes crime fiction under the name of Charlotte. Her most recent novel is psychological suspense work titled The Things I Didn't Do.
Atlas Booth
Atlas Booth is a writer from Cape Town, South Africa. He enjoys all kinds of different tea's and cold brew coffee. For more information on his work, visit his website: https://atlaslb.carrd.co/
Chris Campbell
Chris Campbell is a former journalist living in Bristol. His latest collection, ‘White Eye of the Needle’, is published through The Choir Press. Chris recently won Portico Library’s ‘Poetry Prize’ and his poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Dreich, Green Ink Poetry, The Dawntreader and Lothlorien Poetry Journal. He’s on Twitter @Citizen_Chris, or visit www.chriscampbellpoetry.co.uk.
Seth Crook
Seth Crook is transitioning into a seal. His poems have appeared in such places as The Rialto, Magma, Gutter, Pennine Platform, Northwords Now, Poetry Scotland, Poetry Salzburg, Dreich. In e-zines such as Streetcake and Tentacular. In recent anthologies such as The SHOp: An Anthology (Liffey), A470 (Arachne Press), The Centenary Collection (Speculative Books), Places of Poetry (One World). He has a pamphlet of visual poems Chalked On The Path (Dreich).
Kristin Entler
Kristin Entler was diagnosed with cystic fibrosis at 6 months old, and first came out as LGBT+ several years after her diabetes diagnosis at 12 years old. She currently serves as Poetry Editor for NELLE and lives with her partner and their dog, Azzie, who maintains that he gets all his stubbornness from both his parents. Entler’s work has appeared or is forthcoming in publications such as The Bitter Southerner, Hobart, Gulf Stream Literary Magazine, and Poet Lore among others. She can be found on twitter @findmycure
Teo Eve
Teo is a poet and fiction writer based between Nottingham and London. Teo sits on Full House Literary Mag's reading team, and edited and published Writing Notts 2021: An Anthology of Nottinghamshire Poetry for Silly Goose Press. Teo's debut experimental poetry collection, The Ox House, is forthcoming from Penteract Press in July 2022.
Teddy L. Friedline
Teddy L. Friedline is a queer writer. Their work has appeared in the lickety~split, Yes Poetry, Pigeon Review, and elsewhere. They are co-founder and co-editor-in-chief of FAIRY PIECE MAG. You can find them on Instagram and on Twitter, both @jadeitebtrdish
Sylee Gore
Sylee Gore is a poet who works with image and text. This spring, she is leading generative workshops on archival photographs in artist books and on the garden in twenty-first century US poetry. She recently won the Bird in Your Hands Prize, judged by Raquel Gutiérrez.
Briony Hughes
Briony Hughes is a poet, visiting tutor, and PhD candidate based at Royal Holloway, researching hydropoetics. Briony also teaches on the Creative Writing MA programme at Brunel University. Her publications include Dorothy (Broken Sleep Books), Microsporidial (Sampson Low), and RHIZOME or TAPROOT (Paper View), and she has two additional publications forthcoming in 2023. Her limited edition bookworks have been collected by the National Poetry Library, Senate House Library, and the Kings College London Special Collections. She is editor at Osmosis Press.
Nancy Jorgensen
Nancy Jorgensen is a Wisconsin writer and musician. Her memoir, “Go, Gwen, Go: A Family's Journey to Olympic Gold,” is co-authored with daughter Elizabeth Jorgensen and published by Meyer & Meyer Sport. Her choral education books are published by Hal Leonard Corporation and Heritage Music Press. Other works appear at Ruminate, Prime Number Magazine, River Teeth, Wisconsin Public Radio, CHEAP POP, Brevity blog, and elsewhere. Find out more at NancyJorgensen.weebly.com
Richard Kitchen
Richard Kitchen is a London-born artist and writer. He taught literature and theatre in East Anglia and Spain before settling in York. His cross-disciplinary practice is fuelled by drawings, paintings, photography and poetry. He’s also a freelance editor and proofreader, and an interest in text creeps into much of his creative work. He’s a co-founder of Navigators Art, which, among other activities, has provided mentorship in York for young emerging artists (@navigatorsart on Instagram and Facebook). You can also find Richard on Instagram @richardkitchenart
James Knight
James Knight is a writer and artist. Recent publications include Rites & Passages (Salò Press), Bloods Dream (Beir Bua Press) and The Murderer Threatened (Paper View Books). He runs Steel Incisors, a small press dedicated to innovative visual poetry. Twitter: @badbadpoet. Website: thebirdking.com. Instagram: @jkbirdking
Alex Law
Alex Law (he/him) is a lawyer in New York. His dogs, Wax and Zisel, like him very much. He has a few stories scattered around the Internet, but the one he thinks you should read, aside from this one of course, is "The Far Away Place" in The Plentitudes Journal. Say hi at @AlexLawNJ.
Amy Marques
Amy Marques grew up between languages and cultures and learned, from an early age, the multiplicity of narratives. She penned three children’s books, barely read medical papers, and numerous letters before turning to short fiction. Her writing has been published internationally in numerous journals including Star82 Review, Flying South, Streetcake Magazine, and Across the Margin. Her work has also been anthologized in Branching Out: Brilliant Flash Fiction Anthology, and she was shortlisted for the Fractured Lit micro competition. You can read more of her words at https://amybookwhisperer.wordpress.com
Steph Morris
Steph Morris' pamphlet Please don’t trample us; we are trying to grow! is published by Fair Acre Press. His poems have also been published in Rialto, Ambit, Ink Sweat & Tears, Under the Radar, various anthologies and gardens. In 2021 he was awarded a DYCP grant for his visual poetry, seen in Beir Bua Journal, the 2021 Streetcake Anthology and on various walls.
Lindy Newns
Lindy Newns lives in Manchester, U.K. She has been shortlisted for several playwriting awards and poetry competitions and has won the Fresher prize for poetry. Her poetry and flash fiction has appeared in Orbis, Acumen, Riggwelter, L’Ephemere, Popshot, and various anthologies including Poems for Grenfell.
K.A. Nielsen
K.A. Nielsen (she/they) is a U.S. writer living in Sweden. Their work is published or forthcoming in Fusion Fragment, The Hunger, LandLocked, Sledgehammer Lit, Janus Literary and elsewhere. They are on the internet: www.kanielsen.net and @_kanielsen_
Jamie Ottewell
Jamie Ottewell is a twenty-year-old third year poetry student at the University of Lincoln, UK. They have been interested in visual, asemic and experimental poetry from the start of their poetry journey. Some of their visual poetry is displayed online at "The Abandoned Playground".
Michał Kamil Piotrowski
Michał Kamil Piotrowski is a visual poet, text artist, and curator living and working in London. He writes experimental, visual, and technology-powered poetry. He enjoys making poetry interactive and he mostly works with found text. The themes he explores the most are technology, politics, love, and mental illnesses. His interactive book The Cursory Remix (2021, Contraband Books) has been co-written by Google Translate.
Paridhi Poddar
Paridhi Poddar (she/her) is an eighteen-year-old student and aspiring poet from Kolkata, India. Her work has previously appeared in Pop the Culture Pill, Ayaskala, orangepeel, Gulmohur Quarterly, and elsewhere. It is also upcoming in celestite poetry and Tabula Rasa Review. You can read more of her work at https://linktr.ee/Paridhi_Poddar
Dave Read
Dave Read is a Canadian poet living in Calgary. His chapbook of asemic writing, Notebook, is available from Paper View Press. His work can be found on his blog davereadpoetry.blogspot.com
Alicia J. Rouverol
Her fiction, nonfiction and poetry have appeared in Manchester Review, Cicatrice, Route 57, The Wandering Bard, Dandelion Review, The Puckerbrush Review, Island Journal, extimacy, The Independent, The Monitor and The Manchester Anthology, with poems long listed for Magma and shortlisted for Butcher’s Dog Poetry. She is co-author of ‘I Was Content and Not Content’: The Story of Linda Lord and the Closing of Penobscot Poultry. She was a 2019 inaugural Artist in Residence at The John Rylands Library. She currently lectures in creative writing at the University of Salford.
Sylvia Santiago
Sylvia Santiago is a writer, insomniac, and erstwhile children’s librarian. Her work appears or is forthcoming in several journals including Crow & Cross Keys, Ellipsis Zine, Honey Literary, and Janus Literary. Find her on Twitter @sylviasays2
Mims Sully
Mims Sully is from Sussex. Her poems have been published or are forthcoming in numerous magazines both in print and online including Prole, Ink, Sweat and Tears, Obsessed with Pipework, Strix, Visual Verse and Popshot. She is currently putting together a pamphlet of poems about dementia inspired by her experience of looking after her mother.
Amanda Williams
Amanda Williams is a neurodivergent American writer, poet, and late bloomer. Her work appears in Hecate Magazine, The Levatio, Neuro Logical, and elsewhere. She lives in the UK with her husband and puppy. Follow her on Twitter @amandainengland.
Phil Wood
Phil Wood was born in Wales He has worked in statistics, education, shipping, and a biscuit factory. His writing can be found in various places, including : The Wild Word, Kleksograph,and a collaboration with John Winder at Fevers of the Mind https://feversofthemind.com/2022/01/05/photo-poetry-from-phil-wood-poet-and-john-winder-photography/
Galia Admoni
Galia Admoni is a writer, musician, crafter, and Head of English, media and film at a school in London. She has been published in Bad Lilies, Atrium, Dear Reader, Streetcake and is forthcoming in Anthropocene magazine and Zero Readers. She has also featured on Eat the Storms poetry podcast. She has lectured at the Shakespeare Institute, BFI, British Library and is on the committee for the London Association for the Teaching of English. Follow her on Twitter @galiamelon
J. Archer Avary
J. Archer Avary (he/him) is a Pushcart prize nominated poet. His debut poetry collection Reverse Into Space is set for a May 2022 release via Alien Buddha Press. He lives on South Tyneside with his wife. Twitter: @j_archer_avary
Jane Ayers
UK neurodivergent writer, Jane Ayres completed a Creative Writing MA at the University of Kent in 2019 aged 57. In 2021, she was nominated for Best of the Net, shortlisted for the Aesthetica Creative Writing Award and a Laurence Sterne Prize winner. Her first collection 'edible' is published by Beir Bua Press in July 2022.
Lorelei Bacht
Lorelei Bacht enjoys tinkering with words. Sometimes, beauty happens. Some recent / upcoming work in Harpy Hybrid Review, Beir Bua, Backslash Lit, Sinking City, Mercurius, The Selkie, Abridged and elsewhere. Also on Twitter: @bachtlorelei and on Instagram: @lorelei.bacht.writer
Dr Charley Barnes
Dr Charley Barnes is a lecturer in Creative and Professional Writing at the University of Wolverhampton. She has published a number of solo and collaborative poetry works, most recently 'Myth | Woman' that she co-authored with Claire Walker. Charley also writes crime fiction under the name of Charlotte. Her most recent novel is psychological suspense work titled The Things I Didn't Do.
Atlas Booth
Atlas Booth is a writer from Cape Town, South Africa. He enjoys all kinds of different tea's and cold brew coffee. For more information on his work, visit his website: https://atlaslb.carrd.co/
Chris Campbell
Chris Campbell is a former journalist living in Bristol. His latest collection, ‘White Eye of the Needle’, is published through The Choir Press. Chris recently won Portico Library’s ‘Poetry Prize’ and his poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Dreich, Green Ink Poetry, The Dawntreader and Lothlorien Poetry Journal. He’s on Twitter @Citizen_Chris, or visit www.chriscampbellpoetry.co.uk.
Seth Crook
Seth Crook is transitioning into a seal. His poems have appeared in such places as The Rialto, Magma, Gutter, Pennine Platform, Northwords Now, Poetry Scotland, Poetry Salzburg, Dreich. In e-zines such as Streetcake and Tentacular. In recent anthologies such as The SHOp: An Anthology (Liffey), A470 (Arachne Press), The Centenary Collection (Speculative Books), Places of Poetry (One World). He has a pamphlet of visual poems Chalked On The Path (Dreich).
Kristin Entler
Kristin Entler was diagnosed with cystic fibrosis at 6 months old, and first came out as LGBT+ several years after her diabetes diagnosis at 12 years old. She currently serves as Poetry Editor for NELLE and lives with her partner and their dog, Azzie, who maintains that he gets all his stubbornness from both his parents. Entler’s work has appeared or is forthcoming in publications such as The Bitter Southerner, Hobart, Gulf Stream Literary Magazine, and Poet Lore among others. She can be found on twitter @findmycure
Teo Eve
Teo is a poet and fiction writer based between Nottingham and London. Teo sits on Full House Literary Mag's reading team, and edited and published Writing Notts 2021: An Anthology of Nottinghamshire Poetry for Silly Goose Press. Teo's debut experimental poetry collection, The Ox House, is forthcoming from Penteract Press in July 2022.
Teddy L. Friedline
Teddy L. Friedline is a queer writer. Their work has appeared in the lickety~split, Yes Poetry, Pigeon Review, and elsewhere. They are co-founder and co-editor-in-chief of FAIRY PIECE MAG. You can find them on Instagram and on Twitter, both @jadeitebtrdish
Sylee Gore
Sylee Gore is a poet who works with image and text. This spring, she is leading generative workshops on archival photographs in artist books and on the garden in twenty-first century US poetry. She recently won the Bird in Your Hands Prize, judged by Raquel Gutiérrez.
Briony Hughes
Briony Hughes is a poet, visiting tutor, and PhD candidate based at Royal Holloway, researching hydropoetics. Briony also teaches on the Creative Writing MA programme at Brunel University. Her publications include Dorothy (Broken Sleep Books), Microsporidial (Sampson Low), and RHIZOME or TAPROOT (Paper View), and she has two additional publications forthcoming in 2023. Her limited edition bookworks have been collected by the National Poetry Library, Senate House Library, and the Kings College London Special Collections. She is editor at Osmosis Press.
Nancy Jorgensen
Nancy Jorgensen is a Wisconsin writer and musician. Her memoir, “Go, Gwen, Go: A Family's Journey to Olympic Gold,” is co-authored with daughter Elizabeth Jorgensen and published by Meyer & Meyer Sport. Her choral education books are published by Hal Leonard Corporation and Heritage Music Press. Other works appear at Ruminate, Prime Number Magazine, River Teeth, Wisconsin Public Radio, CHEAP POP, Brevity blog, and elsewhere. Find out more at NancyJorgensen.weebly.com
Richard Kitchen
Richard Kitchen is a London-born artist and writer. He taught literature and theatre in East Anglia and Spain before settling in York. His cross-disciplinary practice is fuelled by drawings, paintings, photography and poetry. He’s also a freelance editor and proofreader, and an interest in text creeps into much of his creative work. He’s a co-founder of Navigators Art, which, among other activities, has provided mentorship in York for young emerging artists (@navigatorsart on Instagram and Facebook). You can also find Richard on Instagram @richardkitchenart
James Knight
James Knight is a writer and artist. Recent publications include Rites & Passages (Salò Press), Bloods Dream (Beir Bua Press) and The Murderer Threatened (Paper View Books). He runs Steel Incisors, a small press dedicated to innovative visual poetry. Twitter: @badbadpoet. Website: thebirdking.com. Instagram: @jkbirdking
Alex Law
Alex Law (he/him) is a lawyer in New York. His dogs, Wax and Zisel, like him very much. He has a few stories scattered around the Internet, but the one he thinks you should read, aside from this one of course, is "The Far Away Place" in The Plentitudes Journal. Say hi at @AlexLawNJ.
Amy Marques
Amy Marques grew up between languages and cultures and learned, from an early age, the multiplicity of narratives. She penned three children’s books, barely read medical papers, and numerous letters before turning to short fiction. Her writing has been published internationally in numerous journals including Star82 Review, Flying South, Streetcake Magazine, and Across the Margin. Her work has also been anthologized in Branching Out: Brilliant Flash Fiction Anthology, and she was shortlisted for the Fractured Lit micro competition. You can read more of her words at https://amybookwhisperer.wordpress.com
Steph Morris
Steph Morris' pamphlet Please don’t trample us; we are trying to grow! is published by Fair Acre Press. His poems have also been published in Rialto, Ambit, Ink Sweat & Tears, Under the Radar, various anthologies and gardens. In 2021 he was awarded a DYCP grant for his visual poetry, seen in Beir Bua Journal, the 2021 Streetcake Anthology and on various walls.
Lindy Newns
Lindy Newns lives in Manchester, U.K. She has been shortlisted for several playwriting awards and poetry competitions and has won the Fresher prize for poetry. Her poetry and flash fiction has appeared in Orbis, Acumen, Riggwelter, L’Ephemere, Popshot, and various anthologies including Poems for Grenfell.
K.A. Nielsen
K.A. Nielsen (she/they) is a U.S. writer living in Sweden. Their work is published or forthcoming in Fusion Fragment, The Hunger, LandLocked, Sledgehammer Lit, Janus Literary and elsewhere. They are on the internet: www.kanielsen.net and @_kanielsen_
Jamie Ottewell
Jamie Ottewell is a twenty-year-old third year poetry student at the University of Lincoln, UK. They have been interested in visual, asemic and experimental poetry from the start of their poetry journey. Some of their visual poetry is displayed online at "The Abandoned Playground".
Michał Kamil Piotrowski
Michał Kamil Piotrowski is a visual poet, text artist, and curator living and working in London. He writes experimental, visual, and technology-powered poetry. He enjoys making poetry interactive and he mostly works with found text. The themes he explores the most are technology, politics, love, and mental illnesses. His interactive book The Cursory Remix (2021, Contraband Books) has been co-written by Google Translate.
Paridhi Poddar
Paridhi Poddar (she/her) is an eighteen-year-old student and aspiring poet from Kolkata, India. Her work has previously appeared in Pop the Culture Pill, Ayaskala, orangepeel, Gulmohur Quarterly, and elsewhere. It is also upcoming in celestite poetry and Tabula Rasa Review. You can read more of her work at https://linktr.ee/Paridhi_Poddar
Dave Read
Dave Read is a Canadian poet living in Calgary. His chapbook of asemic writing, Notebook, is available from Paper View Press. His work can be found on his blog davereadpoetry.blogspot.com
Alicia J. Rouverol
Her fiction, nonfiction and poetry have appeared in Manchester Review, Cicatrice, Route 57, The Wandering Bard, Dandelion Review, The Puckerbrush Review, Island Journal, extimacy, The Independent, The Monitor and The Manchester Anthology, with poems long listed for Magma and shortlisted for Butcher’s Dog Poetry. She is co-author of ‘I Was Content and Not Content’: The Story of Linda Lord and the Closing of Penobscot Poultry. She was a 2019 inaugural Artist in Residence at The John Rylands Library. She currently lectures in creative writing at the University of Salford.
Sylvia Santiago
Sylvia Santiago is a writer, insomniac, and erstwhile children’s librarian. Her work appears or is forthcoming in several journals including Crow & Cross Keys, Ellipsis Zine, Honey Literary, and Janus Literary. Find her on Twitter @sylviasays2
Mims Sully
Mims Sully is from Sussex. Her poems have been published or are forthcoming in numerous magazines both in print and online including Prole, Ink, Sweat and Tears, Obsessed with Pipework, Strix, Visual Verse and Popshot. She is currently putting together a pamphlet of poems about dementia inspired by her experience of looking after her mother.
Amanda Williams
Amanda Williams is a neurodivergent American writer, poet, and late bloomer. Her work appears in Hecate Magazine, The Levatio, Neuro Logical, and elsewhere. She lives in the UK with her husband and puppy. Follow her on Twitter @amandainengland.
Phil Wood
Phil Wood was born in Wales He has worked in statistics, education, shipping, and a biscuit factory. His writing can be found in various places, including : The Wild Word, Kleksograph,and a collaboration with John Winder at Fevers of the Mind https://feversofthemind.com/2022/01/05/photo-poetry-from-phil-wood-poet-and-john-winder-photography/
