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issue 70 - part 2
part 2, featuring:
lorette c. luzajic alyssa jordan andrew kaye linda king james knight marlena maduro baraf louise mather d rudd-mitchell jlm morton rachel neithercut sonia overall ann pedone alex wells shapiro pippa sterk mariah whelan |
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biographies - issue 70
PART 1
Kristine Snodgrass
Kristine’s asemic and vispo work has been published in Utsanga (Italy), Slow Forward and featured in Asemic Front 2 (AF2), South Florida Poetry Journal, Voices de la Luna, Brave New Word, and Talking About Strawberries. She is a poet, artist, publisher, and professor living in Tallahassee, Florida USA. More on Kristine at www.kristinesnodgrass. com
Fizza Abbas
Fizza Abbas is a Freelance Content Writer based in Karachi, Pakistan. She is fond of poetry and music. Her works have been
published on quite a few platforms including Poetry Village and Poetry Pacific.
Phoebe Anson
Phoebe Anson is a third year university student currently studying English literature. She creates poetry both in her spare time
and on her course. Her poem '[emote]' was published in the August issue of streetcake Magazine.
Cleo Asabre-Holt
Cleo is also a poet who has performed across the region, in London and internationally. Her work explores relationships, mental health, childhood, and the urge to dance. She’s supported Lemn Sissay, Hollie McNish and Roger McGough, and was a finalist in the search for Nottingham’s Young Poet Laureate. She is currently freelancing and was formerly in editorial roles at Trigger Publishing and LeftLion Magazine.
Nora Blascsok
Nora Blascsok is a Hungarian poet based in Brighton. Her most recent poems can be found in Harana Poetry, Dust Magazine
and the Babel Tower Notice Board.
Ruth Callaghan Do Valle
Ruth Callaghan do Valle occasionally finds time to think during her daughter's naptimes. She writes in English with forays into Portuguese, and lives in small-town rural Brazil with her husband and toddler. You can find Ruth's spoken word on Instagram (@mctoofus) and sporadic posts about life in Brazil on her blog (https://brazilfromtheoutsidein.wordpress.com/)
Richard A Carter
Richard A Carter is an artist and lecturer in Digital Media. Carter’s academic and creative practice investigates the potentialities
of seeing, knowing, and writing at the intersection between human and machinic actors.
Seth Crook
Seth Crook is transitioning into a seal. His poems have appeared in such places as The Rialto, Magma, Envoi, The Interpreter's House. And in recent anthologies such as Places of Poetry (One World), Declarations (Scotland Street). His word-visual poems have
appeared in streetcake, Dreich, The Projectionist's Playground, Selcouth Station, Cerasus Poetry, and The Centenary Collection (Speculative).
Emma Dakeyne
New mum. Newer poet. Inspired by her 1 year-old daughter, comedy and outer space.
Tassa Deparis
Tassa Deparis is Indonesian born, and raised in London. She studied the MA Writing for Performance and Dramaturgy at Goldsmiths University, then moved to Berlin where her debut play This Wall was produced at English Theatre Berlin. After becoming a mother, she wrote The Daughter Abroad, which premiered at Theatre503 after an open callout. In London, she has had her work performed at Room Festival, ArtsDepot, and readings as part of the Scene Gym and Park Theatre programmes. She also works with children and community groups as a Creative Practitioner with New Wolsey Theatre, Ipswich, and as a teacher.
Connor Fisher
Connor Fisher is the author of the chapbooks The Hinge (Epigraph Magazine, 2018) and Speculative Geography (Greying Ghost Press, forthcoming 2020). He has an MFA from the University of Colorado at Boulder and a Ph.D. in Creative Writing and English from the University of Georgia. His poetry and reviews have appeared or are forthcoming in Typo, the Colorado Review, Tammy, Posit, Cloud Rodeo, and the Denver Quarterly.
Darcy May Gillam
Darcy May Gillham is a poet and MFA student living in Manchester. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in bath magg,
Lemon Curd, WriteOutLoud, SPOONFEED and Seiren.
Niamh Haran
Niamh Haran is a queer non-binary poet based in London. They are an English Undergraduate at King's College London and
member of The Roundhouse Poetry Collective. Some of their poems appear or are forthcoming in Perverse, The Interpreter's House, The Babel Tower Notice Board and Abridged among others.
Max Henninger
Max Henninger is a translator and writer based in Berlin. His novel Strange Dreams is forthcoming from Dr. Cicero Books.
Louise Heywood
Louise is a northern writer with a special interest in fantasy and horror. The visual aspects to writing is of particular interest to Louise. She loves to be able to really visualise an image created through words, which led her to develop a visual text style of poetry
whilst studying her degree in English Language and Creative Writing at Salford University. After graduating during the lock down, Louise has continued her writing and her experimentation with this style.
Charlie Hill
Charlie Hill lives in Birmingham and writes novels, short stories and memoir.
Paul Ilechko
Paul Ilechko is the author of the chapbooks “Bartok in Winter” (Flutter Press) and “Graph of Life” (Finishing Line Press). His work
has appeared in a variety of journals, including Juxtaprose, As It Ought To Be, Cathexis Northwest Press, Thin Air Magazine and Pithead Chapel. He lives with his partner in Lambertville, NJ.
PART 2
Lorette C. Luzajic
Lorette C. Luzajic loves collage and art history, watching flamenco, orange cats, Greek salad, banana bread, Schitt's Creek,
ekphrastic poetry, and long walks. Visit her at www.mixedupmedia.ca
Alyssa Jordan
Alyssa Jordan is a writer living in the United States. She pens literary horoscopes for F(r)iction Series. Her stories can be found or are forthcoming in The Sunlight Press, X–R-A-Y Literary Magazine, LEON Literary Review, and more. You can find her on Twitter @ajordan901 or Instagram @ajordanwriter.
Andrew Kaye
Andrew Kaye is a writer, teacher and coach. His queer writing has been published by Untitled Writing, Clavmag and Mechanic's Institute Review. He's a self-confessed genealogy geek and currently writing a memoir on donating a kidney to his Dad. He blogs
on culture, travel and politics at www.andrewkaufman.co.uk and is nostalgic for European city breaks.
(He/him/his)
@JKaye82
Linda King
Linda King is the author of five poetry collections including Reality Wayfarers (Shoe Music Press, 2014) and antibodies in the alphabet (BlazeVOX Books, 2019) Her work has appeared in numerous literary journals in Canada and internationally. She has been
nominated for Best of the Net and also for the Pushcart Prize.
King lives and writes on The Sunshine Coast of British Columbia, Canada.
James Knight
James Knight is an experimental poet and digital artist. His books include Void Voices (Hesterglock Press), Self Portrait by Night (Sampson Low), Chimera (Penteract Press) and Machine (Trickhouse Press). Website: thebirdking.com. Twitter: twitter.com/badbadpoet
Marlena Maduro Baraf
Marlena Maduro Baraf is author of the memoir, At the Narrow Waist of the World. She immigrated to the United States from her native Panama. Her stories, essays and poems have been featured or are forthcoming in Ms. Magazine, Sweet Lit, Lumina, HuffPost, the Ekphrastic Review, 2 Horatio, On the Seawall, Night Heron Barks, and others. Visit her at www.marlenamadurobaraf.com
Louise Mather
Louise Mather is a writer and poet from Northern England. You can find her on Twitter @lm2020uk and her
work/upcoming work in The Cabinet of Heed, Versification, Crow & Cross Keys and Idle Ink.
D Rudd-Mitchell
D Rudd-Mitchell is a Slough based occasional Poet, writer and photographer. His work has previously appeared in magazines including Black Bough, BLER, Projectionists Playground, Re-side and Zen Space.
JLM Morton
JLM Morton is a poet based in Gloucestershire. Her debut pamphlet, Lake 32, is out with Yew Tree Press.
Rachel Neithercut
Rachel lives with her partner and two-year-old daughter in the Peak District, where they are surrounded by mountains, books,
and mountains of books. She was selected for MumWrite 2020, which has introduced her to the pleasures of experimental writing. Her work has recently been published in Lucky Pierre Zine and Selcouth Station.
Sonia Overall
Dr Sonia Overall is a writer, psychogeographer and Senior Lecturer at Canterbury Christ Church University, where she runs the MA
in Creative Writing. Her publications include the novels A Likeness and The Realm of Shells, and the poetry collection The Art of Walking. She has two forthcoming books on walking and writing, due for publication in 2021.
Ann Pedone
Ann Pedone graduated from Bard College with a degree in English and has a Master’s Degree in Chinese Language and Literature from UC Berkeley. Ann is the author of the chapbook The Bird Happened, and the forth-coming chapbook perhaps there is a sky we don’t know about: a re-imagining of sappho. Her work has recently appeared in Riggwelter, Main Street Rag, Poet head, Cathexis Northwest, The Wax Paper, and The Phare, among others.
Alex Wells Shapiro
Alex Wells Shapiro (he/him) is a poet and artist from the Hudson Valley, living in Chicago. He reads submissions for Another Chicago Magazine and Frontier Poetry, and is a co-founder of Exhibit B: A Reading Series presented by The Guild Literary Complex. His work
is recently published or forthcoming in Blood Tree Literature, Boudin, Pangyrus, and The Indianapolis Review.
More of his work may be found at www.alexwellsshapiro.com.
Pippa Sterk
Pippa Sterk (they/she) is a mixed-race lesbian writer and researcher from the Netherlands, currently doing her PhD research at King’s College London. She often writes about sexuality, mental illness, gender norms, and dealing with a fear of spiders.
More of her writing is available at pippasterk.contently.com, and she tweets at @PippaSterk.
Mariah Whelan
Mariah is a poet from Oxford. Her 2019 collection the love i do to you was shortlisted for the Melita Hume Prize, won the AM Heath Prize and was selected as Oxford Poetry Library's Book of the Month. Mariah is the Jacqueline Bardsley Poet-in-Residence at Homerton College, The University of Cambridge. She is co-founder and editor of bath magg, a digital magazine of new poetry from established and emerging writers.
PART 1
Kristine Snodgrass
Kristine’s asemic and vispo work has been published in Utsanga (Italy), Slow Forward and featured in Asemic Front 2 (AF2), South Florida Poetry Journal, Voices de la Luna, Brave New Word, and Talking About Strawberries. She is a poet, artist, publisher, and professor living in Tallahassee, Florida USA. More on Kristine at www.kristinesnodgrass. com
Fizza Abbas
Fizza Abbas is a Freelance Content Writer based in Karachi, Pakistan. She is fond of poetry and music. Her works have been
published on quite a few platforms including Poetry Village and Poetry Pacific.
Phoebe Anson
Phoebe Anson is a third year university student currently studying English literature. She creates poetry both in her spare time
and on her course. Her poem '[emote]' was published in the August issue of streetcake Magazine.
Cleo Asabre-Holt
Cleo is also a poet who has performed across the region, in London and internationally. Her work explores relationships, mental health, childhood, and the urge to dance. She’s supported Lemn Sissay, Hollie McNish and Roger McGough, and was a finalist in the search for Nottingham’s Young Poet Laureate. She is currently freelancing and was formerly in editorial roles at Trigger Publishing and LeftLion Magazine.
Nora Blascsok
Nora Blascsok is a Hungarian poet based in Brighton. Her most recent poems can be found in Harana Poetry, Dust Magazine
and the Babel Tower Notice Board.
Ruth Callaghan Do Valle
Ruth Callaghan do Valle occasionally finds time to think during her daughter's naptimes. She writes in English with forays into Portuguese, and lives in small-town rural Brazil with her husband and toddler. You can find Ruth's spoken word on Instagram (@mctoofus) and sporadic posts about life in Brazil on her blog (https://brazilfromtheoutsidein.wordpress.com/)
Richard A Carter
Richard A Carter is an artist and lecturer in Digital Media. Carter’s academic and creative practice investigates the potentialities
of seeing, knowing, and writing at the intersection between human and machinic actors.
Seth Crook
Seth Crook is transitioning into a seal. His poems have appeared in such places as The Rialto, Magma, Envoi, The Interpreter's House. And in recent anthologies such as Places of Poetry (One World), Declarations (Scotland Street). His word-visual poems have
appeared in streetcake, Dreich, The Projectionist's Playground, Selcouth Station, Cerasus Poetry, and The Centenary Collection (Speculative).
Emma Dakeyne
New mum. Newer poet. Inspired by her 1 year-old daughter, comedy and outer space.
Tassa Deparis
Tassa Deparis is Indonesian born, and raised in London. She studied the MA Writing for Performance and Dramaturgy at Goldsmiths University, then moved to Berlin where her debut play This Wall was produced at English Theatre Berlin. After becoming a mother, she wrote The Daughter Abroad, which premiered at Theatre503 after an open callout. In London, she has had her work performed at Room Festival, ArtsDepot, and readings as part of the Scene Gym and Park Theatre programmes. She also works with children and community groups as a Creative Practitioner with New Wolsey Theatre, Ipswich, and as a teacher.
Connor Fisher
Connor Fisher is the author of the chapbooks The Hinge (Epigraph Magazine, 2018) and Speculative Geography (Greying Ghost Press, forthcoming 2020). He has an MFA from the University of Colorado at Boulder and a Ph.D. in Creative Writing and English from the University of Georgia. His poetry and reviews have appeared or are forthcoming in Typo, the Colorado Review, Tammy, Posit, Cloud Rodeo, and the Denver Quarterly.
Darcy May Gillam
Darcy May Gillham is a poet and MFA student living in Manchester. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in bath magg,
Lemon Curd, WriteOutLoud, SPOONFEED and Seiren.
Niamh Haran
Niamh Haran is a queer non-binary poet based in London. They are an English Undergraduate at King's College London and
member of The Roundhouse Poetry Collective. Some of their poems appear or are forthcoming in Perverse, The Interpreter's House, The Babel Tower Notice Board and Abridged among others.
Max Henninger
Max Henninger is a translator and writer based in Berlin. His novel Strange Dreams is forthcoming from Dr. Cicero Books.
Louise Heywood
Louise is a northern writer with a special interest in fantasy and horror. The visual aspects to writing is of particular interest to Louise. She loves to be able to really visualise an image created through words, which led her to develop a visual text style of poetry
whilst studying her degree in English Language and Creative Writing at Salford University. After graduating during the lock down, Louise has continued her writing and her experimentation with this style.
Charlie Hill
Charlie Hill lives in Birmingham and writes novels, short stories and memoir.
Paul Ilechko
Paul Ilechko is the author of the chapbooks “Bartok in Winter” (Flutter Press) and “Graph of Life” (Finishing Line Press). His work
has appeared in a variety of journals, including Juxtaprose, As It Ought To Be, Cathexis Northwest Press, Thin Air Magazine and Pithead Chapel. He lives with his partner in Lambertville, NJ.
PART 2
Lorette C. Luzajic
Lorette C. Luzajic loves collage and art history, watching flamenco, orange cats, Greek salad, banana bread, Schitt's Creek,
ekphrastic poetry, and long walks. Visit her at www.mixedupmedia.ca
Alyssa Jordan
Alyssa Jordan is a writer living in the United States. She pens literary horoscopes for F(r)iction Series. Her stories can be found or are forthcoming in The Sunlight Press, X–R-A-Y Literary Magazine, LEON Literary Review, and more. You can find her on Twitter @ajordan901 or Instagram @ajordanwriter.
Andrew Kaye
Andrew Kaye is a writer, teacher and coach. His queer writing has been published by Untitled Writing, Clavmag and Mechanic's Institute Review. He's a self-confessed genealogy geek and currently writing a memoir on donating a kidney to his Dad. He blogs
on culture, travel and politics at www.andrewkaufman.co.uk and is nostalgic for European city breaks.
(He/him/his)
@JKaye82
Linda King
Linda King is the author of five poetry collections including Reality Wayfarers (Shoe Music Press, 2014) and antibodies in the alphabet (BlazeVOX Books, 2019) Her work has appeared in numerous literary journals in Canada and internationally. She has been
nominated for Best of the Net and also for the Pushcart Prize.
King lives and writes on The Sunshine Coast of British Columbia, Canada.
James Knight
James Knight is an experimental poet and digital artist. His books include Void Voices (Hesterglock Press), Self Portrait by Night (Sampson Low), Chimera (Penteract Press) and Machine (Trickhouse Press). Website: thebirdking.com. Twitter: twitter.com/badbadpoet
Marlena Maduro Baraf
Marlena Maduro Baraf is author of the memoir, At the Narrow Waist of the World. She immigrated to the United States from her native Panama. Her stories, essays and poems have been featured or are forthcoming in Ms. Magazine, Sweet Lit, Lumina, HuffPost, the Ekphrastic Review, 2 Horatio, On the Seawall, Night Heron Barks, and others. Visit her at www.marlenamadurobaraf.com
Louise Mather
Louise Mather is a writer and poet from Northern England. You can find her on Twitter @lm2020uk and her
work/upcoming work in The Cabinet of Heed, Versification, Crow & Cross Keys and Idle Ink.
D Rudd-Mitchell
D Rudd-Mitchell is a Slough based occasional Poet, writer and photographer. His work has previously appeared in magazines including Black Bough, BLER, Projectionists Playground, Re-side and Zen Space.
JLM Morton
JLM Morton is a poet based in Gloucestershire. Her debut pamphlet, Lake 32, is out with Yew Tree Press.
Rachel Neithercut
Rachel lives with her partner and two-year-old daughter in the Peak District, where they are surrounded by mountains, books,
and mountains of books. She was selected for MumWrite 2020, which has introduced her to the pleasures of experimental writing. Her work has recently been published in Lucky Pierre Zine and Selcouth Station.
Sonia Overall
Dr Sonia Overall is a writer, psychogeographer and Senior Lecturer at Canterbury Christ Church University, where she runs the MA
in Creative Writing. Her publications include the novels A Likeness and The Realm of Shells, and the poetry collection The Art of Walking. She has two forthcoming books on walking and writing, due for publication in 2021.
Ann Pedone
Ann Pedone graduated from Bard College with a degree in English and has a Master’s Degree in Chinese Language and Literature from UC Berkeley. Ann is the author of the chapbook The Bird Happened, and the forth-coming chapbook perhaps there is a sky we don’t know about: a re-imagining of sappho. Her work has recently appeared in Riggwelter, Main Street Rag, Poet head, Cathexis Northwest, The Wax Paper, and The Phare, among others.
Alex Wells Shapiro
Alex Wells Shapiro (he/him) is a poet and artist from the Hudson Valley, living in Chicago. He reads submissions for Another Chicago Magazine and Frontier Poetry, and is a co-founder of Exhibit B: A Reading Series presented by The Guild Literary Complex. His work
is recently published or forthcoming in Blood Tree Literature, Boudin, Pangyrus, and The Indianapolis Review.
More of his work may be found at www.alexwellsshapiro.com.
Pippa Sterk
Pippa Sterk (they/she) is a mixed-race lesbian writer and researcher from the Netherlands, currently doing her PhD research at King’s College London. She often writes about sexuality, mental illness, gender norms, and dealing with a fear of spiders.
More of her writing is available at pippasterk.contently.com, and she tweets at @PippaSterk.
Mariah Whelan
Mariah is a poet from Oxford. Her 2019 collection the love i do to you was shortlisted for the Melita Hume Prize, won the AM Heath Prize and was selected as Oxford Poetry Library's Book of the Month. Mariah is the Jacqueline Bardsley Poet-in-Residence at Homerton College, The University of Cambridge. She is co-founder and editor of bath magg, a digital magazine of new poetry from established and emerging writers.
