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issue 75 - part 1
part 1, featuring:
andrew graber jane ayres ian badcoe becky bone cd boyland natasha bredle mike callaghan ian coldicott chris cottom viktoria dahill imogen davies helen ferris wes finch howie good zebulon huset |
issue 75 - part 2
part 2, featuring:
pauline mccarthy vanessa couto johnson bobby kirk louise mather (featuring elizabeth m. castillo, betty doyle and milena williamson) louise mcstravick kelly mullins brad rose jp seabright izzy searle anthony st. george teika marija smits mt taylor lydia waites nathan whiting susan wilson |
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biographies - issue 75
Part 1
Andrew Graber
Andrew was born and raised in The United States Of America and is still currently living there. He tries to create art that is mysterious yet beautiful at the same time. Besides art, Andrew also likes to sing and write.
Jane Ayres
UK based neurodivergent writer Jane Ayres re-discovered poetry studying for a part-time MA in Creative Writing at the University of Kent, which she completed in 2019 at the age of 57. Fascinated by hybrid poetry/prose experimental forms she has work in Lighthouse, Streetcake, The North, Selcouth Station, Door is a Jar, Marble, Agapanthus, Confingo, Crow & Cross Keys, Kissing Dynamite, Ink Drinkers Poetry, Crow of Minerva, (mac)ro(mic), Sledgehammer, Honeyfire Lit, and Full House Literary Magazine.
Ian Badcoe
Ian Badcoe is a nonbinary poet living in Sheffield, Yorkshire. He is a strange hybrid of poet, game-dev, gardener, husband, father and SciFi geek. He likes to write "genre" poetry--especially SciFi and Noire--as well as science and technology themed work. He has a long-term song writing collaboration with German indie composer/performer Hallam London and they are slowly releasing an album.
Becky Bone
Becky began writing in the form of stand-up and sketch comedy. She is an accomplished improviser and interactive theatre performer, and has recently completed a BA in Creative Writing and English at Birkbeck. In 2019 she reached the semi-finals of UniSlam with the Birkbeck team and her poems have been published online and in print with Culture Matters. Inspired by found text, lines of women is part of a larger project and was created from the language of a Women's Institute instruction book Designing and Planning Clothes (circa 1930s).
CD Boyland
CD Boyland is a [d]eaf poet who lives in Cumbernauld, near Glasgow, Scotland. His first pamphlet, 'User Stories' was published in 2020 by Stewed Rhubarb Press. Other visual work in Beia Bua Journal, Aww-Struck (PoemAtlas online exhibition, opens 21 May 2021), and forthcoming in 3AM Magazine.
Natasha Bredle
Natasha Bredle is an aspiring author and poet. Her work has been featured in the Dove Tales Writing for Peace poetry anthology, the Paper Crane Journal, and the Incandescent Review, as well as won accolades from various writing contests.
Mike Callaghan
Mike Callaghan focuses on fragmentation, rearrangement and reinterpretation -- considering the intimate cycles of identity, self-preservation and mortality. His work has appeared in a number of publications, including ZYZZYVA, Der Greif, Drain, Crooked Teeth, Barzakh, Otoliths and The Shanghai Literary Review. Mike earned an MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute.
Ian Coldicott
Ian Coldicott has been writing short stories since 2019. He also studies philosophy and transcribes old wills. His documentary photography can be seen at www.iancoldicott.co.uk. He lives in Lichfield, Staffordshire.
@iancoldicott
Chris Cottom
Chris Cottom is a cycling vegan escaped insurance copywriter (Key Features of the Stakeholder Transfer Plan) now trying to write other fiction. He’s had one story placed in a Cranked Anvil competition and a dozen listed in others. Previous convictions include Harrods handbag seller and Christmas hamper packer.
Viktoria Dahill
Viktoria Dahill lives in Gloucestershire and is working on what she hopes will be her debut novel about British farming. She's a London Library Emerging Writer with an MA in creative writing. When not writing, she can be found lambing, baking brownies, or walking from sunrise to sunset. She lurks on Twitter @ahthatsbecky
Imogen Davies
Imogen Davies is a 20-year-old student of French, Spanish, and Catalan at Durham University. Currently on her year abroad, away from her beloved hometown of Aberystwyth, she is exploring Barcelona as an English Language Assistant with the British Council. Her work has appeared in Aberystwyth’s Ego Magazine, Durham’s student paper, The Palatinate, and Abergavenny Small Press.
Helen Ferris
Helen Ferris is an actor and poet originally from Essex and now living and writing in London. Her work has been published in a range of online magazines including Dear Damsels and TYPE!
Wes Finch
Wes Finch is a writer and musician, based in the West Midlands and studying on an Arts Council funded DYCP period. He works for Arts and Homelessness Charities in his local area and will have poems published by Broken Sleep and Here Comes Everyone in the near future.
Howie Good
Howie Good is the author of the prose poetry collection FAMOUS LONG AGO, forthcoming from Laughing Ronin Press.
Zebulon Huset
Zebulon Huset is a teacher, writer and photographer. He won the Gulf Stream 2020 Summer Poetry Contest and his writing's appeared in Best New Poets, Streetcake, Meridian, The Southern Review, Fence, Gone Lawn, Texas Review and many others. He publishes the prompt blog Notebooking Daily, and edits the journals Coastal Shelf and Sparked.
Part 2
Pauline McCarthy
Pauline is a self-taught artist who discovered the joy of painting late in life. Working mainly with acrylics she loves the easy going nature of this medium. She adores texture and loves nothing more than plying on the paint, pushing it around and coaxing the image she wants onto her canvas. Born and bred in Middlesbrough, she counts herself lucky to have inspirational landscapes and seascapes on her doorstep. Her paintings are a colourful expression of pride she has for her hometown. Roseberry Topping is one of the many glorious landscapes that inspire her to pull out her pallet knife and brushes.
Vanessa Couto Johnson
Vanessa Couto Johnson (she/they) is the author of the full-length Pungent dins concentric (Tolsun Books, 2018) and three poetry chapbooks. Dialogist, Foundry, Thrush, TERSE. Journal, and others have published their poems, and their creative nonfiction appears in The Account and FEED. A Brazilian born in Texas, VCJ has taught at Texas State University since 2014.
Bobby Kirk
Bobby Kirk is an American, US Army Reservist and two-time combat veteran, living in Winnipeg, Canada, even though he hates winter, because he loves his wife. He has an MFA from Spalding University and is actively trying to get his work into the world.
Louise Mather
Louise Mather is a poet and writer from Northern England. She is the editor and creator of Acropolis Journal. Nominated Best of the Net 2021, her work is published or forthcoming in magazines such as Fly on the Wall Press, The Cabinet of Heed, Green Ink Poetry, Nymphs, Feral and Dust Poetry Magazine. She writes about ancestry, rituals, endometriosis, fatigue and mental health. You can find her on Twitter @lm2020uk / www.louisematheruk.wixsite.com/louisemather
featuring Elizabeth M. Castillo, Betty Doyle and Milena Williamson
Milena Williamson is from Swarthmore, Pennsylvania. She is pursuing a PhD in poetry at the Seamus Heaney Centre at Queen’s University Belfast. She has received an Eric Gregory Award and was recently featured in New Irish Writing. More at www.milenawilliamson.com
Betty Doyle is a poet from Merseyside. Her work has appeared in Poetry Wales, And Other Poems, Agenda, Brag, Cake, amongst others. She is currently studying for a PhD at Manchester Metropolitan University, researching infertility poetry. Her debut pamphlet, Girl Parts, will be published by Verve Poetry Press in March 2022. Twitter: @betty_poet
Elizabeth M Castillo is a British-Mauritian poet, writer, indie-press promoter. She lives in Paris with her family and two cats, where she writes a variety of different things under a variety of pen names. In her writing Elizabeth explores themes of race & ethnicity, motherhood, womanhood, language, love, loss and grief, and a touch of magical realism. She has words in, or upcoming in Selcouth Station Press, Pollux Journal, Revista Purgante, Lanke Review, Streetcake Magazine, Fevers of the Mind Press, Melbourne Culture Corner, Epoch Press, among others. Her bilingual, debut collection “Cajoncito: Poems on Love, Loss, y Otras Locuras” is out 2021 October. You can connect with her on Twitter and IG at @EMCWritesPoetry.
Louise McStravick
Louise is a writer, performer and educator from Birmingham. Recent work has appeared in Microfiction Monday, Dear Damsels, Clover and White journal and is currently featured as part of UN Women UK's virtual exhibition. Her first collection, 'How to Make Curry Goat' is out now with Fly on the Wall Press. She can be found on Twitter @louloudoodoo and Instagram @hyperbolou.
Kelly Mullins
Kelly Mullins is an American writer who lives and works in Amsterdam. She loves the living part, hates the working part. Her poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in SAND, Shock of the Femme, The Broadkill Review, Boston Accent Lit, Pine Hills Review, Anti-Heroin Chic, The Allegory Ridge Poetry Anthology, Hash Journal, Maudlin House and others. You can find her hanging out on instagram @kellmullins
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 2022. 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/
JP Seabright
JP Seabright is a queer writer who has had poetry, prose and experimental work published in various places. Their debut prose chapbook will be published by Lupercalia Press in early 2022, and a collaborative poetry pamphlet is coming soon with Nine Pens Press. Info at https://jpseabright.wordpress.com/ and Twitter @errormessage.
Izzy Searle
Izzy Searle is a freelance writer with a First-Class degree in English and Creative Writing from Warwick University. Her writing is featured on the International Network of Italian Theatre and she has a poetry anthology in the process of publication. In her spare time, Izzy loves to hike and volunteer at Scouts.
Anthony St. George
Anthony St. George is a writer and some-time artist living with his husband in San Francisco. His most recent speculative fiction short stories and flash fiction have been published in Fleas on the Dog, Sledghammer Literary Journal, and Idle Ink. A full list of links to his publications and artwork can be found at: https://anthonystgeorge.com/ and latest news can be found on Twitter at @asgriobhadh.
Teika Marija Smits
Teika Marija Smits is a Nottinghamshire-based freelance editor, writer and mother-of-two. Her poems have been published in Atrium, Brittle Star, Ink, Sweat and Tears, LossLit, Prole, The Lake and The Poetry Shed. Her debut pamphlet, Russian Doll, was published by Indigo Dreams Publishing in March 2021. https://teikamarijasmits.com / @MarijaSmits
MT Taylor
MT Taylor was a librarian before retiring to Glasgow. Her work has appeared in The Glasgow Review of Books, Ink Sweat and Tears, The Interpreter’s House, Northwords Now, The Lake, Poems for Grenfell, and Under the Radar. She enjoys reading as much as writing, and just wishes she could draw with skill. She has four children who still talk to her, and she still interrupts.
Lydia Waites
Lydia Waites is an East Yorkshire based writer and Creative Writing PhD student at the University of Lincoln. She is the Editor-in-Chief of Tether’s End Magazine and former fiction editor for The Lincoln Review. Her work has been appeared in Door Is A Jar, The Abandoned Playground, and FEED. Find her at @lydiawaiteswrites on Instagram or @waites_lydia on Twitter, or being dragged around the Wolds by a springer spaniel.
Nathan Whiting
Nathan Whiting has performed contemporary dance in New York and Bhutto in the Japanese Alps, run 50 races longer than 100 kilometers, regularly attends new music concerts and has studied 21st century advancements in mathematical logic. Before he invented this new method of writing he published 9 books of ordinary writing and appeared in journals such as Best American Poetry, American Poetry Review, Hanging Loose and Hawai’i Review.
Susan Wilson
Susan Wilson lives in East London and began writing poetry following the death of her mother in 2017. Her poems have been published by Lucy Writers, Snakeskin, The Runcible Spoon, Dreich and Areopagus. Prior to the pandemic she was a regular performer at “Spineless Authors”, a local open mic event. Her debut pamphlet is “I Couldn’t Write to Save Her Life” (Dreich, 2021).
Part 1
Andrew Graber
Andrew was born and raised in The United States Of America and is still currently living there. He tries to create art that is mysterious yet beautiful at the same time. Besides art, Andrew also likes to sing and write.
Jane Ayres
UK based neurodivergent writer Jane Ayres re-discovered poetry studying for a part-time MA in Creative Writing at the University of Kent, which she completed in 2019 at the age of 57. Fascinated by hybrid poetry/prose experimental forms she has work in Lighthouse, Streetcake, The North, Selcouth Station, Door is a Jar, Marble, Agapanthus, Confingo, Crow & Cross Keys, Kissing Dynamite, Ink Drinkers Poetry, Crow of Minerva, (mac)ro(mic), Sledgehammer, Honeyfire Lit, and Full House Literary Magazine.
Ian Badcoe
Ian Badcoe is a nonbinary poet living in Sheffield, Yorkshire. He is a strange hybrid of poet, game-dev, gardener, husband, father and SciFi geek. He likes to write "genre" poetry--especially SciFi and Noire--as well as science and technology themed work. He has a long-term song writing collaboration with German indie composer/performer Hallam London and they are slowly releasing an album.
Becky Bone
Becky began writing in the form of stand-up and sketch comedy. She is an accomplished improviser and interactive theatre performer, and has recently completed a BA in Creative Writing and English at Birkbeck. In 2019 she reached the semi-finals of UniSlam with the Birkbeck team and her poems have been published online and in print with Culture Matters. Inspired by found text, lines of women is part of a larger project and was created from the language of a Women's Institute instruction book Designing and Planning Clothes (circa 1930s).
CD Boyland
CD Boyland is a [d]eaf poet who lives in Cumbernauld, near Glasgow, Scotland. His first pamphlet, 'User Stories' was published in 2020 by Stewed Rhubarb Press. Other visual work in Beia Bua Journal, Aww-Struck (PoemAtlas online exhibition, opens 21 May 2021), and forthcoming in 3AM Magazine.
Natasha Bredle
Natasha Bredle is an aspiring author and poet. Her work has been featured in the Dove Tales Writing for Peace poetry anthology, the Paper Crane Journal, and the Incandescent Review, as well as won accolades from various writing contests.
Mike Callaghan
Mike Callaghan focuses on fragmentation, rearrangement and reinterpretation -- considering the intimate cycles of identity, self-preservation and mortality. His work has appeared in a number of publications, including ZYZZYVA, Der Greif, Drain, Crooked Teeth, Barzakh, Otoliths and The Shanghai Literary Review. Mike earned an MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute.
Ian Coldicott
Ian Coldicott has been writing short stories since 2019. He also studies philosophy and transcribes old wills. His documentary photography can be seen at www.iancoldicott.co.uk. He lives in Lichfield, Staffordshire.
@iancoldicott
Chris Cottom
Chris Cottom is a cycling vegan escaped insurance copywriter (Key Features of the Stakeholder Transfer Plan) now trying to write other fiction. He’s had one story placed in a Cranked Anvil competition and a dozen listed in others. Previous convictions include Harrods handbag seller and Christmas hamper packer.
Viktoria Dahill
Viktoria Dahill lives in Gloucestershire and is working on what she hopes will be her debut novel about British farming. She's a London Library Emerging Writer with an MA in creative writing. When not writing, she can be found lambing, baking brownies, or walking from sunrise to sunset. She lurks on Twitter @ahthatsbecky
Imogen Davies
Imogen Davies is a 20-year-old student of French, Spanish, and Catalan at Durham University. Currently on her year abroad, away from her beloved hometown of Aberystwyth, she is exploring Barcelona as an English Language Assistant with the British Council. Her work has appeared in Aberystwyth’s Ego Magazine, Durham’s student paper, The Palatinate, and Abergavenny Small Press.
Helen Ferris
Helen Ferris is an actor and poet originally from Essex and now living and writing in London. Her work has been published in a range of online magazines including Dear Damsels and TYPE!
Wes Finch
Wes Finch is a writer and musician, based in the West Midlands and studying on an Arts Council funded DYCP period. He works for Arts and Homelessness Charities in his local area and will have poems published by Broken Sleep and Here Comes Everyone in the near future.
Howie Good
Howie Good is the author of the prose poetry collection FAMOUS LONG AGO, forthcoming from Laughing Ronin Press.
Zebulon Huset
Zebulon Huset is a teacher, writer and photographer. He won the Gulf Stream 2020 Summer Poetry Contest and his writing's appeared in Best New Poets, Streetcake, Meridian, The Southern Review, Fence, Gone Lawn, Texas Review and many others. He publishes the prompt blog Notebooking Daily, and edits the journals Coastal Shelf and Sparked.
Part 2
Pauline McCarthy
Pauline is a self-taught artist who discovered the joy of painting late in life. Working mainly with acrylics she loves the easy going nature of this medium. She adores texture and loves nothing more than plying on the paint, pushing it around and coaxing the image she wants onto her canvas. Born and bred in Middlesbrough, she counts herself lucky to have inspirational landscapes and seascapes on her doorstep. Her paintings are a colourful expression of pride she has for her hometown. Roseberry Topping is one of the many glorious landscapes that inspire her to pull out her pallet knife and brushes.
Vanessa Couto Johnson
Vanessa Couto Johnson (she/they) is the author of the full-length Pungent dins concentric (Tolsun Books, 2018) and three poetry chapbooks. Dialogist, Foundry, Thrush, TERSE. Journal, and others have published their poems, and their creative nonfiction appears in The Account and FEED. A Brazilian born in Texas, VCJ has taught at Texas State University since 2014.
Bobby Kirk
Bobby Kirk is an American, US Army Reservist and two-time combat veteran, living in Winnipeg, Canada, even though he hates winter, because he loves his wife. He has an MFA from Spalding University and is actively trying to get his work into the world.
Louise Mather
Louise Mather is a poet and writer from Northern England. She is the editor and creator of Acropolis Journal. Nominated Best of the Net 2021, her work is published or forthcoming in magazines such as Fly on the Wall Press, The Cabinet of Heed, Green Ink Poetry, Nymphs, Feral and Dust Poetry Magazine. She writes about ancestry, rituals, endometriosis, fatigue and mental health. You can find her on Twitter @lm2020uk / www.louisematheruk.wixsite.com/louisemather
featuring Elizabeth M. Castillo, Betty Doyle and Milena Williamson
Milena Williamson is from Swarthmore, Pennsylvania. She is pursuing a PhD in poetry at the Seamus Heaney Centre at Queen’s University Belfast. She has received an Eric Gregory Award and was recently featured in New Irish Writing. More at www.milenawilliamson.com
Betty Doyle is a poet from Merseyside. Her work has appeared in Poetry Wales, And Other Poems, Agenda, Brag, Cake, amongst others. She is currently studying for a PhD at Manchester Metropolitan University, researching infertility poetry. Her debut pamphlet, Girl Parts, will be published by Verve Poetry Press in March 2022. Twitter: @betty_poet
Elizabeth M Castillo is a British-Mauritian poet, writer, indie-press promoter. She lives in Paris with her family and two cats, where she writes a variety of different things under a variety of pen names. In her writing Elizabeth explores themes of race & ethnicity, motherhood, womanhood, language, love, loss and grief, and a touch of magical realism. She has words in, or upcoming in Selcouth Station Press, Pollux Journal, Revista Purgante, Lanke Review, Streetcake Magazine, Fevers of the Mind Press, Melbourne Culture Corner, Epoch Press, among others. Her bilingual, debut collection “Cajoncito: Poems on Love, Loss, y Otras Locuras” is out 2021 October. You can connect with her on Twitter and IG at @EMCWritesPoetry.
Louise McStravick
Louise is a writer, performer and educator from Birmingham. Recent work has appeared in Microfiction Monday, Dear Damsels, Clover and White journal and is currently featured as part of UN Women UK's virtual exhibition. Her first collection, 'How to Make Curry Goat' is out now with Fly on the Wall Press. She can be found on Twitter @louloudoodoo and Instagram @hyperbolou.
Kelly Mullins
Kelly Mullins is an American writer who lives and works in Amsterdam. She loves the living part, hates the working part. Her poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in SAND, Shock of the Femme, The Broadkill Review, Boston Accent Lit, Pine Hills Review, Anti-Heroin Chic, The Allegory Ridge Poetry Anthology, Hash Journal, Maudlin House and others. You can find her hanging out on instagram @kellmullins
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 2022. 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/
JP Seabright
JP Seabright is a queer writer who has had poetry, prose and experimental work published in various places. Their debut prose chapbook will be published by Lupercalia Press in early 2022, and a collaborative poetry pamphlet is coming soon with Nine Pens Press. Info at https://jpseabright.wordpress.com/ and Twitter @errormessage.
Izzy Searle
Izzy Searle is a freelance writer with a First-Class degree in English and Creative Writing from Warwick University. Her writing is featured on the International Network of Italian Theatre and she has a poetry anthology in the process of publication. In her spare time, Izzy loves to hike and volunteer at Scouts.
Anthony St. George
Anthony St. George is a writer and some-time artist living with his husband in San Francisco. His most recent speculative fiction short stories and flash fiction have been published in Fleas on the Dog, Sledghammer Literary Journal, and Idle Ink. A full list of links to his publications and artwork can be found at: https://anthonystgeorge.com/ and latest news can be found on Twitter at @asgriobhadh.
Teika Marija Smits
Teika Marija Smits is a Nottinghamshire-based freelance editor, writer and mother-of-two. Her poems have been published in Atrium, Brittle Star, Ink, Sweat and Tears, LossLit, Prole, The Lake and The Poetry Shed. Her debut pamphlet, Russian Doll, was published by Indigo Dreams Publishing in March 2021. https://teikamarijasmits.com / @MarijaSmits
MT Taylor
MT Taylor was a librarian before retiring to Glasgow. Her work has appeared in The Glasgow Review of Books, Ink Sweat and Tears, The Interpreter’s House, Northwords Now, The Lake, Poems for Grenfell, and Under the Radar. She enjoys reading as much as writing, and just wishes she could draw with skill. She has four children who still talk to her, and she still interrupts.
Lydia Waites
Lydia Waites is an East Yorkshire based writer and Creative Writing PhD student at the University of Lincoln. She is the Editor-in-Chief of Tether’s End Magazine and former fiction editor for The Lincoln Review. Her work has been appeared in Door Is A Jar, The Abandoned Playground, and FEED. Find her at @lydiawaiteswrites on Instagram or @waites_lydia on Twitter, or being dragged around the Wolds by a springer spaniel.
Nathan Whiting
Nathan Whiting has performed contemporary dance in New York and Bhutto in the Japanese Alps, run 50 races longer than 100 kilometers, regularly attends new music concerts and has studied 21st century advancements in mathematical logic. Before he invented this new method of writing he published 9 books of ordinary writing and appeared in journals such as Best American Poetry, American Poetry Review, Hanging Loose and Hawai’i Review.
Susan Wilson
Susan Wilson lives in East London and began writing poetry following the death of her mother in 2017. Her poems have been published by Lucy Writers, Snakeskin, The Runcible Spoon, Dreich and Areopagus. Prior to the pandemic she was a regular performer at “Spineless Authors”, a local open mic event. Her debut pamphlet is “I Couldn’t Write to Save Her Life” (Dreich, 2021).
