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issue 69 - part 1
part 1, featuring:
shane allison michéle beck jayanta bhaumik stephen brennan richard capener paul chuks t. clear andy conner seth crook melissa eleftherion teo eve sam wilson fletcher mandy haggith zebulon huset demi lloyd |
issue 69 - part 2
part 2, featuring:
martins deep chime lama paul loccisano naomi marklew jonathan minton jbmulligan bailey north paul rousseau elena rielinger jen schneider jane ayres naoimi smyth kevin stebner george thrills james thurgood a(llison) whittenberg nathan williams |
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biographies - issue 69
Shane Allison
Shane Allison is a writer and visual artist. His poems have graced the pages if many literary magazines such as The West Wind Review, Chiron Review, and others. His new collection of poetry Sweet Sweat is out from Hysterical Books. Shane is at work on a new book of poems and collages. He lives in Tallahassee FL. Much of his collage work can be seen on Instagram under @shaneallison2400.
Michéle Beck
Michéle Beck is a poet from Doncaster, South Yorkshire. Her work has featured in Open Democracy and Ink, Sweat and Tears, Acumen and won the Mothers Milk Poetry Competition 2019. She is a mother, activist, word lover & an Events Manager at Right Up Our Street.
Jayanta Bhaumik
Jayanta Bhaumik is from Kolkata, India. He travels a lot, and from the field of metaphysics and esoteric studies. His works can be found in Juked Magazine, Poetry Superhighway, Scarlet Leaf Review, Goat's Milk Magazine, Mad Swirl, Vita Brevis Journal, Fourth and Sycamore, Crepe & Penn, Everything in Aspic, and elsewhere. He is on Facebook and Twitter @BhaumikJayanta.
Stephen Brennan
Stephen Brennan is a writer based in Wakefield, West Yorkshire. He specialises in comedy writing, theatre, and storytelling and has written for Leeds Pub Theatre, Coronavirus Theatre Club, Message in a Bottle Monologues, and Rapid Reel Monologues. He was a finalist in the First Laugh Comedy Writing Competition and the winner of the 2019 Script Yorkshire Script Factor Contest. He is the manager of Certainty of Chance Theatre.
Richard Capener
Richard Capener currently lives and works in Bristol. His poems are forthcoming in Sublinary Editions' mail out, OVERGROUND UNDERGROUND and Lemoncurd Magazine. He also edits The Babel Tower Notice Board.
Paul Chuks
Paul Chuks (He/Him) is a Nigerian poet, writer and song writer studying philosophy at the University of Benin, Edo state, Nigeria. He has appeared or is forthcoming in kalaharireview, Logicneuro, Afritondo, Tralitmag. When Chuks is not reading or writing(songs),
he's criticising the hiphop game or he's mimicking Michael Jackson.
T. Clear
T. Clear is a founder of Floating Bridge Press and the Easy Speak open mic series in Seattle. She has been writing and publishing since the late 1970’s, and her work has appeared in many magazines, including Poetry Northwest, Sheila-na-Gig, The Rise-Up Review, Red Earth Review, Terrain.org, The Moth and Common Ground Review. Her work has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and Independent Best American Poetry Award. Her website it tclearpoet.com
Andy Conner
Andy Conner is a Birmingham, UK-based poet and educator, with a long track record of performing his work nationally and internationally. His work has also featured in numerous publications.
His credits include BBC Radio 4, Jaipur Literature Festival and India International Centre.
Seth Crook
Seth Crook is transitioning into a seal, lives on Mull. His poems have appeared in such places as The Rialto, Magma, Envoi, Firth, The Journal, The Interpreter's House. And in recent anthologies such as Port (Dunlin), Green Fields (Maytree), Declarations (Scotland Street). His concrete poems have appeared in Streetcake, The Projectionist's Playground and a forthcoming anthology celebrating Edwin Morgan.
Melissa Eleftherion
Melissa Eleftherion (she/they) is a writer, a librarian, and a visual artist. She is the author of field guide to autobiography (The Operating System, 2018), & numerous chapbooks, including little ditch (above/ground press, 2018) & trauma suture (above/ground press, 2020). Born & raised in Brooklyn, now lives in Northern California where she manages the Ukiah Library, teaches creative writing, & curates the LOBA Reading Series. Recent work is available at www.apoetlibrarian.wordpress.com
Teo Eve
Teo Eve is a poet and short story writer based in Nottingham. Teo's poetry has appeared in 404 Ink Magazine and -algia. Teo's short story 'To Be Seen' won the 20-25 category for Nottingham UNESCO City of Literature's MyVoice competition, and appears in its Speak Up anthology.
Sam Wilson Fletcher
Sam Wilson Fletcher was born in Lewisham and studied at Oxford and Harvard. He writes poetry and children’s stories. At the moment he lives in Berlin.
Mandy Haggith
Mandy Haggith lives in Assynt, Scotland, and teaches Literature and Creative Writing at the University of the Highlands and Islands. Her books include four poetry collections (letting light in, Castings, A-B-Tree, Why the Sky is Far Away), a poetry anthology (Into the Forest), a non-fiction book (Paper Trails) and five novels: The Last Bear, Bear Witness and a novel trilogy set in the Iron Age, The Walrus Mutterer, The Amber Seeker and The Lyre Dancers. She runs a project about tree poetry called A-B-Tree, inspired by the Gaelic tree alphabet.
Zebulon Huset
Zebulon Huset is a teacher, writer and photographer living in San Diego. He holds the unshakeable belief that rollerblading is fun as heck, and an MFA from the University of Washington. His writing has recently appeared in Meridian, The Southern Review, Fence, Rosebud, Atlanta Review & Texas Review among others. He publishes a writing prompt blog Notebooking Daily and is the editor of the journal Coastal Shelf.
Demi Lloyd
Demi LLoyd is currently studying for a masters in Creative Writing at Nottingham Trent University. She is keen to reflect mental illness within some of her poetry to spread even more awareness on the subject. Her ultimate goal is to publish a book of poetry. Her favourite animals are cats.
Martins Deep
Martins Deep is a Nigerian poet & photographer. He is passionate about documenting muffled stories of the African experience in
his poetry & visual art. Writing from Kaduna, or whichever place he finds himself, his creative juices tends to paint the spontaneity of his imagination, humanity, justice, truth & emotions, in different ways, bringing as much balm to as many wounds desperate for a healing. His works have appeared, or are forthcoming on Barren Magazine, Writers Space Africa, Agbowó Magazine, The Ducor Review, The Shallow Tales Review, Omelette Magazine, The Lumiere Review, & elsewhere. He is also the brain behind Shotstoryz Photography.
Twitter: @martinsdeep1 / Instagram: @deep.martins
Chime Lama
Chime Lama is a Tibetan American woman writer and multi-genre artist based in New York City. She holds an MA in Divinity from the University of Chicago and is pursuing an MFA in Poetry at Brooklyn College. Experimenting with form and technique, she creates visually dynamic literary art. Her poetry won the 2020 Himan Brown Award in Creative Writing and has been featured in Exposition Review, The Margins, Tricycle, and Asymptote journals among others.
Paul Loccisano
Paul Loccisano is an Australian born poet living in London. Paul is interested in anthropomorphism and how the humanistic approach to interpreting nature, religion and morality have shaped present day norms; themes he explores in his work.
Naomi Marklew
Naomi Marklew lives in the North East of England, after growing up in the South West. She writes poems and creative non-fiction, among other things. She is currently taking part in the Mumwrite development course. She has poems in Amethyst Review and Lighten Up Online.
Jonathan Minton
Jonathan Minton lives in central West Virginia, USA, where he is a Professor of English at Glenville State College. He is the author
of the book Technical Notes for Bird Government (Telemetry Press, 2018), and the chapbooks In Gesture (Dyad Press, 2009)
and Lost Languages (Long Leaf Press, 1999). His poetry has appeared in the journals Indefinite Space, Otoliths, BlazeVOX,
Free Verse, and elsewhere. He edits the journal Word For/Word (www.wordforword.info)
JBMulligan
JBMulligan has published more than 1100 poems and stories in various magazines over the past 45 years, and has had two chapbooks: The Stations of the Cross and THIS WAY TO THE EGRESS, as well as 2 e-books: The City of Now and Then, and A Book of Psalms (a loose translation). He has appeared in more than a dozen anthologies.
Bailey North
Bailey North roams the wilds of North London and is concentrating on pseudonymously writing their 'Phil the Philosopher' stories. Bailey North went to university and did some literature.
Paul Rousseau
Paul Rousseau’s found poem was written by opening Twitter six or seven times and scribbling the first few words he saw. Paul’s words can be found in sundry literary and medical journals, including The Healing Muse, Blood and Thunder, Intima. A Journal of Narrative Medicine, Months To Years, Cleaning up Glitter, Burningword Literary Journal, Prometheus Dreaming, Dr. T. J. Eckleburg Review, and others. A lover of dogs, he lives in Charleston, SC, and longs to return home to the west.
Elena Rielinger
Elena Rielinger is an emerging writer currently living in Virginia. Recently, her work has appeared in perhappened mag and she is forthcoming in Moonchild Magazine. Her website is elenarielinger.wordpress.com and she can be found on Twitter @elena_rielinger and Instagram @elenarielinger.
Jen Schneider
Jen Schneider is an educator, attorney, and writer. She lives, writes, and works in small spaces throughout Philadelphia. Her work appears in a variety of literary and scholarly journals.
Jane Ayres
Based in the UK, 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. Neurodivergent, she enjoys Open Mic events, is fascinated by hybrid poetry/prose forms
and has been published in Confluence, Postscript, Dissonance, The Agonist, Lighthouse, Viscaria and recently accepted for The North and The Forge.
@workingwords50
Naoimi Smyth
Naoimi is a twenty something year old, who for as long as she remembers, has always enjoyed the art of writing. She has a particular love for contemporary poetry, and is constantly exploring ways of innovating poetry through language and imagery.
Kevin Stebner
Kevin Stebner is an artist, poet and musician from Calgary, Alberta. He produces visual art using old videogame gear, and produces music with his chiptune project GreyScreen, post-hardcore in his band Fulfilment, as well as alt-country in the band Cold Water.
His first book of poems, Sunshine Policy, is out from Straw Books. Stebner has spent the quarantine prparting two new manuscripts, his first novel, and a large amass of typewriter visual poems. He is also the proprietor of Calgary's best bookstore that's in a shed, Shed Books.
George Thrills
George Thrills is from Lagos, Nigeria. He intends to use his art to make people see beauty in seemingly little things.
James Thurgood
James Thurgood was born in Nova Scotia, grew up in Windsor, Ontario, and now lives in Calgary, Alberta. He has been a labourer, musician, and teacher – not necessarily in that order. His poems have appeared in various journals, anthologies, and in a collection (Icemen/Stoneghosts, Penumbra Press). He is also the author of His Own Misfortune, a work-in-progress. (thurgoodwordsalad.blogspot.com/)
A(llison) Whittenberg
A(llison) Whittenberg is a poet and novelist (LIFE IS FINE, SWEET THANG,
HOLLYWOOD AND MAINE, TUTORED all from Random House. She lives in Philadelphia.
Nathan Williams
Nathan Williams is an experimental working-class poet based in the North West of England. His work aims to exploit page space
with innovative ideas on how content and poetry combine and are observed. Tackling issues of working-class identity and ideals, Nathan's work focuses on the ironies, humour, dialect and toils of working-class Northern life. Published for the first time in streetcake Magazine and Bang32, in 2020, Nathan will begin an MA course in Creative and Innovative Writing at Salford University.
He hopes to continue to experiment both on and off the page within poetry to create new ways of interacting with art. He aims to publish a collection of experimental works next year.
Shane Allison
Shane Allison is a writer and visual artist. His poems have graced the pages if many literary magazines such as The West Wind Review, Chiron Review, and others. His new collection of poetry Sweet Sweat is out from Hysterical Books. Shane is at work on a new book of poems and collages. He lives in Tallahassee FL. Much of his collage work can be seen on Instagram under @shaneallison2400.
Michéle Beck
Michéle Beck is a poet from Doncaster, South Yorkshire. Her work has featured in Open Democracy and Ink, Sweat and Tears, Acumen and won the Mothers Milk Poetry Competition 2019. She is a mother, activist, word lover & an Events Manager at Right Up Our Street.
Jayanta Bhaumik
Jayanta Bhaumik is from Kolkata, India. He travels a lot, and from the field of metaphysics and esoteric studies. His works can be found in Juked Magazine, Poetry Superhighway, Scarlet Leaf Review, Goat's Milk Magazine, Mad Swirl, Vita Brevis Journal, Fourth and Sycamore, Crepe & Penn, Everything in Aspic, and elsewhere. He is on Facebook and Twitter @BhaumikJayanta.
Stephen Brennan
Stephen Brennan is a writer based in Wakefield, West Yorkshire. He specialises in comedy writing, theatre, and storytelling and has written for Leeds Pub Theatre, Coronavirus Theatre Club, Message in a Bottle Monologues, and Rapid Reel Monologues. He was a finalist in the First Laugh Comedy Writing Competition and the winner of the 2019 Script Yorkshire Script Factor Contest. He is the manager of Certainty of Chance Theatre.
Richard Capener
Richard Capener currently lives and works in Bristol. His poems are forthcoming in Sublinary Editions' mail out, OVERGROUND UNDERGROUND and Lemoncurd Magazine. He also edits The Babel Tower Notice Board.
Paul Chuks
Paul Chuks (He/Him) is a Nigerian poet, writer and song writer studying philosophy at the University of Benin, Edo state, Nigeria. He has appeared or is forthcoming in kalaharireview, Logicneuro, Afritondo, Tralitmag. When Chuks is not reading or writing(songs),
he's criticising the hiphop game or he's mimicking Michael Jackson.
T. Clear
T. Clear is a founder of Floating Bridge Press and the Easy Speak open mic series in Seattle. She has been writing and publishing since the late 1970’s, and her work has appeared in many magazines, including Poetry Northwest, Sheila-na-Gig, The Rise-Up Review, Red Earth Review, Terrain.org, The Moth and Common Ground Review. Her work has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and Independent Best American Poetry Award. Her website it tclearpoet.com
Andy Conner
Andy Conner is a Birmingham, UK-based poet and educator, with a long track record of performing his work nationally and internationally. His work has also featured in numerous publications.
His credits include BBC Radio 4, Jaipur Literature Festival and India International Centre.
Seth Crook
Seth Crook is transitioning into a seal, lives on Mull. His poems have appeared in such places as The Rialto, Magma, Envoi, Firth, The Journal, The Interpreter's House. And in recent anthologies such as Port (Dunlin), Green Fields (Maytree), Declarations (Scotland Street). His concrete poems have appeared in Streetcake, The Projectionist's Playground and a forthcoming anthology celebrating Edwin Morgan.
Melissa Eleftherion
Melissa Eleftherion (she/they) is a writer, a librarian, and a visual artist. She is the author of field guide to autobiography (The Operating System, 2018), & numerous chapbooks, including little ditch (above/ground press, 2018) & trauma suture (above/ground press, 2020). Born & raised in Brooklyn, now lives in Northern California where she manages the Ukiah Library, teaches creative writing, & curates the LOBA Reading Series. Recent work is available at www.apoetlibrarian.wordpress.com
Teo Eve
Teo Eve is a poet and short story writer based in Nottingham. Teo's poetry has appeared in 404 Ink Magazine and -algia. Teo's short story 'To Be Seen' won the 20-25 category for Nottingham UNESCO City of Literature's MyVoice competition, and appears in its Speak Up anthology.
Sam Wilson Fletcher
Sam Wilson Fletcher was born in Lewisham and studied at Oxford and Harvard. He writes poetry and children’s stories. At the moment he lives in Berlin.
Mandy Haggith
Mandy Haggith lives in Assynt, Scotland, and teaches Literature and Creative Writing at the University of the Highlands and Islands. Her books include four poetry collections (letting light in, Castings, A-B-Tree, Why the Sky is Far Away), a poetry anthology (Into the Forest), a non-fiction book (Paper Trails) and five novels: The Last Bear, Bear Witness and a novel trilogy set in the Iron Age, The Walrus Mutterer, The Amber Seeker and The Lyre Dancers. She runs a project about tree poetry called A-B-Tree, inspired by the Gaelic tree alphabet.
Zebulon Huset
Zebulon Huset is a teacher, writer and photographer living in San Diego. He holds the unshakeable belief that rollerblading is fun as heck, and an MFA from the University of Washington. His writing has recently appeared in Meridian, The Southern Review, Fence, Rosebud, Atlanta Review & Texas Review among others. He publishes a writing prompt blog Notebooking Daily and is the editor of the journal Coastal Shelf.
Demi Lloyd
Demi LLoyd is currently studying for a masters in Creative Writing at Nottingham Trent University. She is keen to reflect mental illness within some of her poetry to spread even more awareness on the subject. Her ultimate goal is to publish a book of poetry. Her favourite animals are cats.
Martins Deep
Martins Deep is a Nigerian poet & photographer. He is passionate about documenting muffled stories of the African experience in
his poetry & visual art. Writing from Kaduna, or whichever place he finds himself, his creative juices tends to paint the spontaneity of his imagination, humanity, justice, truth & emotions, in different ways, bringing as much balm to as many wounds desperate for a healing. His works have appeared, or are forthcoming on Barren Magazine, Writers Space Africa, Agbowó Magazine, The Ducor Review, The Shallow Tales Review, Omelette Magazine, The Lumiere Review, & elsewhere. He is also the brain behind Shotstoryz Photography.
Twitter: @martinsdeep1 / Instagram: @deep.martins
Chime Lama
Chime Lama is a Tibetan American woman writer and multi-genre artist based in New York City. She holds an MA in Divinity from the University of Chicago and is pursuing an MFA in Poetry at Brooklyn College. Experimenting with form and technique, she creates visually dynamic literary art. Her poetry won the 2020 Himan Brown Award in Creative Writing and has been featured in Exposition Review, The Margins, Tricycle, and Asymptote journals among others.
Paul Loccisano
Paul Loccisano is an Australian born poet living in London. Paul is interested in anthropomorphism and how the humanistic approach to interpreting nature, religion and morality have shaped present day norms; themes he explores in his work.
Naomi Marklew
Naomi Marklew lives in the North East of England, after growing up in the South West. She writes poems and creative non-fiction, among other things. She is currently taking part in the Mumwrite development course. She has poems in Amethyst Review and Lighten Up Online.
Jonathan Minton
Jonathan Minton lives in central West Virginia, USA, where he is a Professor of English at Glenville State College. He is the author
of the book Technical Notes for Bird Government (Telemetry Press, 2018), and the chapbooks In Gesture (Dyad Press, 2009)
and Lost Languages (Long Leaf Press, 1999). His poetry has appeared in the journals Indefinite Space, Otoliths, BlazeVOX,
Free Verse, and elsewhere. He edits the journal Word For/Word (www.wordforword.info)
JBMulligan
JBMulligan has published more than 1100 poems and stories in various magazines over the past 45 years, and has had two chapbooks: The Stations of the Cross and THIS WAY TO THE EGRESS, as well as 2 e-books: The City of Now and Then, and A Book of Psalms (a loose translation). He has appeared in more than a dozen anthologies.
Bailey North
Bailey North roams the wilds of North London and is concentrating on pseudonymously writing their 'Phil the Philosopher' stories. Bailey North went to university and did some literature.
Paul Rousseau
Paul Rousseau’s found poem was written by opening Twitter six or seven times and scribbling the first few words he saw. Paul’s words can be found in sundry literary and medical journals, including The Healing Muse, Blood and Thunder, Intima. A Journal of Narrative Medicine, Months To Years, Cleaning up Glitter, Burningword Literary Journal, Prometheus Dreaming, Dr. T. J. Eckleburg Review, and others. A lover of dogs, he lives in Charleston, SC, and longs to return home to the west.
Elena Rielinger
Elena Rielinger is an emerging writer currently living in Virginia. Recently, her work has appeared in perhappened mag and she is forthcoming in Moonchild Magazine. Her website is elenarielinger.wordpress.com and she can be found on Twitter @elena_rielinger and Instagram @elenarielinger.
Jen Schneider
Jen Schneider is an educator, attorney, and writer. She lives, writes, and works in small spaces throughout Philadelphia. Her work appears in a variety of literary and scholarly journals.
Jane Ayres
Based in the UK, 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. Neurodivergent, she enjoys Open Mic events, is fascinated by hybrid poetry/prose forms
and has been published in Confluence, Postscript, Dissonance, The Agonist, Lighthouse, Viscaria and recently accepted for The North and The Forge.
@workingwords50
Naoimi Smyth
Naoimi is a twenty something year old, who for as long as she remembers, has always enjoyed the art of writing. She has a particular love for contemporary poetry, and is constantly exploring ways of innovating poetry through language and imagery.
Kevin Stebner
Kevin Stebner is an artist, poet and musician from Calgary, Alberta. He produces visual art using old videogame gear, and produces music with his chiptune project GreyScreen, post-hardcore in his band Fulfilment, as well as alt-country in the band Cold Water.
His first book of poems, Sunshine Policy, is out from Straw Books. Stebner has spent the quarantine prparting two new manuscripts, his first novel, and a large amass of typewriter visual poems. He is also the proprietor of Calgary's best bookstore that's in a shed, Shed Books.
George Thrills
George Thrills is from Lagos, Nigeria. He intends to use his art to make people see beauty in seemingly little things.
James Thurgood
James Thurgood was born in Nova Scotia, grew up in Windsor, Ontario, and now lives in Calgary, Alberta. He has been a labourer, musician, and teacher – not necessarily in that order. His poems have appeared in various journals, anthologies, and in a collection (Icemen/Stoneghosts, Penumbra Press). He is also the author of His Own Misfortune, a work-in-progress. (thurgoodwordsalad.blogspot.com/)
A(llison) Whittenberg
A(llison) Whittenberg is a poet and novelist (LIFE IS FINE, SWEET THANG,
HOLLYWOOD AND MAINE, TUTORED all from Random House. She lives in Philadelphia.
Nathan Williams
Nathan Williams is an experimental working-class poet based in the North West of England. His work aims to exploit page space
with innovative ideas on how content and poetry combine and are observed. Tackling issues of working-class identity and ideals, Nathan's work focuses on the ironies, humour, dialect and toils of working-class Northern life. Published for the first time in streetcake Magazine and Bang32, in 2020, Nathan will begin an MA course in Creative and Innovative Writing at Salford University.
He hopes to continue to experiment both on and off the page within poetry to create new ways of interacting with art. He aims to publish a collection of experimental works next year.
