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issue 80, featuring:
helen gwyn jones yuri bruscky seth crook abbie doll eli dunham ivanka fear gabriela denise frank mark goodwin arden hunter abriana jetté vesna main natalie marino pauline mccarthy hannah norris salem paige dave read ankur jyoti saikia and jp seabright sylvia santiago fabio sassi laura sweeney |
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biographies - issue 80
Yuri Bruscky
Yuri Bruscky (Brazil, 1985) . Sound artist, poet and researcher. Develops artistic practices exploring imbrications between noise, language, technological mediations and everyday life. Published his first visual poems in 2001. In 2010 started the experimental music label Estranhas Ocupações. Co-author of the book 'History of Brazilian Visual Poetry' (Cepe, 2018).
Seth Crook
Seth Crook is a seal. He has swum in such places as The Rialto, Magma, The Interpreter's House, Gutter, Pennine Platform, Northwords Now, Poetry Scotland, Poetry Salzburg Review. In e-zines such as Streetcake and Snakeskin. In recent anthologies such as The SHOp: An Anthology (Liffey), A470 (Arachne Press), The Centenary Collection (Speculative Books), Places of Poetry (One World), Short and Sweet (Ploom), Heart/h (Fragmented Voices). He has a pamphlet of visual poems Chalked On The Path (Dreich).
Abbie Doll
Abbie Doll is an eclectic mess of a person who loves exploring the beautiful intricacies of the written word. She resides in Columbus, OH and received her MFA from Lindenwood University; her work has been featured or is forthcoming in Door Is a Jar Magazine, OPEN: Journal of Arts & Letters (O:JA&L), Black Fox Literary Magazine, among others. Follow her @AbbieDollWrites.
Eli Dunham
Eli Dunham is a queer, neurodivergent and disabled poet living in Sacramento, CA. They earned their BA in English from Illinois State University in 2014 and went on to earn their MFA in Poetry and Graduate Certificate in Gender and Sexuality from Eastern Washington University in 2016. They are currently working towards an MS in Counseling with an emphasis on supporting LGBTQ+ youth and individuals with disabilities. You can find some of their poetry in DreamPop, GASHER, Mantis, Heavy Feather Review and elsewhere.
Ivanka Fear
Ivanka Fear is a Slovenian born Canadian writer. Her poems and stories appear in numerous publications, including Understorey, The South Shore Review, Blank Spaces, Montreal Writes, Orchards Poetry, October Hill, Mystery Tribune, and elsewhere. The debut novel of her Blue Water mystery series is scheduled for release by Level Best Books in January 2023. You can read more about her at https://ivankafear.wix.com/mysite and follow her @FearIvanka
Gabriella Denise Frank
Gabriela Denise Frank is a transdisciplinary storyteller, editor, and creative writing instructor living in the Pacific Northwest. Her writing has appeared in True Story, Tahoma Literary Review, HAD, Poetry Northwest, The Normal School, The Rumpus, and elsewhere. The author of Pity She Didn't Stay 'Til the End (Bottlecap Press), she serves as creative nonfiction editor of Crab Creek Review. www.gabrieladenisefrank.com
Mark Goodwin
Mark Goodwin speaks & writes in various ways. He has a number of books & chapbooks with various poetry houses, including Leafe Press, Longbarrow Press, & Shearsman Books. His latest chapbook – a compressed mountain travelogue called Erodes On Air – is published in North America by Middle Creek. His next full-length collection – At – is forthcoming from Shearsman. Mark lives with his partner on a narrowboat just north of Leicester. He tweets poems from @kramawoodgin, and some of his sound-enhanced poetry is here: https://markgoodwin-poet-sound-artist.bandcamp.com
Arden Hunter
Arden Hunter is an ND aroace agender writer, artist and performer and EIC of Cutbow Quarterly. They are a craft columnist at JMWW Journal and have four books of poetry and experimental hybrid work out this year - check their website ardenhunter.com for details. Chat to them on Twitter @hunterarden.
Abriana Jetté
Abriana’s Jetté's writing has appeared in places like PLUME Poetry Journal, the Seneca Review, The Moth, Poetry New Zealand and more; likewise, she has received fellowships to the Southampton Writers Conference, the Community of Writers at Squaw Valley, and the Sewanee Writers Conference, as well as other places. In addition to her creative work, she is the editor of five anthologies of poetry.
Helen Gwyn Jones
Helen Gwyn Jones started recording her world at the age of 8 when she bought a Brownie camera from her sister, something which has become a lifelong passion. A collector of the past (hers and other people’s) she likes nothing better than muted images of imperfection. May be found poring over Welsh grammar books when not photographing drains or going into raptures over rust. Online @helengwynjones
Vesna Main
Vesna Main's short stories have appeared in online journals and in print. Two of them were selected for Best British Short Stories anthology (Salt, 2017, 2019). Among her book length publications are: a collection of short stories, Temptation: A User’s Guide (Salt 2018), a novel in dialogue, Good Day?, (Salt 2019) - shortlisted for the Goldsmiths Prize - autofiction, Only A Lodger… And Hardly That (Seagull Books, 2020) and a novella, ‘Bruno and Adèle’ (Shorts III) (Platypus Press, 2021).
Natalie Marino
Natalie Marino is a poet and physician. Her work appears in Atlas and Alice, Gigantic Sequins, Hobart, Isele Magazine, Pleiades, Rust + Moth, The Shore, and elsewhere. Her chapbook, Memories of Stars, is forthcoming from Finishing Line Press (June 2023). She lives in California.
Pauline McCarthy
Pauline McCarthy is a self-taught artist who discovered the joy of painting late in life. She works mainly with acrylics as she love 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 the canvas. Born and bred in Middlesbrough, she counts herself lucky to have inspirational landscapes and seascapes on her doorstep. Her paintings are an expression of her sense of pleasure and pride of the North East.
Hannah Norris
Hannah Norris (she/her) is 'obsessed' with writing diaries and interested in turning this material into poetry. She has been featured in Liverpool based JARG magazine and BBC Radio Merseyside. She shares her poetry on Instagram: @hannahnozza ... Her family don't think her poems qualify as poems as they don't rhyme...
Salem Paige
Salem Paige (they/them) is a queer, non-binary poet who plays with the conventions of poetry to bring intentional discomfort to their reader through sublime raw language. Their works revolve around exploring their queer & creative identity through existential and often visceral imagery. You can find Paige at www.corpseofapoet.com or @corpseofapoet on Twitter and Instagram.
Dave Read
Dave Read is a Canadian poet living in Calgary. His first chapbook of asemic writing, Notebook, is available from Paper View Press, and his second, One Letter Poems, is available from the author. His work can be found on his blog davereadpoetry.blogspot.com.
Ankur Jyoti Saikia
Ankur Jyoti Saikia (he/ him) is a forestry researcher based in India with works being published in the Minison Zine, Bluepepper, Sledgehammer Lit, Openwork mag, Holyflea, Pop the culture pill, Thanks hun Zine, The Daily Drunk, The Sparrow’s Trombone, Voidspace zine, Paper Trail Literary Journal and Roi Fainéant press. Twitter: @amythfromassam
JP Seabright
JP Seabright (she/they) is a queer writer living in London. They have three pamphlets published: Fragments from Before the Fall: An Anthology of Post-Anthropocene Poetry (Beir Bua Press); the erotic memoir NO HOLDS BARRED (Lupercalia Press), and GenderFux, a collaborative poetry pamphlet (Nine Pens Press). JP is Assistant Editor of Full House Literary Magazine, and was nominated for a Pushcart Prize in October 2021. More of their work can be found at https://jpseabright.com and via Twitter @errormessage.
Sylvia Santiago
Sylvia Santiago is a writer, insomniac, and erstwhile children’s librarian. Her work appears/is forthcoming in Cutbow Quarterly, Honey Literary, Roi Fainéant Press, and Ellipsis Zine. Find her on Twitter @sylviasays2
Fabio Sassi
Fabio Sassi makes photos and acrylics using what is considered to have no worth by the mainstream. He really enjoys taking the everyday and ordinary and framing it in a different way. He also likes the imperfect in things and believe that those imperfections add a lot of value. Fabio lives in Bologna, Italy and his work can be viewed at https://fabiosassi.foliohd.com
Laura Sweeney
Laura Sweeney facilitates Writers for Life in Iowa and Illinois. She represented the Iowa Arts Council at the First International Teaching Artist's Conference in Oslo, Norway. Her poems and prose appear in sixty plus journals and ten anthologies in the States, Canada, Britain, Indonesia, and China. Her recent awards include a scholarship to the Sewanee Writer's Conference. In 2021, she received an Editor's Prize in Flash Discourse from Open: Journal of Arts & Letters; Poetry Society of Michigan's Barbara Sykes Memorial Humor Award; and two of her poems appear in the anthology Impact: Personal Portraits of Activism, which received an American Book Fest Best Book Award in Current Events category and finalist in the Social Change category. She is a PhD candidate, English/Creative Writing, at Illinois State University.
Yuri Bruscky
Yuri Bruscky (Brazil, 1985) . Sound artist, poet and researcher. Develops artistic practices exploring imbrications between noise, language, technological mediations and everyday life. Published his first visual poems in 2001. In 2010 started the experimental music label Estranhas Ocupações. Co-author of the book 'History of Brazilian Visual Poetry' (Cepe, 2018).
Seth Crook
Seth Crook is a seal. He has swum in such places as The Rialto, Magma, The Interpreter's House, Gutter, Pennine Platform, Northwords Now, Poetry Scotland, Poetry Salzburg Review. In e-zines such as Streetcake and Snakeskin. In recent anthologies such as The SHOp: An Anthology (Liffey), A470 (Arachne Press), The Centenary Collection (Speculative Books), Places of Poetry (One World), Short and Sweet (Ploom), Heart/h (Fragmented Voices). He has a pamphlet of visual poems Chalked On The Path (Dreich).
Abbie Doll
Abbie Doll is an eclectic mess of a person who loves exploring the beautiful intricacies of the written word. She resides in Columbus, OH and received her MFA from Lindenwood University; her work has been featured or is forthcoming in Door Is a Jar Magazine, OPEN: Journal of Arts & Letters (O:JA&L), Black Fox Literary Magazine, among others. Follow her @AbbieDollWrites.
Eli Dunham
Eli Dunham is a queer, neurodivergent and disabled poet living in Sacramento, CA. They earned their BA in English from Illinois State University in 2014 and went on to earn their MFA in Poetry and Graduate Certificate in Gender and Sexuality from Eastern Washington University in 2016. They are currently working towards an MS in Counseling with an emphasis on supporting LGBTQ+ youth and individuals with disabilities. You can find some of their poetry in DreamPop, GASHER, Mantis, Heavy Feather Review and elsewhere.
Ivanka Fear
Ivanka Fear is a Slovenian born Canadian writer. Her poems and stories appear in numerous publications, including Understorey, The South Shore Review, Blank Spaces, Montreal Writes, Orchards Poetry, October Hill, Mystery Tribune, and elsewhere. The debut novel of her Blue Water mystery series is scheduled for release by Level Best Books in January 2023. You can read more about her at https://ivankafear.wix.com/mysite and follow her @FearIvanka
Gabriella Denise Frank
Gabriela Denise Frank is a transdisciplinary storyteller, editor, and creative writing instructor living in the Pacific Northwest. Her writing has appeared in True Story, Tahoma Literary Review, HAD, Poetry Northwest, The Normal School, The Rumpus, and elsewhere. The author of Pity She Didn't Stay 'Til the End (Bottlecap Press), she serves as creative nonfiction editor of Crab Creek Review. www.gabrieladenisefrank.com
Mark Goodwin
Mark Goodwin speaks & writes in various ways. He has a number of books & chapbooks with various poetry houses, including Leafe Press, Longbarrow Press, & Shearsman Books. His latest chapbook – a compressed mountain travelogue called Erodes On Air – is published in North America by Middle Creek. His next full-length collection – At – is forthcoming from Shearsman. Mark lives with his partner on a narrowboat just north of Leicester. He tweets poems from @kramawoodgin, and some of his sound-enhanced poetry is here: https://markgoodwin-poet-sound-artist.bandcamp.com
Arden Hunter
Arden Hunter is an ND aroace agender writer, artist and performer and EIC of Cutbow Quarterly. They are a craft columnist at JMWW Journal and have four books of poetry and experimental hybrid work out this year - check their website ardenhunter.com for details. Chat to them on Twitter @hunterarden.
Abriana Jetté
Abriana’s Jetté's writing has appeared in places like PLUME Poetry Journal, the Seneca Review, The Moth, Poetry New Zealand and more; likewise, she has received fellowships to the Southampton Writers Conference, the Community of Writers at Squaw Valley, and the Sewanee Writers Conference, as well as other places. In addition to her creative work, she is the editor of five anthologies of poetry.
Helen Gwyn Jones
Helen Gwyn Jones started recording her world at the age of 8 when she bought a Brownie camera from her sister, something which has become a lifelong passion. A collector of the past (hers and other people’s) she likes nothing better than muted images of imperfection. May be found poring over Welsh grammar books when not photographing drains or going into raptures over rust. Online @helengwynjones
Vesna Main
Vesna Main's short stories have appeared in online journals and in print. Two of them were selected for Best British Short Stories anthology (Salt, 2017, 2019). Among her book length publications are: a collection of short stories, Temptation: A User’s Guide (Salt 2018), a novel in dialogue, Good Day?, (Salt 2019) - shortlisted for the Goldsmiths Prize - autofiction, Only A Lodger… And Hardly That (Seagull Books, 2020) and a novella, ‘Bruno and Adèle’ (Shorts III) (Platypus Press, 2021).
Natalie Marino
Natalie Marino is a poet and physician. Her work appears in Atlas and Alice, Gigantic Sequins, Hobart, Isele Magazine, Pleiades, Rust + Moth, The Shore, and elsewhere. Her chapbook, Memories of Stars, is forthcoming from Finishing Line Press (June 2023). She lives in California.
Pauline McCarthy
Pauline McCarthy is a self-taught artist who discovered the joy of painting late in life. She works mainly with acrylics as she love 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 the canvas. Born and bred in Middlesbrough, she counts herself lucky to have inspirational landscapes and seascapes on her doorstep. Her paintings are an expression of her sense of pleasure and pride of the North East.
Hannah Norris
Hannah Norris (she/her) is 'obsessed' with writing diaries and interested in turning this material into poetry. She has been featured in Liverpool based JARG magazine and BBC Radio Merseyside. She shares her poetry on Instagram: @hannahnozza ... Her family don't think her poems qualify as poems as they don't rhyme...
Salem Paige
Salem Paige (they/them) is a queer, non-binary poet who plays with the conventions of poetry to bring intentional discomfort to their reader through sublime raw language. Their works revolve around exploring their queer & creative identity through existential and often visceral imagery. You can find Paige at www.corpseofapoet.com or @corpseofapoet on Twitter and Instagram.
Dave Read
Dave Read is a Canadian poet living in Calgary. His first chapbook of asemic writing, Notebook, is available from Paper View Press, and his second, One Letter Poems, is available from the author. His work can be found on his blog davereadpoetry.blogspot.com.
Ankur Jyoti Saikia
Ankur Jyoti Saikia (he/ him) is a forestry researcher based in India with works being published in the Minison Zine, Bluepepper, Sledgehammer Lit, Openwork mag, Holyflea, Pop the culture pill, Thanks hun Zine, The Daily Drunk, The Sparrow’s Trombone, Voidspace zine, Paper Trail Literary Journal and Roi Fainéant press. Twitter: @amythfromassam
JP Seabright
JP Seabright (she/they) is a queer writer living in London. They have three pamphlets published: Fragments from Before the Fall: An Anthology of Post-Anthropocene Poetry (Beir Bua Press); the erotic memoir NO HOLDS BARRED (Lupercalia Press), and GenderFux, a collaborative poetry pamphlet (Nine Pens Press). JP is Assistant Editor of Full House Literary Magazine, and was nominated for a Pushcart Prize in October 2021. More of their work can be found at https://jpseabright.com and via Twitter @errormessage.
Sylvia Santiago
Sylvia Santiago is a writer, insomniac, and erstwhile children’s librarian. Her work appears/is forthcoming in Cutbow Quarterly, Honey Literary, Roi Fainéant Press, and Ellipsis Zine. Find her on Twitter @sylviasays2
Fabio Sassi
Fabio Sassi makes photos and acrylics using what is considered to have no worth by the mainstream. He really enjoys taking the everyday and ordinary and framing it in a different way. He also likes the imperfect in things and believe that those imperfections add a lot of value. Fabio lives in Bologna, Italy and his work can be viewed at https://fabiosassi.foliohd.com
Laura Sweeney
Laura Sweeney facilitates Writers for Life in Iowa and Illinois. She represented the Iowa Arts Council at the First International Teaching Artist's Conference in Oslo, Norway. Her poems and prose appear in sixty plus journals and ten anthologies in the States, Canada, Britain, Indonesia, and China. Her recent awards include a scholarship to the Sewanee Writer's Conference. In 2021, she received an Editor's Prize in Flash Discourse from Open: Journal of Arts & Letters; Poetry Society of Michigan's Barbara Sykes Memorial Humor Award; and two of her poems appear in the anthology Impact: Personal Portraits of Activism, which received an American Book Fest Best Book Award in Current Events category and finalist in the Social Change category. She is a PhD candidate, English/Creative Writing, at Illinois State University.
