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issue 99
issue 99, featuring:
COVER: alexander limarev
anna zarra aldrich
dan brook
charlotte chambers
marianne daigh
colleen m. farrelly
ben macnair
shae pant
partha sarkar
dan sicoli
mark wyatt
ali znaidi
COVER: alexander limarev
anna zarra aldrich
dan brook
charlotte chambers
marianne daigh
colleen m. farrelly
ben macnair
shae pant
partha sarkar
dan sicoli
mark wyatt
ali znaidi
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biographies - issue 99
Anna Zarra Aldrich
Anna Zarra Aldrich is a Brooklyn-based poet and scholar. She is a PhD candidate at Stony Brook University in the Department of English. Her dissertation focuses on post-1945 nuclear performances. Her work has been published in deathcap, Babel Tower Notice Board, Strukturris, Ample Remains.
Dan Brook
Dan Brook is Senior Lecturer Emeritus in the Department of Sociology and Interdisciplinary Social Sciences at San Jose State University, from where he organizes the Hands on Thailand program. His recent books include Harboring Happiness: 101 Ways To Be Happy, Sweet Nothings, about the nature of haiku and the concept of nothing, and Eating the Earth: The Truth About What We Eat.
Marianne Daigh
Marianne lives in Dublin, where she works as a family carer and writes. She has a background in theology, and also practices photography. Her work has appeared in Swim Press, Channel Magazine, The Belfast Review, Ragaire, Faoileánach Journal, and Drawn to the Light. She was shortlisted for the Allingham flash fiction prize. Find her on substack @mdaigh / insta @mdaighwait.
Colleen M. Farrelly
Colleen M. Farrelly is a Miami mathematician and experimental haibun poet whose recent/forthcoming work appears in Rattle, MacQueen's Quinterly, Consequence, and petrichor, among others. She loves animals, swimming, and collaborating with poets and mathematicians in Africa.
Charlotte Chambers
Charlotte Chambers is a mom, lawyer, writer, and poet living in the Great Lakes region of the U.S. Her work has received support from the Iowa Writers' Workshop Summer Session and Aspen Summer Words. She’s at work on her first novel. You can find more at charlottechamberswriter.com
Alexander Limarev
Alexander Limarev, multidisciplinary artis, mail art artist, curator, poet, photographer from Siberia / Russia. Participated in more than 1000 international projects and exhibitions. His artworks are part of private and museum collections of 78 countries. His artworks as well as poetry have been featured in various online and print publications including BUKOWSKI ERASURE POETRY ANTHOLOGY (Silver Birch Press), TREEHOUSE ARTS, ZOOMOOZOPHONE REWIEW, BACKCHANNELS, BRILLER MAGAZINE, THE GAMBLER MAG, CARAVEL LITERARY ARTS JOURNAL, ANGRY OLD MAN MAGAZINE, CALIBAN ONLINE MAGAZINE, DEGENERATE LITERATURE, ZOUCH MAGAZINE, MAINTENANT etc.
Ben McNair
Ben Macnair is an award winning poet and playwright from Staffordshire in the United Kingdom. Follow him on Twitter
@benmacnair
Shae Pant
Shae is a queer, autistic goblin interested in the intersection of disability justice and design, collecting tiny trinkets, and having an unwavering devotion to Shrek as both art and ideology.
Partha Sarkar
Partha Sarkar, a resident of Ichapur, a small town of a province West Bengal Of India, a graduate writes poems being inspired by his the late Sankar Sarkar and his friends (especially Deb kumar Khan) to protest against the social injustice and crime against nature. His poems have been in different magazines both in Bangla and in English. At once, he would believe in revolution but now he is confused because of obscurity of human beings, though he keeps fire in his soul despite this.
Dan Sicoli
Dan Sicoli lives between two Great Lakes in New York State where he is an editor with Slipstream. He will have a new poetry collection out from Ethel Press in 2026. A three-time Pushcart nominee, he's had poems placed in Abandoned Mine, Awakenings Review, Big Windows Review, BlazeVOX, dadakuku, Evening Street Review, Hellbender, Hobo Camp Review, Home Planet News, Loch Raven Review, Misfits, Ranger, Steam Ticket, San Pedro River Review, and Santa Barbara Literary Journal, among numerous others. On weekends he beats on an old Gibson in a local garage rock band. <www.pw.org/directory/writers/dan_sicoli>
Mark Wyatt
Mark Wyatt now lives in the UK after teaching in South and South-East Asia and the Middle East: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8647-8280. Besides Streetcake Magazine, his pattern poetry can be found in Artemis Journal, Borderless, Cosmic Daffodil, Dust Poetry, Exterminating Angel, Full Bleed, Greyhound Journal, Hyperbolic Review, Ink Sweat and Tears, Journal of Mathematics And The Arts, Libre, MacQueen’s Quinterly, Neologism Poetry Journal, Osmosis, The Plentitudes, Radon Journal, Re-Mediate, Shift, Sontag Mag, Talking About Strawberries All Of The Time, Tap Into Poetry, Tupelo Quarterly, and Typo.
Ali Znaidi
Ali Znaidi (b.1977) lives in Redeyef, Tunisia. He is the author of several chapbooks, including Experimental Ruminations (Fowlpox Press, 2012), Moon’s Cloth Embroidered with Poems (Origami Poems Project, 2012), Bye, Donna Summer! (Fowlpox Press, 2014), Taste of the Edge (Kind of a Hurricane Press, 2014), Mathemaku x5 (Spacecraft Press, 2015), Austere Lights (Locofo Chaps: an imprint of Moria Books, 2017), Gazes of Wrath (Mount Analogue Press, 2017), and Against Darkness (Pen & Anvil Press, 2018). For more, visit aliznaidi.blogspot.com or follow him on X (formerly Twitter): @AliZnaidi.
Anna Zarra Aldrich
Anna Zarra Aldrich is a Brooklyn-based poet and scholar. She is a PhD candidate at Stony Brook University in the Department of English. Her dissertation focuses on post-1945 nuclear performances. Her work has been published in deathcap, Babel Tower Notice Board, Strukturris, Ample Remains.
Dan Brook
Dan Brook is Senior Lecturer Emeritus in the Department of Sociology and Interdisciplinary Social Sciences at San Jose State University, from where he organizes the Hands on Thailand program. His recent books include Harboring Happiness: 101 Ways To Be Happy, Sweet Nothings, about the nature of haiku and the concept of nothing, and Eating the Earth: The Truth About What We Eat.
Marianne Daigh
Marianne lives in Dublin, where she works as a family carer and writes. She has a background in theology, and also practices photography. Her work has appeared in Swim Press, Channel Magazine, The Belfast Review, Ragaire, Faoileánach Journal, and Drawn to the Light. She was shortlisted for the Allingham flash fiction prize. Find her on substack @mdaigh / insta @mdaighwait.
Colleen M. Farrelly
Colleen M. Farrelly is a Miami mathematician and experimental haibun poet whose recent/forthcoming work appears in Rattle, MacQueen's Quinterly, Consequence, and petrichor, among others. She loves animals, swimming, and collaborating with poets and mathematicians in Africa.
Charlotte Chambers
Charlotte Chambers is a mom, lawyer, writer, and poet living in the Great Lakes region of the U.S. Her work has received support from the Iowa Writers' Workshop Summer Session and Aspen Summer Words. She’s at work on her first novel. You can find more at charlottechamberswriter.com
Alexander Limarev
Alexander Limarev, multidisciplinary artis, mail art artist, curator, poet, photographer from Siberia / Russia. Participated in more than 1000 international projects and exhibitions. His artworks are part of private and museum collections of 78 countries. His artworks as well as poetry have been featured in various online and print publications including BUKOWSKI ERASURE POETRY ANTHOLOGY (Silver Birch Press), TREEHOUSE ARTS, ZOOMOOZOPHONE REWIEW, BACKCHANNELS, BRILLER MAGAZINE, THE GAMBLER MAG, CARAVEL LITERARY ARTS JOURNAL, ANGRY OLD MAN MAGAZINE, CALIBAN ONLINE MAGAZINE, DEGENERATE LITERATURE, ZOUCH MAGAZINE, MAINTENANT etc.
Ben McNair
Ben Macnair is an award winning poet and playwright from Staffordshire in the United Kingdom. Follow him on Twitter
@benmacnair
Shae Pant
Shae is a queer, autistic goblin interested in the intersection of disability justice and design, collecting tiny trinkets, and having an unwavering devotion to Shrek as both art and ideology.
Partha Sarkar
Partha Sarkar, a resident of Ichapur, a small town of a province West Bengal Of India, a graduate writes poems being inspired by his the late Sankar Sarkar and his friends (especially Deb kumar Khan) to protest against the social injustice and crime against nature. His poems have been in different magazines both in Bangla and in English. At once, he would believe in revolution but now he is confused because of obscurity of human beings, though he keeps fire in his soul despite this.
Dan Sicoli
Dan Sicoli lives between two Great Lakes in New York State where he is an editor with Slipstream. He will have a new poetry collection out from Ethel Press in 2026. A three-time Pushcart nominee, he's had poems placed in Abandoned Mine, Awakenings Review, Big Windows Review, BlazeVOX, dadakuku, Evening Street Review, Hellbender, Hobo Camp Review, Home Planet News, Loch Raven Review, Misfits, Ranger, Steam Ticket, San Pedro River Review, and Santa Barbara Literary Journal, among numerous others. On weekends he beats on an old Gibson in a local garage rock band. <www.pw.org/directory/writers/dan_sicoli>
Mark Wyatt
Mark Wyatt now lives in the UK after teaching in South and South-East Asia and the Middle East: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8647-8280. Besides Streetcake Magazine, his pattern poetry can be found in Artemis Journal, Borderless, Cosmic Daffodil, Dust Poetry, Exterminating Angel, Full Bleed, Greyhound Journal, Hyperbolic Review, Ink Sweat and Tears, Journal of Mathematics And The Arts, Libre, MacQueen’s Quinterly, Neologism Poetry Journal, Osmosis, The Plentitudes, Radon Journal, Re-Mediate, Shift, Sontag Mag, Talking About Strawberries All Of The Time, Tap Into Poetry, Tupelo Quarterly, and Typo.
Ali Znaidi
Ali Znaidi (b.1977) lives in Redeyef, Tunisia. He is the author of several chapbooks, including Experimental Ruminations (Fowlpox Press, 2012), Moon’s Cloth Embroidered with Poems (Origami Poems Project, 2012), Bye, Donna Summer! (Fowlpox Press, 2014), Taste of the Edge (Kind of a Hurricane Press, 2014), Mathemaku x5 (Spacecraft Press, 2015), Austere Lights (Locofo Chaps: an imprint of Moria Books, 2017), Gazes of Wrath (Mount Analogue Press, 2017), and Against Darkness (Pen & Anvil Press, 2018). For more, visit aliznaidi.blogspot.com or follow him on X (formerly Twitter): @AliZnaidi.
