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issue 83
issue 83, featuring:
cover: michael moreth
josh gaydos
alisa golden
blossom hibert
heikki huotari
bethany jarmul
dana kinsey
jeanine lipp
amy marques
pauline mccarthy
dave read
ren segers
allen seward
cheryl tan
bryan vale
cover: michael moreth
josh gaydos
alisa golden
blossom hibert
heikki huotari
bethany jarmul
dana kinsey
jeanine lipp
amy marques
pauline mccarthy
dave read
ren segers
allen seward
cheryl tan
bryan vale
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biographies - issue 83
Michael Moreth
Michael Moreth is a recovering Chicagoan living in the rural, micropolitan City of Sterling, the Paris of Northwest Illinois.
Josh Gaydos
Josh Gaydos (he/him) is a self-taught poet who currently resides in Colorado. He has been published in Barren Magazine, Door Is A Jar Literary Magazine, South Broadway Ghost Society and The Lettered Olive. Follow him @jgwrites22.
Alisa Golden
Alisa Golden is a writer and artist who has worked in a used bookstore, an art-supply store, and as an adjunct professor teaching bookmaking, letterpress printing, and creative writing around the San Francisco Bay Area. Her writing and art have been published in Blink-Ink, Unlost Journal, Diagram, and Gone Lawn, among others. She is the author of Making Handmade Books and editor of Star 82bReview.
www.neverbook.com | www.star82review.com
Blossom Hibert
Blossom Hibbert, Nottingham UK, spends most of her evenings reading and writing in pubs around the city, or just drinking too much coffee. Writing words about anything that catches her eye - from tiny red buttons to the skyscrapers of desire. She spends her weekends exploring cities and sitting by river banks, trying to find inspiration in the monotony of mundane-ness.
Instagram: blossomhibbert
Heikki Huotari
Heikki Huotari attended a one-room school and spent summers on a forest-fire lookout tower. Since retiring from academia/mathematics he has published poems in numerous journals and in five poetry collections. His manuscript, To Justify The Butterfly, won second prize, and publication, in the 2022 James Tate Chapbook Competition. His Erdős number is two.
Bethany Jarmul
Bethany Jarmul is a writer, editor, and poet. Her work has appeared in more than 40 literary magazines and been nominated for Best of the Net and Best Spiritual Literature. She earned first place in Women On Writing's Q2 2022 essay contest. Bethany enjoys chai lattes, nature walks, and memoirs. She lives near Pittsburgh with her family. Connect with her at bethanyjarmul.com or on Twitter: @BethanyJarmul.
Dana Kinsey
Dana Kinsey is an actor and teacher published in Fledgling Rag, Drunk Monkeys, ONE ART, On the Seawall, Sledgehammer Lit, West Trestle Review, Autumn Sky Poetry Daily, Better Than Starbucks, Red Ogre Review, MacQueen’s Quinterly, and Prose Online. Dana's play, WaterRise, was produced at the Gene Frankel Theatre. Her chapbook, Mixtape Venus, is published by I. Giraffe Press. Visit wordsbyDK.com.
Jeanine Lipp
Jeanine Lipp is an artist, art teacher, and author who lives in the beauty and grandeur of the Pacific Northwest. When she isn’t teaching children how to explore art, she makes her own creations and writes fiction with a penchant for horror and urban fantasy.
Instagram: @ReadMyLipps
Instagram: @MzLippArt
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@mzlippart/videos
Amy Marques
Amy Marques grew up between languages and places and learned, from an early age, the multiplicity of narratives. She penned children’s books, barely read medical papers, and numerous letters before turning to short fiction and visual poetry. She is a Pushcart Prize, Best Small Fictions, and Best of the Net nominee and has work published most recently in Streetcake Magazine, MoonPark Review, Bending Genres, Gone Lawn, Jellyfish Review, Chicago Quarterly Review, and Reservoir Road Literary Review. You can read more at https://amybookwhisperer.wordpress.com
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.
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
Ren Segers
Ren Segers is an emerging writer who enjoys exploring themes of cosmic and existential horror through short form fiction.
T: @ren_segers
Allen Seward
Allen Seward is a thirty-something poet-thing and mill worker. His work has appeared in Scapegoat Review, DEDpoetry, and JAKE, and his chapbook 'sway condor' is available on Amazon thanks to Alien Buddha Press. He currently resides in WV with his partner and three cats.
@AllenSeward1 on Twitter, @allenseward0 on Instagram
Cheryl Tan
Cheryl Tan is a 16-year-old Singaporean of Chinese and Indian descent. She has been published in Amber: The Teenage Chapbook and Eye on the World, an anthology by the Creative Arts Programme, Singapore, among others.
Bryan Vale
Bryan Vale is a writer based in the San Francisco Bay Area. He writes fiction, poetry, and educational articles about technology. His work has appeared in several journals, including Paragraph Planet, Loft, Trash to Treasure Lit, Moving Force Journal, and Unstamatic Magazine. Learn more at bryanvalewriter.com, or follow Bryan on Twitter and Instagram: @bryanvalewriter
Michael Moreth
Michael Moreth is a recovering Chicagoan living in the rural, micropolitan City of Sterling, the Paris of Northwest Illinois.
Josh Gaydos
Josh Gaydos (he/him) is a self-taught poet who currently resides in Colorado. He has been published in Barren Magazine, Door Is A Jar Literary Magazine, South Broadway Ghost Society and The Lettered Olive. Follow him @jgwrites22.
Alisa Golden
Alisa Golden is a writer and artist who has worked in a used bookstore, an art-supply store, and as an adjunct professor teaching bookmaking, letterpress printing, and creative writing around the San Francisco Bay Area. Her writing and art have been published in Blink-Ink, Unlost Journal, Diagram, and Gone Lawn, among others. She is the author of Making Handmade Books and editor of Star 82bReview.
www.neverbook.com | www.star82review.com
Blossom Hibert
Blossom Hibbert, Nottingham UK, spends most of her evenings reading and writing in pubs around the city, or just drinking too much coffee. Writing words about anything that catches her eye - from tiny red buttons to the skyscrapers of desire. She spends her weekends exploring cities and sitting by river banks, trying to find inspiration in the monotony of mundane-ness.
Instagram: blossomhibbert
Heikki Huotari
Heikki Huotari attended a one-room school and spent summers on a forest-fire lookout tower. Since retiring from academia/mathematics he has published poems in numerous journals and in five poetry collections. His manuscript, To Justify The Butterfly, won second prize, and publication, in the 2022 James Tate Chapbook Competition. His Erdős number is two.
Bethany Jarmul
Bethany Jarmul is a writer, editor, and poet. Her work has appeared in more than 40 literary magazines and been nominated for Best of the Net and Best Spiritual Literature. She earned first place in Women On Writing's Q2 2022 essay contest. Bethany enjoys chai lattes, nature walks, and memoirs. She lives near Pittsburgh with her family. Connect with her at bethanyjarmul.com or on Twitter: @BethanyJarmul.
Dana Kinsey
Dana Kinsey is an actor and teacher published in Fledgling Rag, Drunk Monkeys, ONE ART, On the Seawall, Sledgehammer Lit, West Trestle Review, Autumn Sky Poetry Daily, Better Than Starbucks, Red Ogre Review, MacQueen’s Quinterly, and Prose Online. Dana's play, WaterRise, was produced at the Gene Frankel Theatre. Her chapbook, Mixtape Venus, is published by I. Giraffe Press. Visit wordsbyDK.com.
Jeanine Lipp
Jeanine Lipp is an artist, art teacher, and author who lives in the beauty and grandeur of the Pacific Northwest. When she isn’t teaching children how to explore art, she makes her own creations and writes fiction with a penchant for horror and urban fantasy.
Instagram: @ReadMyLipps
Instagram: @MzLippArt
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@mzlippart/videos
Amy Marques
Amy Marques grew up between languages and places and learned, from an early age, the multiplicity of narratives. She penned children’s books, barely read medical papers, and numerous letters before turning to short fiction and visual poetry. She is a Pushcart Prize, Best Small Fictions, and Best of the Net nominee and has work published most recently in Streetcake Magazine, MoonPark Review, Bending Genres, Gone Lawn, Jellyfish Review, Chicago Quarterly Review, and Reservoir Road Literary Review. You can read more at https://amybookwhisperer.wordpress.com
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.
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
Ren Segers
Ren Segers is an emerging writer who enjoys exploring themes of cosmic and existential horror through short form fiction.
T: @ren_segers
Allen Seward
Allen Seward is a thirty-something poet-thing and mill worker. His work has appeared in Scapegoat Review, DEDpoetry, and JAKE, and his chapbook 'sway condor' is available on Amazon thanks to Alien Buddha Press. He currently resides in WV with his partner and three cats.
@AllenSeward1 on Twitter, @allenseward0 on Instagram
Cheryl Tan
Cheryl Tan is a 16-year-old Singaporean of Chinese and Indian descent. She has been published in Amber: The Teenage Chapbook and Eye on the World, an anthology by the Creative Arts Programme, Singapore, among others.
Bryan Vale
Bryan Vale is a writer based in the San Francisco Bay Area. He writes fiction, poetry, and educational articles about technology. His work has appeared in several journals, including Paragraph Planet, Loft, Trash to Treasure Lit, Moving Force Journal, and Unstamatic Magazine. Learn more at bryanvalewriter.com, or follow Bryan on Twitter and Instagram: @bryanvalewriter
