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issue 96
issue 96, featuring:
COVER: clare mccracken
geoffrey aitken
sian astor-lewis
barbara daniels
david estringel
fakepicnic
jasper glen
jamie lim
jessica wright
grzegorz wroblewski
portia yu
COVER: clare mccracken
geoffrey aitken
sian astor-lewis
barbara daniels
david estringel
fakepicnic
jasper glen
jamie lim
jessica wright
grzegorz wroblewski
portia yu
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biographies - issue 96
Geoffrey Aitken
Geoffrey Aitken writes on Adelaide’s unceded Kaurna land, an awarded minimalist poet with a ‘lived experience disability’ for [AUS] and [UK, US, HR, CAN, FR & CN] successes. Recently, ‘Libre Lit’, ‘the engine(idling’ [US], ‘The Broken City’ [CAN], soon, ‘Social Alternatives’, ‘Monash University Verge Anthology 2025’ [AUS], and ‘The Closed Eye Open’ [US]. Nominated Best of the Net in 2022.
Sian Astor-Lewis
Sian Astor-Lewis is an award winning London-based writer and filmmaker. She is currently developing her debut short story collection having been published by Tears in the Fence: Issue 77, A Thin Slice of Anxiety and longlisted for the London Magazine Short Story Prize 2024. Her no-budget debut feature film 'To Nowhere', described by the Guardian in its four star review as ‘raw as a fresh wound… a remarkable bit of drama’, premiered at Curzon Soho, and is now available to stream on Curzon Home Cinema, and internationally on Amazon Prime, Apple TV and Tubi.
Barbara Daniels
Barbara Daniels’ most recent book, Talk to the Lioness, was published by Casa de Cinco Hermanas Press. Her poetry has appeared in Main Street Rag, Free State Review, Philadelphia Stories, and many other journals. She received four fellowships from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts.
David Estringel
David Estringel is a Xicanx writer with words in The Opiate, Cephalopress, Dreich, The Milk House, Harpy Hybrid Review, and Poetry NI. David has published five poetry collections and six poetry chapbooks, along with a co-authored novel, Escaping Emily (Thirty West Publishing). Connect with David on X @The_Booky_Man, Instagram @david_estringel, Bluesky @davidestringel.bsky.social, and his website www.davidaestringel.com
fakepicnic
fakepicnic is a New England poet.
Jasper Glen
Jasper Glen is a Canadian artist and poet. His work appears or is forthcoming in The Brooklyn Review, A Gathering of the Tribes, Acta Victoriana, Posit, BlazeVOX, Word For/ Word, Ranger Magazine, Collage.com.ar, and elsewhere. Poems have been nominated for Best New Poets and the Pushcart Prize. see jasperglen.com
Jamie Lim
Jamie Lim is currently an undergraduate student at Johns Hopkins University studying chemical and biomolecular engineering. She aspires to be a physician-scientist and bring hope to patients with chronic diseases. In her free time, she writes poetry, designs houses on The Sims 4, watches African wildlife documentaries, and dreams of bringing home a Doberman puppy one day.
Clare McCracken
Clare McCracken is an artist and writer working in Naarm/Melbourne. She works site-responsively and across disciplines to interrogate how mobile technologies such as the internet, cars, and ships shape us socially, spatially and temporally. Clare's creative outcomes include large-scale immersive installations, performative fieldwork, temporary and permanent public artworks and narrative non-fiction audio and written works.
Jessica Wright
Jessica Wright (she/they) is a writer, historian, and teacher based in West Yorkshire. Their recent work has appeared or is forthcoming in whiptail: journal of the single-line poem, York Literary Review, and Paragraph Planet. Their second book, Psychiatry: Antiquity and Its Legacy, was published by Bloomsbury in 2025.
Grzegorz Wróblewski
Gregorz belongs to the Danish Writers Union (Dansk Forfatterforening). He has published many books: Cindys Vugge (Copenhagen, 2016), Zero Visibility (Los Angeles, 2017), Hansenovic vana (Brno/Czech Republic, 2018), Choroba Morgellonów (2018), Implanty (2018), Miejsca styku (2018), Pani Sześć Gier (2019), Runy lunarne (2019), Tora! Tora! Tora! (2020), Cukinie (2021), Letnie rytuały (2022), Niebo i jointy (2023), Dear Beloved Humans (2023), Ra (2023), Spartakus (2024), GRZEGORZ (2024), I Really Like Lovers of Poetry (USA, 2024), Tatami in Kyoto (London/UK, 2024). Asemic writing: Shanty Town (Minneapolis, USA 2022), visual poetry: Polowanie (2022). Asemic objects: Asemics (Manchester, UK 2025).
Portia Yu
Portia Yu is a writer from Hong Kong. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Strange Horizons, LIKE A FEVER, Crow & Cross Keys and Frontier Poetry among others. In addition, her work is included in Where Else: An International Hong Kong Poetry Anthology. She likes to write strange poems about sea creatures and supernatural beings.
Geoffrey Aitken
Geoffrey Aitken writes on Adelaide’s unceded Kaurna land, an awarded minimalist poet with a ‘lived experience disability’ for [AUS] and [UK, US, HR, CAN, FR & CN] successes. Recently, ‘Libre Lit’, ‘the engine(idling’ [US], ‘The Broken City’ [CAN], soon, ‘Social Alternatives’, ‘Monash University Verge Anthology 2025’ [AUS], and ‘The Closed Eye Open’ [US]. Nominated Best of the Net in 2022.
Sian Astor-Lewis
Sian Astor-Lewis is an award winning London-based writer and filmmaker. She is currently developing her debut short story collection having been published by Tears in the Fence: Issue 77, A Thin Slice of Anxiety and longlisted for the London Magazine Short Story Prize 2024. Her no-budget debut feature film 'To Nowhere', described by the Guardian in its four star review as ‘raw as a fresh wound… a remarkable bit of drama’, premiered at Curzon Soho, and is now available to stream on Curzon Home Cinema, and internationally on Amazon Prime, Apple TV and Tubi.
Barbara Daniels
Barbara Daniels’ most recent book, Talk to the Lioness, was published by Casa de Cinco Hermanas Press. Her poetry has appeared in Main Street Rag, Free State Review, Philadelphia Stories, and many other journals. She received four fellowships from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts.
David Estringel
David Estringel is a Xicanx writer with words in The Opiate, Cephalopress, Dreich, The Milk House, Harpy Hybrid Review, and Poetry NI. David has published five poetry collections and six poetry chapbooks, along with a co-authored novel, Escaping Emily (Thirty West Publishing). Connect with David on X @The_Booky_Man, Instagram @david_estringel, Bluesky @davidestringel.bsky.social, and his website www.davidaestringel.com
fakepicnic
fakepicnic is a New England poet.
Jasper Glen
Jasper Glen is a Canadian artist and poet. His work appears or is forthcoming in The Brooklyn Review, A Gathering of the Tribes, Acta Victoriana, Posit, BlazeVOX, Word For/ Word, Ranger Magazine, Collage.com.ar, and elsewhere. Poems have been nominated for Best New Poets and the Pushcart Prize. see jasperglen.com
Jamie Lim
Jamie Lim is currently an undergraduate student at Johns Hopkins University studying chemical and biomolecular engineering. She aspires to be a physician-scientist and bring hope to patients with chronic diseases. In her free time, she writes poetry, designs houses on The Sims 4, watches African wildlife documentaries, and dreams of bringing home a Doberman puppy one day.
Clare McCracken
Clare McCracken is an artist and writer working in Naarm/Melbourne. She works site-responsively and across disciplines to interrogate how mobile technologies such as the internet, cars, and ships shape us socially, spatially and temporally. Clare's creative outcomes include large-scale immersive installations, performative fieldwork, temporary and permanent public artworks and narrative non-fiction audio and written works.
Jessica Wright
Jessica Wright (she/they) is a writer, historian, and teacher based in West Yorkshire. Their recent work has appeared or is forthcoming in whiptail: journal of the single-line poem, York Literary Review, and Paragraph Planet. Their second book, Psychiatry: Antiquity and Its Legacy, was published by Bloomsbury in 2025.
Grzegorz Wróblewski
Gregorz belongs to the Danish Writers Union (Dansk Forfatterforening). He has published many books: Cindys Vugge (Copenhagen, 2016), Zero Visibility (Los Angeles, 2017), Hansenovic vana (Brno/Czech Republic, 2018), Choroba Morgellonów (2018), Implanty (2018), Miejsca styku (2018), Pani Sześć Gier (2019), Runy lunarne (2019), Tora! Tora! Tora! (2020), Cukinie (2021), Letnie rytuały (2022), Niebo i jointy (2023), Dear Beloved Humans (2023), Ra (2023), Spartakus (2024), GRZEGORZ (2024), I Really Like Lovers of Poetry (USA, 2024), Tatami in Kyoto (London/UK, 2024). Asemic writing: Shanty Town (Minneapolis, USA 2022), visual poetry: Polowanie (2022). Asemic objects: Asemics (Manchester, UK 2025).
Portia Yu
Portia Yu is a writer from Hong Kong. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Strange Horizons, LIKE A FEVER, Crow & Cross Keys and Frontier Poetry among others. In addition, her work is included in Where Else: An International Hong Kong Poetry Anthology. She likes to write strange poems about sea creatures and supernatural beings.
