Issue One Contents
Issue One Bios
Note: Contributors are listed alphabetically by last name. Links to all of the books and magazines/journals mentioned by the contributors have been provided, when applicable.
- Jonel Abellanosa lives in Cebu City, The Philippines. His poetry and fiction are forthcoming in The Cape Rock, Woodcrest Magazine and Poetry Salzburg Review, and have appeared in hundreds of magazines and anthologies, including Chiron Review, Invisible City, Thin Air, The Lyric, The McNeese Review, and The Anglican Theological Review. His poetry collections include, “Songs from My Mind’s Tree” and “Multiverse” (Clare Songbirds Publishing House, New York), “50 Acrostic Poems,” (Cyberwit, India), “In the Donald’s Time” (Poetic Justice Books and Art, Florida), and “Pan’s Saxophone” (Weasel Press, Texas). He is a nature lover, with three companion dogs, and three other beloved dogs who have passed on beyond the rainbow bridge. He loves all animals.
Read his work from the inaugural issue here. - Dee Allen is an African-Italian performance poet based in Oakland, California. Active in creative writing & Spoken Word since the early 1990s. Author of 7 books--Boneyard, Unwritten Law, Stormwater, Skeletal Black [ all from POOR Press ], Elohi Unitsi [ Conviction 2 Change Publishing ] and coming in February 2022, Rusty Gallows: Passages Against Hate [ Vagabond Books ] and Plans [ Nomadic Press ]--and 42 anthology appearances under his figurative belt so far.
Read their work from the inaugural issue here. - Nadia Arioli is the co-founder and editor in chief of Thimble Literary Magazine. Their recent publications include Penn Review, Cider Press Review, Kissing Dynamite, Heavy Feather Review, and San Pedro River Review. They have chapbooks from Cringe-Worthy Poetry Collective, Dancing Girl Press, Spartan, and a full-length from Luchador. They were nominated for Best of the Net in 2021 by As It Ought to Be, West Trestle Review, Angel Rust, and Voicemail Poems.
Read their work from the inaugural issue here. - Tohm Bakelas is a social worker in a psychiatric hospital. He was born in New Jersey, resides there, and will die there. His poems have appeared in numerous journals, zines, and online publications. He has published 14 chapbooks and 2 collections. He runs Between Shadows Press.
Read their work from the inaugural issue here. - Robert Beveridge (he/him) makes noise (xterminal.bandcamp.com) and writes poetry in Akron, OH. Recent/upcoming appearances in FEED October Series, Breathe, and Passager, among others.
Read their work from the inaugural issue here. - Ace Boggess is author of six books of poetry, most recently Escape Envy (Brick Road Poetry Press, 2021). His poems have appeared in Michigan Quarterly Review, J Journal, Rattle, North Dakota Quarterly, Harvard Review, and many other journals. An ex-con, he lives in Charleston, West Virginia, where he writes and tries to stay out of trouble.
Read their work from the inaugural issue here. - Krystyna Curtis aka Haunted Light is a uk based multidisciplinary artist, currently working chiefly in experimental photography & film, but also through illustration, sound & installation. Her work concerns the often esoteric, liminal spaces between all things; the hidden worlds usually accessible only through dreams and visions.
Instagram.com/haunted_light_art Instagram.com/decayingspheres Instagram.com/bonzaiidrones - Adrian David writes ads by day and poetry by night. His poems explore themes like conflict, existential crises, society, and everything in between, from the mundane to the sublime.
Read their work from the inaugural issue here. - Howie Good is the author most recently of the poetry collections Gunmetal Sky (Thirty West Publishing) and Famous Long Ago (Laughing Ronin Press).
Read their work from the inaugural issue here. - John Grey is an Australian poet, US resident, recently published in Sheepshead Review, Poetry Salzburg Review and Hollins Critic. Latest books, “Leaves On Pages” and “Memory Outside The Head” are available through Amazon. Work upcoming in Lana Turner and International Poetry Review.
Read their work from the inaugural issue here. - Ed Higgins' poems and short fiction have appeared in various print and online journals including recently: Sledgehammer Lit, Fudoki Magazine, Triggerfish Critical Review, Ekphrastic Review, and Tigershark Magazine, among others. He is Asst. Fiction Editor for Brilliant Flash Fiction. Ed has a small organic farm in Yamhill, OR, raising a menagerie of animals including a rooster named StarTrek.
Read their work from the inaugural issue here. - Poet and songwriter Paul Ilechko is the author of three chapbooks, most recently “Pain Sections” (Alien Buddha Press). His work has appeared in a variety of journals, including The Night Heron Barks, Rogue Agent, Ethel, Lullwater Review, and Book of Matches. He lives with his partner in Lambertville, NJ.
Read their work from the inaugural issue here. - Tim Kahl [http://www.timkahl.com] is the author of Possessing Yourself (CW Books, 2009), The Century of Travel (CW Books, 2012) The String of Islands (Dink, 2015) and Omnishambles (Bald Trickster, 2019). His work has been published in Prairie Schooner, Drunken Boat, Mad Hatters' Review, Indiana Review, Metazen, Ninth Letter, Sein und Werden, Notre Dame Review, The Really System, Konundrum Engine Literary Magazine, The Journal, The Volta, Parthenon West Review, Caliban and many other journals in the U.S. He is also editor of Clade Song. He is the vice president and events coordinator of The Sacramento Poetry Alliance. He also has a public installation in Sacramento {In Scarcity We Bare The Teeth}. He plays flutes, guitars, ukuleles, charangos and cavaquinhos. He currently teaches at California State University, Sacramento, where he sings lieder while walking on campus between classes.
Read their work from the inaugural issue here. - Rus Khomutoff is an experimental poet in Brooklyn, NY. He has been published by San Francisco review of books, Proprose magazine, Silver Pinion and Hypnopomp. In June he published a chapbook called Radia from Void Front Press. He can be reached at @rusdaboss on twitter.
Read their work from the inaugural issue here. - Peter J. King was born and brought up in Boston, Lincolnshire. Active on the London poetry scene in the 1970s as writer, performer, publisher, and editor, he returned to poetry in 2013, and has since been widely published in journals and anthologies. He also translates poetry, mainly from modern Greek (with Andrea Christofidou) and German, writes short prose, and paints. His currently available collections are Adding Colours to the Chameleon (Wisdom’s Bottom Press) and All What Larkin (Albion Beatnik Press).
Read their work from the inaugural issue here. - Paul R. Lastovica (plastov), born June 1981, is a native Texas-based multidisciplinary creative living and working in the Industrial suburbs of Houston, Texas. He has a wife of 13 years, and one daughter who he hopes to ignite the creative fire within. Mr. Lastovica's visual compositions explore Color, Texture, Pattern, Shape & Form via readily accessible digital drawing tools, cell phone & DSLR photography, Raw Databending experiments through Digital Audio Workstations, & app based image manipulations. Though largely self taught, his arts education (outside of public school) includes a variety of community college courses such as: Life Drawing, Film & Digital Photography & Print Making. Paul commits himself to creating at least one piece of art daily as a ritual practice. Looking ahead to 2022 and beyond, Mr. Lastovica is considering exploring Hand Cut Collage. Other creative pursuits include music production & sound manipulation, and the occasional dive into Poetry.
Read their work from the inaugural issue here, and see their visual work here. - Edward Lee's poetry, short stories, non-fiction and photography have been published in magazines in Ireland, England and America, including The Stinging Fly, Skylight 47, Acumen, The Blue Nib and Poetry Wales. His play ‘Wall’ was part of Druid Theatre’s Druid Debuts 2020. His debut poetry collection "Playing Poohsticks On Ha'Penny Bridge" was published in 2010. He is currently working towards a second collection. He also makes musical noise under the names Ayahuasca Collective, Orson Carroll, Lego Figures Fighting, and Pale Blond Boy. His blog/website can be found at https://edwardmlee.wordpress.com.
Their appearances in the inaugural issue of Blue as an Orange can be found here, here, and here. - Lachlan J. McDougall is an Australian prose technician working in cut-up and experimental literature. Currently working on debut novel 'The Jagged Spiral' as well as sporadic work on cut-up novel provisionally titled 'Terra Firma''. His blog can be found here.
His appearances in the Fall/Winter 2021 issue of Blue as an Orange can be found here, here, and here. - Bob McNeil, writer, editor, cartoonist, and spoken word artist, is the author of Verses of Realness (Underground Books). Hal Sirowitz, a Queens Poet Laureate, called the book “A fantastic trip through the mind of a poet who doesn’t flinch at the truth.” Among Bob’s recent accomplishments, he found working on Lyrics of Mature Hearts to be a humbling experience because of the anthology’s talented contributors.
Read their work from the inaugural issue here. - Mark J. Mitchell was born in Chicago and grew up in southern California. His latest poetry collection, Roshi San Francisco, was just published by Norfolk Publishing. Starting from Tu Fu was recently published by Encircle Publications. He is very fond of baseball, Louis Aragon, Miles Davis, Kafka and Dante. He lives in San Francisco with his wife, the activist and documentarian, Joan Juster where he made his marginal living pointing out pretty things. Now, like everyone else, he’s unemployed. He has published 2 novels and three chapbooks and two full length collections so far. His first chapbook won the Negative Capability Award. Titles on request.
A meager online presence can be found at https://www.facebook.com/MarkJMitchellwriter/
A primitive web site now exists: https://www.mark-j-mitchell.square.site/
I sometimes tweet @Mark J Mitchell_Writer
Read their work from the inaugural issue here. - Frederick Pollack is the author of two book-length narrative poems, THE ADVENTURE and HAPPINESS, both Story Line Press; the former to be reissued by Red Hen Press. Two collections of shorter poems, A POVERTY OF WORDS, (Prolific Press, 2015) and LANDSCAPE WITH MUTANT (Smokestack Books, UK, 2018). Pollack has appeared in Salmagundi, Poetry Salzburg Review, The Fish Anthology (Ireland), Magma (UK), Bateau, Fulcrum, Chiron Review, Chicago Quarterly Review, etc. Online, poems have appeared in Big Bridge, Hamilton Stone Review, BlazeVox, The New Hampshire Review, Mudlark, Rat’s Ass Review, Faircloth Review, Triggerfish, etc.
Read their work from the inaugural issue here. - Aldo Quagliotti is an Italian poet living in London, UK. He's the author of Japanese Tosa (London Poetry Books) and Confessions Of A Pregnant Man (Alien Buddha Press). His poems have been rewarded in Italy, Brazil, USA, Canada, Ireland and in the United Kingdom. He has been selected for important anthologies such as Paper therapy,Yawp!, The Essential anthology, Murmurations, Poetical Word, Poetry in the Time of Coronavirus. Several webzines and magazines have published his work, such as INNSÆI, U-rights, Credo espoir, Parouisia , Poetica Review and many more. In October 2020 He has been chosen to represent the Poetry Corner at the London Chelsea + Kesington Art Week. Click here to read their appearance in the Fall/Winter 2021 Issue of Blue as an Orange.
Read their work from the inaugural issue here. - RUNA Lives and works in Lisbon, Portugal.
2020-22 – Undertaking a Master’s Degree in Painting, at Fine Arts Faculty of Lisbon University.
Studied photography at Cenjor, the Professional Training Center for Journalists, in Lisbon (182 hours of classes).
Completed the Painting course at the National Society of Fine Arts, in Lisbon (three academic years).
Graduated at University of Lisbon.
www.rutenorte.com
www.instagram.com/rute_norte
(Facebook is for travels: www.facebook.com/Rute.Norte.Travels/
See their work from the inaugural issue here. - T. E. Secor is a poet, writer, and town employee from Stanfordville, NY, who operates a small online blog/journal, Eagleson & Secor Journal, to share events and writing from locals. He has written much and is currently composing a collection of poetry to be published.
Read their work from the inaugural issue here. - Dick Westheimer has - in the company of his wife Debbie - lived, gardened and raised five children on their plot of land in rural southwest Ohio. He has taken up with poets and the writing of poetry to make sense of the world. In the past year he has been a Rattle Poetry Prize finalist and his poems have appeared in Rattle, Pine Mountain Sand and Gravel, Rise Up Review, Sheila Na-Gig, The New Verse News, and upcoming in Aethlon, Sparklit, and Pendemics Journal, among others. dickwestheimer.com
Read their work from the inaugural issue here. - Rosaline Winters is a simple woman living with her beloved dog. Through her veins runs a river of coffee whose flow is never ceasing. She aims for a peaceful life, to be able to just be, and coexist. Her mind may wander aimlessly in the shadows for days on end, but the light will always call her forth.
Read their work from the inaugural issue here.