Issue Two Contents
Issue Two 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.
- Laszlo Aranyi (Frater Azmon) poet, anarchist, occultist from Hungary. Earlier books: (szellem)válaszok, A Nap és Holderők egyensúlya . New: Kiterített rókabőr. English poems published: Quail Bell Magazine, Lumin Journal, Moonchild Magazine, Scum Gentry Magazine, Pussy Magic, The Zen Space, Crêpe & Penn, Briars Lit, Sage Cigarettes Magazine, Theta Wave, Cape Magazine, Neuro Logical, The Daily Drunk Mag, Unpublishable Zine, Melbourne Culture Corner, Beir Bua Journal, Crown & Pen, Dead Fern Press, Coven Poetry Journal, Journal of Erato, Lothlorien Poetry Journal, Spillover Magazine, Punk Noir, Nymphs Literary Journal, Synchronized Chaos, Impspired Magazine, Fugitives & Futurists, The Dope Fiend Daily, Mausoleum Press, Nine Magazines, Hearth & Coffin Literary Journal, Our Poetry Archive (OPA), Juniper Literary Magazine, Feral Dove Magazine, Alternate Route, CENTRE FOR EXPERIMENTAL ONTOLOGY, Bullshit Lit Magazine, Misery tourism, Terror House Press, Journal of Expressive Writing, APOCALYPSE CONFIDENTIAL, WordCity Literary Journal, Wilder Literature Magazine, Roadside Raven Review, Death'sDormantDaughter, Rasputin, Amphora Magazine, THIN SLICE ANXIETY, FLEAS ON THE DOG, Dumpster Fire Press, Horror Sleaze Trash Magazine, Outcast Press, DOGZPLOT Magazine, BLACK STONE / WHITE STONE, Impractical Things Magazine, Medusa's Kitchen, Beatnik Cowboy, LET’S STAB CAESAR!, THE PEACH Magazine, FATHERFATHER Magazine, Gorko Gazette, Jupiter Review, Word For/Word Magazine, Poetry As Promised Lit Mag. Known spiritualist mediums, art and explores the relationship between magic.
- Glen Armstrong (he/him) holds an MFA in English from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst and edits a poetry journal called Cruel Garters. He has three current books of poems: Invisible Histories, The New Vaudeville, and Midsummer.
- 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 15 chapbooks and 2 collections. He runs Between Shadows Press.
- Morgan Boyer is the author of The Serotonin Cradle (Finishing Line Press, 2018) and a graduate of Carlow University. Boyer has been featured in Kallisto Gaia Press, Thirty West Publishing House, Oyez Review, Pennsylvania English, and Voices from the Attic. Boyer is a neurodivergent bisexual woman who resides in Pittsburgh, PA.
- Drew Campbell is a creator from California. Together with his partner, he runs VLASINDA PRODUCTIONS, which produces art in multiple mediums, including films and zines. In recent years they have also organized events to showcase other artists and help build a more connected creative community. In his spare time, he enjoys writing stories, reading comic books, and watching movies. He is currently writing his first novella. For more work and announcements, visit IG: @vlasinda_stormdrain and YouTube.com/vlaSINda
- Bob Carlton (Twitter @bobcarlton3) lives and works in Leander, TX.
- Alexis Choi is attending Seoul International School in Seoul, South Korea. This is her first time submitting her artwork to a larger audience, and she is looking forward to receiving feedback.
- petro c. k. is a temporal being living in the primordial emerald landscape of the Pacific Northwest. His creative life has just recently included writing, with haiku and other short-form poetry already published in dozens of journals. Influenced by surrealism and dada techniques, the poems presented here have been created in part by using predictive text.
- Gabriel Coffman is a PhD Candidate in the University at Buffalo and has been a reader/screener for Fiction Collective 2, Subito Press, and Timber Journal. His work can be found in: Dream Pop, Gone Lawn, Yalobusha Review, Psychopomp Magazine, The Hunger Journal, and Five:2:One.
- AK Cola is a pop-culture-war-veteran and they're here to exploit American consumerism for profit, starting off by selling their book New World Hubris through Amazon, find their current material at AKCola.com.
- Peter Dabbene has published much poetry, the graphic novels Ark and Robin Hood, the story collections Prime Movements and Glossolalia, and a novel, Mister Dreyfus' Demons. His latest books are the Spamming the Spammers trilogy and Complex Simplicity, a collection of essays.
- R. Gerry Fabian is a published poet and novelist. He has published four books of his published poems, Parallels, Coming Out Of The Atlantic, Electronic Forecasts and Ball On The Mound. In addition, he has published four novels : Getting Lucky (The Story), Memphis Masquerade, Seventh Sense and Ghost Girl. His web page is https://rgerryfabian.wordpress.com
- Italo Ferrante (he/him) is a queer poet who earned a BA in English Literature and Creative Writing from the University of Warwick. He is currently undertaking an MA in Creative Writing at Lancaster University. To date, his work has been selected for publication by Poetry Salzburg, Impossible Archetype, Cardiff Review, Sage Cigarettes, Inflections Magazine, Lighthouse, and Orchard Lea Press.
- Connor Fisher is the author of The Isotope of I (Schism Press, 2021) and four poetry and hybrid chapbooks including Speculative Geography (Greying Ghost Press, 2022). He has an MFA from the University of Colorado at Boulder and a Ph.D. in Creative Writing and English from the University of Georgia. His poetry has appeared in journals including Denver Quarterly, Random Sample Review, Tammy, Tiger Moth Review, and Clade Song. He currently lives and teaches in northern Mississippi.
- Danny D. Ford’s poetry & artwork has appeared in numerous online & print titles including the chapbooks ‘Three Poets 5’ – Hickathrift Press, ‘Seven Letter Cities’, ‘Sunshine Junkie’, ‘Flexeril Haikus’, & ‘Slides for Alberto’ - Between Shadows Press, 'Perforated by Sirens' - Analog Submission Press. The Unfolding Head can be found in Bergamo, Italy,
@theunfoldinghead
www.theunfoldinghead.com - Orlando Garcia is an artist from California, educated in Graphic Design and Studio Arts at Southwestern College and CSU Long Beach. He uses various mediums, each for their unique processes, to consider ideas from new angles and create new takes. The experience of repeating process, altering process, and learning new process is central to his practice. Current interest are printmaking, artists books, and collage.
- Ed Go’s writing has appeared in multiple print and online journals, and his chapbook Deleted Scenes from the Autobiography of Ed Go as told by Napoleon Id is available from Other Rooms Press. Find him online at edgosblog.wordpress.com
- Howie Good is the author most recently of Failed Haiku, a poetry collection that is co-winner of the 2021 Grey Book Press Chapbook Contest and scheduled for publication in summer 2022. His previous poetry collections include Famous Long Ago (Laughing Ronin Press) and Gunmetal Sky (Thirty West Publishing).
Read their work from the inaugural issue here. - C.H. Gorrie is a poet, writer, editor, and musician hailing from San Diego, California. He holds an MA in English Literature from San Diego State University. The current nonfiction editor of Consequence, he also co-founded Synesthesia Literary Journal and acted as its managing editor for four years. He is the de facto A&R Representative of Reality House West, a Southern California music collective and event production company. His creative work has appeared in literary venues such as The Penn Review, San Diego Poetry Annual, aaduna, Problematique, ANON Magazine, Aztec Literary Review, Poems-for-All, and Duende.
- John Grey is an Australian poet, US resident, recently published in Sheepshead Review, Stand, Poetry Salzburg Review and Floyd County Moonshine. Latest books, “Covert” “Memory Outside The Head” and “Guest Of Myself” are available through Amazon. Work upcoming in the McNeese Review, Rathalla Review and Open Ceilings.
- Michael Haller is a writer based in Cincinnati. His fiction has been published in X-R-A-Y Literary Magazine, Five on the Fifth, Maudlin House, and Across the Margin. He studied playwriting at The Padua Hills Playwrights' Workshop in Los Angeles. His one-act plays have been staged in NYC and Los Angeles.
michaelhallerwriter.com - Charlie Hanlon is a guitarist, song writer and artist for the band Dark Satellite. The most recent music from Dark Satellite is their album "Alone with Everyone" released May of 2021 (available on spotify/bandcamp). The band is currently working on their next album that has not been titled yet, followed by a California Tour.
- A.J. Huffman is a poet and freelance writer in Daytona Beach, Florida. She has published 27 collections and chapbooks of poetry. In addition, she has published her work in numerous national and international literary journals. She is currently the editor for Kind of a Hurricane Press literary journals.
- 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 literary journals, including Pleiades, Spillway, the American Journal of Poetry and Willow Springs, and in five collections.
- Poet and songwriter Paul Ilechko lives with his partner in Lambertville, NJ. He is the author of several chapbooks. His work has appeared in a variety of journals, including The Night Heron Barks, Louisiana Literature, Iron Horse Literary Review, Clackamas Literary Review, and Book of Matches. His first album, "Meeting Points", was released in 2021.
- 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, and via his blog.
- Shae Krispinsky lives in Tampa, FL, where she fronts the band, Navin Avenue, whose sound she describes as Southern Gothic 70s-arena indie rock with a pop Americana twist. Her fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry have appeared in Connotation Press, Thought Catalog, The Dillydoun Review, Vending Machine Press, Sybil Journal and more. She is currently working on her band's second album and a novel.
You can find her on Instagram at: https://www.instagram.com/dearwassily/. - Ethan Leventhal was born and raised just across the bay from San Francisco, writing from a young age about California's beauty. He has worked before as a ghostwriter of children's stories and as a copywriter. He is now beginning a Master's in Writing from Warwick University in England's midlands.
- Katherine MacCue is a poet and graduate of Hunter College’s MFA in Poetry program. Her first book came out in 2014, and her first chapbook, Cassandra, Cassandra, came out in May 2021 where she placed as runner-up in Quarterly West’s Chapbook competition judged by bestselling author Elena Passarello. Her work has been published in more than sixteen journals including Juked, VINYL, decomP, Word Riot and more. She currently resides in New York and works in a library.
- Joshua Martin is a Philadelphia based writer and filmmaker, who currently works in a library. He is the author of the books automatic message (Free Lines Press), combustible panoramic twists (Trainwreck Press), Pointillistic Venetian Blinds (Alien Buddha Press) and Vagabond fragments of a hole (Schism Neuronics). He has had numerous pieces published in various journals including Otoliths, M58, Don’t Submit!, Ygdrasil, RASPUTIN, Ink Pantry, Nauseated Drive, and Synchronized Chaos. You can find links to his published work at joshuamartinwriting.blogspot.com
- Lachlan J McDougall is an Australian Word Technician working in cut-up and experimental literature. They are interested in smashing the Control Machine in all its guises and have chosen the written word and symbol as their weapon. Their books I was out.. the mice were in... and Blue Flute: Stories and Artwork can be purchased on Amazon.com.
- David P. Miller’s collection, Sprawled Asleep, was published by Nixes Mate Books in 2019. His chapbook, The Afterimages, was published by Červená Barva Press in 2014. Poems have recently appeared in Meat for Tea, Hawaii Pacific Review, Turtle Island Quarterly, Clementine Unbound, Constellations, J Journal, The Lily Poetry Review, Ibbetson Street, Redheaded Stepchild, The Blue Pages, and What Rough Beast, among others. He is a member of the Jamaica Pond Poets. His poem “Add One Father to Earth” was awarded an Honorable Mention by Robert Pinsky for the New England Poetry Club's 2019 Samuel Washington Allen Prize competition. With a background in experimental theater before turning to poetry, David was a member of the multidisciplinary Mobius Artists Group of Boston for 25 years. He was a librarian at Curry College in Massachusetts, from which he retired in June 2018.
- 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 - Babak Movahed received both a Bachelor and Master’s degree in American Literature. He defined the type of writer he wanted to become by examining the prose of writers like Hemingway, Faulkner, and Baldwin. Additionally, he received his first publication credit after an original short story was published by his university’s literary magazine. Babak still writes creatively in his free time. His recent works have been published in the The Hungry Chimera, The Blue Mountain Review, Hamilton Stone Review, Allium, and Smoky Blue Literary and Arts Magazine. @MovahedBabak
- Akshaya Pawaskar is a doctor-poet hailing from Goa, India. Her poems have been published in Shards, North of Oxford, and Indian Rumination, among many other journals. She won the Craven Arts Ekphrastic Poetry Competition (2020). Her poetry chapbook "The falling in and the falling out" was published by Alien Buddha press (2021).
Insta id @akshaya_pawaskar - Marc Phillips had a virtual presence in the early part of the century, before the internet became a vicious shopping circle and spawned a dark child, before social media grew into the leviathan even an idiot could see coming. At present, all you can read about him is what others have said. Luckily for the curious, others have said some things.
- Fabrice Poussin teaches French and English at Shorter University. Author of novels and poetry, his work has appeared in Kestrel, Symposium, The Chimes, and many other magazines. His photography has been published in The Front Porch Review, the San Pedro River Review as well as other publications.
- Nancy Machlis Rechtman has had poetry and short stories published in Your Daily Poem, The Whisky Blot, Grande Dame, Impspired, Trouvaille Review, Fresh Words, The Writing Disorder, Discretionary Love, and more. She wrote freelance Lifestyle stories for a local newspaper, and she was the copy editor for another paper. She writes a blog called Inanities at https://nancywriteon.wordpress.com.
- Jake Sheff is a pediatrician and veteran of the US Air Force. He's married with a daughter and several pets. Poems and short stories of Jake’s have been published widely. Some have even been nominated for the Best of the Net Anthology and the Pushcart Prize. His chapbook is “Looting Versailles” (Alabaster Leaves Publishing). A full-length collection of formal poetry, “A Kiss to Betray the Universe,” is available from White Violet Press.
- Benjamin James Smith is a writer and editor living in Maine. He recently finished writing his first screenplay, The Separate, about four hikers who follow in the footsteps of Benedict Arnold to find history and horror.
- Edward Michael Supranowicz is the grandson of Irish and Russian/Ukrainian immigrants. He grew up on a small farm in Appalachia. He has a grad background in painting and printmaking. Some of his artwork has recently or will soon appear in Fish Food, Streetlight, Another Chicago Magazine, The Door Is a Jar, The Phoenix, and other journals. Edward is also a published poet.
- John Tustin’s poetry has appeared in many disparate literary journals since 2009. fritzware.com/johntustinpoetry contains links to his published poetry online.
- Matthew Wallenstein is a writer and tattooer. He lives in the Rust Belt. He is the author of several books including Buckteeth, Tiny Alms, and a yet to be named book of poetry.
- Vin Whitman is a former funeral director and radio host living in Jasper, Indiana. His chapbook 'True Stories of the Odd Equinox' is available from Alien Buddha Press. His poems have appeared in The Bitchin' Kitsch, Otoliths, Peeking Cat, and Parliament Lit. As well as writing poetry, he enjoys drawing comics, ice skating and hanging out with his ferocious rabbit.
- Jennifer Woodworth studied creative writing at Old Dominion University. She is the author of the chapbook, How I Kiss Her Turning Head, published by Monkey Puzzle Press. Her stories poems, and essays have appeared in Scoundrel Time, Gone Lawn, The Citron Review, The Eastern Iowa Review, Bending Genres, and Jokes Literary Review, and Science Write Now!, among others. She was a nominee for a 2020 Best Micro Fiction, won first place in AROHO’s first “Orlando” Sudden Fiction contest, and a Writer’s Award in Poetry from Nassau Review. She has a new prose poem about fish* upcoming from Gone Lawn this September. She was a mathematician in a former life, and still is, now and then, as she adores the interplay of art and logic wherever she sees it play out.
- Mark Young was born in Aotearoa / New Zealand but now lives in a small town in North Queensland in Australia. He has been publishing poetry for over sixty years, & is the author of around sixty books, primarily text poetry but also including speculative fiction, vispo, non-fiction, & art history. His most recent books are Songs to Come for the Salamander: Poems 2013-2021, selected & with an introduction by Thomas Fink (Meritage Press & Sandy Press); Your order is now equipped for shipping (Sandy Press); & The Advantages of Cable (Luna Bisonte Prods).