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The Contributor Tapestry
Winter 2025
Rachel Wheelon has been a creative writer at Charleston County School of the Arts since sixth grade. Her work explores topics like mental health, body image, and relationships through a variety of forms, most commonly poetry and scripts.
Zoe Jones is a senior at Charleston School of the Arts, where she studies in the creative writing department. A regional and national award winner of the Scholastic Art and Writing Awards, Jones is working on a book set to be published in April 2025.
Niamh Carmichael is a writer currently based in Charleston, South Carolina. She has been published in For Page and Screen, A Thin Slice of Anxiety, and TMP Magazine, and when not writing, she enjoys watching movies and reading.
Brooklyn Mayberry is a high school junior at Charleston County School of the Arts, majoring in Creative Writing since 6th grade. They have won a couple silver keys from the Scholastic Art and Writing Awards, and that’s about it. Their pastimes include writing, drawing, biking, and tormenting their three younger siblings.
Maren Spangler is a junior creative writer at the School of the Arts in Charleston, SC. Spangler has been writing fiction and poetry almost her entire life, and plans to go to college for neuroscience.
Born in Texas and based in South Carolina, Aspen Ross (she/her) is a writer avid in personal anecdotes and religious imagery. Her treasured topics include grief, dysfunctional families, and anything in the South.
Lila Hayes is a creative writing student and Scholastic Writing Awards winner living in South Carolina. When she isn't writing, she can be seen talking to her cat and reading.
Ruby Varallo is senior creative writing major at her arts high school in Charleston, South Carolina. Her work has been featured in K’in Literary Journal and The Bookends Review, and her forthcoming collection of short stories and poetry will be published in the spring.
Kayla Diaz-Janes is a sophomore creative writer at the Charleston School of the Arts. Growing up traveling abroad, Diaz-Janes saw and understood some of the injustices of the world early into childhood, and holds a fascination to share stories with others who might not get the chance to experience them firsthand.
Lucille Harper is a freshman creative writing major at the Charleston School of the Arts. She is a Scholastic Art and Writing medalist, an American Voice Award nominee, and first-place winner of the Charleston Literary Festival’s Young Writers Awards.
Jessica DeMarco-Jacobson is an Italian American Jewish writer from Columbus, GA, completing an English MA at the University of Georgia. Her film photography has appeared Stillpoint Literary Magazine, Vol. 55 (2024) and on the cover of The Arden, Vol. XX (2022). Her creative writing has been published in The Arden, Agnes Scott Writers' Festival Magazine, Yente Zine, and Stillpoint Literary Magazine. Jessica received the 2024 Georgia Writers Association LGBTQIA+ Literary Success Grant and several Carson McCullers Literary Awards between 2019-2021. She hopes to one day return to Italy and spend the rest of her days writing whimsically about the human condition.
Siobhan Casey earned her MFA from Chatham University in 2011 where she worked as an editor for The Fourth River literary magazine. Her chapbook, Three Fourths of a Dream, was published in 2016 and her most recent work has appeared in Stoneboat Literary Journal, Black Fox Literary Magazine, Mud Season Review, and Up the Staircase Quarterly. She loves photography and painting and is in her last semester of an Inclusive Elementary Education program. She spends her free time coffee shop hopping, hiking with her family, or simply taking a breath by the water.
Ornament 2
J.G Orudjev
Sam Monroe Olson (he/him) is a candidate for the MFA in Poetry at Oregon State University. Raised in Portland, Oregon with family roots across Montana, he calls both states home. Prior to undertaking the MFA, he taught environmental science, managed wilderness trail crews, and facilitated creative writing workshops in Montana's schools. His writing can be found or is forthcoming in Camas, Cutbank, River Heron Review, and Heartwood.
Talia Beckhardt is a Jewish and queer writer of poetry and short fiction. She is from Boston, Massachusetts and is currently an undergraduate student of English Language & Literature at Smith College. She can often be found reading overly complex, queer space operas or playing The Sims 4. Her main talent is knowing how most words are spelled.
J G Orudjev is a collage artist and painter living in Frederick MD. She has a background in sculpture and printmaking, and a deep love of craft. Her work explores the nature of memory, transformative and transitory states, and the act and language of making meaning. Collage is uniquely suited to this path because it is fundamentally reflective of the ways we construct narrative from association—the strata of image and context that provide the basis for our private archetypes, our visual language. J G Orudjev’s work has appeared in print both domestically and internationally, has been selected by jury to show in galleries throughout the United States, and is part of several private collections. She also works on a commission basis, and has completed projects ranging from illustrated texts to music album covers. J G Orudjev is a member of a cooperative gallery, and there she fulfills a roll as a member coordinator. Additionally, she works as an artistic and curatorial consultant to a regionally recognized framer and gallerist.
Lana Eileen is an emerging multidisciplinary artist and musician. Her work as an artist spans painting, photography, sculpture, textiles, and mixed media. In 2019, she undertook an artist residency at the Creative Centre of Stöðvarfjörður in Iceland, and returned to be an artist-in-residence at The Old School Arthouse near the Arctic Circle in 2021. She later lived in Kraków, Poland, and travelled to both Egypt and Canada to deepen her creative practice across 2022. She received an honourable mention in the professional category of the 2021 Monochrome Photography Awards, and has participated in solo and group exhibitions both nationally and internationally. As a musician, Lana has travelled extensively, touring and recording around the world. She has previously worked with Alan Weatherhead (Sparklehorse, Nina Persson) and Mike Coykendall (M. Ward, Blitzen Trapper) in the United States, and Brett Shaw (Florence and the Machine, Robyn, Daughter) in the United Kingdom.
Jacob Dimpsey is a writer living in central Pennsylvania. His work has previously appeared in the SFWP Quarterly, The Blood Pudding, and Qu, among others.
Fall 2024
Summer 2024
Vestibules & Windows
Jessica DeMarco-Jacobson
Lucinda Trew’s poetry has been featured in Bloodroot Literary Magazine, The Poet, Cathexis Northwest, Mockingheart Review, storySouth, Eastern Iowa Review, and other journals and anthologies. She is a two-time Pushcart Prize nominee, a Best of the Net nominee and recipient of Boulevard Magazine’s 2023 Poetry Contest for Emerging Poets. She lives and writes in North Carolina with her jazz musician husband, two dogs, one cat, and far too many (never enough?) books to count.
Sheila Black is the author of five poetry collections, most recently Radium Dream from Salmon Poetry, Ireland. Poems and essays have appeared in Poetry, Ploughshares,The Nation, The New York Times, and elsewhere. She is a co-editor of Beauty is a Verb: The New Poetry of Disability. She lives in San Antonio, TX and Tempe, AZ where she is assistant director of the Virginia G. Piper Center for Creative Writing at Arizona State University (ASU).
Coda Danu-Asmara is an American-born labor activist living in Australia. His previous works of fiction have been published in ANMLY, Thrice Magazine, TheWriteLaunch, and others. He has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize, the Best of the Net, and the Best American Short Stories.
Slow Release
Lana Eileen
Emma Sheppard (she/her) is an English professor, teacher educator, and aspiring writer living in Toronto, ON. She writes on issues of identity, community, grief, family, and more. Her work can be found forthcoming and currently in Minimag, The Bookends Review, and Eloquentia Literary. She can be found on Instagram and Substack @emma.out.loud.
Evan Sandifer is a creative that can be found cutting new looks into their wardrobe and frantically rearranging the art on their walls. They have found a particular home in poetry, where their joy for words, their emotion, and their curious spirit can play in unbound territory. They have received several silver and gold keys from the Scholastic Writing Awards competitions, and their work has been featured in The Kenyon Review Literary Magazine. They recently published their debut anthology Body Mechanics (2024), and they are excited to continue pushing the boundaries of what they can achieve in their writing. Evan is a lover of good company and will take any chance they can to dive into a range of topics, from the ethics of Dark Souls to the intricacies of rap.
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Ivan de Monbrison
Emma Johnson-Rivard lives in Maryland where she writes poetry and weird fiction. Her work has appeared in Fearsome Critters, Coffin Bell, Moon City Review, and others.
Kathryn D. Temple has taught at Georgetown University for almost thirty years but only began writing poetry during the pandemic. Her latest work has appeared in Streetlight, Metaworker, Delmarva Review, and 3elements, among others. She has published two academic books on law and emotions and many essays in academic journals. Find her on the Chesapeake Bay or at https://georgetown.academia.edu/KathrynTemple and https://medium.com/@templek
Patrick T. Reardon, a three-time Pushcart Prize nominee for poetry, worked for 32 years as a Chicago Tribune reporter. He has published six poetry collections, including Darkness on the Face of the Deep, Salt of the Earth and Puddin’: The Autobiography of a Baby, A Memoir in Prose Poems. Reardon’s poetry has appeared in America, Rhino, Commonweal, Poetry East and other journals.
Rex Wilder is a multi-media artist who identifies as a New Pictorialist. He believes, as Stieglitz did nearly a hundred years ago, mainly that the image should be an aesthetic symbolic record of a scene plus the artist's personal comment and interpretation, capable of transmitting an emotional response to the mind of a receptive spectator. It should show originality, imagination, unity of purpose, a quality of repose, and have an infinite quality about it. “Showing what I see is secondary to demonstrating what I feel,” he says. He is also an award-winning poet, with four books to his credit. A fifth book which combines his images and his verbal reflections is making the rounds now: A Quiet Place to Land, which deals with a remarkable recovery from serious mental illness. He is now Chair of the Board of Directors at The Maple Counseling Center in Los Angeles.
Mariner’s Village
Rex Wilder
Jo Underwood is a writer from Greenville, South Carolina. Her work has been featured in Ambient Heights, The Library of Poetry Collection, and Sefer. She is the recipient of the 2024 Gilmore Award for Excellence in Creative Writing and serves as the Vice President of the Charleston Southern University Writer's Guild. When not writing, she spends most of her time teaching, sitting in her CSU professors' offices, or fighting dragons in her living room with her friends while playing Dungeons and Dragons.
Sean Gallagher learned to appreciate the ghoulish side of the everyday and find simplicity in lines and color from Edward Gorey's work, yet he couldn’t rely on the same ghastly wit that defined Gorey’s work. Gallagher credits his parents for building an environment that allowed his creative side to flourish. If it hadn’t been for them, he wouldn’t have started drawing or been introduced to Gorey or stumbled upon the core of his artwork, which he found in the dozens of coffee table books about photography his parents owned. Gallagher was drawn to the works of Diane Arbus and Saul Leiter and he studied how they composed a shot to reveal beauty in the mundane and the dignity of outsiders. Gallagher was especially inspired by the Arbus quote, “A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you the less you know.” From that, he found that he loved the challenge of making in-between moments picturesque. Recently, Gallagher was selected for the Under the Radar series, which celebrates the top 10 undiscovered artist in the lowcountry by Charleston Magazine. His art has also been featured or is slated to appear in several publications: Allegory Ridge, Tint Journal, The Closed Eye Open, Passengers Journal, Vineyard Literary, Red Ogre Review, Liminal Spaces, Beaver Magazine, Fauxmoir Literary Magazine, Quarter Press, and High Shelf Press.
Liam Strong (they/them) is a queer neurodivergent straight edge punk writer who has earned their BA in writing from University of Wisconsin-Superior. They are the author of the chapbook Everyone's Left the Hometown Show (Bottlecap Press, 2023). You can find their poetry and essays in Vagabond City and new words {press}, among several others. They are most likely gardening and listening to Bitter Truth somewhere in Northern Michigan. Find them on Instagram/Twitter: @beanbie666
E. P. Tuazon is a Filipino-American writer from Los Angeles. They have work in several publications and their newest book is called A PROFESSIONAL LOLA (Red Hen Press, 2024). They were chosen by ZZ Packer as the winner of the 2022 AWP Grace Paley Prize in Short Fiction. They are a member of Advintage Press and The Blank Page Writing Club. In their spare time, they like to go to Filipino Seafood Markets to gossip with the crabs.
Life is a Process of Preparing to be Dead for a Long Time
Sean Gallagher
Spring 2024
Grill Girl
Ashani Lillie
Mary McColley is a writer and poet originally from Maine. She has wandered and worked for a number of years in France, Thailand, and Palestine. Her pastimes include killing lobsters and selling street art.
When not circling the vortex of academia, Gia B. enjoys scribbling bits of nonfiction. She lives in New England but calls the South home.
Buttterfly
Guilherme Bergamini
Held Together With Stitches
Paul Deleon
E.C. Gannon's work has previously appeared in a few small magazines. A Bostonian by birth, she holds a degree in creative writing and political science from Florida State University. She is currently trying to stay warm in New Hampshire.
Abbie Langmead (she/they) is a Sapphic Jewish writer, originally from Boston, MA. She is a recent graduate of Emerson College and will soon be attending Trinity College Dublin. Their work has appeared or is forthcoming with Quarter Press, Periphery Journal, Barbar, and others. Find them in those publications, hosting dinner parties in an apartment too crowded for the amount of people she invited, or exploring cities both familiar and new.
Visual artist and photographic reporter, Guilherme Bergamini is Brazilian and graduated in Journalism. For more than two decades, he has developed projects with photography and the various narrative possibilities that art offers. The works of the artist dialogue between memory and social political criticism. He believes in photography as the aesthetic potential and transforming agent of society. Awarded in national and international competitions, Guilherme Bergamini participated in collective exhibitions in 54 countries.
Paul Deleon is a multi-media artist from Florida who is currently studying at New World School of the Arts. His works serve as an expression of his experiences with being transgender. As a youth who grew up closeted for all his life, he found solace in creating artworks that communicated his experiences when he couldn’t say anything himself. He strives to use his art to speak in a way he can’t and potentially reach those who may be in a similar situation and resonate with his work. He’s now determined to create a bright future for himself as he continues to pursue art as he goes into college with a more authentic life.
Winter 2024
M. Tyler Tuttle (they/them) is a writer, journalist, and wandering pit demon from Baltimore, Maryland. Tyler holds a degree in Creative Writing & English from the George Washington University in Washington, DC, and is a graduate of The Loft’s Year-Long Novel Writing Project in Minneapolis, MN. Tyler’s work has been published in Cosmic Horror Monthly, Trace Fossils Review, Wooden Teeth, the Horror Over the Handlebars anthology, and multiple philanthropy journals. Their writing has been considered for the Halifax Ranch Prize for Fiction (semi-finalist, 2021), F(r)iction Magazine’s Short Story Contest (finalist, fall 2023), and “Best Original Script” at the Great Salt Lake Fringe Festival (winner, 2022). You can catch up with Tyler online at TheHighwayMFA.com or @mtylertuttle on Twitter and Instagram, where they will be documenting their journey as an incoming MFA candidate at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks. If you look close—and if you’re very, very lucky—you’ll find them meandering through the wilderness with their dog Piglet, or dancing in a field somewhere, pretending to be Stevie Nicks.
Michael Thériault has been an Ironworker, union organizer, and union representative. He published fiction in his twenties, half a dozen stories in literary magazines, but abandoned it for decades to support first a family, then a movement. In his very recent return to it he has been published in Pacifica Literary Review, Overheard, Erato Magazine, Livina Press, Remington Review and Sky Island Journal and accepted by Iconoclast, Currant Jam, and Door Is A Jar. Popula.com has published his brief memoir of Ironworker organizing. He is a graduate of St. John’s College, Santa Fe and San Francisco native and resident.
Sonya Wohletz is a writer of poetry and creative non-fiction. Her work has appeared in Latin American Literary Review, Roanoke Review, Revolute, and others. Her first poetry collection, Bir Sira Sonra/One Row After, was published by First Matter Press in 2022.
Kimberly Hall (she/her) is a queer and neurodivergent poet and author based in Southeast Texas. She holds a master's degree in behavioral science. Her work can be found or is upcoming in publications such as Sappho's Torque, Equinox, Wild Roof Journal, and The Ekphrastic Review. She is currently working on her first collection.
Jack Lindsay is a student and writer from South Carolina. His fiction is a place where his experiences can rest, fit in the files of the story and make it real: a tie hanging from a street sign, the look of a conch shell after it cuts your foot, a blue heron taking flight. At any given time, he can be found writing in about eight different notebooks, talking to strangers, and perusing his grandfather’s old books on his remote barrier island home near the ocean.
Manola Silva-Hanson is a mixture of Mexican and Norwegian culture. Driven by her identity as a biracial individual, she captures her close circle and loved ones through paintings, sculptures, and wearables. She has won the 2024 Young Arts Award Winner with Distinction and was featured in the Rubell Museum Miami, the New World School of the Arts Gallery, The Institute of Contemporary Art, and the YoungArts Gallery. During her free time, she watches fashion runways, scrolls on Pinterest, and unconventionally pursues collecting soda can tabs. Manola's artistic journey is a fusion of diverse influences. With a dream to turn her passion into a lifelong career, she envisions exploring various mediums and careers within the art world, creating a narrative beyond personal identity to invite others into the rich tapestry of cultural diversity through her artistic lens.
Cowboy Culture
Ava Dawson
Who says my hand a needle better fits
Paola Alvarez
SavannahLiveOak
DL Pravda
Taylor Franson-Thiel is a writer from Utah, now based in Fairfax, Virginia. She received her Master’s in creative writing from Utah State University and is pursuing an MFA at George Mason University. Her writing frequently centers on playing as a Division One basketball player, the body, and mental health. Along with writing, she enjoys lifting heavy weights and reading fantastic books. You can find her on twitter @TaylorFranson.
Liam Wholihan's other poems appear in The Dewdrop, Kelp, Red Noise Collective, Quail Bell Magazine, and others. He uses his MFA in poetry to teach creative writing at Point Park University and drive a Zamboni.
DL Pravda tries to keep it together either by jamming distorted reverb juice in his ears or by driving to the country and disappearing into the woodsfarm dimension. Recent poetry appears in Blue Collar Review, Bookends Review, Poetry Quarterly, Rockvale Review and South 85, recent photography in Santa Clara Review, Streetlight Magazine and Ponder Savant. Pravda teaches at Norfolk State University.
Paola Alvarez Ramirez is a Miami-based interdisciplinary artist (b. 2006, Paris, FR). Raised in Miami, she has attended magnet art schools since 6th grade. She currently studies at the New World School of the Arts and is due to graduate in June of 2024. Paola’s work revolves around growing up in a patriarchal society as a young woman. She unsettles and directly confronts the viewer, challenging them to acknowledge and address the issues women face through the use of discomforting materials and fluorescent pinks. She was named a Young Artists with Distinction in 2024 by the Youngarts organization and is also a Silver Knights Nominee and nominee for the Presidential Scholar in the Arts. Her first major show was the New World School of the Arts Rising Stars Showcase, following this her work won two Silver Keys and one Honorable Mention in the Scholastics Art and Writing competition. Two of her works were exhibited at the Rubell Museum for the Scholastics exhibition and she has recently displayed her work at the Pérez Art Museum for the NFTE Metaverse Art Exhibit.
Timothy Geiger is the author of the poetry collections Weatherbox, (winner of the 2019 Vern Rutsala Poetry Prize from Cloudbank Books), The Curse of Pheromones (Main Street Rag Press), and Blue Light Factory (Spoon River Poetry Press), as well as ten chapbooks. He runs a small farmstead in northwest Ohio (overrun with goats, pigs, chickens, ducks, and dogs), operates Aureole Press (a letterpress imprint publishing contemporary poetry since 1989), and is a professor of English (teaching creative writing, poetry, and book arts) at The University of Toledo.
Kaleeb
Manola Silva-Hanson
Kalie Johnson is a 26 year old living in Lorain, Ohio. She has been previously published, mostly creative non-fiction and nature writing in The Mill, The Watershed Review, Fatal Flaws Literary Magazine, The Bookends Review, Coffin Bell Journal, The Quillkeeper's Press, The Howler Project, New Plains Review, Jet Fuel Review, Thirteen Bridges Review, and Humans of the World. She teaches children in residential care how to garden! When not writing, you can find her travelling the United States in her van! You can find her writing on Instagram at @Thingsfeelwrite.
Ava Dawson is a high school student as well as an artist from Charleston, South Carolina. Her work typically follows human and animal depictions across multiple mediums.
Ellen White Rook is a poet, writer, and contemplative arts teacher who divides her time between upstate New York and Maine. Retired from a career as an information technology manager, she now offers writing workshops and leads retreats that combine meditation, movement, and writing. Ellen holds a Master of Fine Arts degree from Lindenwood University and has been twice nominated for the Pushcart Prize. Suspended, her first collection of poetry, was released by Cathexis Northwest Press in May 2023. Visit her website at ellenwhiterook.com.
Gary James Erwin's work has appeared in a number of journals over the years—The Sun, Santa Fe Literary Review, Red Cedar Review, 3288 Review, The MacGuffin, Clockhouse and Third Wednesday to name a few. He has received several Pushcart Prize nominations and had a story anthologized in The PrePress Awards Volume II: Michigan Voices. His book of short stories, Trail Crossing Sixteen Counties, was published in 2019 by Adelaide Books (https://amzn.to/2XW44Fh). The piece included in Trace Fossils Review is an excerpt from his novel in progress, Cut River Redemption. He's also working on a new collection titled The Injury List. He lives with his family in Clarkston, Michigan.
Prey Animal
Ava Dawson
Fall 2023
Blue Whales
Roger Camp
Abbilene Littell writes about memories, nature, and anything else that strikes her. Born in Ashland, Alabama, she received a Bachelor of Arts in English Literature from Auburn University before heading north. Abbi now lives in Champaign, Illinois, with her husband and two cats: Padme and Salem. Find her on Instagram @a.lit.tell
David John Baer McNicholas has been on travel in New Mexico for three years. He is the author of the novel Lemons: In an Orchard. He operates the nascent imprint ghostofamerica ltd co (Anarchy, Abolition, Art) and studies for his BFA in Creative Writing and AA in Native Studies at the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe. Currently, he is working on an array of projects. His work can be found on poets.org, Bending Genres, Panorama Travel Journal, and ghostofamerica.net.
Hashkey
David John Baer McNicholas
Formation
Peter L. Scacco
Reconstructed Attic Figure
Peter L. Scacco
John Arterbury is a Virginia-based writer and former journalist whose work has focused on armed conflict. His nonfiction has appeared in Rolling Stone, The Bangkok Post, New Statesman, and Roads & Kingdoms and his prose has been featured in Glassbottled, Deek Magazine, 365 Tomorrows, and staged for production by the Delta Literary Arts Society. His most recent work of fiction, "The Wrong Side of Heaven," is forthcoming in the Delmarva Review.
Peter L. Scacco began making woodcut prints when he was sixteen years old. His artwork has been featured in numerous print and online journals. Mr. Scacco also is the author of seven books of poetry and a translation of Théophile Gautier's The Salon of 1850-51. A native of Cleveland, Ohio, and a graduate of Fordham University with a degree in art history, Mr. Scacco has lived and worked in New York, Paris, Tokyo, Brussels, and cities throughout the USA. Since 1995 he has made his home in Austin, Texas. Further examples of his art can be seen at www.scaccowoodcuts.com.
Katja Jackson is a student and artist living in Coastal Virginia. She works across different mediums, focusing on nature and the climate crisis, and loves music.
Isabella Mori has been published here, there, but definitely not everywhere. Her first full-length nonfiction book, Believe Me: Stories, interviews, and research about mental health and addiction, is slated for publication by Three Ocean Press in the spring of 2024. A lover of the hybrid form, she is also currently working on a series of surreal haibun (a form that combines short prose with haiku) inspired by a tarot deck that depicts 1920s Berlin.
Miles Varana’s work has appeared in Typehouse, The Penn Review, and Passages North. He has worked previously as a staff reader and managing editor at Hawai’i Pacific Review. Miles currently works for WKBT News in La Crosse, Wisconsin, where he does his best to be a good Millennial despite disliking tandem bike rides.
A proponent of ditching one's natural hair color for something a bit more creative than nature allows, Shauri Cherie occasionally writes poetry and nonfiction. Editing is her usual passion, which is why she founded the literary magazine Exposed Bone with her co-editor-in-chief. She is easily excited by travel, curry, and stingrays, and she is surprisingly feral at concerts. Find her work in Sink Hollow, Kolob Canyon Review, The Southern Quill, and forthcoming in Constellations.
Roger Camp is the author of three photography books including the award winning Butterflies in Flight, Thames & Hudson, 2002 and Heat, Charta, Milano, 2008. His work has appeared in numerous journals including The New England Review, Witness and the New York Quarterly. His documentary photography has been awarded Europe's prestigious Leica Medal of Excellence. Represented by the Robin Rice Gallery, NYC, more of his work may be seen on Luminous-Lint.com.
Herbarium
Anthony Santulli
Anthony Santulli (he/they) is a New Jersey born writer and artist with a B.A. in Creative Writing and Italian from Susquehanna University. Their recent work has appeared in Heavy Feather Review, COUNTERCLOCK, BRUISER, Anti-Heroin Chic, Random Sample, and Red Noise Collective.
David A. Goodrum, writer/photographer, lives in Corvallis, Oregon. His chapbook, Sparse Poetica (Audience Askew), is due in late 2023, and a poetry collection, Vitals and Other Signs of Life (The Poetry Box), in mid 2024. His poems are forthcoming or have been published in Tar River Poetry, The Inflectionist Review, Scapegoat Review, Triggerfish Critical Review, among others. See additional work (poetry and photography) at www.davidgoodrum.com.
Summer 2023
Robin Gow is a trans poet and witch from rural Pennsylvania. It is an author of several poetry books, an essay collection, YA, and Middle-Grade novels in verse, including Dear Mothman and A Million Quiet Revolutions. Gow's poetry has recently been published in POETRY, Southampton Review, and New Delta Review. Fae lives in Allentown, Pennsylvania with their queer family.
B.A. Van Sise is an author and photographic artist focused on the intersection between language and the visual image. He is the author of two monographs: the visual poetry anthology Children of Grass: A Portrait of American Poetry with Mary-Louise Parker, and Invited to Life: After the Holocaust with Neil Gaiman, Mayim Bialik, and Sabrina Orah Mark. He has previously been featured in solo exhibitions at the Center for Creative Photography, the Center for Jewish History and the Museum of Jewish Heritage, as well as in group exhibitions at the Peabody Essex Museum, the Museum of Photographic Arts, the Los Angeles Center of Photography and the Whitney Museum of American Art; a number of his portraits of American poets are in the permanent collection of the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery. His short nonfiction and poetry has been featured in Poets & Writers, The North American Review, Nowhere, the Los Angeles Review, Tupelo Quarterly, The Southampton Review, Eclectica, Cutleaf, Hayden’s Ferry Review, thimble, the Santa Clara Review and The Intrepid Times, and he is a frequent reviewer of poetry and photography titles for the New York Journal of Books. He has been a finalist for the Rattle Poetry Prize, the Travel Media Awards for feature writing, and the Meitar Award for Excellence in Photography. He is a 2022 New York State Council on the Arts Fellow in Photography, a Prix de la Photographie Paris award-winner, a winner of the Lascaux Prize for Nonfiction, and an Independent Book Publishers Awards gold medalist.
Busted up and pure as winter light
James Diaz
Gina Gidaro has a bachelor’s degree in creative writing and a minor in studio art from Ohio University. She received a graduate certificate from the Denver Publishing Institute and is a volunteer reader for CARVE Magazine and Autumn House Press, and is an editor for the Outlander Zine and Divinations Magazine. She’s passionate about stories, playing guitar, and anything spooky. More of her publications can be found at ginagidaro.wordpress.com.
Marc Dickerson is a writer and filmmaker from Philadelphia, PA. His work has appeared online and in literature publications such as Culture Cult and Thimble Literature Magazine, where he was nominated for a Pushcart Prize for prose. He lives in Bucks County, PA with his wife, daughter and son.
Through the Window
Frances Fish
Rebecca Nelson is pursuing a PhD in ecology at the University of California Davis. She researches plant and pollinator conservation. Her poetry has appeared in Deep Wild Journal, Common Ground Review, Kelp Journal, and the Great Lakes Review. Her first collection of poems, Walking the Arroyo, is available on Kindle. When she’s not chasing bumblebees or writing, she enjoys watching birds
Storm Ainsely has lived in 9 of the United States and will tell you she's from fiction-land. Visible stars and trees are necessities in her life. One day, she hopes to have a mini-sustainable-house-on-wheels, so she can keep moving without having to pack. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Sleet Magazine, Cardinal Sins, Wild Roof Journal, New Note Poetry, Oakwood, and Plumwood Mountain Journal.
No Access
Gina Gidaro
Braeden LaRoche is an artist and writer concerned with biology, speculative evolution, science communication, and the neglected minutiae of the natural world. His artwork has been featured in the upcoming speculative evolution magazine Astrovitae and has received Scholastic Art awards.
Victoria Gransee (@vgransee) is a Wisconsin-based writer fascinated by memory, self, and the divine.
Dmitra Gideon is a writer, educator, and community organizer living in Pittsburgh, PA. A graduate of the Chatham University MFA Program, they currently serve as Director of Youth-Centered Programming and Community Collaboration for Write Pittsburgh and Disability Justice and Family Liberation Advocate for the Abolitionist Law Center. Their work has appeared in PANK Magazine, new words [press], Cold Mountain Review, and 805 lit + art, among others.
Bleah Patterson (she/her) was born and raised in Texas. Former evangelical, former homeschooler, former journalist, she believes in honoring every iteration of herself. She is a poet who sometimes writes prose, she explores generational and religious trauma, and is a current MFA candidate at Sam Houston State University. For what it’s worth, her mother says she’s a bad daughter but a good writer. Her work has been published or is forthcoming in The Brazos River Review; The Texas Review; the tide rises, the tide falls; The Hyacinth Review; and The Bayou Review among others.
James Diaz is the author of This Someone I Call Stranger (Indolent Books, 2018) All Things Beautiful Are Bent (Alien Buddha, 2021) and Motel Prayers (Alien Buddha, 2022) as well as the founding editor of Anti-Heroin Chic. Their most recent work can be found in Rust + Moth, Sugar House Review, Chaotic Merge Magazine and Thrush Poetry Journal.
Apparitions
Braedan LaRoche
Frances Fish’s passion lies behind a camera. She has dabbled as an abstract painter and often shoots hundreds of photographs a day. Her friends call her a 'preservationist' photographer, as her images are of the abandoned places in the desert, covered in graffiti, which change day by day. Some of the images Frances shoots can never be replicated, as the art is painted over, sometimes immediately. The work of Frances Fish has been published in multiple magazines, and in a previous life, she was also a novelist, publishing seven novels, though under a pseudonym.
That kind of place
James Diaz
Joshua McKinney lives in the fire-ravaged region known as California, where he spends his time wrangling two pet guinea pigs and trying, feebly, to play the banjo. An amateur lichenologist, he is a long-standing member of the California Lichen Society. For the past twelve years he has served as co-editor of the online ecopoetics zine, Clade Song.
Calais Mustoe is a Vermont native. She is currently working on her first novel.
Elizabeth Higgins writes across genres and disciplines to consolidate information and experience, and through archival research as a way to confront the past and reframe the present. Elizabeth is an academic coach and former library cataloger with an MFA in creative writing from Oregon State University Cascades.