Red Ogre Press (L.A.) just released Ken Anderson's The Goose Liver Anthology, Mother Goose meets Edgar Lee Masters' The Spoon River Anthology. His first poetry book was The Intense Lover: A Suite of Poems. Recently, Coffin Bell Journal nominated his poem "Blood Quartet" for the 2024 Best of the Net anthology. He was a finalist in the 2021 Saints and Sinners poetry contest. His novel Sea Change: An Example of the Pleasure Principle was a finalist for the Ferro-Grumley Award.
Sufi warrior poet Tiel Aisha Ansari has been featured by Measure, Windfall, and Everyman's Library among many others. Her collections include Knocking from Inside, High-Voltage Lines, Country Well-Known as an Old Nightmare's Stable, The Day of My First Driving Lesson, and Dervish Lions. She formerly hosted Wider Window Poetry on KBOO Community Radio.
Allen Ashley is an award-winning writer and editor based in London, UK and is the founder of the advanced science fiction and fantasy group Clockhouse London Writers. Allen guest-edited the "Animal Vegetable Mineral" themed issue of "Sein und Werden" last year. His chapbook "Journey to the Centre of the Onion" was published by Eibonvale Press (UK) in September 2023.
W. C. Bamberger is a writer, translator and editor. His translation of Oscar A. O. Schmitz's Hashish was short-listed for the 2019 Helen and Kurt Wolff Translator's Prize. His translation of A. M. Frey's 1924 short story collection Phantastische Orgie is forthcoming. He has published essays on artists (including an e-book on Michael Ayrton's Reflective Head), musicians (including composers Mauricio Kagel and Christos Hatzis), and writers. He lives in Michigan, in the US.
David Banks was born in Newcastle upon Tyne in 1943. He has been living abroad since 1975, for a short time in Iraq and since then in France, where he is now Emeritus Professor of English Linguistics at the Université de Bretagne Occidentale. He has been writing and publishing poetry since the early 70s; his publications include Celt Seed, Selected Poems, (Poetry Salzburg, 2003), and Radicals, Poems 2002-2008, (Poetry Monthly, 2009). His other interests include choral singing and coastal rowing.
Robert Beveridge (he/him) makes noise (xterminal.bandcamp.com) and writes poetry on unceded Mingo land (Akron, OH). Recent/upcoming appearances in Not One of Us, La Presa, and Discretionary Love, among others.
Julie Blankenship is an artist, based in San Francisco. Her work was recently published in Photo Trouvee Magazine, Brazenhead Review, Cut Me Up Magazine, Vastarien and the cover of Hard to Find: Anthology of New Southern Gothic. It was included in the Museum of No Spectators at Burning Man, Black Rock Desert; and in the Time Space Existence show at the European Cultural Center in Venice, Italy.
Gary Budgen lives and works in London. His previous work has appeared in various magazines including Interzone, BFS Horizons, Morpheus Tales, Sein und Werden and anthologies from Eibonvale, Boo Books and Horrified Press. A collection of stories, Chrysalis, is published by Horrified Press and the chapbook Fragments of Onyx by Salo Press. A full publishing history can be found at garybudgen.wordpress.com.
Lorraine Caputo's artwork and photography are in private collections on five continents and has been exhibited in the US and Ecuador. Her visual creations also appear in dozens of international publications. Caputo is also a writer, with poems and travel narratives published in over 400 journals on six continents and 23 chapbooks - including In the Jaguar Valley (dancing girl press, 2023). She has done over 200 literary readings, from Alaska to Patagonia. Ms. Caputo continues journeying south of the Equator.
Cecelia Chapman, ceceliachapman.com
Dominy Clements lives in the Netherlands and works at the Royal Conservatoire in The Hague, and is also a freelance writer, composer and musician. You can hear some of his music on YouTube, and much of his composition work is available through Donemus publishing. LINK
B. Drew Collier hasn't knowingly pissed through a ghost...although one can never be certain of these things...but the story in this issue was inspired by a peculiar toilet stall that knocks and sighs even when it's empty.
Juliet Cook is brimming with black, grey, silver, purple, and dark red explosions. She is drawn to poetry, abstract visual art, and other forms of expression. Her poetry has appeared in a peculiar multitude of literary publications. Her three most recently published poetry chapbooks are "red flames burning out" (Grey Book Press, April 2023), "Contorted Doom Conveyor" (Gutter Snob Books, July 2023), and "Your Mouth is Moving Backwards" (Ethel Zine & Micro Press, December 2023).
Philip Davison lives in Dublin. He is a novelist and playwright. Among his published novels are McKenzie's Friend (Cape) The Long Suit (Cape) and Quiet City (Liberties). He has written for radio, stage and television. He co-wrote Learning Gravity, a BBC Storyville documentary on poet and undertaker, Thomas Lynch. His poems have appeared in various journals
Judy DeCroce is an internationally published poet, flash fiction writer,and recently published The Posture of Trees, a book of poetry with her husband, Antoni Ooto. Her poem, "One Woman Leads to Another," was nominated for the Pushcart Prize. She is also a professional storyteller, and teacher of that genre, as well as offering courses in flash fiction. She lives in rural upstate New York.
Angel T. Dionne is associate professor of English literature at the University of Moncton Edmundston campus. She holds a PhD in creative writing from the University of Pretoria, and she is the founding editor of Vroom Lit Magazine. Her writing and art have been featured in several publications. She is the author of a full-length collection of short fiction, Sardines (ClarionLit, 2023) and two chapbooks, Inanimate Objects (Bottlecap Press, 2022) and Mormyridae (LJMcD Communications, 2024).
Daniel Galef's first book, Imaginary Sonnets, is a collection of seventy persona poems each from the point of view of a different historical figure, mythological character, animal, or inanimate object---including a man who went mad on a solo round-the-world sailing race, a woman who went viral for painting over a mural of Jesus's face, Lucrezia Borgia, Wernher von Braun, Saint Athanasius of Alexandria, a Roman monument, the Beaufort wind scale, and a revolutionary new Taco Bell breakfast menu item. Order it at www.danielgalef.com
Boris Glikman is a writer, poet and philosopher from Melbourne, Australia. He says: "Writing for me is a spiritual activity of the highest degree. Writing gives me the conduit to a world that is unreachable by any other means, a world that is populated by Eternal Truths, Ineffable Questions and Infinite Beauty. It is my hope that these stories of mine will allow the reader to also catch a glimpse of this universe."
Alexander Gradus is a Russian-Jewish writer residing in Chatham, Kent. He writes about the inhuman and the mythic, and thinks in terms of environments, biomes, and relationships to the world. He would like for his writing to feel essentially organic. He is a graduate of the University of Oxford where he discovered interests in ancient literature, phenomenology, and surrealism. He has written previously for Phi Magazine, the Broad Street Humanities Review, and the Oxford Student Film Journal.
Martin Heavisides exists. He has even been published, in magazines as diverse as Frigg, Mad Hatter's Review, Oddball, Danse Macabre and The Linnet's Wings, and had staged readings of many of his efforts for the stage. Much of this is in the public record. Attempts to prove Martin Heavisides doesn't exist have persistently failed, and will fail at least until he ceases to.
Andrew Hoaen old archaeologist with back issues. Published in Sein und Werden long ago.
Paul Hostovsky's poems appear and disappear simultaneously (voila!) and have recently been sighted in places where they pay you for your trouble with your own trouble doubled, and other people's troubles thrown in, which never seem to him as great as his troubles, though he tries not to compare. He has no life and spends it with his poems, trying to perfect their perfect disappearances.
N A Jackson never scored a goal for his team in football, except once an own goal (oops!) He wasn't a popular team player then and he's not now. A bit of a loner, he prefers to score his own small private victories which he doesn't shout about. However, he'd just like to mention, in a quiet voice, two collections of short fiction: "Visits to the Flea Circus" and "The Secret Life of the Panda" which are now so old they've probably been consumed by bookworm. The next generation of bookworm will be pleased to know that a further collection of fiction is under construction. Watch this space...
Paul Kavanagh was born in 1971.
The stories, poetry and humor of Larry Lefkowitz have appeared in many publications in the United States, Israel and Britain. His two (Jewish) story collections "Enigmatic Tales" and The Varieties of Jewish Experience" are published by Fomite Press. They include many stories that would interest the non-Jewish reader, as well. His humorous Science Fiction book "Laughing into the Fourth Dimension is published by Wayman Publishing.
Paul McDonald taught at the University of Wolverhampton for twenty five years, before taking early retirement in 2019. He is the author of 20 books to date, which includes fiction, poetry and scholarship. His most recent poetry collection is 60 Poems (Greenwich Exchange Press, 2023)
Jennifer MacBain-Stephens (she/her) went to NYU's Tisch School of the Arts and now lives in Iowa where she is landlocked. Her fifth poetry collection, "Pool Parties" is now out from Unsolicited Press. Recent work can be seen in Marrow, Dream Pop, Zone 3, The Pinch and Grist. Find more at jennifermacbainstephens.com/
Richard Magahiz (https://zeroatthebone.us/) tries to live an ordered life in harmony with all but one that follows unexpected paths. He's spent time wrangling computers for hire but is working on centering life around art. When he's not playing the violin he is writing speculative and mainstream poems.
Diana Magallón designs for the arts, industry, commerce and for science and technology.
Mike Mallett's writing sits uneasily on a border between fiction and nonfiction. Often this involves subverting the trite phrases of journalese, or the clunky objectivity of low-grade academia to try splinter discourse and create uneasy fictions - but sometimes it doesn't do that. Some of his work can be found on the Minor Literature(s) and Mercurius websites.
Ted Mico began his career in London as a writer and editor at the seminal weekly music paper Melody Maker. His work has appeared in The Guardian, Time Out, Huffington Post, Forbes, and Spin, while his poetry has featured in Cordite Review, Pure Slush, Okay Donkey, and Cesura. He's edited three books of non-fiction and is a regular at the legendary Beyond Baroque poetry workshop in Venice, CA.
Paul Murphy - Biography Born in Belfast, 1965. He studied at the University of Warwick, gaining a BA in Film and Literature. From there he went to Queen's University Belfast to study for an MA on T.S.Eliot and the French philosopher Jacques Lacan. He has published four pamphlets, one book of poetry, and has read from his work in Paris, London, Cambridge, Galway, and Belfast. He presently works for the Tate Modern, Tate Britain, the V & A, the Royal Academy, Faber & Faber and the National Gallery as a freelance reviewer.
Rich Murphy's Footholds was published at Cyberwit in India in September 2023. First Aid was published by Resource Publications at Wipf and Stock in summer of 2023. Meme Measure, a collection of poems, was published by Resource Publications in 2022. His poetry has won The Poetry Prize at Press Americana twice for Americana (2013) and The Left Behind (2021) and Gival Press Poetry Prize for Voyeur (2008). Space Craft by Resource Publications also came out in 2021.
Antoni Ooto is a poet whose work is widely published globally in print, online, and in anthologies. Recently, he co-authored THE POSTURE OF TREES, a collection of poetry with his wife Judy DeCroce. Their next book, A COLLECTION OF INCIDENTS is to be released this spring. Antoni is a well-known abstract expressionist artist. His paintings are collected throughout the US. He lives and works in rural upstate New York.
Keith David Parsons is a person who came from West Virginia, lives in Washington, DC and is less conflicted about it than you might think. Believes a poem without a message is like a big hole without spikes at the bottom-why would you dig it? Member of DC Poetry Collective; featured in iNK BLOTS Vols. 1, 2.
After years of impersonating a Systems Engineer, Ken Poyner has retired to watch his wife break world raw powerlifting records. Ken's four current poetry and four short fiction collections are available from https://barkingmoosepress.com/ and myriad places.
Michael Prihoda lives in central Indiana. He is the founding editor of After the Pause, an experimental literary magazine and small press. His work has received nominations for the Pushcart Prize and the Best of the Net Anthology and he is the author of nine poetry collections, most recently Out of the Sky (Hester Glock, 2019).
I.B. Rad lives and writes in Dallas, Texas, and prior to that, in New York city, His work is widely published on the internet. He uses a variety of styles depending on subject and desired effect. Given his background in composing civic poetry, he strives for clarity of expression.
Inspired by surreal aesthetics, Nelly Sanchez is a French collagist and writer specializing in late 19th century women's literature. She explores and questions female stereotypes and archetypes. She mixes and plays with symbols and colours to reveal the infinite interpretations of reality. Recently, she has been making sculptures and assemblages. Her artworks are often published as illustrations, as flyers or as coverbooks. Her new creations can be discovered on nellysanchez.fr/ or on Instagram : nellysanchezcollagiste.
David Turnbull is a member of the Clockhouse London group of genre writers. He writes mainly short fiction and has had numerous short stories published in magazines and anthologies. His stories have previously been featured at Liars League London events and read at other live events such as Solstice Shorts and Virtual Futures. His near fiction novella HUSks is currently on release. www.indienovella.co.uk/product-page/husks-david-turnbull
Bill Wolak is a poet, collage artist, and photographer who has just published his eighteenth book of poetry entitled All the Wind's Unfinished Kisses with Ekstasis Editions. His collages and photographs have appeared recently in the 2022 Rochester Erotic Arts Festival, the 2020 International Festival of Erotic Arts (Chile), the 2020 Seattle Erotic Art Festival, the 2020 Dirty Show in Detroit, the 2018 Montreal Erotic Art Festival, and Naked in New Hope 2018. He was a featured artist in the book Best of Erotic Art (London, 2022).
Kirby M. Wright was born and raised in Hawaii. He was a guest lecturer at Trinity College Dublin.
Eve Margaret Young is a writer and master's student from West Yorkshire; her poems have been published, or are forthcoming, in New Feathers Anthology, BRUISER, Epiphany, The Journal, Home Planet News, Littoral Magazine, and Visions International, and longlisted for the AUB International Poetry Prize.
Jeffrey Zable is a teacher, conga drummer/percussionist who plays for dance classes and rumbas around the San Francisco Bay Area, and a writer of poetry, flash-fiction, and non-fiction. His writing has appeared in hundreds of literary magazines and anthologies,more recently in Chewers & Masticadores, The Gorko Gazette, Ranger, Cacti Fur, The Hooghly Review, Alba, and many others. . .