Wild Roof Journal | Issue 1
March 2020
Cover image: "Genesis" by Michael Marschner
Gallery 1
Visual Art, Poetry, and Prose
Kathleen Deep
Kathleen Deep is a mixed media artist and analog photographer whose creation of image-making includes merging alternative photographic processes, mixed media, raw materials, and hybrid workflows. Her imagery derives from her walks in the wetlands and surrounding landscape. Samples of Deep’s ongoing creative writing prose “To Slow the Sinking” have been included in various web and book publications, and can be seen hand written in some of her works.
- Website: https://kathleendeep.wixsite.com/fineart
- Instagram: @kathleendeep
Samantha Malay
Samantha Malay was born in Berlin, Germany and grew up in rural northeastern Washington State. She is a graduate of Seattle University’s sociology program, a theatrical wardrobe technician by trade, and a mixed-media artist. Her poems have been published in The RavensPerch, Sheila-Na-Gig, Burningword, Sky Island, The Sea Letter, Alexandria Quarterly, Quiddity, Projector Magazine, Blood Tree Literature, Heirlock, and Genre: Urban Arts. Her published poetry can be found at https://thistleandhasp.wordpress.com.
Giles Goodland
Giles Goodland was born in Taunton, was educated at the universities of Wales and California, took a D. Phil at Oxford, has published a several books of poetry including A Spy in the House of Years (Leviathan, 2001) Capital (Salt, 2006), Dumb Messengers (Salt, 2012) and The Masses (Shearsman, 2018). He works in Oxford as a lexicographer, teaches evening classes on poetry for Oxford University’s department of continuing education, and lives in West London.
Hermine Spies Coleman
Hermine Spies Coleman qualified with a Fine Arts degree from Pretoria University, an Honours degree in Art History from the University of South Africa and also trained for three years at the Art Academy in Ghent, Belgium from 1974. In 1982 she won the French Union de Transports Aériens (UTA) travel scholarship. During the seventies and eighties Hermine held more than twenty solo exhibitions in South Africa and Europe. Her most recent exhibition was in 2019 at the Tatham art Gallery, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa.
She spent three years in Abuja, Nigeria from 2010, absorbing local culture, including the vibrant fabrics and beads.
She opened a creative centre – Giverny Country Studios – near Curry’s Post, KwaZulu-Natal Midlands in South Africa, where she now lives permanently.
- Website: https://herminespiescoleman.site123.me/
- Gallery Page: https://onlineart.gallery/featured_item/hermine-spies-coleman/
- Instagram: @herminespiestheartist
John Steckley
John Steckley has two degrees in Anthropology, and his doctorate in Education. He taught at Humber College for 30 years and wrote the textbooks for each of the three courses he taught: Introduction to Sociology, Physical Anthropology, and Indigenous Studies. Although retired from full-time work, he works part-time as the Tribal Linguist for the Wyandotte Nation of Oklahoma.
Moira Walsh
Born in Michigan under the first full moon of 1979, Moira has lived and worked on three continents – as a farmhand, baker, receptionist, cleaner, carer, and performing artist. She is currently based in southern Germany where she freelances as a translator and copywriter. Find her visual diary on Instagram: @poetbynecessity
Jerome Berglund
Jerome Berglund graduated summa cum laude from the cinema-television production program at the University of Southern California, and he has spent much of his career working in television and photography. He has had photographs published and awarded in local papers and recently staged an exhibition in the Twin Cities area which included a residency of several months at a local community center. The most recent show featuring his pictures, at the Pause Gallery in New York, opened in December 2019.
Tom Sepulveda
Tom Sepulveda is a native Californian who wanders the West looking for the joy and music of open spaces. He has an MFA from Fresno State, and his work has appeared in the Santa Clara Review and the San Joaquin Review. He’s currently working on his first book of poems.
Paul Smit
Paul Smit grew up in South Africa and now lives in New York, where he works as a Chief Financial Officer. “Burnt Avocado Toast” is inspired by agricultural expansion currently underway in his hometown. His short story, “The Army Nestled in our Shadows,” appeared in the March 2019 edition of The Write Launch. Paul recently completed his third novel, titled The Secrets of Sea Cliff, and is happily on the hunt for an agent. In January of 2020, Paul enrolled at the Gemological Institute of America (GIA), where he hopes to complete the Graduate Gemologist Program before the end of the year.
- Instagram: @paulus_1
Leni Paquet-Morante
From artist statement:
My work is contemporary landscape painting which addresses issues of privacy and safety. I use landscapes as metaphor, especially bodies of water and the intimacies conveyed by their boundaries and the forces that define and alter them. The paintings are my intuitive response to atmosphere, place, and time, becoming universal rather than a portrait of a place. I’m drawn to small dramas being played out within somewhat mundane, dismissible wooded lands that are peripheral to neighborhoods and business districts. This work has recently evoked conversations about water as it relates to architecture and environmental protection.
- Website: https://www.lenimorante.com
- Instagram: @lenimakespaintings
Abigail Kirby Conklin
Abigail Kirby Conklin lives in New York City, where she works in public education and curriculum development. She is the author of the chapbook Triage, forthcoming in January 2020. Her work can also be found in Sugar House Review (2019), Lampeter Review (2017), Curlew Quarterly (2018), and piece lit mag (2019), among other places. She can be found on social media via her universal handle: @a_k_c_poetry.
Cynthia Yatchman
Cynthia Yatchman is a Seattle-based artist and art instructor. With an M.A. in child development and a B. A. in education, she has a strong interest in art education and teaches art to adults, children and families. After receiving her B.F.A. in painting from the University of Washington she changed to 2D work and has stayed there since, working primarily on paintings, prints and collages. Her art is housed in numerous public and private collections and has been shown nationally in California, Connecticut, New York, Indiana, Michigan, Oregon and Wyoming. She has exhibited extensively in the Northwest, including shows at Seattle University, Seattle PaciNic University, Shoreline Community College, the Tacoma and Seattle Convention Centers and the PaciNic Science Center.
