Wild Roof Journal | Issue 1
March 2020
Cover image: "Untitled" by Michael Marschner
Gallery 3
Visual Art, Poetry, and Prose
Luke & Mandy Woodford
Luke & Mandy are a married, photographic team. Although Luke clicks the shutter and Mandy is the muse, the duo collaborate in the creative process on every image, from concept to completion. Their fine art photography is sold to luxury interior designers and private buyers all over the world. Their first book titled 2.5 is currently for sale in selected bookshops throughout the UK.
Carol Jeffers
Carol Jeffers blends narrative nonfiction and fiction to explore the human condition. Her first book, The Question of Empathy: Searching for the Essence of Humanity, a semi-finalist in the 2017 Pirates’ Alley William Faulkner Writing Competition (Walter Isaacson, judge), was published (August, 2018) by Koehler Books. She has published several shorter works in a variety of literary journals, including Wordgathering, Persimmon Tree and Connotation Press.
- Website: http://www.caroljefferswriter.com
Ulysses
Ulysses is the pseudonym of a poet who would prefer to remain quiet about his writing and pedestrian life. He is Floridian which should, perhaps, explain everything. In case it does not, he is dubbed Ulysses by a Northerner who upon actually listening to him speak dubbed him Ulysses for his near circumlocution. He thinks of it more like a gyre, really. Ulysses’ poetry is an attempt to express himself and his world with fewer words. He describes his style as surreally image based blank verse that is at times ponders the existential. His ongoing Instagram project is called Lost in Spacecoast @lostinspacecoast321.
Corey Ruzicano
Corey Ruzicano is a writer-educator from the San Francisco Bay area trying to make sense of this world through words.
Leah Oates
Leah Oates has a B.F.A. from the Rhode Island School of Design and a M.F.A. from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago and is a Fulbright Fellow for graduate study at Edinburgh College of Art in Scotland. Oates has had solo shows at Susan Eley Fine Art, The MTA Lightbox Project at 42nd Street, The Arsenal Gallery in Central Park, The Center for Book Arts, Henry Street Settlement and A Taste of Art Gallery and locally at Tomasulo Gallery in New Jersey, Real Art Ways in Connecticut, Sara Nightingale Gallery in Water Mill, Long Island and the Sol Mednick Gallery at the Philadelphia University of the Arts. Oates has had solo shows nationally at Anchor Graphics, Artemisia Gallery and Woman Made Gallery in Chicago and internationally at Galerie Joella in Turku, Finland.
- Website: http://www.leahoates.com
Craig Etchison
Craig Etchison is a retired teacher, writer, and painter who has written much about the environment as well as other topics. This short story is based on something a student once said in a meeting designed to shape an environmental action.
Dave Sims
After over thirty years of teaching in the trenches of higher education, Dave Sims now dwells and creates in the old mountains of central Pennsylvania. His poetry, fiction, digital paintings and comix appear in dozens of print and online publications and galleries. Look for more of his work at tincansims.com, @tincansims on Instagram, or under the Featured Artists section at the Raw Art Review.
Tamara L. Panici
Tamara L. Panici’s work has appeared or is forthcoming in such places as Mom Egg Review, Crab Creek Review, Blue, Prelude, BARNHOUSE, saltwater, Story Cellar Quarterly, The American Journal of Poetry, Sugar House Review, and elsewhere. She won the 2018 River Styx Microfiction Contest. She lives in Washington, D.C. and is expecting her first child.
Katerina Kan
The works of Katerina Kan strive to capture ephemeral impressions and explore concepts including globalization, surveillance, nostalgia, utopia and eroticism. Recently, she was involved in initiatives with the Royal Watercolor Society, Art Below, Art Wars in London, Red Dot Miami and Los Angeles. This year, she is having shows at 508 Kings Road in London as well as Untitled Space, the New York Art Expo, Theresa Byrnes Gallery, and Salon Anise in New York.
Steve Elder
Steve Elder is in charge of Tea Service at the University of Colorado Law Library.
Katie Bundrick
From artist statement:
After my first semester of grad school to become a psychologist, I realized talk therapy wasn’t how I wanted to connect with people, but rather through creating artwork that triggered emotions, as well as initiate conversations between people. It is my goal to contribute to ending the mental health stigma by creating pieces symbolizing mental health, whether it’s negative or positive emotions. My ultimate goal, though, is to eventually raise enough money through my artwork in order to start a foundation that provide financial support to those who are in need of mental health services. I truly believe by showing empathy of this size will help change society’s attitude towards mental health and potentially universal healthcare systems.
Leland Seese
Leland Seese’s poems appear or are forthcoming in Juked, Rust + Moth, The Chestnut Review, Typishly, and many other journals. His chapbook, Wherever This All Ends, is due out in 2020 (Kelsay Books). He and his wife live in Seattle with a revolving cast of foster, adopted, and biological children.
