Cover image: "Reliquary for the Green World" by E.A. Bagby
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Visual Art, Poetry, and Prose
Jessica Harris
Jessica Harris is a multimedia artist living and working in the Yarra Ranges in Melbourne, Australia. She currently works as a Schools Support Manager for the Hands-on Learning Program supported by the Save the Children Foundation Australia.
She approaches most mediums with enthusiasm but at the moment is fixated on collage, painting and drawing. The key themes of her work are exploring the human condition. The majority of her work is an emotional response to an everyday event seemingly small and insignificant but at the time monumental. Looking at the emotions of relationships and dealing with the everyday trivialities is what inspires her art the most. Her work also deals with larger worldwide issues that affect everyone directly or indirectly.
Peter Engen
Peter Engen grew up in the oldest Norwegian settlement west of the Mississippi as well as on the fly with his sometime itinerant parents. He has lived most of his life in the hills and unglaciated valleys of Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Iowa. Some of his deepest poet yearnings were sought and quenched in the megalopolis cities of New York and Los Angeles before returning to his roots in the upper Midwest. He currently lives part-time on a solar-powered, green architecture farm near La Crosse Wisconsin.
James McKee
James McKee enjoys failing in his dogged attempts to keep pace with the unrelenting cultural onslaught of late-imperial Gotham. His debut poetry collection The Stargazers is due out in the spring of 2020, and his poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Acumen, New Ohio Review, The Raintown Review, Flyway, Saranac Review, The Comstock Review, THINK, The Midwest Quarterly, Xavier Review, and elsewhere. He spends his free time, when not writing or reading, traveling less than he would like and brooding more than he can help.
William Torphy
William Torphy’s short stories have appeared in Bryant Literary Review, The Fictional Café, ImageOutWrite Volumes 5 & 6, Main Street Rag, Miracle Monocle, Sun Star Review, Into the Void, Burningword Literary Review, HOME: An Anthology, and Chelsea Station. He lives in the San Francisco area where he works as an art curator.
Kate Quarfordt
Kate Quarfordt is a painter and mixed-media artist whose luminous abstract works evoke inner landscapes and portals into other worlds. In addition to her visual art practice, Quarfordt is a singer, performer, theater director and educator. She is a proud member of The Resistance Revival Chorus, using music as a form of activism in venues ranging from protest rallies to Carnegie Hall. A co-founder of City School of the Arts, an arts-based middle school in Manhattan, she teaches art and directs theater with young people, recently collaborating with the Disney production team to pilot a musical theater version of the animated film Moana. Quarfordt studied Fine Art and Theater at Northeastern University and got her masters from Teachers College, Columbia. She lives in Brooklyn with her high school sweetheart and their three kids.
- Website: www.katequarfordt.com
- Instagram: @katequarfordt
Grace Covill-Grennan
Grace Covill-Grennan is a carpenter and writer living in Enterprise Oregon. Her poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in Genre: Urban Arts, Permafrost Magazine, Rockford Review, Utterance Journal, Thin Air Magazine, and others. She is the author of Blockhead (Another New Calligraphy Press, 2019).
Pavle Radonic
Australian by birth and Montenegrin origin, Pavle Radonic’s eight years living and writing in S-E Asia has provided unexpected stimulus. Previous work has appeared in a range of literary journals and magazines, including Big Bridge, Ambit, Southerly, Citron, and Antigonish Review. A mountainous blog holding mostly the Asian writings can be found at www.axialmelbourne.blogspot.com.
Scrap Wrenn
Ms. Wrenn’s participation in artists’ projects and group exhibitions for nearly 2 decades has included collaborations, commissions, and shows throughout the New York City area, and in Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Texas, and Italy – receiving the Mount Royal School of Art Graduate Fellowship Award at MICA (2006-2008) for her MFA after attending New York University in the Steinhardt School University Scholars Program (Studio Art, 1998-2002).
Lily Rose Kosmicki
Lily Rose Kosmicki is a person, but sometimes feels like an alien in this world. By trade she is a librarian at the public library and by night she is a collector of dreams. Her zine Dream Zine won a Broken Pencil Zine Award for Best Art Zine 2018. Her work appears in GASHER, glowworm, Meat for Tea, where is the river, Cathexis Northwest Press, The Fanzine, Interim: A Journal of Poetry and Poetics, and Punt Volat.
Eva Swiecki
Eva Swiecki is a Chicago poet and organizer. She is a co-creator of the writing critique group “Study Hall Workshops,” and her latest project is called “Correspondence.” When she isn’t writing, painting, or scheming, she’s at home rearranging the furniture.
- Twitter: @ESwiecki
- Instagram: @localwoman_
A.E. Haldy
A.E. Haldy is a librarian, computer programmer and playwright, existing in a nomadic state, with the most recent permanent address being Hawaii. A.E.’s writing has appeared in 13 Minutes and Minnesota Memories; current work in progress includes a historical novel with a literary style and a supernatural twist.
Annie Dawid
Annie Dawid’s photography has been on the covers of Into the Void, Cake Magazine, Blue Earth Review, Oregon Focus, and in multiple online magazines. She writes fiction, and her three books are available online, with information at anniedawid.com. Currently, an interview with Annie and her prize-winning story are available to read at Sequestrum. Her photography can be seen at http://www.anniedawid.com/photos/.
Steve Henn
Steve Henn wrote Indiana Noble Sad Man of the Year (Wolfson, 2017), And God Said: let there be Evolution! (NYQ Books, 2012) and Unacknowledged Legislations (NYQ Books, 2010). He was a finalist for the 2018 Rattle Prize and has read in the poetry showcase at Divedapper Poetry Carnival twice. He teaches in Indiana. More of his work is available at therealstevehenn.com.
Leon Fedolfi
Leon Fedolfi is an avid reader and aspiring writer of poetry. He has published in Prometheus Dreaming, The Raw Art Review, Rumble Fish Quarterly and Cathexis Northwest Press. Most of his poems are composed on a cellphone text app in a teahouse or bar in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Leon’s work concerns language shaping reality in history and relationships, primarily.
Nam Nguyen
Nam Nguyen is a multimedia artist who enjoys photography, writing, and film-making.
