Sacha Archer



from Sites of Contemporary Meat

[name redacted] is currently a senior at the University of New Hampshire in Durham, studying English. His work has recently appeared in the school’s literary magazine, [name redacted], for which he has also worked as an editor. [name redacted] grew up in Per¬ryville and now lives in Versailles, KY, with his wife and daughters. Other work can be found in the pages of [name redacted] and [name redacted] magazine as well as online at the [name redacted] and [name redacted] websites. [name redacted] resides in Syracuse, New York. His work has appeared in [name redacted] and elsewhere. [name redacted] is a visual artist, po-et, and photographer. His work has appeared in diverse literary/art journals, including [name redacted], [name redacted], and forthcoming in [name redacted]. He lives in Brooklyn, NY. A professor of English and pedagogy, [name redacted] is a second-generation American with an interest in the literature and lin-guistics of immigrants. She loves her sweet and thoughtful family, traveling abroad, passionate readers and writers, the theater of complex and interesting playwrights, the music of good listeners. Her work is often completed in collaboration with [name redacted], for whom she is exceedingly grateful. [name redacted] is a literature student from New York who aspires to use poetry as a way of finding meaning in the world and as a way of connecting with others and trying to make sense of the odd and beautiful thing called the human condition. [name redacted] is a writer and poet from Thorold, ON, majoring in French and Edu-cation at [name redacted] University. [name redacted] currently teaches English and is the Associate Editor of Sou’wester at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville. He hosts “[name redacted]”, a weekly hour-long literary program on [station redacted]. He has published fiction, poetry, reported or been featured in [name redacted], the [name redacted], [name redacted], [name redacted], [name redacted], [name redacted], [name redacted], [name redacted]’s blog, and many more. [name redacted] holds a Masters in Literature from the University of Toronto. He wrote the play [name redacted] that was performed at [name redacted] in April 2010 and directed the short film [name redacted] (2005) which won the award for excellence in cinematog-raphy at the [name redacted] ’09. He has been published in [name redacted] and [name redacted]. He has also presented papers at conferences on topics ranging from Heideggerian phenomenology to Debordian psychogeography. [name redacted] lives in Orlando, FL with his girlfriend and two cats. He is a bartender who struggles with daily road rage. Recently, he has been included in [name redacted]'s [name redacted]. [name redacted] is a graduate art student who drinks far too much coffee. Her poetry appears in current or upcoming issues of [name redacted], [name redacted], [name redacted], [name redacted], and [name re-dacted]. [name redacted] has been a key practitioner in networked and digital writing since the early 1990s. She is the inventor of [name redacted], a hybrid language that combines diverse elements of technical code and everyday speech. Examples of her work can be found at her website. [name redacted] is the author of [name redacted]; [name redacted]; and [name redacted]. He has completed 2 new novels in the past year and a slew of poetry and text. He is a Father and lives in Newfoundland where he loves and writes. [name redacted] was born in San Diego in 1983, lived in London for seven years, and then spent most of his formative years in LA. He was honorably discharged from the U.S Navy in 2009, after serving over three years in Japan onboard the [name redacted] and is currently a Freshman Composition and Narrative and Descriptive writing instructor at Northern Michigan University, while simultaneously completing his MA in Literature and Writing. [name redacted]’s work has appeared in or is forthcoming from a number of ex-perimental journals, including [name redacted], [name redacted], [name redacted], [name redacted], [name redacted], [name redacted], [name redacted], [name redacted], [name redacted], and [name redacted] among others. He currently lives in New Jersey with his wife, a vegan food writer, and his tech-savvy son. [name redacted] is from England, but moved to America in 2008, where she is now an MFA candidate at the University of Kentucky. Her essay, "[name redacted]," published by [name redacted], was selected by [name redacted] and [name redacted] as a [name redacted] in [name redacted], 2015. She is the 2015 win-ner of the [name redacted]. Her more recent work can be found in [name redacted], [name redacted], [name redacted], and [name redacted], [name redacted], [name redacted], [name redacted], and [name re-dacted], and is forthcoming in [name redacted], and [name redacted] anthology. [name redacted] is the current Editor-in-Chief of [name redacted]. She lives in Lexington with her wife and their teenage daugh-ters, and can be found online at [website redacted]. [name redacted] is a writer and middle school ESL teacher. Originally from Massachusetts, he lives in Arlington, VA, with his wife and two cats. If he weren’t so talented a writer, he probably would have been playing centerfield for the Red Sox by now. His work has been published or is forthcoming at [name redacted]. You can learn more about him at [website re-dacted]. [name redacted]’s poetry can be seen online at [name redacted], [name redacted], [name redacted], and drown in my own fears, among others, and in a number of print journals. He has an MFA and PhD from Purdue University and now runs a writing center in Wisconsin. Originally from Oregon, Russ misses his oceans and mountains. [name redacted] was born in Edmonton, raised in Winnipeg, and now lives in Toronto. He studied theatre and drama at the University of [name redacted], and creative writing at [name redacted] in Toronto. His first chapbook, [name redacted], was published in September 2007. In May of 2008 his collection, [name redacted], was published as the first of the [name redacted] series. [name redacted]'s writing has appeared in such publications as [name redacted], [name redacted], [name redacted], [name redacted], [name redacted], [name redacted] and [name redacted]. Her chapbook, [name redacted], was published last year by [name redacted]. She lives in Montreal, where she works as a maga-zine editor. [name redacted] was born in Valparaíso, Chile in 1971. She holds a Bachelor's degree in Fine Arts with a specialization in painting from the Universidad de Chile. Additional studies in the Facultad de Arte in Muenster, Alemania (1996). She has been the recipient of prizes such as [name redacted], [name redacted], [name redacted], [name redacted]. She has shown work in many group and individual exhibi-tions and has exhibited in the [name redacted], [name redacted], [name redacted], [name redacted], [name redacted], [name redacted]. [name redacted], [name redacted]. [name redacted], [name redacted]. [name re-dacted], [name redacted], 2002. Other work includes [name redacted], audio recordings of her poetry, and [name redacted] published in [name redacted] ([name redacted], 2004). [name redacted]’s publications include [name redacted], [name redacted], [name redacted], [name redacted], [name redacted], [name re-dacted], [name redacted], [name redacted], [name redacted], [name redacted], [name redacted], [name re-dacted], [name redacted], [name redacted], [name redacted]. He is the author of the short fiction collec-tion [name redacted] ([name redacted]) and co-author of [name redacted] ([name redacted]) and former co-host of [name redacted], WNYC. He has also authored and co-authored several books on chaos, frac-tals and creativity, including [name redacted] ([name redacted]), [name redacted] ([name redacted]), [name redacted] ([name redacted]) and [name redacted] ([name redacted]). He is the editor of the collection [name redacted] ([name redacted]). Previously, he was Managing Editor of [name redacted] and Senior Editor of [name redacted]. [name redacted] lives in Baltimore, MD, where he finds himself regularly haunted by one thing or another. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in journals including: [name redact-ed], [name redacted], [name redacted], [name redacted], and [name redacted], among others. You can find him on Twitter: @[name redacted]. [name redacted] is a high school writer from Portland, Oregon. She enjoys filmmaking, reading, and being with friends in her spare time. Her poetry has been published in a [name redacted], [name redacted], and in various school publications. [name redacted] born in Alexandria, Egypt; was educated in the Middle East, Scotland and the United States. Over the years he has worked in publishing, printing, architecture, ceramics and wood. He lives near Kimberton, Pennsylvania in a restored schoolhouse and sails the Chesapeake in an old but seaworthy sloop. His poetry has appeared in [name redacted], [name redacted] and [name redacted]. [name redacted] teaches English/Creative Writing at Tow-son University and lives in Reisterstown, Maryland. His recent books are [name redacted] (2013), [name redacted] (2011), [name redacted] (2010), [name redacted] (2010), [name redacted] (2009), [name redacted] (2006), [name redacted] (2003). [name redacted]’s work also appears in the new anthologies, [name redact-ed] ([name redacted], United Kingdom, 2012), [name redacted] ([name redacted], Chicago/Athens/Dublin, 2009) and [name redacted] ([name redacted]), a bi-lingual anthology of Latin American and North Ameri-can poets, ([name redacted]/ [name redacted]/ [name redacted], 2008.) He has also participated in numer-ous readings and interviews. [name redacted] published in such US magazines as [name redacted], [name redacted], [name redacted], [name redacted], [name redacted], [name redacted], [name redacted], [name re-dacted], [name redacted], [name redacted], [name redacted], [name redacted], [name redacted] and the [name redacted]. Some forthcoming publications - [name redacted] - Fall Issue, [name redacted], [name redacted] and [name redacted]. [name redacted] (UK) published my 3rd poetry collection in 2009. [name redacted] (NZ) my 4th in 2010. [name redacted] (UK) published an Ebook [name redacted] earlier this year. Forthcoming collection with [name redacted] (UK) due out in January, plus a [name redacted] Ebook (UK) in June. [website redacted]. [name redacted] is a doctoral candidate of 20th Century literature at the CUNY Graduate Center. He is also a high school teacher of English at SAR High School in the Bronx. [name redacted] is the author of [name redacted] ([name redacted], February 2010). She is the chief editor of [name redacted] and curates the [name redacted]. She won the 2009 [name redacted] and the 2008 [name redacted]. [name redacted] received her BA from Tufts University and is getting a slow, scenic MFA at CCNY. By day, she is a publicity manager at [name redacted]. Her poems appear in many journals, in-cluding: [name redacted], [name redacted], [name redacted], [name redacted] and [name redacted]. She lives in New York City. [name redacted] is the author of [name redacted] ([name redacted], 2014). His work has appeared in [name redacted], [name redacted], [name redacted], and [name redacted], among other journals, as well as in a number of anthologies. He lives in Brooklyn with his husband, the poet [name redacted], and a number of cats, both feral and domestic, and works as a freelance medical writer. [name redacted] has performed his poetry and music at the [name redacted] ([name redacted]); [name redacted] (Boston); [name redacted] (Paris); [name redacted] (Paris); and at the [name redacted], where the Oxford Theatre Troupe performed his play, [name redacted]. His poetry, fiction, and essays have appeared in: [name re-dacted]; [name redacted]; [name redacted]; [name redacted]; [name redacted]; the [name redacted]; [name redacted]; [name redacted]; and in [name redacted], among others. He is Senior Lecturer in expository writ-ing at NYU, where he won the 2006 [name redacted]. [name redacted] was shop assistant, security guard, postman, admin. assistant, lecturer, poetry performer, with "[name redacted]", his work included in "[name redacted]", [name redacted], 1990. First chapbook was "[name redacted]", [name redacted], 1993. Read his work on [name redacted], had a creative writing workshop for sixth formers broadcast on [name redacted]. Recently published in [name redacted], [name redacted], [name redacted], [name redacted], [name redacted] and others. [name redacted] is an MFA graduate from the University of Baltimore and currently teaches American Literature in the Atlanta Metro area. He has been published in several online literary journals in-cluding [name redacted] & [name redacted]! [name redacted] is the poetry editor of [name redacted] and the co-poetry editor of [name redacted]. He has published 3 chapbooks, [name redacted] ([name redacted], 2016), [name redacted], and [name redacted] (both by [name redacted] and [name redacted], 2016 and 2017). He is a [name redacted] and has had work translated into anthologies and journals in Albania and Kosovo. He edited the anthology [name redacted], the proceeds of which are donated to an organization which helps prevent suicide/self harm. He was the judge for [name redacted]'s 2016 [name redacted]and has had his own work appear in [name redacted], [name redacted], [name redacted], [name redacted], [name redacted], [name redacted], [name redacted], [name redacted], [name redacted], [name redacted], [name redacted], [name redacted], [name redacted], [name redacted], [name redacted], [name redacted], [name redacted], [name redacted], [name redacted], [name redacted], [name redacted], [name redacted], [name redacted], and elsewhere. [name redacted] lives in York, PA, and attended Temple University. Alt-hough he is 35 years old and has been writing his entire life, he did not begin to submit his work for pub-lication until March of 2014, so he feels like he has a lot of catching up to do. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in [name redacted], [name redacted], [name redacted], [name redacted], [name redact-ed], [name redacted], [name redacted], [name redacted], [name redacted], [name redacted], [name redact-ed], [name redacted], [name redacted], [name redacted], and elsewhere. [name redacted] An isolated island girl grows into a traveler of the Western United States yielding work stemmed from the suffocation of treading water and the freedom that comes from catching one’s breath traveling to higher elevations. In-spired to write by [name redacted], [name redacted], [name redacted], and [name redacted], my work has a surplus of sound and extra emotions for those who have trouble tapping into their own. Dive in. My submission spans the last four years. Find natural truths and the promise of a young poet ready to contin-ue to produce. Raised on Galveston Island, and educated in Denton at the University of North Texas in English with a concentration in Creative Nonfiction, I have continued to develop my role as a word-smith—varying language, utilizing a cultivated lexicon weaving in foreign languages, and keeping lines con-cise. Writing must have innate rhythm, sound worthy of songs, and a deeper attachment to the world around it. Topics on the surface vary, but each holds a few pieces of my perspective on this life. I have room to grow and I’m not going anywhere, so give me some water and all the food because when I’m finally harvested, you’ll see how far these roots reach. Detroit writer and poet [name redacted] currently resides in New York City where he is receiving an MFA in poetry from the New School. Author of 3 chap books and recipient of the 2009 [name redacted], his work can be found in such places as [name redacted] and the [name redacted] blog. [name redacted] is an imaginative spirit. Besides writing, he paints, cooks, immerses himself in film and creates music under the name [name redacted]. His work is largely influenced by Detroit, MI, the city in which he was born and raised. [name redacted] is a queer poet from Southern Illinois, a senior creative writing student at Eastern Illinois University, and a cardigan enthusiast. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in [name redacted], [name redacted], [name redacted], and [name redacted], among others. He can be found embarrassing himself on Twitter: @[name redacted]. [name redact-ed] lives in Brattleboro, VT. He studied physics and philosophy at Marlboro College. His essay, “[name redacted]”, has recently appeared in [name redacted] and he has a poem forthcoming in [name redacted]. [name redacted] is a psychiatric social worker for the [name redacted]. Her fiction and poetry has previous-ly been published, or is forthcoming, in [name redacted], [name redacted], [name redacted], [name redact-ed], [name redacted], and others. [name redacted] is a freelance writer and editor whose first poetry collec-tion, [name redacted], was released by [name redacted] in early 2017. Her writing has appeared in [name redacted], [name redacted], [name redacted], [name redacted], [name redacted], among other publications. She amuses herself with experimental milkshakes and blogs at [website redacted]. [name redacted] is a mother-writer in Central Texas, the 2013 recipient of [name redacted]’s [name redacted], and the author of [name redacted] ([name redacted], 2013). Her poetry and fiction has been published or is forthcoming in [name redacted], [name redacted], [name redacted], [name redacted], and many more. [name redacted] currently teaches English at an alternative school for high-risk students and loves it! Read more of her writing at [website redacted]. [name redacted] is a faith-based psychotherapist and recently emerged poet, published in [name redacted], [name redacted], [name redacted], [name redacted], [name redacted], [name redacted], [name redacted], [name redacted], [name redacted], [name redacted], and [name redacted]. Her first chapbook, [name redacted] has just been published by [name redacted]. She has been married 20 years to her love, has 2 amazing teens, and can be found frolicking in the waves. Follow her: [website re-dacted]. [name redacted] was born in Viña del Mar, Chile in 1982. His book of poems, [name redacted], was published in [name redacted] from the [name redacted], Santiago, 2004. He is also a practitioner of gesturegraphies, a form of performance art. [name redacted] is the author of three nonfiction books for teens and pre-teens and two chapbooks. Her third chapbook, [name redacted], is forthcoming from [name redacted] in 2013. [name redacted]’s fiction, poetry, essays, and articles have previously appeared in a variety of publications including [name redacted], [name redacted], [name redacted], [name redact-ed], [name redacted], [name redacted], and [name redacted], as well as on a broadside from [name redact-ed], on postcards from the program [name redacted], and in several anthologies. In addition to writing, [name redacted] serves as editor of the [name redacted]. Her personal website is located at [website redact-ed]. [name redacted]’s poems have appeared, or are forthcoming, in [name redacted], [name redact-ed], [name redacted], [name redacted], [name redacted], and other journals. Her comics, [name redacted], have appeared in [name redacted] and online. She lives, works and plays in New York City. [name redact-ed] has been widely published throughout the small and literary presses. His work has appeared in [name redacted], [name redacted], [name redacted], [name redacted], [name redacted], [name redacted], [name re-dacted], [name redacted], [name redacted] and others. In addition, he has nine poetry chapbooks includ-ing [name redacted] ([name redacted], 1987), [name redacted] ([name redacted], 1988), [name redacted] ([name redacted], 2004), [name redacted] ([name redacted], 2005), and [name redacted] ([name redacted], 2011). He is the editor of [name redacted] (2011). [name redacted] taught elementary school in Chicago’s inner city (he is now retired), but he continues to study authentic African instruments, conducts grant-writing workshops for educators, designs websites, and records performance and music pieces with grants from the [name redacted], [name redacted], [name redacted], and others. [name redacted] is the author of two collections of poetry ('[name redacted]' [name redacted] 2010) and '[name redacted]' ([name redacted] 2014), a novella, '[name redacted]' ([name redacted] 2013), and a novel, '[name redacted]' ([name redacted] 2013). [name redacted]'s third and latest full volume of poetry is [name redacted] available now from [name redacted]. isbn [code redacted] [website redacted] [name redacted] is a poet, teaching artist, and the Marketing & Publicity Coordinator for [name redacted]. A graduate of Amherst High School, SUNY--Buffalo, and The University of Maine--Orono, she runs the small feminist press and occasional perfor-mance series [name redacted], [website redacted]; chapbooks are forthcoming from poets [name redacted] and [name redacted]. Author of the blog [name redacted], and several chapbooks, [name redacted] is her first full-length poetry collection ([name redacted], 2011). [name redacted] lives in Amish country in Penn-sylvania, a landscape that inhabits her writing. She’s a retired library director who dedicates herself to writ-ing short forms and short poems. Last year was one of firsts – first-time grandmother, first time pub-lished. Current work appears in [name redacted], [name redacted], [name redacted] and [name redacted]. You can find her published work at: [website redacted]. [name redacted], a marketing communications writer, lives in Mt. Prospect, IL, where “friendliness is a way of life.” Active in the early 1980s Washington, D.C. poetry scene, he put a lid on poetry writing when he went to the Northwestern University grad school in a questionable attempt to think like a businessman and secure a decent income. Nevertheless, he has succumbed to writing poetry again and has been recently published in [name redacted], [name redact-ed], [name redacted], [name redacted] and the anthology, [name redacted]. [name redacted] lives in Antibes, on the French Riviera. He began writing short-films while working as an assistant director in Paris. His interviews with writers and musicians, and music reviews have published in [name redacted]. His poems and illustrated texts have appeared or are forthcoming in [name redacted], [name redacted], [name redact-ed], [name redacted], [name redacted]. He also created [name redacted], an experimental journal publishing only very short stories in six words, in any language. His chapbook, [name redacted], is available from [name redacted]. [name redacted] is a graduate of Vermont College of Fine Arts, where she earned a master’s degree in creative writing. Currently, she is an adjunct English instructor at Brookdale Community College in Lincroft, N.J. In addition, [name redacted] offers poetry workshops through the Community Development and Continuing Education program at Brookdale. This fall, she offers a creative writing program at [name redacted], a local non-profit organization, which supports the mentally ill. [name redact-ed] is [name redacted]’s first book of poetry. In her free time, she likes to sculpt in stone, cook, kayak, ex-perience the arts locally and in NYC, and read. Fair Haven, N.J. is her home, where she lives with her teenage son and dog. [name redacted] writes from Denton, TX. She has journeyed through phone book editing, freelance copywriting, scriptwriting for story times, puppet shows, and other miscellaneous toddler entertainment. Currently, she is writing short stories about grandmothers, and is obsessed with ages. [name redacted]’s work has appeared or is forthcoming in [name redacted], [name redacted], [name re-dacted], [name redacted], [name redacted], and [name redacted]. In 2006, she was the inaugural recipient of the [name redacted], [name redacted]’s undergraduate poetry award. Currently, she is a student in the MFA program at San Francisco State University. She has served as the poetry editor of [name redacted] and co-curate the [name redacted]. [name redacted], originally from Michigan, lives in Denver, Colorado, where he is a public school teacher. He thanks you for reading his work. His debut book, a collection of flash fiction, will be published in the fall of 2016. You can reach him on Twitter: @[name redacted]. [name redacted] is a recent graduate of the Helen Zell Writers' Program at the University of Michigan. His second collabora-tion with Los Angeles writer [name redacted], [name redacted], will be published on [name redacted] in late 2014. [name redacted] works for a charity in Oxford and enjoys writing in his spare time. His poetry has been published in [name redacted], [name redacted], [name redacted] and [name redacted]. [name redacted] previously studied poetry at Goddard College in Plainfield, VT, and Hellenic International Studies in the Arts in Paros, Greece. He has a background in youth and community theater, and is currently finishing a B.A. in English Literature at Reed College in Portland, OR. [name redacted] lives in Oakland, California, and works as a poetry editor for [name redacted]. He recently received his MFA in poetry from Saint Mary's College, where he also edited [name redacted]. [name redacted] lives and writes poetry in Mahone Bay, Nova Scotia with her husband and daughter. [name redacted] moved to Halifax in 2002 from Toronto, Ontario, where she was born and raised. She has also lived in Espanola, Vancouver, and on the Sechelt Peninsula in BC. [name redacted] has been involved with the small press community in Canada since the early 1990’s, when she was co-editor, with [name redacted], of [name redacted]. This very small ongoing imprint produced chapbooks, including several of her own works, such as [name re-dacted], [name redacted], and [name redacted]. Her work has been published by other small presses in Canada, including: [name redacted] ([name redacted]); [name redacted] ([name redacted]); and [name redacted] ([name redacted]). It also has appeared in various magazines, such as [name redacted], [name redacted], [name redacted], [name redacted], [name redacted], and [name redacted]. From 1992-1995, [name redacted] was assistant coordinator of the [name redacted]. She has also done numerous readings over the years in many different venues, including the [name redacted], [name redacted] in [name redacted] in Toronto, and the [name redacted] on the Street. Her most recent publication is [name redacted] ([name redacted], 2008). Her previous full-length collection, [name redacted], was published in 2002 by [name re-dacted]. [name redacted]’s poems have appeared in [name redacted] from [name redacted], Fall 2005. They’ve also turned up in [name redacted], an anthology of surrealist Canadian poetry published by [name redacted], Fall 2004, and in [name redacted], published by [name redacted], 2004. Born into a baking fami-ly, [name redacted] grew up in Bucks County, PA and Trenton, NJ, experiencing a schizoid life between the pastoral suburban life of privilege and the searing politics of the civil rights movement and labor strife as played out in their family-owned bakery. Moving between TV cartoons and riots, he absorbed the vio-lence of America in the 60s and 70s. He’s always read, and always read poetry, and his first publications came from love of the art. At the University of Delaware, he studied with [name redacted] and [name re-dacted], and actually failed one class because he absorbed himself in [name redacted], which he read until it fell apart. At UA Fayetteville, he turned to fiction, although he still took Poetry Workshops with [name re-dacted], [name redacted] and [name redacted]. He wandered the landscape for a while, moving across the United States, living in LA, Atlanta, Idaho, Charlotte, and now he lives in Fort Smith, Arkansas, with his wife [name redacted] and their daughter [name redacted], mainly as economic refugees. He’s published fiction, made films, but his heart has always been in poetry, which he returned to in 2003 on the very day his mother died. Since then he’s published some poetry, taught a lot of students to love it, and now he’s amassed a collection related to his childhood experiences, [name redacted] ([name redacted]). His pub-lished book is a scholarly work [name redacted], forthcoming from the [name redacted]. His latest poems are forthcoming from [name redacted] and two poems have just appeared in [name redacted]. [name re-dacted]’s work has appeared or is forthcoming in [name redacted], [name redacted], [name redacted], [name redacted] and [name redacted]. She holds an MFA in poetry from the University of Montana and currently lives and works in Seattle. [name redacted]: i write up gallery walls with charcoal, project visuals at night, blank out dictionaries, create poster-trails, stage interventions, distribute alt-banknotes via mail art & am published in zines, pamphlets and online. i even show work more conventionally. solo exhibition [name redacted] - inspired by my experiences of psychosis, launched at [name redacted], newcastle (thanks to the mental health collective), and tours until 2019. download free pdf books at [website redacted] or see [website redacted]. [name redacted] is the author of [name redacted]. His book [name redacted] is forthcoming. He runs the [name redacted] in San Francisco. Other selections from [name redacted] also appeared as a chapbook from [name redacted]. [name redacted] is currently a student at Eckerd College in St. Petersburg, Florida. She has been published in [name redacted], [name redacted], and the [name redact-ed]. [name redacted] is a poet and editor. He lives in Montparnasse, and his poems have appeared most recently in [name redacted]; [name redacted]; and [name redacted]. [name redacted]’s favorite poem is “[name redacted]” by [name redacted]. She hopes that she will someday have written somebody else’s fa-vorite poem. [name redacted] is a third-year photography major at a small art school in southern New Hampshire, USA. Although she has always enjoyed writing and hopes someday to write a completed nov-el, she has just recently begun experimenting in writing poetry. [name redacted] was born in Santiago in 1972. He studied literature and has since made his living as a screenwriter for TV. His books of poems include [name redacted] ([name redacted] [name redacted], 2001), [name redacted] ([name redacted], 2004) and [name redacted] ([name redacted], 2006). [name redacted] received the 2007 [name redacted], which is given annually by the [name redacted]. [name redacted] has had poetry appear in various print and online publications, including: [name redacted], [name redacted], [name redacted], [name redacted], [name redact-ed], and others. His second chapbook [name redacted] has been published by [name redacted]. [name re-dacted] relocated to the Bay Area in 2005 after many years in central Italy. She teaches Test Prep to foreign students in San Francisco, and lives in Alameda with [name redacted], a lovely Spaniel mix she rescued in Italy and brought back with her. Some current or forthcoming publications are [name redacted], [name redacted], [name redacted], and [name redacted]. Her poems have placed for the third consecutive year in the [name redacted]’s annual contest. Her most recent chapbook is [name redacted] from [name redacted]. [name redacted] is an undergraduate student at the University of California, Santa Cruz. He’s an editor for [name redacted], the longest-running literary magazine at [name redacted], and a poetry reader for [name redacted]. His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in [name redacted], [name redact-ed], [name redacted], and [name redacted]. Find him online at [website redacted]. [name redacted] is from South Carolina. Work has appeared in [name redacted], [name redacted], and is forthcoming in [name re-dacted]. [name redacted] teaches literature and creative writing at Gonzaga University. He has a creative non-fiction book, [name redacted], and a book of poems, [name redacted]. His poetry and fiction have appeared in many literary journals. [name redacted] is drifting on the disturbed sea of her own mind. She's always been afloat, and has no real way off. Occasionally she'll land on an island, but the storm returns and she is thrown out to sea again. Her poems are a record of a life adrift. She has pieces in various jour-nals, a serialized book on [name redacted] called “[name redacted]” and one called [name redacted] out with [name redacted]. [name redacted]’s hometown is Jackson, OH. He has recent or forthcoming poems in [name redacted], [name redacted], and [name redacted]. [name redacted]'s work can be seen in journals such as [name redacted], [name redacted], and [name redacted]. While completing her English-MA, [name redacted] is serving as editor of [name redacted] State University’s literary/arts magazine, [name redact-ed]. Her academic work focuses on creative writing as well as Medieval and Renaissance literature, joining the two areas with an interest in aesthetics. [name redacted] enjoys life with her Shakespearean better half and three ridiculous cats. [name redacted] is a poet and philosopher recently transplanted to San Francisco from Illinois. [name redacted] has been facilitating “[name redacted]” poetry discussions in New Jersey libraries for over 16 years. [name redacted] was named “[name redacted]” by the [name redacted], as her poems received awards 43 times, including 2012 [name redacted] as judged by [name redacted]. She is published widely in university presses in the United States and was recently in an anthology, [name redact-ed]. [name redacted] is a poetry and short fiction writer from Vancouver, BC. Her writing has appeared in [name redacted], [name redacted], [name redacted] and other magazines in Canada. She is an under-graduate English major at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, and is particularly interested in pre-1900 American literature. Her poetry reflects her interest in the intersection between nature and culture. Her most recent chapbook is entitled [name redacted] from [name redacted]. [name redacted] was born in Kazakh-stan and raised in Azerbaijan. He was educated at Saratov State U, PCC, Cal Poly and Ft. Sam Hou-ston. His work has most recently appeared in [name redacted], [name redacted], [name redacted], [name redacted] and [name redacted]. [name redacted] currently lives in Bogotá, Colombia with her husband and nine-month-old son. During her son’s naps, she created a blog – [website redacted] – where she shares her poems and love of literature. [name redacted] was born in Dublin, Ireland. He successfully completed his Honours Degree in Visual Art Practice three years ago. His art practice has now grown to include more than simply the visual arts and while his method of writing is reinforced through this sense, it is his ambi-tion to bring his words to a wider audience. To this end he has been a member of the local poetry writers group since its inception over a year ago. The regular opportunity to read and to listen to the words, which are shared at these events, has afforded him the time and space to develop a better understanding of the audience as a necessary part of the writer’s process. His work has been included in several online publica-tions but to date he is his yet to see his works on the printed page. His writing interests include poetry, non-fiction, art criticism, philosophy and prose works.

Sacha Archer is an ESL instructor, childcare provider, writer, and visual artist, as well as being the editor of Simulacrum Press. His work has appeared in journals such as filling Station, h&, BlazeVox, illiterature, NōD, Timglaset, UTSANGA, Matrix, Word for/Word and Otoliths. Archer’s first full-length collection of poetry, Detour, was recently published by gradient books (2017), followed by Zoning Cycle (Simulacrum Press, 2017). His most recent chapbooks are, The Insistence of Momentum (The Blasted Tree, 2017), and upROUTE (above/ground press, 2017). He has a chapbook of visual poems forthcoming from Inspiritus Press entitled TSK oomph. He reviews, interviews and writes what he pleases at sachaarcher.wordpress.com. Archer lives in Burlington, Ontario.
 
 
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