Contributors to Issue 04

Adèle Barclay's poetry has appeared in The Pinch, Cosmonauts Avenue, Branch, Poetry Is Dead, the anthology Lake Effect 3 (edited by Carolyn Smart), and elsewhere. She was shortlisted for the 2015 Robert Kroetsch Award for Innovative Poetry. Lately you can find her living and writing in Vancouver.

Patrick Close abhors a vacuum. He’s more of a broom-and-pan type of guy. He tinkers and thinks with magnetic tape @onlyeverkid.

Tracy May Fuad lives and writes on the banks of a toxic canal in Brooklyn, where she also teaches writing to kids. She's considered signing up for a manned mission to Mars, but may settle for New Mexico instead. Her poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in Nashville Review, Hinchas de Poesia, and North American Review.

Hannah Golding is BFA grad from the University of Victoria. Born and raised in Alberta, she relocated to Vancouver Island in 2011 for university. Currently, she is building a body of work consisting of ink drawings, photography, scanned found images, and digital paintings. She explores themes of identity in relation to history, gender, and sexuality. You can find her at hannahgolding.com or around the web as multi_grain.

Nicholas Grider is the author of the story collection Misadventure (A Strange Object) and his work has appeared in Caketrain, Conjunctions, DIAGRAM, Guernica and other publications. He lives in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where he’s a pre-med student.

Jason Grim is a self-portrait artist who produces nightmarish creatures with his lens. His work is inspired by his favorite horror novelists and filmmakers as well as video games. He just started doing self-portraits this year as a way to challenge himself as an artist, and have since been doing this process as his main choice of practice. He graduated in the spring of 2013 with a Bachelors in Fine Art Photography from the University of North Florida.

Nadia Grutter lives in Victoria BC, where she writes and edits things. She hopes to release a collection of poems this coming year.

Jessica Hudgins is currently earning her MFA at Johns Hopkins University. Her work appears or is forthcoming in Portland Review, The Adirondack Review, and Glassworks.

Eve Kenneally is a first-year MFA poetry student at the University of Montana, originally from Boston by way of DC. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Cutbank (All Accounts and Mixture), The Sundial Review, Star 82 Review, Bluestockings Magazine, The Feminist Wire, and elsewhere.

Gabrielle Marceau is a writer, artist and sometimes filmmaker living in Toronto. She is the founding editor of online journal, The Fuck of the Century and produces the bi-monthly performance series, Unhealthy, Badly. She has contributed to Carbon Paper and Adult Mag. She loves films set in Florida but can't watch any with Ethan Hawke. Her favorite colour is emerald. She is currently finishing her first book of poems called A Tree in Miami.

Daniel T. Milanese, born July 5 1986 in Lacombe Alberta, is a young artist and music producer. His style is influenced by cassette and zine culture, compared to the likes of Noel Freibert, Jake Terrell, and Christopher Forgues. Currently residing in Blackfalds Alberta. Daniel performs on stage as "Gel Nails." Since 2010 Daniel has focused on ink drawing, automatism, and screen-print. He is recognized for his "Live Noise" and “Harsh Noise Wall” series.

Joseph Victor Milford is a Professor of English and a Georgia writer. His first collection of poems, Cracked Altimeter, was published by BlazeVox Press in 2010. He is the host of The Joe Milford Poetry Show, where he has compiled an archive of over 300 interviews and readings with American and Canadian poets. In addition, he is also the editor of RASPUTIN: A Poetry Thread (a literary journal of poetry).

J.R. Solonche has been publishing poems in magazines, journals, and anthologies since the early 70s. He is author of Beautiful Day (Deerbrook Editions) and coauthor of Peach Girl: Poems for a Chinese Daughter (Grayson Books). He lives in New York's Hudson Valley with his wife, the poet Joan I. Siegel, and nine cats, at least three of whom are poets.