Contributors
Thank you to our contributors—and our readers for your support and belief in us.
Below, find out more about the people who made this volume special. Give them your support, as we give you our gratitude.
Paul Wangtechawat
Paul Wangtechawat is an artist and illustrator from Bangkok, Thailand. They're passionate about drawing characters and vibrant human emotions, focusing on the colourful, the weird and the fantastical. They accept commissions, and have had work appearing on various websites, including The Selkie UK and Sledgehammer Lit. View more of their art on Instagram at @paul_suthaveeart.
Noonherd is a young Tamil writer from sunny Singapore. They hope to one day travel the world, hug a baby elephant, and get published in literary magazines. Their work revolves around finding the intersections between specific itches and unsaid, universal emotion, as well as exploring their own rich cultural heritage. You can find more of their work at @noonherd on Instagram.
Noonherd
Oormila Vijayakrishnan Prahlad
Oormila Vijayakrishnan Prahlad is an Indian-Australian artist, poet, and pianist. She has been painting and exhibiting for over twenty years and her art and poetry have been widely published in both print and online journals. Her recent artworks have been showcased in Otoliths, 3 AM Magazine, and The Amsterdam Quarterly, and on the covers of Ang(st) the body zine, Pithead Chapel, Uppagus, Periwinkle Literary, and The Rat’s Ass Review. She received two Best of the Net nominations for 2021. She is a chief editor for Authora Australis.
Her artwork has been previously published with us in Vol. 1: Still Life.
Syna Majumder (she/they) is a high schooler from India who loves to talk about any movie she might have seen. Her work has been published in school magazines and a local newspaper as well as recently winning a country-spanning essay writing competition. You can find her @fuzz_pedals on Instagram. She will happily talk to you about her excel sheet full of road trip plans.
Syna Majumder
Dominic Hemy
Dominic Hemy is rather new to this storytelling game, having been giving numerous nudges by a dear friend to start thinking about it. Beer guru by day, musician by night, there are hopes to add “author” to that list without embarrassment sometime soon. He is proud to have had pieces previously appear with Nymphs Publications and Stone Of Madness Press.
Christopher K. Coffman is faculty member at Boston University. He lives in Brookline, MA, with his wife, sons, cat, and dog. The author of Rewriting Early America: The Prenational Past in Postmodern Literature, Coffman has also co-edited three volumes, including William T. Vollmann: A Critical Companion and After Postmodernism: The New American Fiction. His most recently published piece of creative writing was a feuilleton in the Winter–Spring 2021 issue of Gobshite Quarterly.
Christopher K. Coffmann
Susan diRende
Author and artist Susan diRende travels the world with no fixed abode. She's won awards for her writing including the 2017 Special Citation for Excellence by the Philip K Dick Awards. Her artwork has had exhibitions in New Zealand, Belgium, Mexico, and the US. Most recently, she's had writing and artwork published in The Dewdrop, the Pine Hills Review, and The Gaze Journal.
Clem Flowers (They/ Them) is a soft spoken southern transplant living in spitting distance of some mountains in Utah. They enjoy cooking, watching old films, and frequently visiting a local bird sanctuary. Nb & bi, they live in a cozy apartment with their wonderful wife & sweet calico kitty. They can be found on Twitter at @hand_springs777.
Clem Flowers
Suraya Kiawan-Tessa
Suraya Kiawan-Tessa (she/her) is a writer based in Singapore and Turin. She enjoys surrealism and the absurd. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Cornucopia, a Cinnabar Moth anthology, and others. Catch glimpses of her on Twitter @pleiadessy and Instagram @scarlettstoat.
Lorelei Bacht is a European bookworm and poet living in Asia. She enjoys climbing trees and observing orb weavers. When she is not drawing sad little sketches, she writes—too much. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Visitant, The Wondrous Real, Quail Bell, Fahmidan, Abridged Magazine, Odd Magazine, Postscript, PROEM, SWWIM, Strukturriss, The Inflectionist Review, Slouching Beast Journal, Hecate, and others. She is also on Instagram @lorelei.bacht.writer and on Twitter @bachtlorelei.
Lorelei Bacht
Sage Agee
Sage Agee is a queer, nonbinary poet and parent living in rural Oregon. Ze is currently inspired by the works of Billy-Ray Belcourt and the unbelievable evolution of their brand new baby, Otto. Their work has appeared in Goats Milk Magazine, Warning Lines Mag, and is forthcoming in Sledgehammer Lit and Impossible Archetype.
Richard A. Carter is a Senior Lecturer in Digital Media at the University of Roehampton in London. Carter is interested in examining questions and issues concerning more-than-human agency within digital art and literature—considering how these generate insights into what it means to perceive, to articulate, and to act within the world. Carter's research is embedded within his artistic practice, developing art objects that meditate on the potentialities of sensing, knowing, and writing at the intersection between human and machinic actors. You can learn more about his work at @RichardACarter2 on Twitter and Instagram, and at http://richardacarter.com/.
Richard A Carter
J.R. Bournville
J.R. Bournville exists in relative isolation amid overflowing bookshelves and partially finished drafts in Scotland, and on Twitter as @JRBournville. Even before the pandemic struck, she rarely ventured outside. Now, the “real” world seems less real than those in the books she reads or pieces she writes. Honestly, she's not certain that it's a bad thing.
Linda McMullen is a wife, mother, diplomat, and homesick Wisconsinite. Her short stories and the occasional poem have appeared in over one hundred literary magazines. She received Pushcart and Best of the Net nominations in 2020.