ISSUE O.14 “PLACE” FALL 2023 author AND ARTIST BIOS
authors
Miriam Akervall, “A Faller / B Bucker / IdahO'“ (Poetry)
Miriam Akervall is a Swedish American first year MFA candidate in poetry at the University of Idaho. Their work has appeared in Volume Poetry, Stone Journal, Voicemail Poems and elsewhere. They live in Moscow, Idaho.
Subhaga Crystal Bacon, “Bumpass, untitled” (Poetry)
Subhaga Crystal Bacon (she/they) is a Queer poet living in rural Washington on unceded Methow land. She is the author of four collections of poetry including Surrender of Water in Hidden Places, Red Flag Poetry, and Transitory, forthcoming in November of 2023 from BOA Editions.
Connor Beeman, “hunting poem” (Poetry)
Connor Beeman (he/they) is a queer Midwest poet who focuses on queerness, place, nature, and history. They are the winner of the 2022 Ritzenhein Emerging Poet Award and the author of concrete, rust, marrow (Finishing Line Press, 2023). Other publications include Ghost City Review and New Reader Magazine.
David Blackmore, “The Village of Sergeant” (CNF)
David Blackmore was born in Pittsburgh but moved mid-childhood to Kane, Pennsylvania. He is associate professor of English and writing program coordinator at Chatham University. David has published in Rockvale Review, Wordrunners eChapbooks, Watershed Journal, Allium, and Northern Appalachia Review, and he recently completed his memoir manuscript Chemical Works Road.
Alison Colwell, “Grafted” (CNF)
Alison Colwell is a single working mother of two children with mental health challenges and a survivor of domestic abuse, all of which inform her creative writing. Her CNF work can be found in the climate-fiction anthology Rising Tides, the NonBinary Review and The Fieldstone Review and The Humber Literary Review.
Cho Ji Hoon, Translated by Sekyo Nam Haines, “Dead Old Tree” (Poetry)
Cho Ji Hoon (1920-1968) is a canonical poet of modern Korea. A renowned scholar of Korean aesthetics, his poetry is rooted in the literary Sijo, began in 12th century and has an intense local flavor of pre-industrial Korea. A professor at Korea University for 20 years, Cho Ji Hoon published six poetry collections.
Born in South Korea, Sekyo Nam Haines’s first book of translation of Korean poetry, The Bitter Seasons' Whip: The complete Poems of Lee Yuk Sa was published in 2022, April (Tolsun books). Her works appeared in Lilly poetry review, The Massachusetts Review, Hayden’s Ferry. Sekyo lives in Cambridge, MA.
Katarina Frostenson, Translated by Brad Harmon, “Street Name” (Poetry)
Katarina Frostenson has held a major influence on Swedish and European poetry since the 1980s. She is a Chevalier of the French Legion of Honor and received the prestigious Nordic Council Literature Prize in 2016 for the collection Sånger och formler (forthcoming in English as The Space of Time).
Bradley Harmon is a writer, translator and scholar of Scandinavian and German literature. In 2021 he was invited to the Översättargruvan translation workshop and in 2022 he was an ALTA Emerging Translator fellow. His book translations include Frostenson’s The Space of Time (Threadsuns Press, 2024), in which “Street Name” will appear.
Jeffrey Hecker, “Tyke the Elephant, 1994” (Poetry)
Jeffrey Hecker is the author of Rumble Seat (San Francisco Bay Press), chapbooks Hornbook (Horse Less Press), Instructions for the Orgy (Sunnyoutside Press) & Ark Aft (The Magnificent Field). Recent work appears in South Dakota Review. A fourth-generation Hawaiian-American, he teaches at The Muse Writers Center & reads for Quarterly West.
Aiden Heung, “Error” And “Waves of Huangpu” (Poetry)
Aiden Heung (He/They) is a Chinese poet born in a Tibetan Autonomous Town, currently living as a traveling coating salesman. If he is not on the road selling water-repellent solutions, you can always find him writing poems in one of the Costa Cafes in Shanghai. His poems written in English have appeared in The Australian Poetry Journal, The Missouri Review, Atlanta Review, Parentheses, Crazyhorse, and Black Warrior Review among other places. He can be found on Twitter @aidenheung.
Judith Howe, “Homage to Shorty Zucchini, Don W. and Life at the Dump” (CNF)
Judith Howe holds an M. Ed in Counseling from UNH. Previously published in The Christian Science Monitor, she’s currently working on a memoir titled, Tales of Amusement, Adventure and Angst in a 50-Year Marriage. She lives in NH with her husband.
Elizabeth Paul, “It Runs Deep” (CNF)
Elizabeth Paul’s work has appeared in such places as Cold Mountain Review, The Carolina Quarterly, and The Briar Cliff Review. Her chapbook Reading Girl explores the art of Henri Matisse. She was a Peace Corps volunteer in Kyrgyzstan and currently teaches writing at George Mason University. Her website is elizabethsgpaul.com.
Annie Penfield, “Glacial Speed” (CNF)
Annie Penfield holds an MFA from the Vermont College of Fine Arts. She is working on a memoir based on her essay “The Half-Life.” Twice named notable by Best American Essays her work has appeared in several wonderful journals (www.anniepenfield.com). She lives in Vermont, spends time in Alaska, and works to reconcile it all through her writing.
Kimm Brockett Stammen, “Sidewalkings” (Fiction)
Kimm Brockett Stammen's story collection, In a Country Whose Language I Have Never Mastered, was a finalist for the Iron Horse Book Contest and the 2022 Eludia Award. Her writings have appeared or are forthcoming in Chautauqua, CARVE, Pembroke, and over forty other literary magazines. She holds an MFA from Spalding University.
Gina Willner-Pardo, “‘It Is In The Small Things We See It’” (Fiction)
Gina Willner-Pardo’s work has been published or will appear in South Carolina Review, The Berkeley Fiction Review, Louisiana Literature, Subnivean, and other journals. She has also written seventeen books for children, all published by Clarion or Albert Whitman. She has a B.A. from Bryn Mawr College and an M.B.A. from the University of California, Berkeley.
Emma Winsor Wood, “Paradise” (Poetry)
Emma Winsor Wood is the author of the poetry collection The Real World (BlazeVOX books, 2022) and the translator of A Failed Performance (Plays Inverse, 2018). Her poems and essays have appeared in The American Poetry Review, ZYZZYVA, Fence, jubilat, DIAGRAM, The Colorado Review, and BOAAT, among others.
ARTISTS
Terry Brinkman, “Wolf”
Terry Brinkman started painting in junior high school. He has had painting shows at the Eccles Art Center and paintings published in the Healing Muse, Meat for tea; The Bangor literary journal, Barzakh, Stone Coast Review, Eastern Iowa Review, Penumbra, New Ulster, and Inlandia.
Roger Camp, “Madrone Flowers”
Roger Camp is the author of three photography books including the award winning Butterflies in Flight, Thames & Hudson, 2002 and Heat, Charta, Milano, 2008. His work has been awarded the prestigious Leica Medal of Excellence for European photography. His images have appeared in numerous journals including The New England Review, Paris Review and the New York Quarterly. Represented by the Robin Rice Gallery, NYC, more of his work may be seen on Luminous-Lint.com.
Jeff Corwin, “Mission Creek Montana”
After 40+ years as an award-winning commercial photographer, Jeff Corwin now focuses on fine art photography. Simplicity, graphic forms, and repeating configurations personally relate. Recent career highlights include: numerous museum exhibitions; gallery shows; work in permanent collections; features in numerous fine art publications; and representation by several contemporary galleries.
Leanne Dunic, “Lake Saiko”
Leanne Dunic is a multidisciplinary artist. She’s the fiction editor at Tahoma Literary Review and the leader of the band The Deep Cove. Her book of lyric prose and photographs, Wet, is forthcoming with Talonbooks in Spring 2024. Leanne lives on the unceded and occupied Traditional Territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh First Nations.
Srijani Dutta, “Meghalaya Hills” and “Mirik Lake”
Srijani Dutta hails from India. She has completed her Post Graduation in English literature from Visva Bharati University. She loves expressing herself through colours, words, and images. She writes and has published her poems in journals like Setu, Parcham, Contemporary Literary Review India, Story Mirror, EKL review journal, and Plato’s cave online journal. When she is not writing, she paints. Her paintings have been published in Borderless Journal, Creative Chromosomes, and Rappahannock review.
Fable, “Gathering Rust”; “Screen Time”; “Bus Stop”; “Throwing Shade”; “Street Exhaustion” ; “Huge Warehouse Selection” and “Whelp”
Fable makes a fantasy graphic novel called Feather and Stone about trans survival, autistic witch practices, martyr-cult colonialism, tech-bro god-kings, intergenerational trauma, the mythological language of collective human memory, Taoism, and lesbian love. You can find her on instagram @open_casket_birthday_bash or email at FablesArtParade@gmail.com. You can buy The Art at paperbackfables.bigcartel.com, you can buy the prologue to Feather and Stone at seventeenfables.itch.io, and you can find her at patreon.com/FableComics
KATHLEEN FRANK, “Monsoon Summer from the Loneliest Road” AND “Monument Valley”
Santa Fe artist Kathleen Frank paints the Western landscape in vibrant hues, capturing light and pattern in complex terrains. Career highlights include: numerous museum and gallery exhibitions; High Desert Museum Curator’s Choice Award; Art in Embassies/U.S. State Department selection Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia; work in permanent collections; and features in numerous fine art publications.
Erica Catherine Matthews, “Vanitus Redux C”
Erica Catherine Matthews is a photographer who focuses on themes of life, death, and what it means to feel temporary. These themes are photographed with arranged sets of locally-sourced flora, skeletal props, and rehydrated butterfly specimens. She can be found on Instagram @I_am_having_a_thought.
Bridgette Geurzon Mills, “Mind Like a River” and “Stories Are Held in the Land”
Bridgette Guerzon Mills is an interdisciplinary artist whose work incorporates a variety of materials including photography, paint, encaustic, textiles, and reclaimed materials. Her artwork has been published in magazines and books and has been exhibited and collected in the United States and internationally. She currently resides in Towson, MD.
Amy Nelder, “Build Your Own Eden 1”
California painter Amy Nelder calls her work “Pop Trompe L’oeil,” mixing high realism with pop imagery of romantic or socio-political narratives. Nelder has three decades of extensive exhibition credentials including the de Young Museum (San Francisco), Musee des Beaux Arts (Valenciennes, France), London Art Biennale, Chianciano Biennial (Tuscany), and upcoming solo exhibitions.
Avik Sarkhel, “Minimal (1&2)”
Avik Sarkhel, a 22-year-old individual hailing from Kolkata, India, is currently pursuing a Master's degree in Computer Application. He has a deep passion for capturing breathtaking landscapes using both his mobile camera and a DSLR camera borrowed from a friend. Beyond his academic pursuits, photography serves as the key that unlocks new opportunities, allowing him to explore places he might not have ventured to otherwise. This art form has significantly transformed Avik's perspective on the world and his connections with others. He draws inspiration and determination from his loving family and a close-knit circle of friends, cherishing every moment life has to offer. Avik feels fortunate to savor all the joys that life brings his way.
Catherine Skinner, “Tangent XXXIV”
Catherine Eaton Skinner (Seattle/Santa Fe) illuminates the balance of opposites, reflecting mankind’s attempts at connection. Skinner has an extensive global museum/gallery exhibition history, including Pie Projects, Las Cruces Museum: Branigan Cultural Center and upcoming International Art Museum of America. 150+ publications have featured her work. Radius Books published her monograph 108.
Maggie Yang, “The Glass That Becomes Us”
Maggie Yang is a writer and artist from British Columbia, Canada. Her poetry has been recognized by the Poetry Society, The League of Canadian Poets, and appears or is forthcoming in Ghost City Review, Split Rock Review, Eastern Iowa Review, among others. Her art appears in The Adroit Journal.