CONTRIBUTORS
Issue 15, Volume II
Pocket Anthology
Jan Schmidt, our Consulting Prose Editor, has had fiction published in Anti-Heroin Chic, The Wall, Tupelo Quarterly, The Long Story. IKON, and New York Stories. In Downtown she published a series of oral history interviews with hard-core, risky individuals and their brushes with salvation. With J.D. Rage, she co-edited Venom Press and its quarterly poetry and fiction magazine, Curare, for eight years. Her short story collection Collateral Regeneration was a finalist for the Eludia Award from Hidden River Arts, 2019. Her unpublished novel Sunlight Underground was a finalist for the Novel Slices Award, 2021. Till 2015, she held the position of Curator of the Jerome Robbins Dance Division of The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center. Some of her published writing can be seen on her website janschmidt-writer.com Brian Cullman is writer & musician living in New York City. He is a regular contributor to The Paris Review and records for Sunnyside Records. www.briancullman.com B.J. Atwood-Fukada has an MFA from The New School and is a founding member of the New York workshop Writing at the Crossroads. Her work has appeared in Great American Prose Poems from Poe to the Present and Free Radicals: American Poets Before Their First Books, as well as in American Letters & Commentary, The Mad Hatter's Review, Frigate and Tupelo Quarterly, among others. Her piece "Fellow Breathers of the Only Air" appeared in Witty Partition (then The Wall) #2. B.J. lives and writes in Spuyten Duyvil (Bronx), NY and Woods Hole, Mass., where she is at work on an autobiographical novel, Beautiful, and a series of riffs, Trainwreck. Poetry Thoreau Lovell is a poet and prose writer who lives in Berkeley, California with his wife, daughter and two dogs. He is the author of Wilson Wiley Variations (Wet Cement Press) and Amnesia’s Diary (Ex Nihilo) as well as the publisher and co-founder of Wet Cement Press. Aldric Ulep lives and writes near Honolulu, Hawaiʻi. He works with The Speakeasy Project, a literary arts organization and talent agency, and he is pursuing an MFA in Creative Writing at the Rainier Writing Workshop at Pacific Lutheran University. His writing can be found or is forthcoming in Beloit Poetry Journal, Tinfish, Bamboo Ridge, and TAYO Literary Mag. Portfolio Bill Hayward is an award-winning director, filmmaker, photographer, choreographer and writer. His American Memory Project has been on the road since 1948. Still images from the Project appear in his books: Bad Behavior, Rizzoli International, 2000 and Chasing Dragons, Glitterati 2015. Project film imagery is collected at billhayward.com. His feature-length Asphalt, Muscle & Bone and short films have received numerous awards at international film festivals. Sounds Walter Zev Feldman is a leading researcher in both Ottoman Turkish and Jewish music. During the 1970s he spearheaded the revival of klezmer music. Feldman’s first book, Music of the Ottoman Court: Makam, Composition, and the Early Ottoman Instrumental Repertoire (Berlin, 1996) is taught as a basic text worldwide. His recent book Klezmer: Music, History and Memory, was published by Oxford University Press (2016), and is currently being translated into Russian. Between 2011 and 2015 Feldman researched the Jewish, Gypsy and Greek musical traditions of Moldova/Bessarabia, sponsored by NYU Abu Dhabi. Feldman’s new book From Rumi to the Whirling Dervishes: Music, Poetry and Mysticism in the Ottoman Empire is sponsored by the Aga Khan University and will be published by Edinburgh University Press. Feldman is currently a Senior Research Fellow affiliated with New York University, Abu Dhabi, and the Artistic Director of the Klezmer Institute. He is on the board of the Corpus Musicae Ottomanicae Project of the University of Münster, and the Istanbul Research Institute. His website is www.walterzevfeldman.com and he can be reached at [email protected] Remarkable Reads Osman of Timisoara, 1656-1725, was an officer in the Ottoman Empire and spent 12 years as a slave in the Hapsburg Empire before making a daring escape. Translator and Editor, Giancarlo Casale, is Professor of Early Modern History of the Mediterranean at the European University Institute and was the 2009-2011 McKnight Land Grant Professor at the University of Minnesota. Fernanado Pessoa is a name which should be familiar to all. Pessoa was a Portuguese poet, writer, literary critic, translator, publisher and philosopher, described as one of the most significant literary figures of the 20th century and one of the greatest poets in the Portuguese language. He also wrote in and translated from English and French. Darrel J. McCleod is the author of Mamascatch and Peyakow. Mamascatch received the Govenor General’s Literary Award for Nonfiction. He is Cree from treaty eight territory in Northern Alberta. Before deciding to pursue writing in his retirement, McLeod was a chief negotiator of land claims for the Canadian federal government and executive director of education and international affairs with the Assembly of First Nations. He holds degrees in French literature and education from the University of British Columbia. He lives in Sooke, British Columbia. Kerri ní Dochartaigh has written for The Guardian, the Irish Times, the BBC,Winter Papers, and others. She is from the North West of Ireland but now lives in the middle, in an old railway cottage with her partner and dog. Editors Bronwyn Mills' books include Beastly’s Tale (a novel) and Night of the Luna Moths (poetry); her education, an MFA from UMass, Amherst, a Ph.D. from NYU. She was mentored by James Tate, Samuel Delany, Kamau Brathwaite, and Ngugi wa Thiong’o. An Anais Nin Fellow and Fulbright Fellow (La République du Bénin, West Africa) she has lived in Paris, France, New York City, Istanbul, Turkey; Cotonou, Bénin, and Latin America and taught Caribbean literature, African literature and writing in Istanbul, Bénin, and just outside New York City. Formerly a dance and theatre writer in New England, Bronwyn is a founding co-editor for Witty Partition and a Senior Prose Editor for Tupelo Quarterly. Guest-editor for the Turkish issue of Absinthe; New European Writing (#19), her current projects include By the Spoonmaker's Tomb, a collection of vignettes from her time in Istanbul and the newly finished Canary Club, a novel set in medieval Spain. Most recently, Agni Online has published an excerpt from Spoonmaker. She has also published work on African vodou. More of her work can be found at https://bronwynmills.org/. Bronwyn now lives and writes in a tiny mountain village far, far away. Eric Darton’s books include Free City, a novel, first published in 1996 by WW. Norton and recently re-released by Dalkey Archive Press, and the New York Times bestseller Divided We Stand: A Biography of The World Trade Center (Basic Books, 1999, 2011). Other of his writings may be found at bookoftheworldcourant.net, ericdarton.net and tupeloquarterly.com. He co-wrote, co-produced, and appears in the award-winning feature Asphalt, Muscle & Bone, directed by Bill Hayward. Darton teaches literature, writing, urban design and Ba Gua Zhang, a Chinese internal martial art. He leads Writing at the Crossroads, an interdisciplinary prose workshop. Hardy Griffin has a Ph.D. from Boğaziçi University, and has published writing in Fresh.ink, New Flash Fiction, Alimentum, Assisi, The Washington Post, American Letters & Commentary, and a chapter in The Gotham Guide to Writing Fiction (Bloomsbury). His translations can be found in Words Without Borders, The Istanbul Biennial, and for the award-winning EU-sponsored study Armenians, which documents the lives of Armenians living in contemporary Turkey. A selection of his work can be found here. He is the founding editor of the literary magazine Novel Slices, dedicated solely to the publication of novel excerpts of all genres. Consulting Editors Dana Delibovi, our Consulting Poetry Editor, is a poet, essayist, and translator from Missouri (USA). Her poetry and essays have recently appeared in After the Art, Arkansan Review, Bluestem, The Confluence, Linden Avenue, Noon, Witty Partition, and Zingara Poetry Review. She has published translations in Apple Valley Review, Ezra Translations, and Witty Partition. She is a 2020 Pushcart Prize nominee in nonfiction. To learn more, visit danadelibovi.weebly.com/ Jan Schmidt (see above). Contributing Editor-at-Large Christopher Sawyer-Lauçanno, whose memoir we continue to serialize, is the author of more than a dozen books including biographies of Paul Bowles, e.e. cummings, and a group portrait of American writers in Paris 1944-1960, The Continual Pilgrimage. He has translated the Salvador Dalí's "San Sebastien" essay, work by Eduard Roditti, andbooks by Paul Eluard, Rafael Alberti, Panaït Istrati, García Lorca as well as the Mayan Books of Chilam Balam. Most recent publications:Dix méditations sur quelques mots d’Antonin Artaud, translated by Patricia Pruitt (Paris: Alyscamps, 2018) Remission (Talisman House, 2016) and Mussoorie-Montague Miscellany (Talisman House, 2014) Until retiring he taught writing at MIT for over a quarter-century. He lives in Turners Falls, Massachusetts. Many of his books are on Amazon and Bookshop.org. |