Cassie Premo Steele
Cassie Premo Steele, Ph.D., is an award-winning and 6-time Pushcart Prize nominated poet and the author of 16 books and audio programs. She specializes in writing and teaching about healing from individual and collective trauma through environmentalist, intersectional, and mindful practices. She lives with her wife, dog and 3 chickens in
Cassie Premo Steele, Ph.D., is an award-winning and 6-time Pushcart Prize nominated poet and the author of 16 books and audio programs. She specializes in writing and teaching about healing from individual and collective trauma through environmentalist, intersectional, and mindful practices. She lives with her wife, dog and 3 chickens in South Carolina.
Akhil George
Akhil George can be found at the library cutting up phone books and magazines to find the right poetic voice of postmodernism. He is best known for his book “Some Hallucinations”. He writes political poetry, experimental sound poetry, exploding poetic verses (Avant-garde poetry), and Language Poetry. He uses aggressive imagery and rituali
Akhil George can be found at the library cutting up phone books and magazines to find the right poetic voice of postmodernism. He is best known for his book “Some Hallucinations”. He writes political poetry, experimental sound poetry, exploding poetic verses (Avant-garde poetry), and Language Poetry. He uses aggressive imagery and ritualistically invoke political ideologies in his work He has an MA in literature from Surrey University. He has spent over a year at Surrey University researching indigenous religious practices and Transcendentalism. Akhil has traveled extensively around the Middle East and Asia learning about the different religious and political ideologies in the region
Warren Stoddard II
Warren Stoddard II
Following his graduation, he travelled to Syria to fight as a member of the Kurdish YPG in the war against the Islamic State. He was later wounded in action liberating the city of Ash Sha'fah from ISIS control.
He is the author of 'No Birds in Yesterday' and his short story "The Way of the World" was the winner of the 2018 Gates-Thomas Prize for Fiction.
Emily Dixon
Warren Stoddard II
Emily Dixon lives in London where she works in education, alongside writing and comedy. During her degree in medieval studies, she came to writing through epics and dream visions, and wondering where lost or dormant genres have gone in the twenty first century. Her writing has been published in samfiftyfour and East of the Web, and featu
Emily Dixon lives in London where she works in education, alongside writing and comedy. During her degree in medieval studies, she came to writing through epics and dream visions, and wondering where lost or dormant genres have gone in the twenty first century. Her writing has been published in samfiftyfour and East of the Web, and featured on BBC radio and several podcasts. .
Read her work in issue I of samfiftyfour and as a runner up in our scary story contest.
Maxine Flasher-Düzgüneş
Maxine Flasher-Düzgüneş is a hybrid artist from Northern California. She is a writer for Inbtwn Magazine, poetry editor for Women's Voices for Change, and serves on the board at Marin Poetry Center. Her current project, strikethrough ([http://www.strikethrough-score.org)/]www.strikethrough-score.org) is a digital platform where poets can
Maxine Flasher-Düzgüneş is a hybrid artist from Northern California. She is a writer for Inbtwn Magazine, poetry editor for Women's Voices for Change, and serves on the board at Marin Poetry Center. Her current project, strikethrough ([http://www.strikethrough-score.org)/]www.strikethrough-score.org) is a digital platform where poets can generate choreographic scores for dancers - it is currently being exhibited at The Museum of Wild & Newfangled Art.
Bingh
Bingh studied literature and creative writing with Jim Crenner at Hobart College, where he founded and edited SCRY! A Nexus of Politics and the Arts (Anne Carson was among the contributors). He has written theater reviews for the San Diego Reader (under the name Binh H. Nguyen). Bingh holds an MFA degree in poetry from SDSU and is the fo
Bingh studied literature and creative writing with Jim Crenner at Hobart College, where he founded and edited SCRY! A Nexus of Politics and the Arts (Anne Carson was among the contributors). He has written theater reviews for the San Diego Reader (under the name Binh H. Nguyen). Bingh holds an MFA degree in poetry from SDSU and is the founder and curator of Thru a Soft Tube, a monthly reading series in its fifth year in San Diego.
Francesca Humphreys
Francesca Humphreys
Francesca Humphreys
Francesca Humphreys is studying for a Masters in Creative and Life Writing at Goldsmiths, University of London. She was born and raised in London and trained as a singer and actor. In her writing, she examines the scope of her appetites, the role that hunger has played in shaping her identity and the effects of what she calls ‘inherited
Francesca Humphreys is studying for a Masters in Creative and Life Writing at Goldsmiths, University of London. She was born and raised in London and trained as a singer and actor. In her writing, she examines the scope of her appetites, the role that hunger has played in shaping her identity and the effects of what she calls ‘inherited immigrant syndrome’. When not writing, Francesca teaches high-octane indoor cycling classes and pilates.
Maia Snow
Francesca Humphreys
Francesca Humphreys
Maia Snow is a painter and sometimes writer. Snow was born in Perm, Russia and moved to America at the age of 13. Currently, they are splitting their time between Valentine, Texas and Portland, Maine. Snow received their MFA from University of Texas at Austin in 2020. Snow’s work celebrates the complexities of queer sexuality, gender, and
Maia Snow is a painter and sometimes writer. Snow was born in Perm, Russia and moved to America at the age of 13. Currently, they are splitting their time between Valentine, Texas and Portland, Maine. Snow received their MFA from University of Texas at Austin in 2020. Snow’s work celebrates the complexities of queer sexuality, gender, and the non-binary body. They deeply care about language and its ability to shape time, physicality, and openness. Snow has shown their paintings throughout Texas, New England, and in various parts of the Midwest.
Alejandro Mársico
Francesca Humphreys
Alejandro Mársico
Alejandro Mársico was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina in 1990. He's an Editor, Graduate, and Professor of Literature from the University of Buenos Aires.
Mollie Swayne
Hannah May Jessop
Alejandro Mársico
Mollie Swayne holds an MFA from the University of Tennessee. She served as the Nonfiction Editor for Grist: A Journal of the Literary Arts from 2017-18, and her work has appeared in Euphony, McSweeney's Internet Tendency, and elsewhere. She currently works in local news.
Hannah May Jessop
Hannah May Jessop
Hannah May Jessop
Hannah May is a writer / performer from North London. Her work often holds an intimate lens to the expectations of women, and what society believes to be 'good'. Her first film 'Crowning' is currently in post production and is due for release in May 2021.
Angelo Zinna
Hannah May Jessop
Hannah May Jessop
Angelo Zinna is a writer and editor currently based in Rome, Italy.
Danielle Zipkin
Miriam Moore-Keish
Miriam Moore-Keish
Danielle Zipkin (she/her) lives in NYC with her husband and puppy. She has poems published or forthcoming in The Golden Shovel Anthology: New Poems Honoring Gwendolyn Brooks, Jacqueline Suskin's Expressions of Awe, Humana Obscura, samfiftyfour, VAINE, and elsewhere. Most days, she educates middle schoolers and haphazardly gardens.
Miriam Moore-Keish
Miriam Moore-Keish
Miriam Moore-Keish
Miriam Moore-Keish is a writer and editor originally from Atlanta, Georgia. She holds a bachelor’s degree in English literature from Macalester College and a master’s degree in children’s literature from the University of Cambridge. Her current projects include editing books for children and adults, designing anti-bias preschool curricu
Miriam Moore-Keish is a writer and editor originally from Atlanta, Georgia. She holds a bachelor’s degree in English literature from Macalester College and a master’s degree in children’s literature from the University of Cambridge. Her current projects include editing books for children and adults, designing anti-bias preschool curricula, working for the organization We Need Diverse Books, and drinking lots of tea. Miriam explores Southern identity, family, religion, race, and womanhood in work appearing in places such as Poets.org, The Underground Journal, The Perch, The Dead Mule School of Southern Literature, and samfiftyfour. Her chapbook, Cherokee Rose, is available from Finishing Line Press.