Contributors

Carmelinda Scian

Carmelinda Scian is an award winning author who has been published in the Malahat Review, Litro, Belletrist, UofT magazine, Prairie Fire, Accenti Magazine, the Fiddlehead, the SanAntonio Review, Magnolia, the Antigonish Review, and the Hong Kong Review. “Yellow Watch” was nominated for the 2018 Journey Prize. She was judge for Malahat’s Open Season contest in 2018 and is presently a reader for the Fiddlehead Review. 

She emigrated from Portugal to Toronto where she lives with her husband.

B. Tyler Lee

B. Tyler Lee is the author of one poetry collection, With Our Lungs in Our Hands (Redbird Chapbooks, 2016), and her essay “A large volume of small nonsenses” won the 2020 Talking Writing Contest. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in 32 Poems, Crab Orchard Review, Hayden’s Ferry Review, Puerto del Sol, Qwerty Literary Journal, Acting Up: Queer in the New Century (Jacar Press), and elsewhere. She teaches in the Midwest.

Emma Wu

Emma Wu is a queer writer of color, environmental activist, and crossword enthusiast living in Philadelphia, PA with her partner and cat. She is currently attending Rutgers-Camden University’s MFA program in fiction writing and holds a BA in Geology from Bryn Mawr College. Born into a bi-racial Asian American family in Texas, Emma’s literary practice is steeped in the dissonance between cultural reverence and dissent. She writes to understand how we pass on and reshape memory, how it affects desire, and if we can ever really let it go. Emma was a Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellow and received the Katherine Fullerton Gerould Excellence in Writing Award in 2018. 

Clare Banks

Clare Banks is associate editor for Smartish Pace. A recipient of a Maryland State Arts Council Individual Artist Award, her poems have appeared in or are forthcoming in Hopkins Review, Mississippi Review, and Boulevard, among others. She has an MFA in poetry from the University of Maryland and lives in Baltimore City. 

Natali Petricic

Natali Petricic’s stories have appeared in Joyland, CALYX, Santa Monica Review, The Fem, The Common, and others. Recently, her linked short story collection was a finalist for the Restless Books 2020 Prize for New Immigrant Writing. Her novella, Leaf Boats, is part of the Running Wild Novel Anthology. She is a former PEN America Emerging Voices Fellow and PEN America Mark program participant. When she isn’t writing, Natali enjoys long walks, baking, and spending time with her husband and son. 

Eliya O. Smith

Eliya O. Smith is a writer from Ohio. 

Sève Favre

Sève Favre is a visual artist, originally from the French part of Switzerland. In 2005, she created her first modular artwork. She has exhibited in Switzerland and abroad. In 2020, Sève Favre was nominated for the Arte Laguna Prize in Installation and Sculpture. Passionate about the concept of integration, she concentrates on transcending the classical boundary between the artwork and the viewer. The main feature of her art is interactivity. The key words that support her concept are interaction (be together), variation (be different), and activity (be active). Her name for this experience is “intervariactivity.”

Michael Paramo

Michael Paramo is a Queer Mexican-American artist and researcher from the suburbs of north Orange County (which occupy the stolen territories of the Tongva/Kizh, Acjachemen, and Payómkawichum). They created AZE journal (azejournal.com) in 2016, where they publish journal issues on topics intersecting with asexuality, aromanticism, and agenderness. Influenced by their mother and artist Martha Guillen-Paramo, Michael has created art since they were a child. In 2018, they began creating digital self-portraits as part of a journey toward self-discovery. They are currently studying the intersections of aesthetics and decoloniality as a PhD student at the University of British Columbia. 

Ernst Perdriel

Ernst Perdriel was born in Montreal (Quebec, Canada). He is a multi-field artist (visual art, photography, writing – French), designer and horticulturist. 

He participates in solo and group exhibitions in visual arts since 1995. The artist uses mosaics, collages, landscaping, photography to talk about our complex era. Perdriel has contributed in numerous publications since 1992 as a writer, illustrator, artist, photographer and in self-publishing. His works have appeared in Sunspot Literary Journal, Meat for Tea: The Valley Review, Kolaj Magazine, Into the Void, The Healing Muse, Iris Literary Journal, 3Elements Literary Review and others. Learn more at www.ernstperdriel.com

K.A. Cummins

Kate Jarvik Birch

Daniel Charles Zolinsky

Daniel Charles Zolinsky was born in 1946 in Paris, France, to a French mother and Russian father. He moved to San Francisco at the age of ten. The age of 20 makes the beginning of many solitary voyages throughout the world—Europe, Africa, México, Asia, always with a camera. He settled in New Mexico in the early 1980s here he met his future wife, writer Denise Chávez and writer, Rudolfo Anaya. The Himalayas marks the beginning of long-range photographic treks on foot. The discipline of photography and walking is a way of living as well as working. In Paris, he began his collaboration with Michel Fresson, the master printer of the rare archival Fresson color process leading to many exhibits of the work in Europe.

Currently, the primary focus is on the Río Grande and the Border as well as working on a book on a Ulyssean theme on the Greek and Italian Islands.

Stendhal said that “A novel is like a mirror carried along a road, so it is with photography.”

Albert Rosales

Albert sold his first art piece in 4th grade, to the Albuquerque Children’s Museum. By age 13, he was airbrushing and selling t-shirts, learning graffiti techniques with both airbrush and spray can, allowing for quicker application and more realistic effects. At 18, he learned composition and mural creation at the Mayor’s Art Summer Institute. Since, he’s done art for various city and community projects, namely, the Albuquerque BioPark & Zoo, as well as restaurants Annapurna’s, O Ramen, and Poki Poki. As a native New Mexican, he hopes to bring awareness and change to the issues that face society through art and teaching.

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