Contributors- Volume 4
Our wonderful contributors all live amazing life and if you're interested in checking out more of their work, find them down below!
Eric Asaris
artist of "The Jumping Man"
Freelance Artist. Quiet Curmudgeon.
Social Media:
Instagram: misfittoyart
BluSky: @misfittoyart.bsky.social
Ripley Ash
Artist of "Beauty and Performance" and "Hand Mirror"
Ripley Ash is a multi-disciplinary illustrator who loves horror movies. Their work explores dark themes with softer palettes and dream-like imagery. They are fascinated with the horror of beauty and the beauty that can be found in horror. They have done work for films, comics, TTRPG and so on. They live in NYC with their partner and two ridiculous dogs.
Sophia Coffing
Author of "Till Death Do Us Part?: The Persistence of Love After Death"
Sophia Coffing is an avid reader, novice artist, and aspiring writer. She is based in the San Francisco Bay Area and is currently studying Literature and Psychology at the University of California, Santa Cruz. She likes to ponder dreams, mirrors, punctums, parables, labyrinths, loops, doubles, and the like—these interests are often expressed in critical theory, essays, zines, collages, and many, many disorganized notes.
Instagram: @redwood_tr33
Substack: @redwoodtree
David Cole
Author of "The Government Shot the Devil into Space You Know" and "House"
Hi. I'm David Cole and I'm a writer from Appalachia. I write stories, poetry, and sometimes essays about video games. I've been published by Flash Point SF, Bitter Melon Review, and earworms (among others). I can be found on bluesky, instagram, YouTube, or at my own home on the internet.
Zachary Del Nero
Author of "The Turquoise Miniature"
Zachary Del Nero is a Philadelphia-based creative all-rounder. His writing has appeared in rhizomag, Jelly Squid Magazine, 3Elements Literary Review, and The Sun Magazine. He has an MEd and an MS in Technical Communication. Previously a high school English teacher, he now works in graphic design and digital media. He has a passion for poetry, weird/speculative fiction, and comics, and also takes an academic interest in urban studies and maps. His visual art explores the intersection of identity, language, and cities. Outside of the arts, he is an avid hiker, climber, and cyclist.
Visit him online at zdelnero.com or on Instagram at cities.somewhere.
Demona
Author of "IN THIS POEM THE GUN IS NOT A PHALLIC SYMBOL THE GUN IS JUST A GUN" and "WHAT WE DO"
Demona is a slam poet from Toms River, New Jersey. She is the winner of the 2021 Penguin Random House Creative Writing Awards for her poem, “My Mother Rejected God When She Was 19 But I Don’t Think God Ever Really Got Over It.” Her work has appeared in LMNL Anthology, The Lyre, and Rawhead. She currently lives in New Orleans where she performs burlesque under the name The Jersey Devil. She also hosts poetry slams with Crescent City Slam and edits Dog Water Magazine.
You can find her on Instagram at @theejerseydevil.
Christopher the Gray
Artist of "Tendons"
Phoenix-based amateur artist Christopher Harrison draws inspiration from daily wanderings through the Sonoran Desert. The liminal plane between the grit, effort and perseverance of the desert, crowned above by a timeless expanse of atmospheric and celestial delights provides an overwhelmingly fertile space for the creative heart. Through mediums including acrylic painting, pencil drawing, crude digital collage and animation, photography, and poetry, Christopher strives to alchemize folk-art sensibilities, cosmic wonder, and spiritual overtones into contemplative dreamscapes. Avoiding proselytization, his visions invite participants to behold the mystery, beauty, pain, absurdity, and messiness of our collective existence. Tendons frames an intersection of contrasting energies; the visually noisy, human-generated tangle of power grid elements silhouetted against the unyielding, exogenous energy and quiet, intimate, and overwhelming presence of a maritime fog bank.
Wyrd Lea
Author of "Skin to Bone"
Wyrd was born of the bayou, cesspit squirming carcinogens and moss glint. They were a she, daughter, sister, plaything. They were, before all these things, a seed from an orchard of bad ass bitches. Now, they write. Follow their fundraising efforts to save a queer, disabled danmei author from incarceration they cannot survive due to severity of disabilities and updates on the anti-queer crackdown in China at @savedanmeiauthors.
Joe Lugara
Artist of The Dark Oddities Series
Joe Lugara is a painter and photographer. His works depict unusual forms and inexplicable phenomena, taking as their basis horror, science fiction, and fantasy films produced from the 1930s through the late 1960s. The artist’s digital painting series Dark Oddities suggests the objects and animals of his dreams “which take place in deep darkness and where everything is largely obscured or altered, and tactile qualities are disturbingly unclear.”
Mr. Lugara’s work has been featured in more than 40 exhibitions and 30 magazines. His painting series Scrutiny was recently nominated by The Lincoln Review for Best of the Net.
www.joelugara.com www.instagram.com/joelugara joelugarastudio.bsky.social
TT Madden
Author of "a man recounts a dream over breakfast"
TT Madden (they/them) is a genderfluid, mixed-race author who refuses to keep "politics" out of their writing and to put AI in. Their work writing weird fiction often deals with the intersections of their various identities.
They can be found online as @ttmaddenwrites or at ttmaddenwrites.carrd.co
Daisy Scott
Author of "'Damn Good Food:' Food and Teenage (Non)Conformity in Twin Peaks"
Daisy Scott earned her MA in English from San Diego State University, where she served as the graduate fellow for the National Center for the Study of Children’s Literature. Her research focuses on children’s and young adult literature and media, fantasy, and the evolution of these realms across American and British culture. Daisy has been an avid Twin Peaks and David Lynch fan since her teenage years. When she is not writing, you can find her birding, watching TCM, or baking cherry pie.
C. Show
Author of "Born Midway"
C. Show (they/them) is a Central Arkansan poet whose work has appeared in PRISM international and is set to appear in wildscape. literary, Dandy Magazine, and Orison Books' Divinity in the Margins. Their hybrid work has appeared in The Q&A Queerzine and Purple Ink Press. C. Show approaches poetry from their perspective as a bigender, neurodivergent Southerner. Their hybrid chapbook GESTALT has been published by new words {press}; find out more about them on Instagram at @_cshow_
Zanny Stohl
Author of "the sauropod, or; in solving the problem of traffic we have encountered minor setbacks"
Zanny Stohl is a New England-based librarian and possible computer virus. She has previously been published in (s)crawl literary magazine and The Solitude Diaries. Find Zanny's work on Instagram at @znnys or on her website at znnys.carrd.co.