Category: Comics

Alina Viknyanskiy

bad teeth

Alina (Ali) Viknyanskiy is a cartoonist and writer who works with traditional media to tell stories through comics. Her writing consists of short memoirs and observations and her pieces are created with heart and shameless freedom. She graduated with Graphic Design and Illustration degrees from Missouri State University in 2018 and is currently based in Springfield, MO. Ali’s work has been featured in Driftwood Press, Issue 6.2, and in Aquifer: The Florida Review Online. The best way to keep up with Ali and her work is through her Instagram page @hey.grandma.

 

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Tamara Jong

Fear, a Short-ish History

 

Tamara Jong is a Montreal-born mixed-race writer/cartoonist (she/her) of Chinese and European ancestry living in Guelph, ON, Canada. She shares her scribbles @bokchoygurl

 

 

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Jennifer Murvin

Lifeguard

 

Jennifer Murvin’s stories, essays, and graphic narrative have appeared in The Southampton Review, The Pinch, DIAGRAM, The Florida Review, Catamaran Literary Reader, CutBank, Indiana Review, Post Road, American Short Fiction, The Sun, Mid-American Review, The Cincinnati Review, and other journals. She was the winner of the 2015 American Short(er) Fiction Contest, judged by Stuart Dybek. Jen teaches creative writing at Missouri State University and is recurring faculty for the bi-annual River Pretty Writers Retreat. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Pacific University and is the owner of Pagination Bookshop in Springfield, MO. Find more at JenniferMurvin.com.

 

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Chloe Martinez

Still Life

 

Chloe Martinez is a poet and scholar of South Asian religions. Her forthcoming chapbook, Corner Shrine, was selected by Geffrey Davis as the winner of the 2019 Backbone Press Chapbook Competition, and her poems have appeared in Waxwing, Prairie Schooner, The Common, and elsewhere. She is the Program Coordinator for the Center for Writing and Public Discourse at Claremont McKenna College, as well as Lecturer in Religious Studies. She’s vaguely on Twitter @chloepoet; see more of her work at chloeAVmartinez.com.

 

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Amelia L. Williams

Cookery in the Time of COVID

Mouthing Off

Survival guide

folded cootie catcher poems

 

Amelia L. Williams, PhD, is a medical writer, hiker, and eco-artist in Nelson County, Virginia. She coordinated The Ties That Bind, A #NoPipelines Collaborative Community Art and Story Project of over 250 fabric braids made by citizens to protest proposed fracked-gas pipelines in Virginia. Her book Walking Wildwood Trail: Poems and Photographs, benefits regional #NoPipelines causes. Her poems ae forthcoming in the Healing Muse and The Hollins Critic, and have appeared in Rabbit: a journal for nonfiction poetry, Nimrod International Journal, 3Elements, Origins, K’in and elsewhere. Website: www.wildink.net, Twitter: @wildinkpoet.

 

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