nerve bios 8
In the order they were added to to La Fovea
Krystal Languell is a member of the board of directors for the Belladonna* Collaborative. She also edits Bone Bouquet. Her first book, Call the Catastrophists, is now available from BlazeVox Books.
Robert Kocik, writer and architect, divides his time between Brooklyn and southeastern Minnesota. He has developed an experiential science called the Prosodic Body. He also co-directs (with Taoist choreographer Daria Fain) The Phoneme Choir (aka The Commons Choir). His books include Overcoming Fitness (Autonomedia, 2001), Rhrurbarb (Field Books, 2007) and Supple Sciences (ON, 2012).
Lisa Ciccarello is the author of three chapbooks: At night (Scantily Clad Press, 2009), At night, the dead (Blood Pudding Press, 2009) & the upcoming Sometimes there are travails (Hyacinth Girl Press, 2013). Her poems have appeared in Handsome, Tin House, Denver Quarterly, Leveler, Everyday Genius, and Corduroy Mtn., among others.
Meg Day is a poet, nationally awarded spoken word artist, & veteran arts educator who hails from San Diego by way of Oakland, where she taught with Youth Speaks, & as a Teaching Artist with WritersCorp in San Francisco. She is currently a PhD fellow in Poetry with an emphasis in Queer & Disability Poetics at the University of Utah. A 2010 Lambda Fellow, 2011 Hedgebrook Fellow, & 2012 Squaw Valley Fellow, Meg has received numerous grants & awards including the 2012 AWP Intro Journals Award, the Shirley Award for Emerging Poets, the Mary Merritt Prize, & two Creating Queer Community grants from the International Queer Arts Festival. Her manuscript, When All you Have Is A Hammer, won the Gertrude Press 2012 Chapbook Contest & will be published in 2013. Her manuscript, WE CAN’T READ THIS, was a finalist for the Benjamin Saltman Poetry Prize, the Gatewood First Book Prize, & the Omnidawn First Book Award. Meg lives, writes, & publishes the femme ally zine, ON OUR KNEES, in Salt Lake City.
G. Taylor Davis has perfect memory. He remembers the Big Bang, but was unable to do anything about it. Between birth and now he has spent his time rolling cigars filled with all the words he has ever written into almost satisfactory poem. He has yet to write a satisfactory poem.
Mark Seidl loves New York's Hudson Valley, where he lives and works as a special collections librarian, though he wishes more dogwood trees grew there. His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Alice Blue Review, The Bakery, Birdfeast, NAP, and elsewhere.
Courtney King Kampa’s work is forthcoming in Boston Review, Colorado Review TriQuarterly, The Journal, The National Poetry Review, New England Review, and elsewhere, and has received awards from The Atlantic, Poets & Writers Magazine, and North American Review. She holds an MFA from Columbia and works at a publishing house in New York.
Chris Tonelli is one of the founding editors of Birds, LLC, an independent poetry press. He also founded and curates the So and So Series and edits the So and So Magazine. He is the author of four chapbooks, most recently No Theater (Brave Men Press) and For People Who Like Gravity and Other People (Rope-A-Dope Press), and his first full-length collection is The Trees Around (Birds, LLC). New work can be found in Leveler. He works at North Carolina State University in Raleigh, where he lives with his wife, Allison, and their two kids, Miles and Vera.
A finalist for the 2012 OSU/The Journal Award in Poetry and Alice James Books Beatrice Hawley Award, Janine Joseph’s poems are forthcoming from or have appeared in Kenyon Review Online, Asian American Literary Review, Best New Poets 2011, Hayden’s Ferry Review, Third Coast, and elsewhere. She also wrote a commissioned libretto, entitled “From My Mother’s Mother,” for the Houston Grand Opera’s “Song of Houston: East + West” series. Janine is a PhD candidate at the University of Houston.
Tyler Flynn Dorholt co-publishes and curates the film and writing series On the Escape and co-edits the print journal Tim (née Tammy). Other writing can be found here. Some of his black and white photography lives here.
Affrilachian Poet and Cave Canem Fellow, Bianca Spriggs is a multidisciplinary artist who lives and works in Lexington, Kentucky. Bianca is the recipient of a 2013 Al Smith Individual Artist Fellowship in Poetry, multiple Artist Enrichment and Arts Meets Activism grants from the Kentucky Foundation for Women, and a Pushcart Prize Nominee. In partnership with the Kentucky Domestic Violence Association, she is the creator of "The SwallowTale Project" a creative writing workshop designed for incarcerated women, and the creator and Artistic Director of the Gypsy Poetry Slam featured annually at the Kentucky Women Writers Conference. Heralded as “the new standard bearer for the Affrilachian Poets” by founding member, Frank X Walker, Bianca Spriggs is the author of Kaffir Lily (Wind Publications) and How Swallowtails Become Dragons (Accents Publishing).
Robert Cunningham’s writing has appeared in The Sensational Food I Corp Enterprise and The New York Poetry Society’s webzine. His collaborative efforts with Brandon Johnson have been showcased in the Totem Reading Series of Brooklyn. Music reviews of his creation appear on Kia Sleet’s Music Blog.
Megan Alpert’s poetry has appeared in Green Mountains Review, The Denver Quarterly, Sixth Finch, and Harvard Review. Last year she won an Orlando Prize from A Room of One's Own Foundation for a poem, which was subsequently published in The Los Angeles Review.
Seth Oelbaum earned a poetry MFA from the University of Notre Dame in May 2012. He is the founder of the Tumblr literary corporation Bambi Muse. His publication credits include Red Lightbulbs and Rhino.
Boyd Spahr lives in Los Angeles and is the author of the chapbook The Julias (Horse Less Press). New poems are forthcoming in Caketrain and Pool.
Samantha Seto is a writer. She has been published in various anthologies including Ceremony, The Screech Owl, Nostrovia Poetry, Blue Hour, Coffee Table Poetry, Soul Fountain, Ydgrasil, and Black Magnolias Journal.