Meet Matthew Roy! Matthew’s fiction piece, “You Folks Ever Hear of Art Lieberman, Rodeo Star?” will be featured in our upcoming issue, Vol. 15!

How Matthew describes “You Folks Ever Hear of Art Lieberman, Rodeo Star?” in 12 words or less:
“One more gig to go, if he can keep it together.”

Matthew Roy (he/him) recently moved from a small town to a big city, from a rambling farmhouse to a small apartment, and from a major corporation to an up-and-comer. He’s writing more. He’s making changes. He’s neck-deep in revisions on his first novel and banging away at his second. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Eternal Haunted Summer, Last Stanza Poetry Journal, Showcase (Object & Idea), Twenty-two Twenty-eight, and So It Goes: The Literary Journal of the Kurt Vonnegut Museum and Library, among others.

Meet Calum Robertson! Calum’s nonfiction piece, “Dirtdays of Dirtfag” will be featured in our upcoming issue, Vol. 15!

How Calum describes “Dirtdays of Dirtfag” in 12 words or less:
“Try n dirtfag it for a day, if ya gotta.”

Calum Robertson, sometimes known as syf, (fae/faer/faerself) is a full-time tea drinker, part-time forest cryptid from Mohkinstsis/Calgary, Treaty 7, Alberta, currently studying communications in Kitchener-Waterloo, Dish with One Spoon Treaty, Ontario, Canada, Turtle Island. The 2022 winner of the Barbara Schneider Writing Award in Communications, faer work focuses on sound studies, nature, queer identities and Outsider art. Fae have written nonfiction articles for publications as diverse as university campus newspapers (the Gauntlet), the Christian Courier (community newspaper) and filling Station (experimental literature). Faer poetry and prose have appeared in numerous magazines both online and in print, including Canthius, nod, deathcap, the anti-Langurous Project, Lida Literary, Bourgeon, peculiar, Red Coyote, and Tofu Ink. Fae’d like to be reincarnated as a grouse, next time around. You can find faer on Instagram as @sheepiemcgoaters, where fae typically post cups of tea half-drunk and books mostly read.

Meet Lyz Pfister! Lyz’s poem, “Nightcycling,” will be featured in our upcoming issue, Vol. 15!

How Lyz describes “Nightcycling” in 12 words or less:
“An icy road opens a door: a tire’s slip, a righted bike.”

Lyz Pfister is a writer and translator living in Berlin. She is the editor-in-chief emeritus of SAND journal, as well as the author of the blog Eat Me. Drink Me. Her original works and translations have appeared or are forthcoming in Janus Literary Review, STILL, Glean and Graft, The Bastille, Counter Service and No Man’s Land, among others. She recently published her first collection of essays, Palate.