spring 2019
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Against All Odds
Mary Lou Soutar-Hynes
orange socks
there are bad men at the top
Kate LaDew
Across This Body First Generation The Wall Jeni De La O
Terrigenous
Michelle Mitchell-Foust
Tensions
Orange Bottles
Sean Singer
Sixteen Weeks in the Caribbean Apartment Laura McGavin
Magnetic Resonance
Lisa Mulrooney
When the Time Comes
Soothing
Cameron Morse
Six Thousand Dollars
Cole Depuy
Sophocles
Martin Kippenberger's Bicycle
Charles Kell
I Am Allowed to Break Up With You Amy Kenny
Catastrophe that Nearly Brought Down a Plane
Sabyasachi Nag
Author Biographies
Author Biographies
Jes Battis teaches creative writing and literature with an emphasis on LGBTQ2+ histories. He has published poetry in The Capilano Review and CV2, and has written books on “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” and “Game of Thrones.” He also writes Canadian fantasy novels.
Alison Braid, a Prague-based, Canadian writer has work in The Puritan, CV2, and elsewhere. A returning contributor to The Maynard, her poetry also appears in the Spring 2016 issue. In 2018, her poems received Honourable Mention from Grain Magazine’s Short Grain Contest and were shortlisted for CV2’s Young Buck Poetry Prize.
bonny c.d. is a poet and experimental filmmaker person currently somewhere in Atlantic Canada in a bathroom (taking a mirror selfie (or trapped somewhere within 2many nested parentheses)). find their work and update at https://www.facebook.com/bnnyby/
Jeni De La O is an Afro-Cuban poet and storyteller living in Detroit. Her chapbook, LADY PARTS (Grey Borders Books) is out now. Jeni’s work has appeared in or is forthcoming from Rattle, Acentos Review, Obsidian, Tinderbox Poetry, and elsewhere. She serves as Poetry Editor for Rockvale Review.
Cole Depuy grew up in Newtown, Connecticut and is a second-year MFA candidate at Southern Connecticut State University (SCSU) in New Haven, where he enjoys being a teaching assistant in undergraduate poetry courses and working on research with the SCSU Social Work department.
Laura Cesarco Eglin’s poetry collections are: Calling Water by Its Name (trans. Scott Spanbauer), Sastrería, Los brazos del saguaro, Tailor Shop: Threads (co-trans. Teresa Williams), and Occasions to Call Miracles Appropriate. She is the translator of Hilda Hilst’s Of Death. Minimal Odes (co•im•press). Cesarco Eglin is the publisher of Veliz Books.
Sinead Foley is a poet, essayist, and real life sitcom character emerging from the swamps of Washington, D.C.
Matthew Gallivan is a Canadian poet, currently working in Belfast, Northern Ireland. His most recent writing also appears in Northwords Now, DMQ Review, and The Summerset Review.
Maryka Gillis spends part of the year working on trails, part of the year bartending, and the whole year writing poetry. She graduated from Colorado College’s creative writing program and currently lives in St. Paul, Minnesota.
Charles Kell is a PhD student at The University of Rhode Island and associate editor of The Ocean State Review. Cage of Lit Glass, chosen by Kimiko Hahn for the 2018 Autumn House Press Poetry Prize, is forthcoming toward the end of 2019. He teaches in Rhode Island.
Amy Kenny is a Yukon-based writer. Her journalism has been published by The Walrus, Canadian Geographic, and The Hamilton Spectator. Her fiction, poetry, non-fiction, and reviews have appeared in Room, The Antigonish Review, PRISM international, and The Humber Literary Review.
Kate LaDew is a graduate from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro with a BA in Studio Art.
David Ly’s poems have appeared in The Puritan, PRISM international, Pulp Literature, and The /tɛmz/ Review. He is the author of the chapbook Stubble Burn (Anstruther Press, 2018) and the poetry collection Mythical Man (forthcoming from Anstruther Books/Palimpsest Press, 2020). Tweet a cute GIF to him @dlylyly.
Laura McGavin is a writer and editor who lives in Ottawa. In 2017, she attended the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity as an emerging poet.
Michelle Mitchell-Foust is the author of two poetry books, Circassian Girl (Elixir Press, 2001) and Imago Mundi (Elixir Press, 2005), two chapbooks, Poets at Seven (Sutton Hoo Press, 1995) and Exile (Sangha Press, 2000), and two anthologies: Dead and Undead Poems (Everyman’s Library, 2014) and Monster Verse (Everyman’s Library, 2015).
Cameron Morse lives with his wife Lili and son Theodore in Blue Springs, Missouri. He was diagnosed with a glioblastoma in 2014. With a 14.6 month life expectancy, he entered the Creative Writing program at the University of Missouri—Kansas City and, in 2018, graduated with an MFA.
Lisa Mulrooney was recently appointed Poet Laureate for the Town of Stony Plain (2019-2021). She is an active member of the poetry community in and around Edmonton. In 2019, she was a finalist for The Malahat Review’s Open Season Award for Poetry.
Sabyasachi Nag is the author of two books of poetry: Bloodlines (Writers Workshop, 2006) and Could You Please, Please Stop Singing (Mosaic Press, 2015). His work has appeared, or is forthcoming in The Antigonish Review, Canadian Literature, CV2, and Grain. Sachi lives in Mississauga, Ontario.
Emily Osborne is the author of Biometrical (Anstruther Press, 2018). Her poetry has been published in The Malahat Review, CV2, LRC, and elsewhere. She is the winner of The Malahat Review’s Far Horizons Award for Poetry 2018. Emily earned a PhD in Old Norse literature from the University of Cambridge.
Carmen Pintea moved to Canada from her native Romania in 2007. She holds an MFA in creative writing from the University of British Columbia. She currently lives and writes in Montreal.
Lauren Prousky is an MFA candidate at the University of Waterloo and holds a BFA in studio art and English literature from Concordia University. She has shown her work in Montreal and Toronto, and has participated in residencies in Iceland, British Columbia, and Brooklyn. You can follow her @laurenprousky on Instagram
Mary Lou Soutar-Hynes, a Jamaican-Canadian poet/educator and former nun, is the author of Dark Water Songs (Inanna Publications, 2013), Travelling Light (Seraphim Editions, 2006), and The Fires of Naming (Seraphim Editions, 2001). Forthcoming from Inanna Publications in spring 2019 is her fourth collection, Any Waking Morning.
David Sapp is a writer, artist, and professor, living along the southern shore of Lake Erie. He is a 2018 Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Award grant recipient for poetry. His publications include the chapbooks Close to Home and Two Buddha, and a novel, Flying Over Erie.
Sean Singer is the author of Discography (Yale University Press, 2002), winner of the Yale Series of Younger Poets Prize and the Norma Farber First Book Award from the Poetry Society of America, and of Honey & Smoke (Eyewear Publishing, 2015). He drives a taxi in New York City.
Lucy Yang is born to first generation Chinese immigrants. She teaches high school English in Vancouver, BC and is completing a master’s program in literacy education at the University of British Columbia. Her poetry has appeared in Ricepaper Magazine.