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Shelly BrivicShelly Brivic is an internationally recognized James Joyce scholar and a retired university professor. He has written extensively on Joyce and other modernists from the perspective of Lacanian psychology. His most recent scholarly work is Revolutionary Damnation: Badiou and Irish Fiction from Joyce to Enright, published by Syracuse University Press in 2017. Stealing: A Novel in Dreams is his first novel; it is now available from Frayed Edge Press.
Daniel Hales
Daniel Hales is the author of the hybrid novel, Run Story (Shape&Nature Press), and three poetry chapbooks: Shake My Ashes (Beard of Bees), Blind Drive (White Knuckle), and Tempo Maps (Ixnay), which comes with the companion CD Miner Street Symphony. His poetry, flash fiction, and hybrid writing have appeared in Verse Daily, Conduit, Booth, Quarter After Eight, and many other journals. He rocks out with The Frost Heaves and Hales, The Ambiguities, and Umbral. Umbral’s second album, F#requency 14, is forthcoming from Spork Press. He lives on a minor street in western Massachusetts, but is happiest in his kayak. His poetry collection, ¿Cómo Hacer Preguntas? or How To Make Questions: 69 Instructional Poems (in English), is forthcoming in 2020 from Frayed Edge Press.
Robert Helms"Friend of the Press" Robert Helms is an independent researcher with a long-standing interest in radical history, particularly the nineteenth-century anarchists of Philadelphia. He was the editor of a highly regarded "job 'zine" Guinea Pig Zero, and is editor of the Dead Anarchists website. He previously edited and annotated the memoirs of Philadelphia anarchist Chaim Weinberg, Forty Years in the Struggle: The Memoirs of a Jewish Anarchist (Litwin Books, 2009). He lives in Philadelphia with his three cats, all of which are named after dead anarchists. He has edited "Do Not Misunderstand Me": The Collected Radical Addresses to the Unity Congregation (1888-1891) by Hugh Owen Pentecost for Frayed Edge Press; he was also a member of the translation team for Jean-Bernard Pouy's Full Fare, part of FEP's Street Smart Series.
Louise MacGregor
Louise MacGregor is an internationally-published writer of fiction, pop culture criticism, and feminist social commentary. A graduate of journalism and history from the University of Stirling, Louise brings her passion for women-centric stories to both her fiction and non-fiction. As well as running the long-standing pop cultural blog The Cutprice Guignol and film criticism outlet No But Listen, Louise has written boundary-pushing, genre-defying works such as Ruthless and Trouble Clef under her pen name, Kara Lowndes. Now turning her attention to contemporary feminist social critique, Louise's first full-length novel, Rape Jokes, is now available from Frayed Edge Press. Louise resides in Glasgow, Scotland, with her partner and her cat.
James McAdams
James McAdams grew up in the suburbs of Philadelphia and currently resides in St. Petersburg, FL, where he teaches English at the University of South Florida, Ringling College of Art+Design, and Keep St. Pete Lit. He holds a Ph.D. in English from Lehigh University. His stories, poems, and essays have appeared in over forty venues, including Amazon/Day One, Bending Genres, Superstition Review, and B.O.A.T.T. Press. He is Flash Fiction editor of Barren Magazine and is working on a novel-in-flash about the opioid epidemic. Ambushing the Void, forthcoming from Frayed Edge Press, is his first book. Ominem unius libri timeo.
Rebecca M. Pritchard
Rebecca M. Pritchard studied writing at the Salt Institute in Portland, Maine, and American & New England Studies at the University of Southern Maine. In school, she became interested in the stories buried in old newspapers and spent her time in libraries poring over their wrinkled pages. She has worked for the Maine Historical Society, the Abbe Museum, and Acadia National Park. She lives with her husband and daughter in Bar Harbor, Maine where she writes for The Mount Desert Islander. Jeremiah Hacker: Journalist, Anarchist, Abolitionist is her first book.
Christina Springer
Christina Springer is an Alt.Black artist who uses text, performance, video and other visual expressions to communicate what the space between molecules in the air wish for you to know. Cave Canem helped shape the multiple voices she advances with text. Poems have appeared in: "Gathering Ground: A Cave Canem Reader," "Saints Of Hysteria," "The Complete Idiot's Guide To Slam Poetry CD," Obsidian, Fledgling Rag, Eyedrum Periodically, Red Headed Stepchild, The Mom Egg, The Comstock Review, Torch Literary Journal, The Drunken Boat, Janus Head, and Callaloo. She taught creative writing at the University Of East London and City Lit College, London. Springer was the longest-reigning Pittsburgh Poetry Slam champion, from 1997 until 2001. She has also had five dance-theater scripts produced: "The Splooge Factory" produced by Composer's Collaborative, "Living Ancestry" and "Kikombe Cha Umpja: A Kwanzaa Myth" produced by Umoja African Arts Company, "Mary Magdalene & the Apostles" produced by The Acting Company, and “Life Rites” produced by City Theatre. Her collection of poetry, The Splooge Factory is now available from Frayed Edge Press.
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Coming soon....
Literature from James McAdams, Jens Bjorneboe, and others.
Poetry from Daniel Hales, Esther Greenleaf Mürer, and others.
Street Smart Fiction from Matthew Kastel, Albert Tucher, and others.
Plus -- something entirely different from Christine Jewett!
Poetry from Daniel Hales, Esther Greenleaf Mürer, and others.
Street Smart Fiction from Matthew Kastel, Albert Tucher, and others.
Plus -- something entirely different from Christine Jewett!
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