Zoomoozophone Review - Issue 13 / April 2017

Michael Chin was born and raised in Utica, New York and is an alum of Oregon State’s MFA Program. He won Bayou Magazine’s Jim Knudsen Editor’s Prize for fiction and has work published or forthcoming in journals including The Normal School, Passages North, Iron Horse, Front Porch, and Bellevue Literary Review. He works as a contributing editor for Moss and blogs about professional wrestling and a cappella music on the side. Find him online at miketchin.com or follow him on Twitter @miketchin.

Nathan Stapleton (b. 1991, Dayton, Ohio) is an American visual poet, filmmaker, and socialite.

Nooks Krannie is a girl and poet. She is half Persian/half Palestinian and full human. Her first chapbook, I have hard feelings & I wish I could quit chocolate, was published by Moloko House Press, and her second chapbook, candied pussy, is forthcoming. She tumbls at http://nkrannie.tumblr.com and instagrams @nookskrannie.

Penelope Jeanne Brannen is a transsexual lesbian cyborg from the future. She is a poet in the NEOMFA through Cleveland State University. In her spare time she posts w4w missed connections on Craigslist based on her dreams.

Russell Jaffe is the editor of TL;DR magazine (tldrmagazine.com). He is the author of 4 poetry collections, most recently La Croix Water (Damask, ‘16) and Civil Coping Mechanisms (Civil Coping Mechanisms, forthcoming ‘17). He is a real dad doing real things.

Sanjeev Sethi is the author of three well-received books of poetry. His most recent collection is This Summer and That Summer (Bloomsbury, 2015). His poems are in venues around the world: The Tower Journal, Peacock Journal, Boston Accent Lit, Red Fez, One Sentence Poems, Cavalcade of Stars, The Greensilk Journal, The Bond Street Review, PoetryMagazine.com, Ink Sweat & Tears, 3:AM Magazine, Morphrog 14, Poetry Pacific, Transnational Literature, Meniscus, and elsewhere. He lives in Mumbai, India.

Sean Burn’s currently writing joey s/he with Tyneside’s Greyscale Theatre - spanning 1981 (hard-right government, race-hate, savage cuts but punk) thru to 2041. https://www.greyscale.org.uk/news Shane Moritz was born in Oregon, educated in southern Oregon and northern Arizona. He spent his formative years in Australia. He got his MFA from Georgia College & State University in Milledgeville. He is the recipient of the 2016 Frankye Davis Mayes Prize sponsored by the Academy of American Poets. He lives in Baltimore.

Suzanne Richardson’s poetry has appeared in Blood Orange Review, The Smoking Poet, and PANK Magazine. Her fiction has appeared in Front Porch, MAYDAY Magazine, High Desert Journal, and Southern Humanities Review. Her nonfiction has appeared in New Ohio Review and New Haven Review, and she was named the winner of The Journal’s 2012 Creative Nonfiction contest. Suzanne was editor-in-chief of Blue Mesa Review from 2010 to 2012.

Don’t mess with Texas Fontanella.