Contributor Notes, Issue #35
Dr. Bogdan Bondarchuk holds a PhD in social philosophy and is an existential psychologist and artist based in Kyiv. Bondarchuk investigates inspired research of philosophy of language, psychology in art, and the powers of art that support psychology. The artist of https://soundcloud.com/picnic_player, Bondarchuk also has a Phantom Radio show on gasolineradio.com.
Guillermo Bowie is a Chilean trained poet as he began writing while doing his first M.A. under the direction of Chilean poet Enrique A. Giordano, during his second M.A. studied with Chilean poet Nicanor Parra, and after studying Spanish at Harvard did doctoral work with Harvard graduate Chilean poetry anthologizer Juan A. Epple. His book “Confieso Que He Vivido” in the Chilean tradition is about to be released. He resides in Portland, Oregon.
John Brantingham is currently and always thinking about radical wonder. He is a New York State Council on the Arts Grant Recipient for 2024, and he was Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks’ first poet laureate. His work has been in hundreds of magazines and The Best Small Fictions 2016 and 2022. He has twenty-two books of poetry, nonfiction, and fiction.
Dale Champlin is a poet and artist. Her poems have appeared in The Opiate, Timberline Review, Willawaw, CatheXis, Cirque, Triggerfish, and elsewhere. Dale’s honors include a Pushcart nomination, a first place in the Oregon Poetry Association contest and the Banta Award. Dale designs books for Cirque Press and Just a Lark Books. She enjoys creating collages and hosting outstanding poets. Her poetry collections are: The Barbie Diaries, Callie Comes of Age, Isadora, Andromina: A Stranger in America, and Medusa an illustrated collection of poetry. Two books of erotic poetry, Victims of Desire, and Careless Abandon are forthcoming from Opiate Books.
Nancy Christopherson’s poems have appeared in Abandon Journal, Aji Magazine, Amethyst Review, Barnstorm Journal, Cirque, Clepsydra Literary & Art Magazine, Common Ground Review, Free State Review, Helen Literary Magazine, Hole In The Head Review, Kosmos Quarterly Spring Gallery of Poets, Molecule Tiny Lit Mag, Moria Literary Magazine, Peregrine, Raven Chronicles, The Cape Rock, The Healing Muse, The Stillwater Review, Third Wednesday, Triggerfish Critical Review, Verseweavers, Willawaw Journal, and Xanadu, among others. Author of “The Leaf”, she resides in Oregon and is a former executive board member of Oregon Poetry Association. Visit https://www.nancychristophersonpoetry.com.
Maida Cummings always enjoyed making things. In the early 1990s she started taking art classes at Oregon College of Arts and Crafts. She enjoyed it so much that she’s been concentrating on making art ever since.
Chapman Hood Frazier’s The Lost Books of the Bestiary was published in 2023 by V Press LC. His work has appeared in The Virginia Quarterly Review, The Southern Poetry Review and has won numerous awards. His “Conversations with Contemporary Poets” interviews have appeared in The Writer’s Chronicles, Agni Online and Shenandoah. Currently a Professor Emeritus from James Madison University, he lives in Rice, Virginia and is co-managing Bellfield Farm LLC, a writer’s retreat.
George Freek’s poem “Enigmatic Variations” is currently nominated for Best of the Net. His poem “Night Thoughts” is also nominated for a Pushcart Prize.
David A. Goodrum is the author of the collection Vitals and Other Signs of Life (The Poetry Box, 2024) and the chapbook Sparse Poetica (Audience Askew, 2023). Recent publications can be found in Skylight 47, The Inflectionist Review, The Orchards Poetry Journal, CIRQUE, Willawaw Journal, among others. Born and educated in Indiana, David now lives in Corvallis, Oregon. Find out more about this poet/photographer at www.davidgoodrum.com.
Keith Hansen: Husband, father, grandfather, drywall contractor, reader of some books, owner of too many books.
Suzy Harris lives in Portland, Oregon. Her poems have appeared most recently in Poeming Pigeon, Willawaw Journal and Wild Greens, among other journals and anthologies. Her chapbook Listening in the Dark, about hearing loss and learning to hear again with cochlear implants, was published by The Poetry Box in 2023. She is a retired attorney who is grateful to embrace the poetry world.
Besides having appeared in Triggerfish Critical Review in the past, Paul Jones’ poems have recently appeared in Rattle, Salvation South, Deep South, Southern Poetry Review, and New Verse Review. A manuscript of his poems landed safely on the moon in 2024. Jones was inducted into the NCSU Computer Science Hall of Fame 2021. His books, both from Redhawk, are Something Wonderful and Something Necessary. More here: http://smalljones.com
Peycho Kanev is the author of 12 poetry collections and three chapbooks, published in the USA and Europe. His poems have appeared in many literary magazines, such as: Rattle, Poetry Quarterly, Evergreen Review, Front Porch Review, Hawaii Review, Barrow Street, Sheepshead Review, Off the Coast, The Adirondack Review, Sierra Nevada Review, The Cleveland Review and many others.
Gary Lark’s most recent collections are “Coming Down the Mountain,” “Easter Creek,” and “Daybreak on the Water,” His work has appeared in Beloit Poetry Journal, Catamaran, and Rattle. Gary and his wife Dorothy live in Oregon’s Rogue Valley. https://garylark.work.
Sherri Levine is a poet, mental health advocate, educator, and squirrel lover living in Portland, OR. Her writings have been published in Prairie Schooner, Poet Lore, Driftwood Press, The Sun Magazine, and others. She has written four poetry books including Stealing Flowers from the Neighbors (Kelsay Press, 2021) which was awarded Alzheimer’s Authors Book Club for the year. Her ekphrastic poetry book included ekphrastic poems of her late mother’s art work. And her latest illustrated poetry book is dedicated to those suffering from mental illness and those who know those who do. She believes in writing for the community and teaches classes to those in recovery.
S. Kai Lin is a Fuzhounese American writer and artist. Her work has been published in Asian American Writer’s Workshop’s “The Margins”.
Patricia Nelson works with the group of poets that have gathered around Lawrence Hart and then John Hart in the San Francisco Bay Area. This is a Neo Modernist group. Her new book, Monster Monologues, is recently out from Fernwood Press.
Paul Nelson has twelve books out, for years directed creative writing for Ohio University, while affectedly, maybe competently, working a saltwater farm summers and years off: gardens, greenhouse, sheep, beef critter, some lobstering on Machias Bay. He lives, writes now in Kennebunk, ME. Latest are LEARNING TO MISS, Guernica Editions, Toronto, and his first book of fiction, REFRIGERATOR CHURCH, Tailwinds Press, NYC, in 2019. A chapbook of poems, BLACK DOG, Main Street Press, appeared in 2022. JUST BREATHING, poetry, appeared in May, 2024.
Allan Peterson: Poet and visual artist Allan Peterson’s most recent book is This Luminous, New and Selected Poems (Panhandler Books) His fourth book, Fragile Acts, was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. Twice a finalist for the Oregon Book Awards, he lives and writes in Ashland, Oregon. Website: www.allanpeterson.net.
Denis Pinchuk is a news agency reporter and filing editor skilled in all aspects of reporting, sourcing, editing, filing and translating.
Estill Pollock’s publications include Constructing the Human (Poetry Salzburg) and the book cycle Relic Environments Trilogy (Cinnamon Press, Wales). His poetry collections in the series Cartographic Projections of a Sphere—Entropy, Time Signatures, Ark, Heathen Anthems and Alias—are published by Broadstone Books. The e-chapbooks And Then and Working Title are published by Mudlark. He lives in Norfolk, England.
Mykyta Ryzhykh, an author from Ukraine, now lives in Tromsø, Norway. He was nominated for a Pushcart Prize in 2023 and 2024. He’s published in many literary magazines іn Ukrainian and English: Tipton Poetry Journal, Stone Poetry Journal, Neologism Poetry Journal, Shot Glass Journal, QLRS, The Crank, Chronogram, The Antonym, Monterey Poetry Review, Five Fleas Itchy Poetry and many others.
Zeke Sanchez is a writer/poet living in Tennessee. He won in-house competitions in The Critical Poet and has been published here in Triggerfish. His poetry may at times reflect his background: migrant worker, forest firefighter, Vietnam veteran, technical writer. The Shadows of Our Mind, a book of photography, done with professional photographer Doug Stoffer, contains a number of Zeke’s poems. He’s also published The Fire With Two Dragon Smokes, a book about his experiences with a “Hotshot” Forest Crew in the Northwest and beyond.
Claire Scott is an award-winning poet who has received multiple Pushcart Prize nominations. Her work has appeared in the Atlanta Review, Bellevue Literary Review, New Ohio Review and Healing Muse among others. Claire is the author of Waiting to be Called and Until I Couldn’t. She is the co-author of Unfolding in Light: A Sisters’ Journey in Photography and Poetry.
Dmitriy Shandra is a poet from Ukraine, Kiev. His most recent poems have appeared in Poetry Northwest, DMQ Review, Little Patuxent Review, Thirty West Publishing House and others. He is a paramedic of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
Julie Shulman is a writer and art director living near Boston with her husband and three boys. Her work has been featured in Third Wednesday, SWWIM Every Day, Mass Poetry, The Avalon Literary Review and The Passionfruit Review. She is a merit scholar recipient and MFA candidate at Pacific University. www.julieshulman.com
Daniel P. Stokes has published poetry widely in literary magazines in Ireland, Britain, the U.S.A, Canada and Asia, and has won several poetry prizes. He has written three stage plays which have been professionally produced in Dublin, London and at the Edinburgh Festival.
Claudia Wysocky: Writing has always been my passion, and poetry is one of my favorite forms of expression. One of the joys of writing is that it’s a never-ending journey. There’s always something new to learn, and it’s a great motivator to help me write. I am constantly inspired by the world around me and the people I meet. My poetry reflects my experiences and emotions, and I hope that it resonates with others. I am an immigrant from Poland but currently reside in America, but I am deciding to return back. My poetry is influenced by my heritage and my experiences.