Contributor Bios

Isabella Bessire – is a Secondary English Education Maior from Valleyford, WA. She comes from a big family (the oldest of 61) and loves cats, books, and God.

Tracy Day – has lived in Spokane, Washington for the past fifty years. She has an adult son, a grand dog, & a cat. She’s sur prised at how much joy she receives from telling short stories and hopes to be able to continue with her new found love of writing.
She is forever grateful to Polly Buckingham, Jonathan Johnson, and her creative writing peers at Eastern Washington University for their constant support.

Calven Eldred – Caution is urged- he is known to be in possession of the forbidden tome Grimoirium Imperium by the sorcerer John Dee (likely purchased at Giant Nerd Books) and has been witnessed fraternizing with known werewolves at the Drinkerv on Garland Avenue. Best practice would be to strike first, preferably with silver weaponry or holy water (obtainable at the Cathedral of Our Lady of Lourdes. Antifa werewolves, man. Take no chances.

E.W. Here – has been writing ever since she was little and is currently getting a degree in Creative Writing at EWU so she can make a career out of it. When she’s not working on a specific piece, she usually spends her free time journaling in an alphabet she created.

Larry Ty Holmes Jr – L. T. H. Jr is pursuing an MFA in Fiction at Eastern Washington University. He is a Walla Walla native and lover of the Walla Walla Balloon Stampede. He attained a B. A. in Philosophy at EWU. He spent the last three years working at a BRS home for at-risk youth. His spare time is spent in the gym and practicing Brazilian Jiu itsu.

Tricia Kiehn – is a local Spokanite and a candidate for EWU’s MFA program for poetry. Two of her poems have previously been published with Northwest Boulevard. The most interesting thing about Tricia is her axoloti, Jormungundr. Axolotls are cool.

Tony Krallis – is a creative writing undergraduate at EWU. He’s a musician/songwriter at heart and loves writing simply because it gives him an excuse to go outside and appreciate nature.
Overcoming teen angst and depression, he’s currently working on finding his place in the world, hoping he can find it through is passion with words and sound.

C.R. Meadows – is a queer, disabled student of the self. Her confessional poetry explores deep fragmentations and connections between past and present in an effort to bend trauma into art. She is guided by the voices of Sylvia Plath, Audre Lorde, and all warrior women who came before her.

Alaysia Mitchell – is a self taught traditional artist that specializes in semi-realism and portraits. She used art as her form of escape by creating original characters, landscapes, and lore. Coming from Olympia, Washington, she was exposed to art at a young age. She used her surroundings as references and the murals that were sprinkled throughout the city were her main source of inspi-ration. Although the people she draws may resemble celebrities or characters that already exist, they are all made up.

Joseph Self – desperately wants to understand what life is.
This explains his quest to descend into fantasy and at its bounds return with multifaceted possibility, as well as his blindness for what’s in front of him in favor of what is far away. He floats away with one balloon in hand, seeing the eyes that watched him go only when it pops.

Fia Tart – is a BFA student who specializes in painting and ceramics. Her painting work revolves around colorful, large-scale, contemporary pieces, and her ceramics are based in medieval reliquary tradition. She has had work featured in several locations, including a piece in the Creative Works Symposium at Eastern Washington University, and a solo show at Dog and Pony.