Contributors
Charles Mryddin: “advising 12pm zoom”
Charles Myrddin is a Colorado native currently attending university at Southern Oregon University. He writes poetry and thinks about writing science fiction and fantasy short stories, with a focus on the body, blood, and nature.
Viviane Fae-Moss: “Silver Bullet”
Viviane Fae-Moss is an aspiring poet and fiction writer. They’ve been writing for a very long time and deeply enjoy all forms, from essays to poetry. Viviane’s poetry has been published several times in the Honouring our Rivers magazine.
Desiree Remick: “How During the Mowing, the Good Tree Downhearted, I State Miracles Someplace, Saving What Relentless Bellow, In What Cowers Far Down After the Quiet Vine”
Desiree Remick is a student at SOU and the fiction editor of Nude Bruce Review. In her life before college, she taught fencing, picked cones for the forest service, and worked with a partner to translate poetry from Japanese to English. Her writing has appeared or is forthcoming in Gravity of the Thing, Avenue Journal, Albion Review, and other places.
Abigail Lee: “The Modern Icarus”
Abigail Lee is a poet from the San Francisco Bay Area. She now resides in Southern Oregon, spending most of her free time amongst the trees. You can find her online at @Bee.Bax on Instagram.
Sierra Jameson: “King Moss Possessed”
Sierra Jameson is a queer writer based in Ashland, Oregon who likes to challenge the line between fiction, poetry, and reality. She has been a poetry editor for Main Squeeze and they have featured with their chapbook, “Garden Skull” in the 2024 season of the Oregon Fringe Festival.
Jade Harper: “I know it might be wrong”
Jade Harper is an artist and writer. She spent most of her childhood in Reno, Nevada but is currently studying in Ashland, Oregon. She is fascinated by every large American city, sock monkeys, the inherent beauty and cruelty of the universe, and bad puns (among other things).
Tom Kurstjens: “Beginnings & Endings”
Tom Kurstjens is a student at Southern Oregon University, a Creative writing major in his senior year. He has previously achieved an associate’s degree in liberal arts from Saddleback College a year or so before and was registered in SOU’s honor list on April 11th, 2023. Among his accomplishments include volunteering at family assistance ministries, a member of SOU’s Creative Writing club starting from 2023 to now, and was an honorable Mention in SOU’s Film Fair screenwriting competition in 2024.
Evan Chapin: “Amalek”
Evan Chapin is a nineteen year old writer and undergraduate senior. He attends Southern Oregon University. He is on track to graduate spring of 2025 and is currently the Treasurer of the Creative Writing Club. Evan has published nonfiction and fiction before in the Siskiyou and Main Squeeze Literary Magazine.
Aydin Eliason: “Sudsy Vacay”
Aydin Eliason wants to read an entire library. He is a student at Southern Oregon University, currently serving as the editor of the Creative Writing Club’s literary magazine Sexy Grammatical Errors. His work has appeared in Main Squeeze.
Ryan Versaw: “Mural”
The wind is a steady stream of thoughts inside my head and is the main inspiration for my writing. While all my life the wind has been blowing, the gale of creativity picked up when I was out of high school and continued from my home in Pagosa, Colorado to Ashland, Oregon where I now live.