TINFISH #22 CONTRIBUTORS
Stuart Cooke is a poet, scholar and translator. His latest books include the poetry collection Lyre (UWAP, 2019) and a translation of Gianni Siccardi's The Blackbird (Vagabond, 2018), and he is the co-editor of Transcultural Ecocriticism: global, Romantic and decolonial perspectives (Bloomsbury, 2021). He lives in Brisbane, on Juggerah country, where he lectures in Creative Writing and Literary Studies at Griffith University.
Moya Costello has two collections of short creative prose and two novels (Kites in Jakarta; Small Ecstasies; The Office as a Boat; Harriet Chandler). Critical and creative work in scholarly and literary journals and anthologies. Awarded writing grants. Writers festivals’ guest. Judged writing competitions. Adjunct, Southern Cross University.
Carla Crujido
Carla Crujido, a graduate of the MFA program at the Institute of American Indian Arts, is a writer of Filipino, Norwegian, Mexican, and German descent. Her work has appeared in Yellow Medicine Review, Ricepaper Magazine, The Ana, and elsewhere. Originally from San Francisco, she now calls Portland home.
Lawdenmarc Decamora is a Filipino poet and professor with work published or forthcoming from Michigan Quarterly Review, The Common, Mantis, The Margins, The Seattle Review, North Dakota Quarterly, among others. He is the author of three book-length poetry collections, namely "Love, Air" (Atmosphere Press), "TUNNELS" (Ukiyoto), and "Handsome Hope" which is forthcoming from Yorkshire Publishing in mid-2022. His recent anthology publications are "The Best Asian Poetry 2021" (ed. Sudeep Sen) and the forthcoming "Anthology of Contemporary Surrealist and Magical Realist Poetry" (ed. Jonas Zdanys). He was also nominated for the Best of the Net and Pushcart Prizes. With both critical and creative work published in more than 23 countries around the world, Lawdenmarc is a faculty researcher at the University of Santo Tomas, Manila.
In a past century Heikki Huotari attended a one-room school and spent summers on a forest-fire lookout tower. He's a retired math professor and has published poems in numerous literary journals, including Spillway, the American Journal of Poetry and Willow Springs. His fourth collection, Deja Vu Goes Both Ways, won the Star 82 Press Book Award.
Jami Macarty gratefully recognizes Native Nations of the West—especially the Coast Salish and Tohono O’odham—as the traditional and rightful owners of lands where she has the great privilege to live and work—as a teacher at Simon Fraser University, as editor of the online poetry magazine The Maynard, and as a writer of essays, reviews, and poetry. She is the author of The Minuses (Center for Literary Publishing, 2020) —winner of the 2020 New Mexico/Arizona Book Award - Poetry Arizona—and three chapbooks, including Mind of Spring (Vallum, 2017), winner of the 2017 Vallum Chapbook Award. Jami's writing has been honored by financial support from Arizona Commission on the Arts and British Columbia Arts Council, and by editors at literary publications such as The Capilano Review, Interim, Vallum, and Volt, where her work is forthcoming.
A teacher and poet, M.G. Martin grew up on Hawaiʻi island in the town of Waimea. He currently teaches high school English on the island of Maui and has just earned a M.Ed from the University of Massachusetts. M.G. is the author of U U O U (Cyberwit, 2020) and One For None (Ink., 2010), and has performed on stages in San Francisco, Oakland, Los Angeles, San Diego, Portland, Boston, New York City, Seoul, and Honolulu. His poems have appeared in Bamboo Ridge, ZYZZYVA, Juked, PANK, and Sink Review, among others. M.G. has also led writing workshops for the Red Cross and the Hawaii Council for the Humanities and was a 2018-19 W.S. Merwin Creative Teaching Fellow. You can find him online at mgmartin.ink
Delia Tramontina is originally from Flushing, NY. She received her MFA in Writing and Poetics from Naropa University. For 3.5 years, she co-hosted Poet As Radio, a weekly show on writing and poetry, streaming online on San Francisco Community Radio/KUSF In Exile. She lives and works in San Francisco. In 2018, her chapbook CONSTRAINT was published by Dancing Girl Press. Her full length manuscript RIGHT LEFT was a finalist with Gold Wake Press in 2019. In 2020, her chapbook manuscript, IN THE CHEER-UP HOUSE, was a semi-finalist for the Eggtooth Chapbook contest. Her work has most recently appeared in Unique Poetry, Moss Trill, dead peasant, The Babel Tower and Inverted Syntax. Another poem from this current project appeared in Strukturriss.