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Madeline ffitch cofounded the punk theater company Missoula Oblongata and is part of the direct-action collective Appalachia Resist! Her writing has appeared in Harper’s, Granta, Tin House, Guernica, and elsewhere. She is the author of the story collection Valparaiso, Round the Horn and the novel Stay and Fight, a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and the Lambda Literary Award. Her new novel Avalon, Rise is coming out this month on FSG.

From high atop FSI (Fell Swoop International) Headquarters in New Orleans, Joel Dailey edits and publishes SWOOPCARDS, an ongoing series of letterpress postcards & broadsides. His latest book is NEW DETAILS EMERGE (New Books, 2023). His previous books all from Lavender Ink include: LOWER 48, MY PSYCHIC DOGS MY LIFE & INDUSTRIAL LOOP.

Through postcards, slaptags, voicemails and other ephemera, Buck Downs creates a body of poetry as expansive and intimate as life and death. Recent book projects include NICE NOSE (Buck Downs Dot Com) and Mystical Hobby of Christ: The Poetry of Chris Toll (lack mountain/ZDWP).

Thea Brown is the author of three collections of poetry, most recently Loner Forensics (Northwestern University Press 2023). Recent poems can be found in Bennington Review, Kenyon Review, Coma, Sixth Finch, the tiny, Action, Spectacle, and elsewhere. She lives in Baltimore and teaches creative writing at the George Washington University.

The Tinklers, Charles Brohawn and Chris Mason, have been singing songs, telling stories, making books, and painting paintings since 1979.   They had 3 albums on Shimmy Disc in the late 80’s/ early 90’s and a CD from Serious Records.   Their songs were played on All Things Considered as interstitial commentary in the early 90’s.  Their paintings were sold at galleries in New York City and Richmond, Virginia.   They recorded a CD with the members of Half Japanese.   Their book The Elements was published by Shattered Wig Books.   This year, Rollo Press, located in Paris and Zurich, has published a large volume collection of 5 Tinkler books from the early 80’s, including The History of the World, The Tinklers Songs and Charts, Home by the River, Our Childrens Childrens Worlds, and The Tinklers Encyclopedia.   The Tinklers can be heard every summer at the Shakemore Festival.   In all their work they promote a kind, joyous world with an unimaginable diversity of beings and an end to the tyranny of the rich and powerful.