Tag: Sundress Publication

The Wardrobe’s Best Dressed: Ugly Music by Diannely Antigua

TW: suicide

In honor of National Hispanic Heritage Month, this selection comes from Diannely Antigua’s book, Ugly Music available from YesYes Books.  Purchase your copy here! Our curator for this selection is Krista Cox.

Diannely Antigua is a Dominican American poet and educator, born and raised in Massachusetts. Her debut collection Ugly Music (YesYes Books, 2019) was the winner of the Pamet River Prize. She received her B.A. in English from the University of Massachusetts Lowell where she won the Jack Kerouac Creative Writing Scholarship and received her MFA at NYU where she was awarded a Global Research Initiative Fellowship to Florence, Italy. She is the recipient of additional fellowships from CantoMundo, Community of Writers, and the Fine Arts Work Center Summer Program. Her work has been nominated for both the Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net. Her poems can be found in Washington Square Review, Bennington Review, The Adroit Journal, Cosmonauts Avenue, Sixth Finch, and elsewhere. Her heart is in Brooklyn. 

Krista Cox is a poet, editor, artist, and community organizer based in South Bend, Indiana, but she’s always dreaming of somewhere saltier. Krista’s poetry appears in many fine journals, and she’s presently seeking a publisher for her chapbook How to Kiss a Monster. She’s the Managing Editor of Doubleback Review, a fledgling online journal that features work previously published at now-defunct journals, and an Associate Poetry Editor at Stirring: A Literary Collection, the longest continuously-publishing online journal on the web. In 2013, Krista founded Lit Literary Collective, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit that hosts affordable, accessible writing retreats and otherwise serves her local writing community. Krista received an honors BA in English from Indiana University South Bend. Sometimes she draws fat unicorns and paints cute animals.

The Wardrobe’s Best Dressed: Ugly Music by Diannely Antigua

TW: abortion

In honor of National Hispanic Heritage Month, this selection comes from Diannely Antigua’s book, Ugly Music available from YesYes Books.  Purchase your copy here! Our curator for this selection is Krista Cox.

Diannely Antigua is a Dominican American poet and educator, born and raised in Massachusetts. Her debut collection Ugly Music (YesYes Books, 2019) was the winner of the Pamet River Prize. She received her B.A. in English from the University of Massachusetts Lowell where she won the Jack Kerouac Creative Writing Scholarship and received her MFA at NYU where she was awarded a Global Research Initiative Fellowship to Florence, Italy. She is the recipient of additional fellowships from CantoMundo, Community of Writers, and the Fine Arts Work Center Summer Program. Her work has been nominated for both the Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net. Her poems can be found in Washington Square Review, Bennington Review, The Adroit Journal, Cosmonauts Avenue, Sixth Finch, and elsewhere. Her heart is in Brooklyn. 

Krista Cox is a poet, editor, artist, and community organizer based in South Bend, Indiana, but she’s always dreaming of somewhere saltier. Krista’s poetry appears in many fine journals, and she’s presently seeking a publisher for her chapbook How to Kiss a Monster. She’s the Managing Editor of Doubleback Review, a fledgling online journal that features work previously published at now-defunct journals, and an Associate Poetry Editor at Stirring: A Literary Collection, the longest continuously-publishing online journal on the web. In 2013, Krista founded Lit Literary Collective, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit that hosts affordable, accessible writing retreats and otherwise serves her local writing community. Krista received an honors BA in English from Indiana University South Bend. Sometimes she draws fat unicorns and paints cute animals.

The Wardrobe’s Best Dressed: The Highs and Lows of Shapeshift Ma and Big Little Frank by Frances Cannon

This selection comes from Frances Cannon’s book, The Highs and Lows of Shapeshift Ma and Big Little Frank available from Gold Wake Press.  Purchase your copy here! Our curator for this selection is Nilsa Rivera.

FRANCES CANNON is a writer and artist with an MFA in creative writing and book arts from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, and a BFA in poetry and printmaking from the University of Vermont. She is the author and illustrator of a book of graphic literary criticism published by MIT Press, Walter Benjamin: Reimagined, as well as a graphic memoir, The Highs and Lows of Shapeshift Ma and Big-Little Frank, published by Gold Wake Press, a book of paintings and poetic translations, Tropicalia, through Vagabond Press, and a book of poems and prints, Uranian Fruit, through Honeybee Press. She was born in Utah and has since lived in Oregon, Vermont, California, Maine, Iowa, Italy, Guatemala, France, and Mexico making art and writing books. She has also worked as an editorial intern and contributor at McSweeney’s Quarterly, The Believer, The Lucky Peach, and The Iowa Review. She has recently been published in The Literary Hub, The Rumpus, The Green Mountain Review, Hunger Mountain, Vice, Prompt Press, The Iowa Review, The Examined Life Journal, Edible Magazine, Electric Lit, and Vol. 1 Brooklyn. She currently lives in Vermont, where she teaches creative writing at Champlain College and the Vermont College of Fine Arts, and visual arts courses at the Shelburne Craft School.

Nilsa Rivera writes about gender and diversity issues. She’s the Managing Editor of The Wardrobe for Sundress Publications. Nilsa’s work appears in the Huffington Post, 50 GS Magazine, Six Hens Literary Journal, Assay: A Journal of Nonfiction Studies, and Selkie Literary Magazine. It’s also been featured at Miami Book Fair’s LipService True Stories out Loud Miami, the Writing Class Radio podcast, and at the “Muses and Music” multidisciplinary event of the Cream Literary Alliance.

The Wardrobe’s Best Dressed: The Highs and Lows of Shapeshift Ma and Big Little Frank by Frances Cannon

This selection comes from Frances Cannon’s book, The Highs and Lows of Shapeshift Ma and Big Little Frank available from Gold Wake Press.  Purchase your copy here! Our curator for this selection is Nilsa Rivera.

FRANCES CANNON is a writer and artist with an MFA in creative writing and book arts from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, and a BFA in poetry and printmaking from the University of Vermont. She is the author and illustrator of a book of graphic literary criticism published by MIT Press, Walter Benjamin: Reimagined, as well as a graphic memoir, The Highs and Lows of Shapeshift Ma and Big-Little Frank, published by Gold Wake Press, a book of paintings and poetic translations, Tropicalia, through Vagabond Press, and a book of poems and prints, Uranian Fruit, through Honeybee Press. She was born in Utah and has since lived in Oregon, Vermont, California, Maine, Iowa, Italy, Guatemala, France, and Mexico making art and writing books. She has also worked as an editorial intern and contributor at McSweeney’s Quarterly, The Believer, The Lucky Peach, and The Iowa Review. She has recently been published in The Literary Hub, The Rumpus, The Green Mountain Review, Hunger Mountain, Vice, Prompt Press, The Iowa Review, The Examined Life Journal, Edible Magazine, Electric Lit, and Vol. 1 Brooklyn. She currently lives in Vermont, where she teaches creative writing at Champlain College and the Vermont College of Fine Arts, and visual arts courses at the Shelburne Craft School.

Nilsa Rivera writes about gender and diversity issues. She’s the Managing Editor of The Wardrobe for Sundress Publications. Nilsa’s work appears in the Huffington Post, 50 GS Magazine, Six Hens Literary Journal, Assay: A Journal of Nonfiction Studies, and Selkie Literary Magazine. It’s also been featured at Miami Book Fair’s LipService True Stories out Loud Miami, the Writing Class Radio podcast, and at the “Muses and Music” multidisciplinary event of the Cream Literary Alliance.

The Wardrobe’s Best Dressed: The Highs and Lows of Shapeshift Ma and Big Little Frank by Frances Cannon

This selection comes from Frances Cannon’s book, The Highs and Lows of Shapeshift Ma and Big Little Frank available from Gold Wake Press.  Purchase your copy here! Our curator for this selection is Nilsa Rivera.

FRANCES CANNON is a writer and artist with an MFA in creative writing and book arts from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, and a BFA in poetry and printmaking from the University of Vermont. She is the author and illustrator of a book of graphic literary criticism published by MIT Press, Walter Benjamin: Reimagined, as well as a graphic memoir, The Highs and Lows of Shapeshift Ma and Big-Little Frank, published by Gold Wake Press, a book of paintings and poetic translations, Tropicalia, through Vagabond Press, and a book of poems and prints, Uranian Fruit, through Honeybee Press. She was born in Utah and has since lived in Oregon, Vermont, California, Maine, Iowa, Italy, Guatemala, France, and Mexico making art and writing books. She has also worked as an editorial intern and contributor at McSweeney’s Quarterly, The Believer, The Lucky Peach, and The Iowa Review. She has recently been published in The Literary Hub, The Rumpus, The Green Mountain Review, Hunger Mountain, Vice, Prompt Press, The Iowa Review, The Examined Life Journal, Edible Magazine, Electric Lit, and Vol. 1 Brooklyn. She currently lives in Vermont, where she teaches creative writing at Champlain College and the Vermont College of Fine Arts, and visual arts courses at the Shelburne Craft School.

Nilsa Rivera writes about gender and diversity issues. She’s the Managing Editor of The Wardrobe for Sundress Publications. Nilsa’s work appears in the Huffington Post, 50 GS Magazine, Six Hens Literary Journal, Assay: A Journal of Nonfiction Studies, and Selkie Literary Magazine. It’s also been featured at Miami Book Fair’s LipService True Stories out Loud Miami, the Writing Class Radio podcast, and at the “Muses and Music” multidisciplinary event of the Cream Literary Alliance.

The Wardrobe’s Best Dressed: The Highs and Lows of Shapeshift Ma and Big Little Frank by Frances Cannon

This selection comes from Frances Cannon’s book, The Highs and Lows of Shapeshift Ma and Big Little Frank available from Gold Wake Press.  Purchase your copy here! Our curator for this selection is Nilsa Rivera.

FRANCES CANNON is a writer and artist with an MFA in creative writing and book arts from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, and a BFA in poetry and printmaking from the University of Vermont. She is the author and illustrator of a book of graphic literary criticism published by MIT Press, Walter Benjamin: Reimagined, as well as a graphic memoir, The Highs and Lows of Shapeshift Ma and Big-Little Frank, published by Gold Wake Press, a book of paintings and poetic translations, Tropicalia, through Vagabond Press, and a book of poems and prints, Uranian Fruit, through Honeybee Press. She was born in Utah and has since lived in Oregon, Vermont, California, Maine, Iowa, Italy, Guatemala, France, and Mexico making art and writing books. She has also worked as an editorial intern and contributor at McSweeney’s Quarterly, The Believer, The Lucky Peach, and The Iowa Review. She has recently been published in The Literary Hub, The Rumpus, The Green Mountain Review, Hunger Mountain, Vice, Prompt Press, The Iowa Review, The Examined Life Journal, Edible Magazine, Electric Lit, and Vol. 1 Brooklyn. She currently lives in Vermont, where she teaches creative writing at Champlain College and the Vermont College of Fine Arts, and visual arts courses at the Shelburne Craft School.

Nilsa Rivera writes about gender and diversity issues. She’s the Managing Editor of The Wardrobe for Sundress Publications. Nilsa’s work appears in the Huffington Post, 50 GS Magazine, Six Hens Literary Journal, Assay: A Journal of Nonfiction Studies, and Selkie Literary Magazine. It’s also been featured at Miami Book Fair’s LipService True Stories out Loud Miami, the Writing Class Radio podcast, and at the “Muses and Music” multidisciplinary event of the Cream Literary Alliance.

The Wardrobe’s Best Dressed: Secure Your Own Mask by Shaindel Beers

In honor of National Suicide Prevention Week, this selection comes from Shaindel Beers’s book, Secure Your Own Mask available from White Pine Press.  Purchase your copy here! Our curator for this selection is Nilsa Rivera.

Shaindel Beers is author of the poetry collections A Brief History of Time (Salt Publishing, 2009), The Children’s War and Other Poems (Salt, 2013), and Secure Your Own Mask (White Pine Press, 2018). Her poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction has appeared in numerous journals and anthologies. She is currently an instructor of English at Blue Mountain Community College in Pendleton, Oregon, in eastern Oregon’s desert, and serves as poetry editor of Contrary. 

Nilsa Rivera writes about gender and diversity issues (including domestic violence, child neglect, homelessness, and sexual abuse). She’s also the Managing Editor of The Wardrobe for Sundress Publications. Nilsa’s work appears in the Huffington Post, 50 GS Magazine, Six Hens Literary Journal, Assay: A Journal of Nonfiction Studies, and Selkie Literary Magazine. It’s also been featured at Miami Book Fair’s LipService True Stories out Loud Miami, the Writing Class Radio podcast, and at the “Muses and Music” multidisciplinary event of the Cream Literary Alliance.

The Wardrobe’s Best Dressed: Secure Your Own Mask by Shaindel Beers

In honor of National Suicide Prevention Week, this selection comes from Shaindel Beers’s book, Secure Your Own Mask available from White Pine Press.  Purchase your copy here! Our curator for this selection is Nilsa Rivera.

Shaindel Beers is author of the poetry collections A Brief History of Time (Salt Publishing, 2009), The Children’s War and Other Poems (Salt, 2013), and Secure Your Own Mask (White Pine Press, 2018). Her poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction has appeared in numerous journals and anthologies. She is currently an instructor of English at Blue Mountain Community College in Pendleton, Oregon, in eastern Oregon’s desert, and serves as poetry editor of Contrary. 

Nilsa Rivera writes about gender and diversity issues (including domestic violence, child neglect, homelessness, and sexual abuse). She’s also the Managing Editor of The Wardrobe for Sundress Publications. Nilsa’s work appears in the Huffington Post, 50 GS Magazine, Six Hens Literary Journal, Assay: A Journal of Nonfiction Studies, and Selkie Literary Magazine. It’s also been featured at Miami Book Fair’s LipService True Stories out Loud Miami, the Writing Class Radio podcast, and at the “Muses and Music” multidisciplinary event of the Cream Literary Alliance.

The Wardrobe’s Best Dressed: Secure Your Own Mask by Shaindel Beers

In honor of National Suicide Prevention Week, this selection comes from Shaindel Beers’s book, Secure Your Own Mask available from White Pine Press.  Purchase your copy here! Our curator for this selection is Nilsa Rivera.

Shaindel Beers is author of the poetry collections A Brief History of Time (Salt Publishing, 2009), The Children’s War and Other Poems (Salt, 2013), and Secure Your Own Mask (White Pine Press, 2018). Her poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction has appeared in numerous journals and anthologies. She is currently an instructor of English at Blue Mountain Community College in Pendleton, Oregon, in eastern Oregon’s desert, and serves as poetry editor of Contrary. 

Nilsa Rivera writes about gender and diversity issues (including domestic violence, child neglect, homelessness, and sexual abuse). She’s also the Managing Editor of The Wardrobe for Sundress Publications. Nilsa’s work appears in the Huffington Post, 50 GS Magazine, Six Hens Literary Journal, Assay: A Journal of Nonfiction Studies, and Selkie Literary Magazine. It’s also been featured at Miami Book Fair’s LipService True Stories out Loud Miami, the Writing Class Radio podcast, and at the “Muses and Music” multidisciplinary event of the Cream Literary Alliance.

The Wardrobe’s Best Dressed: Secure Your Own Mask by Shaindel Beers

In honor of National Suicide Prevention Week, this selection comes from Shaindel Beers’s book, Secure Your Own Mask available from White Pine Press.  Purchase your copy here! Our curator for this selection is Nilsa Rivera.

Shaindel Beers is author of the poetry collections A Brief History of Time (Salt Publishing, 2009), The Children’s War and Other Poems (Salt, 2013), and Secure Your Own Mask (White Pine Press, 2018). Her poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction has appeared in numerous journals and anthologies. She is currently an instructor of English at Blue Mountain Community College in Pendleton, Oregon, in eastern Oregon’s desert, and serves as poetry editor of Contrary. 

Nilsa Rivera writes about gender and diversity issues (including domestic violence, child neglect, homelessness, and sexual abuse). She’s also the Managing Editor of The Wardrobe for Sundress Publications. Nilsa’s work appears in the Huffington Post, 50 GS Magazine, Six Hens Literary Journal, Assay: A Journal of Nonfiction Studies, and Selkie Literary Magazine. It’s also been featured at Miami Book Fair’s LipService True Stories out Loud Miami, the Writing Class Radio podcast, and at the “Muses and Music” multidisciplinary event of the Cream Literary Alliance.