1. Stumbling on Infinity One day my teenage body turned into koi paper, so I folded myself into makeshift objects of enchantment. I creased the patterned kami of my flattened limbs. I reinvented new morphologies in every pleat, cultivating a love affair with the changing shapes of my crinkled identity. I learned that origami…

PORTLAND, OR; July 19, 2022 — FRUITCAKE is a collection of poems that follows a persona through various jobs as an Administrative Judge and civil servant, the adoption of her son and her relationship through the years with her parents and in particular, her father, who worked as a macaroon…

The Guide to Being a Dictator’s Mistress 1. Never fall in love with him. 2. Do not give in to his initial advances, no matter how insistent he is. Ignore the tramps, whores, and prostitutes who think that the path to riches lies somewhere beneath his sheets. He will be generous with them — initially — bathing…

PORTLAND, OR; July 12, 2022 — The stories in The Guide to Being a Dictator’s Mistress are meant to capture a reader’s imagination and take the familiar, and unfamiliar, and provide for an enjoyable reading experience. In the title story and the companion story The Guide to Being a Dictator’s…

​PORTLAND, OR; JUNE 28, 2022 — Rook is based on the true story of Al Nussbaum. To his unsuspecting wife, Lolly, Al is a loving, chess playing, family man. To J. Edgar Hoover, he is the most cunning fugitive alive. Al is the mastermind behind a string of east coast…

PORTLAND, OR; June 21, 2022 — In the desolate woods of northern Wisconsin, there is a cabin. Inside the cabin is a figure of evil, a witch performing an unknown ritual. …

PORTLAND, OR; June 21, 2022 — Summer solstice is here and at last we can crack the spine on Joy to celebrate. Joy is the new full-length collection of poetry by Francis Daulerio, author of If & When We Wake, Please Plant This Book, and With a Difference. Beginning with…

PORTLAND, OR; June 14, 2022 — In this moving, sophisticated, and often humorous novel, Gary M. Almeter artfully crafts a group portrait of several families using the finest of details in seemingly mundane encounters and everyday events. It’s 1982 and Gloria Winegar, a Brown University librarian, discovers that there aren’t…

Unsolicited Press Releases Kristine Snodgrass is the author most recently of American Apparell from AlienBuddha Press, Rather, from Contagion Press (2020) and the chapbook, These Burning Fields (Hysterical Books 2019). Kristine’s asemic and vispo work has been published in Utsanga (Italy), Slow Forward, Brave New Word, and Talking About Strawberries…