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View the recording of our Eds. and friends virtual reading

held during smol fair 2022 on MARCH 22nd

Readers

Anissa LynnE Johnson, Volume 5 Contributor

Anissa Lynne Johnson is a disabled writer and speaker from the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. Her work has appeared in The Daily Drunk, Press Pause, Sledgehammer Lit, Wig-Wag, EcoTheo, and elsewhere. More often than not, Anissa can be found walking in the woods or watching the sort of movies that *sigh* never win awards. Say hello on Twitter @anissaljohnson or at anissalynnejohnson.com.

Ricki Nelson, Volume 4 Contributor

Ricki Nelson is a writer, poet, performer, filmmaker, YouTuber, and graduate student at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts. She has been published in Seabreeze: A Literary Diaspora and North Carolina's Emerging Writer's nonfiction and fiction anthologies. When she's not creating, Ricki enjoys reading, stumbling into deep conversations with strangers, and binging cartoons. You can follow her and her work on her instablog @RickiWrites.

Kelsey Cleveland, Volume 5 Contributor

Kelsey Cleveland is a writer, who after living in Japan for eight years, now resides with her husband and teenage son outside of Portland, Oregon, where she works as Cultural Programs Manager at Portland Japanese Garden. Her essays have received honorable mention in the Writer’s Digest 86th Annual Writing Competition and several of her tiny truths have won Creative Nonfiction’s micro-essay contests. Cleveland’s work has appeared or is forthcoming in Press Pause, Monologging, Hippocampus Magazine, The Ekphrastic Review, Smith Alumnae Quarterly, and the Sankei Shimbun (in Japanese). She is currently working on Waving Hello, Bowing Goodbye: A Dual Love Story with Japan and a Man, a travel memoir about navigating conflicting desires to pursue a childhood dream to live in Japan. Find her at kelseycleveland.com or connect with her on Twitter @kerushi_san.

Alise Versella, Volume 6 contributor

Alise Versella is a Pushcart-nominated, contributing writer for Rebelle Society whose work has been published in Circle Show, COG Magazine, Crack the Spine, Entropy, The Opiate, Penumbra Literary and Art Journal, Poydras Review, Ultraviolet Tribe, What Rough Beast, Steam Ticket, and Elephant Journal, among others. She has been nominated for a Best of the Net and is the author of When Wolves Become Birds (Golden Dragonfly Press) and Maenads of the 21st Century forthcoming with Dancing Girl Press.
You can find her at www.aliseversella.com or IG: alise0x