This Issue's Flock

Contributors to Issue #4

Ellen Harrold

Ellen Harrold is an artist and writer focused on Medicine, Anatomy, and Taphonomy. She is currently focused on how science is understood through the lens of art and storytelling while working as an artist, writer, and editor-in-chief of Metachrosis Literary. She has recently published written pieces with Danse Macabre, New Note Poetry,
and Die Leere Mitte. She has also recently published her first book ‘Aesthetics and Conventions of Medical Art.'.

Alexandra Deianira

Alexandra Deianira (She/Her) is an LGBTQ+ writer and full time college student from Northern California. She is studying in Southern California and spends her free time writing books, embroidering and baking. She can be found on Twitter @alexadeianira and on Instagram @alexandradeianira.

Sara Collie

Sara C (she/her) is a poet based in the east of England. She has a lifelong fascination with the way that words and
stories shape and define us. Her writing explores the wild, uncertain spaces of nature, the complexities of mental
health, and the mysteries of the creative process.​

Morgan Leanor

Morgan Leanor is a queer disabled writer from New Mexico. In her work, she immerses herself in bringing forth values close to her heart through the mediums of poetry and creative non-fiction. Her work seeks to reflect ideas of connection and community while tackling otherwise painful topics in a way that feels as authentic as it does visceral. Morgan self-published her poetry chapbook Work In Progress last year, which focuses on the cyclical nature of trauma and healing, showing parallels to the cycles of life.

Karolína Fabianová

Karolína is a young woman from Slovakia, a little country in the heart of Europe, who tries her best to pursue her dream of becoming a writer and publishing a book one day. Except that, she is also a passionate reader of pretty much everything, a crocheter that always has a handmade present for her family and friends, and she also likes to have plans and to-do lists for everything, but at the moment, she has no idea of what she is about to do in the future except for writing and taking part in climate activism to uproot the system.

Ted Naughton

Ted Naughton is a gay poet who lives far, far out in the boggy woods with his rescue dogs and his demons.

Tanisha Chetty

Tanisha Chetty is from Oregon. They love to write, drink lattes mysteriously at coffee shops, and be serious about
everything all the time.

Salem Paige

Salem Paige (they/them) is a disabled transgender poet whose works revolve around the exploration of identity, technology, space, nature, and discomfort. Their work can be found in their collection of poetry, The Third Self (2023, Sunday Mornings at the River Press) and their chapbook to grow roots (2023, bottlecap press), as well as 
many literary magazines, journals, and anthologies. Paige lives and works on Algonquin Anishinaabe territory (so-called Ottawa, Ontario), where they spend time napping excessively, going on walks to free little libraries, hunting lightroots in the depths of Hyrule, and annoying their partner and their two cats. More on Paige can be found at @corpseofapoet on social media and on their website salempaige.com.