Contributors

Yiannis Andronikidis is an art historian, writer, and translator. His book blUe magnets: a few millibreaths away from intimacy was published by A) GLIMPSE) OF) (Athens, 2024). He is co-editor of the journal brossura | manual of pirate languages and co-founder of Coated Spirits, a collective exploring the “hauntological affect” of sound in filmmaking. His texts and translations appear in TripleAmpersand &&&, Robida Magazine, Philosophy World Democracy, death of workers whilst building skyscrapers, Ultra Dogme, Another Gaze/Another Screen, and fade.radio, among others. Since 2022, he has been undertaking research at The New Centre for Research & Practice, centred on modes of rehearsing and archiving in Vilém Flusser, Maryanne Amacher, and Gilbert Simondon.

Brian Ang wrote The Totality Cantos (Atelos 2022). totalitycantos.net includes the complete text and a generator that randomizes assemblages of its one thousand sections. Current poetic project: A Thousand Albums, open to the totality of music.

Sophie Appel is a poet and historical map archivist living in Los Angeles. She tends to Melrose Botanical Garden in its various forms and iterations. Her work has appeared in F Magazine, Dunce Codex, Metalabel, Bruiser Mag, SPECTRA, & more. She is the host of Spit in the Ocean, a monthly online reading series/radio show on Lower Grand Radio. Her debut collection of poetry, The World’s Largest Cherry Pie was published by Dream Boy Book Club.

Juniper Balbus-Holmquist (She/They), is a twenty-one year old autistic transgender lesbian poet, playwright, novelist, musician, essayist, and critical theorist attending Bard College for a bachelors with double major in creative writing and philosophy and double minor in French and German with a concentration in translation studies. Born in Chicago, IL, and raised in the city’s West Loop neighborhood, her often profound-profane work combines L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E, Lyric and Confessional streams of poetry with great intensity. She is currently at work on a multimedia poetry manuscript investigating nation-state complicity; the micropolitical of the relational; heterodox and heretical spirituality; the body as glyph; an abject theosophical color blue; Walter Benjamin’s Messianic Marxism; Julia Kristeva’s theory of abjection; the work of Delueze/Guattari, the 1990s-2000s work of Jean Baudrillard; the psychological positions of Melanie Klein and Levinas’ turn towards ethics as first philosophy: entitled “The Ethical Turn”. “Song of Songs” is her first published poem.

Eliot Cardinaux is a neuroqueer poet, pianist, composer, translator, and publisher working at the edges of the lyric and improvised music. The author of seven poetry collections, including On the Long Blue Night (Dos Madres, 2023), he has produced and appeared on over a dozen albums of original music as well, including, most recently, Imminence, with percussionist Gary Fieldman. His poems and translations have appeared in journals such as California Quarterly, Tupelo Quarterly, Meridian, Jacket2, Solstice, and Spoon River Poetry Review. Cardinaux is also the founding editor of The Bodily Press. He lives in Northampton, Massachusetts.

Mike Corrao is the author of numerous works including the novels, Gut Text (11:11 Press) and Rituals Performed in the Absence of Ganymede (11:11 Press); the poetry collections, The Persimmon is an Event (Broken Sleep Books) and Under Reef (Onomatopee Projects); the plays Smut-Maker (Inside the Castle) and Cephalonegativity (Apocalypse Party); and the essay collection, Surface Studies (Action Books). His latest book, Being Towards Death, is out now from Crop Circle Press.

Sam Crocker is a poet from Western Massachusetts who lives and works in Brooklyn. He holds a BA in Written Arts from Bard College. 

Paul Druecke’s project America Pastime was featured in the NYTimes Five to Follow series. His work was included in the 2014 Whitney Biennial and anthologized in Blackwell’s Companion to Public Art. Five selections from his Scenes from Great American Still Life were published in antiphony Issue 5 (2025). He has published two chaplets, “Scenes” (2024) and “Field and Street” (2023) with Ben Tinterstices Editions. “Life and Death on the Bluffs” (2014) and “The Last Days of John Budgen Jr.” (2010) were published by Green Gallery Press.

Grace Ezra is originally from the Blue Ridge Mountains. Her work has been previously published or is forthcoming in Denver Quarterly, Indiana Review, DIAGRAM, Raleigh Review, South Carolina Review and elsewhere. She is the founder and managing editor of Hood of Bone Review.

Noa Micaela Fields is an echodeviant (trans poet with hearing aids) in search of the hypervivid in her one and only captionless life. She is the author of E, forthcoming from Nightboat Books. Find some of her recent writing in Anomaly, Jacket2, Poem of the Day, Tripwire, Tyger Quarterly, Sixty Inches From Center, and Zoeglossia. She lives in Chicago, where she frequently hosts poetry readings, makes zines, and goes out dancing. www.noamicaelafields.com

Venya Gushchin is a poet, literary translator, and assistant professor of modern Russophone literature at the University of Southern California. His translations of Vladimir Mayakovsky and Elizaveta Mnatsakanova have received the Columbia University Slavic Department Pushkin Prize. Blockade Swallow, selected poems by Olga Berggolts translated by Gushchin, appeared from Smokestack Books in 2022. His translation of the Russian-language Kalmyk poet Dordzhi Dzhaldzhireev is forthcoming from World Poetry Books in 2027. His writing has appeared or in The Rumpus; Exchanges; Ballast Journal; No, Dear; and elsewhere.

Maria Hardin is a Swedish-American artist and bilingual poet based in Stockholm. Cute Girls Watch When I Eat Aether (Action Books) is her debut poetry collection. She is also the author of the chapbooks Sprawl Coquette (Creative Writing Deparment), Tragedienne (Antiphony Press), and most recently Sick Story: a remix (SPAM Press). She can be found at mariaology.com. 

Haley Joy Harris is a writer from Los Angeles living and teaching in Western Massachusetts. You can find her other work at or forthcoming in The Los Angeles Review, DIAGRAM, Fence, Hot Pink Magazine, Little Mirror Magazine, and elsewhere. 

Christine Shan Shan Hou is a poet, artist, and yoga instructor based in New Jersey. Their poetry publications include A Promise (b l u s h, 2025), Playdate (White Columns, 2022), The Joy and Terror are Both in the Swallowing (After Hours Editions 2021), and Community Garden for Lonely Girls (Gramma Poetry 2017) amongst others.

Phoebe Jordan-Reilly is a writer and editor working in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She has a BA with a concentration in writing and literature from Bennington College, where she completed a senior thesis in poetry. Her work has previously appeared in Queen Mob's Tea House.

Nicholas Komodore is a Greek poet, filmmaker, musician and self-taught architect. His poetries and architectural designs have been published in Tripwire, Left Curve, Lana Turner, Cordite Poetry Review, Armed Cell, Demosthenes Agrafiotis’ international Crisiology project, the anthologies: Aural Poetics, It’s night in San Francisco but it’s sunny in Oakland, Greek Avant-Garde Poetry (Big Bridge Press), and This is a Co-op of the 15th Venice Biennale of Architecture. His first book of poetry, 13 years in the making, entitled Pheromode Ichor is a multidimensional “book” that is read-experienced by all 5 basic senses and constitutes a prime paradigm of what Nicholas calls Amphoteric Poetry/Architecture. Nicholas is also one half of the jazz piano duo Bugam Dasi and a member of the anarchist rubric MA.P which includes Mayakov+sky Platform and the architecture/design studio Marusya Press.

Jason Labbe is the author of two books of poems, Maps for Jackie (2020) and Spleen Elegy (2017). His work has appeared in Conjunctions, VOLT, Poetry, A Public Space, The Brooklyn Rail, Colorado Review, and elsewhere. He is the editor and publisher of Here, a small print-only poetry journal, now going on its fourth issue. Also a musician and recording engineer, he has contributed to recent or forthcoming albums by Zachary Cale, Animal Surrender!, Slant of Light, and Ajax Caravan.

Mike Lala is the author of the poetry volumes The Unreal City and Exit Theater, and a contributing translator to Tales of Dionysus. His performance and installation works include Whale Fall (with Iris McCloughan and Nobutaka Aozaki), Madeleines: Tell Me What It Was Like (with Iris McCloughan), and Infinite Odyssey (with Homer). He grew up in the western United States and Tokyo, and lives in New York.

Matt Longabucco is the author of the poetry collection Heroic Dose and of M/W: An essay on Jean Eustache’s La maman et la putain, a book-length study of a landmark of French cinema and its creator. The Hummingbird is forthcoming from Nightboat Books in 2026. He teaches writing, innovative pedagogy, and critical theory at New York University’s Liberal Studies Program, and as an Associate at Bard College’s Institute for Writing & Thinking.

Andrew Maxwell is from Bucks County, Pennsylvania. His poems have previously appeared or are forthcoming in ballast, Conjunctions, Colorado Review, Lana Turner, and Grotto, among other places.

Michael Metivier is an editor at Merriam-Webster and lives with his family in Vermont. His work has appeared in journals including Poetry, Kenyon Review, Prairie Schooner, and Orion. 

Bella Moses is a poet from Santa Fe, New Mexico. Her recent work can be found in Ballast and Right Hand Pointing. She lives in Western Massachusetts where she is an MFA candidate at UMass Amherst and serves as the managing editor of Slope Editions.

Hieu Nguyen is a poet and student on medical leave. His work can be found in Iterant Magazine, The End Magazine, Spectra, the American Anthropological Association, and elsewhere.

Jon Ruseski is the author of the chapbooks Enter Sandman, Sporting Life, and Hair of the Dog. He is a founder and editor of b l u s h, an online poetry journal and publishing imprint.

Chloe Bliss Snyder is a poet from upstate New York who now writes in Idaho, where she studies and teaches poetry at Boise State University. Her chapbook Ekho and Narkissos was published by the pamphlet series The Swan and its recording can be heard on PennSound. Other work of hers can be read in The Chicago Review, Luigi Ten Co, Mercury Firs, Noir Sauna, Caesura, Annulet, and elsewhere.

Alana Solin is a writer from New Jersey. Her work has appeared in Dunce Codex, Mercury Firs, Tagvverk, Dusie, Second Factory, Annulet, jubilat, and elsewhere. Her chapbook Dead Ringer Blows won the 2024 1BR / 3BATH Chapbook Prize from Tilted House and came out in 2025. 

Erik Manuel Soto is a Mexican-American writer from California. His poems have appeared in Volt, Huizache, Sonora Review, Action, Spectacle and other magazines and publications. Winner of the inaugural Gronk Nicandro first book prize for poetry, Erik’s debut poetry collection, Inside the Umber Iris is now out on whatbookspress.com

Chuck Stebelton is author most recently of One Hundred Patterns & Three Heuristics (Green Gallery Press, 2023). His previous poetry collections include An Apostle Island (Oxeye Press, 2021), The Platformist (Cultural Society, 2012), and Circulation Flowers (Tougher Disguises, 2005). He serves as Special Projects Manager at Woodland Pattern, a nonprofit literary arts organization in Milwaukee, and has held residencies at Lynden Sculpture Garden in 2011, 2014, and from 2018 to 2025. He prints pamphlets, broadsides, collaborative print objects and such under the Ben Tinterstices Editions imprint. Ted Berrigan, “interstices // bent.” 

Hannah Azar Strauss is an artist and writer based in Montréal. She has recent or forthcoming writing in The Capilano Review, Discount Guillotine, Public Parking, and Ballast Journal.

Erick Verran is the author of Obiter Dicta (Punctum Books, 2021) and a PhD candidate at the University of Utah. His writing has appeared in the American Poetry Review, the Georgia Review, Gulf Coast, the Harvard Review, Literary Matters, the Los Angeles Review of Books, the Massachusetts Review, the Cleveland Review of Books, and many others. He lives in Salt Lake City.

Susie Whittaker (she/they) is a writer of poems from South London. She writes from a queer Marxist perspective about alienation under capitalism in the urban environment. They are currently particularly influenced by Paolo Virno's The Idea of World: Public Intellect and Use of Life and the music of Giggs. She enjoys using obtuse basketball references in her work. They have been published by Passion of the Weiss, Impossible Archetype, Ouch! Collective and Fifth Wheel Press among others. They can be found @acidsynthline on Instagram.

Sammy Aiko Zimmerman is a Brooklyn-based poet, fiction writer, and critic whose work has appeared in The Point, The Drift, Electric Literature, Euphony, and more. They dream of a free Palestine, from the river to the sea.

Greek Folio Contributors:

Sofia Bempeza is an artist, art- and cultural theorist, poet (she-dandy). She writes, teaches, organizes, performs, draws, and reads coffee grounds. She holds a Professorship for Art and Communicative Practices at the University of Applied Arts Vienna and works collaboratively with other artists, educators, activists, and witches. She is the author of the books: 93 (Para)domestic stories for Eleni, A glimpse of (2023); Geschichte(n) des Kunststreiks, transversal texts (2019); Valeries Unterricht in Athen, Shedhalle edition (2014). https://sofiabempeza.org 

Stylianos Benetos (aka Oyto Arognos) was born in Greece and studied Greek Literature, Linguistics, and Performative Arts in Greece and Germany. Stylianos is active as a performer, poet, and researcher in the field of Performing Arts (currently writing a PhD thesis on the cross-gender casting of the role of the prophet Tiresias in modern Greek and international performances of ancient Greek tragedy). Stylianos’ published poetic texts can be found in Anthology of Greek Queer Poetry (2023, Thraka Editions, GR) and in brossura / manual of pirate languages (2023, A)GLIMPSE)OF), GR/EN).

Theo Chiotis’ publications include Screen (Paper Tigers Books, 2017), limit.less: towards an assembly of the sick (Litmus, 2017), κράμα (ή, γλώσσα_μηχανή) ([φρμκ], 2025) and counterfactual (Steel Incisors, 2026). He is also the editor and translator of the anthology Futures: Poetry of the Greek Crisis (Penned in the Margins, 2015). His work has appeared in Litmus, Datableed, Tripwire, Poetry Wales, Shearsman, Adventures in Form, Austerity Measures, Tenebrae, Forward Book of Poetry 2017, aglimpseof, Visual Verse, lyrikline, Otoliths, amongst others. He has translated contemporary British and American poets into Greek and Aristophanes into English. He is a member of the editorial board of the Greek literary magazine [φρμκ]. His project Mutualised Archives, an ongoing performative interdisciplinary work, received the Dot Award by the Institute for the Future of Book and Bournemouth University; he has also been awarded a High Commendation from the Forward Prizes for Poetry in 2017.

lis_sin_fando is less a poet than a memory unraveling. She throws words like stones about feminism, sexuality, generational trauma and freedom.

Pinelópi is an architect and researcher whose work explores the intersections of cultural heritage, urban segregation, and racial discrimination. Her practice spans architectural research, experimental writing, and publishing, with a critical focus on the politics of representation. She is a graduate of the Centre for Research Architecture and has previously worked with Forensic Architecture in London, the artist’s book platform bladr in Copenhagen and the design collective K41.

Katsarida Press is an artistic venture (2022–) that is based in Athens. Katsarida (Greek for cockroach) publishes mostly experimental writing, queer and feminist narratives focusing on underrepresented poets & writers. It started as a self-publishing project by a three-member team who write together, having so far published in magazines and several times as a literary cockroach entity.

Franck-Lee Alli-Tis aka V Stylianidou (they/them, he/him) is a boyish flowerplant that grows in the rhizomatic fields of art, sound and writing. They work across a variety of media, including video, poetry, sound/music, voice, language, installation, sculpture and performance. In 2019, Franck-Lee initiated and co-founded WordMord, an ongoing collective and transdisciplinary artistic research project, which explores the complex entanglements of language, the body, and technology with trauma and violence—but also with pleasure and sexuality. Franck-Lee lives and works in Berlin and Athens. https://stylianidou.com.

Olga Vereli is a writer based in Athens, Greece. She loves making zines. Some of her work is available at: olga.substack.com