Authors | inside the castle

		NOOR AL-SAMARRAI is a writer and performer whose work centers around the confluence between space and memory. EL CERRITO (Inside the Castle Press, 2018) is her debut collection of poetry. A 2016-2017 Fulbright Fellow, she also conducts workshops on poetry and situationism and sings in the band Dog-Maw and the Plastic L.A. Skyline.

		LISA MARIE BASILE is an editor, writer and poet living in NYC. She is the founding editor-in-chief of Luna Luna Magazine and the author of Apocryphal (Noctuary Press, 2014), as well as a few chapbooks. She is working on her first novella, to be released by Clash Books/Clash Media in 2019. Her poetry or essays can be found in Spork Press, Entropy, Atlas Review, PANK, Tarpaulin Sky, and more. Other writings can or will be seen in the New York Times, The Washington Post, Narratively, and The Establishment. Her book Nympholepsy (co-authored with poet Alyssa Morhardt-Goldstein, and finalist in the 2017 Tarpaulin Sky Book Awards) will be released by Inside the Castle in November 2018.

		SHANE JESSE CHRISTMASS is the author of the novels, Napalm Recipe: Volume One (Dostoyevsky Wannabe, 2017), Police Force As A Corrupt Breeze (Dostoyevsky Wannabe, 2016) and Acid Shottas (The Ledatape Organisation, 2014). His book Belfie Hell will be published by Inside the Castle in June 2018. He was a member of the band Mattress Grave, and is currently a member in Snake Milker. An archive of his writing/artwork/music can be found here + here.

		MAURE COISE (top) / NUALA LOGES (bottom) lives on Skagit land in the North Cascades. A chapbook, Symphony in White was published by Solar Luxuriance in May 2017. Blogs about music at “The Blog of Roland”.

		MIKE CORRAO [w] is the author of three books, Man, Oh Man (Orson’s Publishing), Two Novels (Orson’s Publishing) and Gut Text (11:11 Press), one chapbook, Avian Funeral March (Self-Fuck), and many short films. Along with earning multiple Best of the Net nominations, Mike’s work has been featured in publications such as 3:AM, Collagist, Always Crashing, and The Portland Review. He lives in Minneapolis.

		MEGAN JEANNE GETTE is a writer living in Texas.

		M KITCHELL [w1] [w2] M Kitchell is a holy actor who lives in Oakland. Dedicated to obsessive research and the literal act of finding, Kitchell is primarily concerned with the impossible (or, perhaps, the outside) and levitation (or, perhaps, the float). An expanded list of his interests include ecstatic & trance states, inversion practice, landscape as limit-experience, hunting the void, Georges Bataille’s list of “apparently sovereign behaviors,” the space of the book and film as an autonomous medium. In addition to his more conceptual interests, his regular physical practice involves investigations into post-circus contortion, soft acrobatics & the flow-state. He teaches movement classes in Emeryville, CA.

		MIKE KLEINE [w] is the author of Kanley Stubrick (We Heard You Like Books, 2016) and other texts. His book, Lonely Men Club, will be published by Inside the Castle in the spring of 2018 as the inaugural Castle Freak residency project. He currently lives somewhere in the Midwest. Read a conversation with Mike Kleine on Entropy Magazine.

		CARRIE LORIG is the author of The Pulp vs. The Throne (Artifice Press). Her chapbooks include The Book of Repulsive Women, which was selected by Lily Hoang for the Essay Press Chapbook Contest, Reading as a Wildflower Activist, and NODS (Magic Helicopter Press). A chapbook called The Blood Barn will be published by Inside the Castle in Spring 2019. She lives in Atlanta, GA with the poet Nick Sturm.

		DOUGLAS LUMAN [w] is a writer with poetry and prose published in magazines such as Salamander, Ocean State Review, Rain Taxi, and Prelude. He is Production Director of Container, Art Director at Stillhouse Press, Head Researcher at Applied Poetics, a book designer, and digital human. His book, The F Text, will be published by Inside the Castle in the fall of 2017.

		GRANT MAIERHOFER [w] lives in Idaho. He is the author of Postures (Publication Studio, 2015), Grobbing Thistle (2016), and Flamingos (ITNA). His work is available via The Fanzine, Berfrois, 3:AM Magazine, and elsewhere.

		ALYSSA MORHARDT-GOLDSTEIN is the author of Quiet, winner of The New School University Press contest; semifinalist for her book, Forniphilia, in the 2015 Tarpaulin Sky Book Prize; and her work can be found in Sporklet, The Mackinac, Prick of the Spindle, Front Porch, and others. She is co-curator of Diorama – an immersive poetry series in NYC, and founding editor of [saUnd] – the literary magazine on contemporary musico-poetics. Her book Nympholepsy (co-authored with Lisa Marie Basile, and finalist in the 2017 Tarpaulin Sky Book Awards) will be released by Inside the Castle in November 2018.

		NEVER ANGELINE NØRTH is a ratgirl dream piece living in Olympia, WA. She wrote a book called Sea-Witch and some other books. You can read more about her at [Undying.club]. I think she is great and you should read her books. Her book Sea-witch, will be published by Inside the Castle in 2020.

		JOANNA NOVAK [w] is the author of the novel I Must Have You, published in May 2017. Her stories, essays, poetry, and criticism have appeared widely, in publications such as Salon, Guernica, BOMB, Catapult, Lit Hub, the New Orleans Review, and Joyland. A co-founder of the literary journal, Tammy, she teaches creative writing in the MFA program at Mount Saint Mary’s University in Los Angeles. Her book-length poem, Noirmania, was published by Inside the Castle in early 2018.

		JOSHUA ROTHES is a writer and artist from seattle, washington. he is the editor of Sublunary Editions. he writes occasionally at pith & self-defeating.

		PIERRE SENGES is the author of fifteen books and over seventy plays for radio. His most recent books are Cendres des hommes et des bulletins (Le Tripode, 2016) and Achab (séquelles) (Verticales, 2015). Geometry in the Dust will be published in English translation by Inside the Castle in April 2019, with illustrations by Killoffer. His books available in English include Fragments of Lichtenberg (Dalkey Archive, 2017) and The Major Refutation: English version of Refutatio major, attributed to Antonio de Guevara, 1480-1545 (Contra Mundum, 2016). His short writings have appeared in translation in BOMB Magazine, The White Review, Music & Literature, Hotel, and elsewhere..

		GARY J. SHIPLEY is the author of ten books, most recently 30 Fake Beheadings (Spork), Warewolff! (Hexus), and The Unyielding (Eraserhead). He has published in numerous magazines, journals, anthologies and academic journals. His monograph on Baudrillard is forthcoming from Anthem Press. More information can be found at Thek Prosthetics.

		JACOB SIEFRING [w] is a translator living in Ottawa, Ontario. His translation include The Major Refutation by Pierre Senges. His translation of Senges’s Geometry in the Dust will be published by Inside the Castle in April, 2019. He was awarded a French Voices grant in 2017 for his in-progress translation of Achab (séquelles) by the same author. His criticism and translations have appeared sporadically online and in print.

		GERMÁN SIERRA [w] is a neuroscientist at the University of Santiago de Compostela in Spain and author of contemporary innovative fiction. He has been included among the “Mutantes” or “Afterpop writers”: a group of Spanish writers who are strongly committed with innovative literature. Most of his fictional work deals with metamediatics and the role of science and technology as cultural discourses in post-postmodern and posthuman societies. He has written five novels. Efectos Secundarios was awarded the Jaen Prize in 2000. His first book composed in English, The Artifact, will be published by Inside the Castle in autumn of 2018. He is on Twitter @german_sierra.

		JOHN TREFRY [w] is a writer and architect. He lives in Lawrence, Kansas. Between 1995-2008 Trefry published literary zines in Atlanta and Los Angeles under the name From the Ground. His first novel, Plats, was published by Inside the Castle in 2014. His writing can be found on Entropy Magazine, Minor Literature[s], Full Stop, The Quarterly Conversation, and the Fanzine. He is on Twitter @trefryesque. Read a conversation with John Trefry on Entropy Mag.

		CANDICE WUEHLE is the author the chapbooks Vibe Check (Garden Door Press, 2017), curse words: a guide in 19 steps for aspiring transmographs (Dancing Girl Press, 2014) and EARTHAIRFIREWATERÆTHER (Grey Books Press, 2015). Candice currently resides in Lawrence, Kansas where she teaches creative writing and composition at the University of Kansas. Her full-length collection Bound will be published by Inside the Castle in August 2018. Find her at candicewuehle.com.

		KAROLINA ZAPAL is an itinerant poet, essayist, translator, and author of Polalka (Spuyten Duyvil, 2018). Her second book, Notes for Mid-birth, is forthcoming from Inside the Castle in late 2019. She is collaborating with the poet CA Conrad on translating their book, The Book of Frank, into Polish. Her work has appeared in Flock, The Manhattanville Review, Bone Bouquet, Foglifter, Witness,Bombay Gin, and others. She served as the Anselm Hollo Fellow at Naropa University from 2015-2017. She’s an editor with The Birds We Piled Loosely Press and an appointed Bridge Guard in Štúrovo, Slovakia. Born in Poland and raised in the United States, she wonders about lost cities and impenetrable borders.