A journal of art and literature published by the University of West Florida
Jane Tardo is a sculptor, fiber and mixed media artist born and based in New Orleans. Experimenting with many visual and physical techniques, their practice is surreal, wacky and diverse, incorporating imaginative sculptures, textile art, and technologies in both two-dimensional and three-dimensional works.
Nicole Salimbene (b. Trinidad, CO) is a Washington, D.C. based artist working at the intersection of poetics, psychology, environmentalism and contemplative practice. Environmental, spiritual, and political issues from her background circulate in the conceptual and material choices within her work.
Jo Ann Block is a Los Angeles, CAbased mixed media artist investigating queer history, sexuality, and identity as they are inscribed within historical and contemporary culture.
John Alleyne is an Assistant Professor of Art at Southern University and A & M College, and Program Leader of the Visual Arts program. He currently lives and works in New Orleans, LA and Brooklyn, NY.
Rin Kelly’s stories have appeared in The Kenyon Review among other journals. She studied at the New School and was a fellow at the Stabile Center at Columbia School of Journalism. A scholarship in her name has been established at The San Francisco Writers Grotto.
The editors of Panhandler Magazine are excited to feature this new interview with Panhandler Magazine’s managing editor, Kimiko Lumsden, and Jason Ockert on his new story collection, Shadowselves, out this month from Dzanc Books.
Forthcoming May 3, 2022 from Panhandler Books, Spectacle by Lauren Goodwin Slaughter is now available for pre-order!
Stacey Holloway received her MFA from the University of Minnesota in 2009. She currently serves as the Associate Professor of Sculpture at the University of Alabama at Birmingham.
Michael Robert Pollard was born in Queens NY in 1970, raised in NYC, Tucson, Arizona and the San Francisco Bay Area. Pollard’s work has been shown across the United States, partnering with Gallery Side Car, Ignition Projects, Free Range, Center for Contemporary Arts, Sacramento, and many others.
American artist Suzanne Williamson grew up in the Northeast, exploring the woods with her mother’s camera. She makes photographs and installations focusing on history, place, and memory. Working primarily in the landscape, she creates works that illuminate the layers of beauty and pain embedded in places over time.
Panhandler Books author, Lauren Goodwin Slaughter, speaks with managing editor Ashlea Hernandez in anticipation of Lauren’s forthcoming collection, Spectacle, to be published by Panhandler Books in Spring 2022.
Congratulations to Panhandler Books author Lauren Goodwin Slaughter on being named a 2021 NEA Fellow in Poetry! Lauren’s new collection, Spectacle, is forthcoming from Panhandler Books in Spring 2022.
Jeff Fearnside’s poetry has appeared in numerous literary journals and anthologies, including The Paris Review and Los Angeles Review. He teaches writing and literature at Oregon State University.
With a career spanning over thirty-five years, John Slade has created political cartoons for the old Spectator News Journal, the Louisiana Weekly, the New Orleans Tribune, and has been featured in USA Today.
Jenny Molberg is the author, most recently, Refusal (LSU Press, 2020). She is Associate Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Central Missouri, where she directs Pleiades Press and co-edits Pleiades magazine.
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