A journal of art and literature published by the University of West Florida
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.
Ben Duax is a conceptual painter based out of Glasgow, UK. The central question energizing his work is if physical objects can represent the rapid streams of information that increasingly replace offline social interactions.
The editors of Panhandler Magazine and Panhandler Books are thrilled to announce that Panhandler Books will publish Lauren Slaughter’s poetry collection, Spectacle, in Spring 2022!
David James Poissant teaches at the University of Central Florida and lives in Orlando with his wife and daughters. Lake Life is his first novel.
Charlotte Pence is the director of the Stokes Center for Creative Writing at University of South Alabama. Her new book, Code, is forthcoming in June 2020.
Karen David is a London-based artist, curator and lecturer. In 2018 she was awarded a studentship for a practice-led PhD with a studio focus on mythmaking, fictional narrative, communes and para-anthropology.
Lauren Slaughter is an assistant professor of English at The University of Alabama at Birmingham where she is also Editor-in-Chief of NELLE, a literary journal that publishes writing by women.
Joshua Brinlee is an interdisciplinary visual artist and educator. He is Assistant Professor Foundations Coordinator in the Art and Art History Department at The University of Mississippi.
Born in London and based between Europe and the United States, transdisciplinary artist K. Yoland firmly situates their research in highlighting and challenging inequality and oppression.
