JEROME BROWN lives in Manhattan. He moved here in 1984 when he was 18, having grown up in Mount Vernon, New York under foster care with one family. In 2016 at the age of 51 he attended BMCC beginning in Liberal Arts and graduated with associates in 2018 with major in creative writing. In 2020 he earned his BA in creative writing from Brooklyn College.
RONNA DRAGON is a singer songwriter from Los Angeles. Born on Hollywood Boulevard, she grew up in a sleepy company town where the business just happened to be show business. Her first job was as Sarah Jessica Parker’s body double on the TV series Square Pegs. Drawn more to the “art dogs,” the folks building sets and making costumes, she often wandered off between takes—by “wander off” we mean smoking pot and generally fooling around. That behavior did not lead to being asked back. Thereafter, she followed a colorful path. Once at a pool party Whoopi Goldberg told her, “The boys are going to hate me for telling you this, but your ass is hanging out.” And so it went. She has had a couple of stories published and songs sung and recorded. A half century later, she lives and writes in North Carolina where she is truly living happily ever after.
JENINE HOLMES is an advertising Creative Director and copywriter who has worked with Fortune 500 brands including Pepsi, Jaguar, McDonald’s, State Farm, The NBA on TNT, and more. Her experience has led her to win awards and work for two legendary creatives: the design visionary Milton Glazer and filmmaker and social iconoclast Spike Lee. Her byline has appeared in The New York Times, The Detroit News, Forbes, Creative Non-Fiction Magazine, and more. She has an essay in an anthology on Toxic Workplaces to be published in 2025. Jenine holds an MFA from the Naslund-Mann Graduate School of Writing at Spalding University, and serves as an adjunct professor at University of Texas -NY on the social intersectionality of advertising, marketing, and PR. She lives in Manhattan with her daughter, and a terrier-schnauzer. Jenine is working on a memoir.
SUCHITA SENTHIL KUMAR is a poet from Bengaluru, India and the editor of Zhagaram Literary Magazine. Her work has been published or is forthcoming in Aster Lit, Honey Literary, and Corvid Queen among others. She makes life decisions asking herself one question: Will Sirius Black be proud? She’s on Instagram as @suchita.senthilkumar and tweets as @suchita_senthil.
F. C. MALBY writes novels, short stories and poetry. Her debut novel, Take Me To The Castle won The People’s Book Awards. She is a contributor to four print anthologies and her second collection of short stories, A Place of Unfinished Sentences, includes stories published in anthologies with Litro, Unthank Books, Reflex Press and Pens of the Earth. Malby’s poetry has appeared in various journals, magazines and podcasts. She is a reader for writing competitions in literary journals, and her stories have been widely published both online and in print. Find her at fcmalby.com.
SAMANTHA NGAI is a writer, journalist, and aspiring architectural designer based in New York City. As a recent graduate of New York University, she has contributed to various student-run publications including NYU Baedeker, Generasian, and Cooper Squared. Outside the university, her work has appeared in several publications including the Penobscot Bay Press’s three weekly newspapers: The Weekly Packet, Island Ad-Vantages, and Castine Patriot, and the quarterly online journal Unbroken.
MICHAEL KEVIN McMAHON is a retired consultant who worked with learning in highly distributed social-technical systems. He had a special interest in learning and creativity in teams developing complex engineered products. Now that he is retired, he lives in the Finger Lakes region of central New York and is learning to write fiction. He has a dog named Cooper and a bear who visits his back yard. He enjoys Vipassana meditation and barking at squirrels with his dog.
TOBIAS MEINECKE is an award-winning film director and founder of the creative media company Love Child. He is one of twelve great-grandchildren of early 20th century Berlin publishing legend Hermann Klemm. Along with Eric Darton, he is the author of a semi-ficionalized account of Klemm’s life and times, the opening section of which appears in this issue. In his youth he published Comic Art, a critical magazine dedicated to the emergence of the graphic novel. Currently, in addition to numerous film and television projects, Meinecke is working on his first collection of short fiction.
ROBERTA SCHULTZ is a singer songwriter and poet from Wilder, Kentucky. Schultz is the author of four chapbooks and two full-length poetry collections, most recently Deep Ends (Finishing Line Press). She performs regionally with the critically acclaimed Raison D’Etre, a women’s harmony trio specializing in swing harmonies, cowboy anthems, and American music. As a solo performer, Roberta is included on arts rosters in both Kentucky and Ohio. She is a trained HealthRhythms facilitator with over 15 years’ experience leading wellness drum circles for seniors, veterans, recovery treatment centers, and schools. She is co-founder of the Poet & Song House Concert Series with her Raison D’Etre trio mates.
AGNES SIODA is a Berlin-based painter, story-teller, art-teacher and costume-designer. She was born 1965 in a little town of East Germany, raised to become a flaming communist and began her art studies in Berlin the year the wall came down. She has traveled the world, was sometimes dirt-poor and sometimes quite rich; lived and exhibited her work in Berlin, Paris and New York. She got deeply inspired by Buddhism and believes in the revolutionary forces of poetry and art, their potential to connect and heal, to really make a change. Sioda recently wrote and illustrated a childrens’ book, Senta und der feuerrote Drache (Senta and the Ferocious Dragon), see Cable Street NEWS.
IAN C. SMITH has published in twenty-three countries, one more than he has visited, appearing in, Antipodes, Australian Book Review, Australian Poetry Journal, Critical Survey, Prole, Rundelania, Stand, The Stony Thursday Book, TwoThirds North, and Westerly, among many other journals. His most recent of seven books is wonder sadness madness joy, Ginninderra (Port Adelaide). He writes, and also counts things obsessively, in the Gippsland Lakes area of Victoria, and on Flinders Island, Tasmania.
DAVID “IRISH” “SULLY” SULLIVAN was born in New York’s Greenwich Village in 1951. Over the course of his life, Sully’s vocations, occupations and identities included historian, tactician, steelworker, labor organizer, builder, welder, husband and father. Beginning at age 17, he was arrested numerous times for his anti-Vietnam war and civil rights activities. An avid hiker and traveler, Sully had a particular love of the Austrian Tyrol. He died unexpectedly in 2009 while working on Troublemaker, a memoir of growing up, and staying, radical.
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ERIC DARTON’s novel Free City, was recently re-released by Dalkey Archive Press. He is also the author of the New York Times bestselling cultural history Divided We Stand: A Biography of The World Trade Center (Basic Books, 1999, 2011). Other of his writings may be found at bookoftheworldcourant.net, ericdarton.net, and tupeloquarterly.com as well as in numerous journals and several anthologies. Darton is a partner in Love Child, a Berlin-based content developer for film, television, print and online media. He teaches writing, and urban studies at NYU and the Harry van Arsdale School of Labor Studies (SUNY), and leads Writing at the Crossroads, an ongoing interdisciplinary prose workshop. Darton is an Internal Arts International-certified instructor in foundational Ba Gua Zhang.
DANA DELIBOVI is a poet, essayist, and translator. Her new book of translations and essays—Sweet Hunter: The Complete Poems of St. Teresa of Ávila—was published by Monkfish Book Publishing in 2024. Her work has appeared in After the Art, Apple Valley Review, Lothlorien, Moria, Noon: The Journal of the Short Poem, Psaltery & Lyre, Salamander, Spinozablue, and many other journals. She is a 2020 Pushcart Prize nominee, a 2020 Best American Essays notable essayist. Delibovi’s poems traveled the St. Louis Metro as part of the Poetry in Motion Series sponsored by the Poetry Society of America. She posts at Bluesky, LinkedIn, and https://sweethunter.org/.
HARDY GRIFFIN is a writer and translator whose novel, Broken Kismet won the Eyelands Book Awards grand prize and has been published in Greek from Strange Days Press. He has published writing in Fresh.ink, New Flash Fiction, Alimentum, Assisi, The Washington Post, American Letters & Commentary, and a chapter in The Gotham Guide to Writing Fiction (Bloomsbury). His translations can be found in Words Without Borders, The Istanbul Biennial, and for the award-winning EU-sponsored study Ermeniler, which documents the lives of Armenians living in contemporary Turkey.
BRONWYN MILLS is the author of Beastly’s Tale (a novel) and Night of the Luna Moths (poetry); her education, an MFA from UMass, Amherst, a Ph.D. from NYU. Mentored by James Tate, Samuel Delany, Kamau Brathwaite, and Ngugi wa Thiong’o she was an Anais Nin Fellow and Fulbright Fellow (La République du Bénin, West Africa) she has lived in Paris, France, New York City, Istanbul, Turkey; Cotonou, Bénin, and Latin America and taught Caribbean literature, African literature, and writing in Istanbul, Bénin, and just outside New York City. Formerly a dance and theatre writer in New England, Bronwyn is a founding co-editor for Cable Street and a Senior Prose Editor for Tupelo Quarterly. Guest-editor for the Turkish issue of Absinthe; New European Writing (#19), her current projects include By the Spoonmaker’s Tomb, a collection of vignettes from her time in Istanbul and the newly finished Canary Club, a novel set in medieval Spain. Most recently, Agni Online has published an excerpt from Spoonmaker. She has also published work on African vodou. More of her work can be found at bronwynmills.org/. Bronwyn now lives and writes in a tiny mountain village far, far away.
JAN SCHMIDT is a writer living in New York City. Her short story “Returns Department” was published in Calyx recent issue, Vol 34 no. 3. “Pandora” was a Solstice Fiction Prize finalist and published in their 2023 summer issue. Litro Magazine published “EX-TING-GWISH-ER” online November 9, 2023. Other fiction writing appeared in Anti-Heroin Chic, The Wall, Tupelo Quarterly, The Long Story, IKON and New York Stories. Her short story collection “Everything I Need” was a finalist for the Eludia Award, Hidden River Arts, 2019. Her unpublished novel “Sunlight Underground” was a finalist for the Novel Slices Award, 2021. Till 2015, she held the position of Curator of the Jerome Robbins Dance Division of The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center. Some of her published writing can be seen on her website http://contactprod.com/janschmidt/
† CHRISTOPHER SAWYER-LAUÇANNO, whose memoir, Becoming, was serialized in these pages, authored more than two dozen books including biographies of Paul Bowles, E.E. Cummings, and The Continual Pilgrimage, a group portrait of American writers in Paris 1944-1960. For Cable Street, he translated Salvador Dalí’s prose poem, “San Sebastien,” and several other works. His book translations include work by Paul Eluard, Rafael Alberti, Panaït Istrati, García Lorca, Isidore Ducasse (Comte de Lautreamont as well as the Mayan Books of Chilam Balam. His work was featured in the inaugural issue of Wet Cement Magazine: www.wetcementpress.com/wcpmag. Night Suite, his most recent book of poems, was published by Talisman House. Other books include, Dix méditations sur quelques mots d’Antonin Artaud, translated by Patricia Pruitt (Paris: Alyscamps, 2018), Remission (Talisman House, 2016), and Mussoorie-Montague Miscellany (Talisman House, 2014). He wrote librettos for Thomas Adès (America: A Prophecy Part I), Faber Music/Warner Classics CD, 2011, and for Andrey Kasparaov (Lorca: An Operatic Cycle in Five Acts. Alyscamps, 2022). Until his retirement, Sawyer-Lauçanno taught writing at MIT for over a quarter-century. Many of his books may be found on Amazon and Bookshop.org.
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