Sputnik & Fizzle in partnership with ATLAS Projectos is pleased to announce its 2020 poetry chapbook series. We are honored and beyond thrilled to publish the following manuscripts:
Tonya M. Foster, A History of the Bitch (AHOTB)
Mina Khan, MON (monuments monarchs & monsters)
Jennifer MacBain-Stephens, Teeth Have a Hardness Scale of 5
Emmalea Russo, Great Mineral Silence
Zhou Sivan, The Geometry of Trees
Tonya M. Foster is the author of A Swarm of Bees in High Court, and the bilingual chapbook La Grammaire des Os; the chapbook A History of the Bitch (Sputnik and Fizzle, 2020); and co-editor of Third Mind: Creative Writing through Visual Art. Her writing and research focus on ideas of place and emplacement, and on intersections between the visual and the written. She is an editor at Fence Magazine, and at The African-American Review. Her poetry, prose, and essays have appeared or are forthcoming in Callaloo, Tripwire, boundary2, MiPOESIAS, NYFA Arts Quarterly, the Poetry Project Newsletter, and elsewhere. Dr. Foster is a recipient of awards and fellowships from the Ford and the Mellon Foundations, from New York Foundation for the Arts; and has been an Artist-in-Residence at the Headlands Center for the Arts and at the Macdowell colony. Her next collections are a double-sided cross-genre collection on New Orleans—A Mathematics of Chaos :: Thingification (forthcoming from Ugly Presse 2021); and Monkey Talk, a cross-genre series about race, paranoia, aesthetics, and surveillance, the development of which is supported by a 2020 grant from the Creative Capital Foundation. She was raised in New Orleans, and her family goes way back in Louisiana.
Mina Khan’s writing delves into anger as an act of protest, mourning, and collective healing. A queer Korean-Pakistani first-generation American, they write into patterns of grief and subjugation. Mina’s work nests between nations, generations. They are the recipient of the Olin Fellowship and the Reed Prize, and have been published in several journals, such as Lammergeier, Five:2:One and decomP magazinE. They recently completed their BA at Wesleyan University and are now an MFA Candidate at Columbia University.
Jennifer MacBain-Stephens lives in the Midwest and is the author of four full length poetry collections: Your Best Asset is a White Lace Dress, (Yellow Chair Press, 2016), The Messenger is Already Dead, (Stalking Horse Press, 2017,) We’re Going to Need a Higher Fence, tied for first place in the 2017 Lit Fest Book Competition, and The Vitamix and the Murder of Crows, is recently out from Apocalypse Party. Work has been nominated for Best of the Net and the Pushcart Prize. Recent work can be seen at or is forthcoming from The Pinch, Black Lawrence Press, Quiddity, Prelude, Cleaver, Yalobusha Review, Zone 3, and Grist. More here
Emmalea Russo is an artist, writer, and astrologer. Her interdisciplinary work focuses on intersections of poetry, media, and cosmology. Her books are G (2018) and Wave Archive (2019). Her essays, reviews, and poetry have appeared in Artforum, American Chordata, BOMB, The Brooklyn Rail, Bust, Cosmopolitan, Granta, Gulf Coast, Hyperallergic, Los Angeles Review of Books, SF MOMA’s Open Space, and elsewhere. She lives at the Jersey shore. More here.
Zhou Sivan (pen name of Nic Wong) is author of three chapbooks, Zero Copula (Delete Press, 2015), Sea Hypocrisy (co-published by DoubleCross Press and Projective Industries, 2016), and The Geometry of Trees (forthcoming from Sputnik & Fizzle, 2020). His poems and review essays have appeared in Almost Island, Asian American Writers’ Workshop, Asymptote, Chicago Review, Counter, Full Stop Quarterly, Kisah Journal, and Lana Turner. From Malaysia, he has lived and worked in Singapore, the U.S. (Chicago and New York), and now is based in Hong Kong as a postdoctoral fellow at the Society of Fellows in the Humanities at the University of Hong Kong.