A cappella Zoo (ISSN: 1945-7480) is a web & print journal of magic realist & slipstream writing from around the world. We're interested in exploring perspective, reality, and genre, whether to challenge the intellect or just to play, but always to interact within the on-going universal discussion on humanity.

A cappella Zoo began in Pocatello, Idaho, but we are currently a diverse group of editorial board members collaborating from various locations across the US, UK, and Canada. 

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WHO ARE WE?

Founding Editor:

COLIN MELDRUM works in the ESL field. He holds a BA in creative writing from Idaho State, where he read on the editorial board of Black Rock & Sage and won the 2007 Agnus Just Reid award for creative writing. He presented a paper on Hispanic science fiction and mythology at the 2008 International Conference for the Fantastic in the Arts. His work appears in Underground Voices, Sideshow Fables, Collective Fallout, and others. Some of his favorite stories are Katherine Dunn's Geek Love and Daniel Quinn's Ishmael.

Assistant Editors:

AMANDA DiSANTO is pursuing her MA in creative fiction at Rhode Island College and also studies print design at the Rhode Island School of Design.  She is currently working on a collection of short fiction that explores myths of childhood and art.  In the spirit of that work, she still climbs trees and sings in the rain.  She hopes you do too.

MICAH UNICE is an aspiring novelist who lives for literature, film, visual art, and any form of pathos, and he has won a handful of creative writing contests. One of his favorite books is Alice Sebold's The Lovely Bones.

Readers:

ZACH BUSCHER teaches at Quinsigamond Community College in Worcester, MA.  He recently received his MFA in Poetry from the University of Arizona, where he was a Beverly Rogers Fellow and Poetry Editor for Sonora Review.  His own writing has appeared in a variety of online forums, including 42opus, SHAMPOO, 580 Split, Otoliths, tinfoildresses, Wheelhouse Magazine, Sawbuck, Juked, and Spooky Boyfriend. 

RHIAN WALLER appeared in Issue 2 of A cappella Zoo with her poem "The Uncanny" before she joined the editorial board as a reader. She is a young PhD student living in Wales. She has around fifty works in print, some prose, some poetry and some non-fiction. She likes her reading material to explore the improbable and come close to the impossible.

ROLLI writes – and draws a little – for adults (The New Quarterly, Quarterly West, Labletter, subTerrain, and Issue 1 of A cappella Zoo before joining the editorial board as a reader) and children (Ladybug, Spider, Highlights for Children, knowonder!).  Look for his debut poetry collections – Plum Stuff and Mavor’s Bones – in the spring and fall of 2010 (or order Mavor's Bones on the spot, via the Espresso Book Machine).  Why not visit his website - or better yet, follow him on Twitter?

GAIL SPENCER is a freelance writer who workshopped with Colin for over a year.  Magic realism was a complete oddity for her until she read Colin's work and became a believer. She's a bit of a world traveler with interests in theatre, art and music. She just designed costumes for a run of The Art of Murder at Pocatello's Westside Players and did a bit of surrealist painting for the set as well. Her writing is mostly memoir and humor. A real southern belle, she is transplanted in Idaho with husband, Dale, and would love to cook for y'all.

Emeritus Readers:

JACEK LERYCH (Mandarin), MEIRON CRAMER (Hebrew), VILIS KASIMS (Latvian)