A cappella Zoo (ISSN: 1945-7480) is a print journal & ezine of magical realist & experimental writing from around the world. We're interested in shaking up traditional ideas and assumptions about truth and art, whether to challenge our intellects or just to play, but always to contribute to the on-going universal discussion on humanity.
A cappella Zoo was conceived in Pocatello, Idaho, but we are currently a diverse group of editorial board members collaborating from various locations.
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WHO ARE WE?
Founding Editor:
COLIN MELDRUM holds a BA in creative writing from Idaho State, where he was on the editorial staff 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 credits include a story in Underground Voices that was later selected for Crossing Chaos Enigmatic Ink's quantum genre anthology (April 2010), a magical realist story in Sideshow Fables, and others. Colin works in the ESL field. A favorite novel of his is Katherine Dunn's Geek Love.
Assistant Editors:
MICHAEL JAMES WILSON is studying communications: public relations and French at Brigham Young University. He has written for the university's award-winning newspaper, The Daily Universe, is a contributing writer for the Public Relations Student Society of America's (PRSSA) national newspaper, FORUM, and served as editor-in-chief of the BYU Department of Communications Annual Alumni and Friends Magazine in 2008. Beyond his love of reading and writing, Michael has an ever-growing passion for public relations and he currently serves as National Vice President of Internships and Job Services for PRSSA.
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 as a reader. She is a twenty-four year old 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 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. Magical realism was a complete oddity until reading Colin's work and she became a believer. A bit of a world traveler who has 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 surrealistic painting for the set as well. Writing is mostly non-fiction humor. A real southern belle, she is transplanted in Idaho with husband, Dale, and would love to cook for y'all. She is happy to be on board as a reader, and has some experience in editing as well.
GWENDOLYN JAMES teaches writing and literature at Columbia Basin College. She wishes all students liked poetry as much as she does. She doesn't see the Poets' Revolution coming any time soon, but when it does...
Emeritus Readers:
JANET McCLASKEY, DEVORI KIMBRO, SYNDIE ALLEN, BRANDON IBARRA, MICHAEL LEE, CAROL DORF
Language Consultants:
JACEK LERYCH (Mandarin), MEIRON CRAMER (Hebrew), VILIS KASIMS (Latvian)
