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issue 90
issue 90, featuring:
COVER: stephanie ivanova
ian badcoe
julia biggs
seth crook
salvatore difalco
perry genovesi
serse luigetti
pauline mccarthy
haley noehren
darcey pollard
stephen sharp
sean tierney
COVER: stephanie ivanova
ian badcoe
julia biggs
seth crook
salvatore difalco
perry genovesi
serse luigetti
pauline mccarthy
haley noehren
darcey pollard
stephen sharp
sean tierney
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biographies - issue 90
Stephanie Ivanova
Stephanie Ivanova is a Bulgarian artist, currently studying Creative Writing at the University of Greenwich, London.
Ian Badcoe
Ian Badcoe (he/they) is a nonbinary poet from Sheffield, England. His poetry tends toward being narrative and sometimes indulges in genres, such as Sci-Fi or Noir. Topics include aspects of gender, progressive politics, science, engineering and the aforementioned Sci-Fi. His other interests include growing bonsai, walking, and gaming. He has been published in Riggwelter, En*gendered, Corporeal, Streetcake (previously), The Fig Tree, Antiphon, Snakeskin, Selcouth Station and a few other places.
Julia Biggs
Julia Biggs is a poet, writer and freelance art historian. She lives in Cambridge, UK. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Ink Sweat & Tears, Black Bough Poetry, Annie Journal, Sídhe Press, Streetcake Magazine and elsewhere. Find her on Twitter/X @Chiaroscuro1897 or via her website: https://juliabiggs1.wixsite.com/juliabiggs
Seth Crook
Seth Crook lives loves sea slugs. His poems have appeared in such places as The Rialto, Magma, Pennine Platform, Poetry Salzburg Review, Gutter. In e-zines such as Ink, Sweat and Tears and Streetcake. In recent anthologies such as Byways (Arachne), A470 (Arachne), Places of Poetry (One World). He has a pamphlet Chalked On The Path (Dreich). As "Bruach Mhor" one of his poems was recently selected as one of the Best Scottish Poems of the Year by the Scottish Poetry Library.
Salvatore Difalco
Poet and short story writer Salvatore Difalco lives in Toronto, Canada.
Perry Genovesi
Perry Genovesi lives in West Philadelphia, works as a public librarian, and serves his fellow workers in AFSCME District Council 47. He's a '24 Best Microfiction nominee, and his published fiction is forthcoming or has been featured in Bending Genres, BULL, Vol.1 Brooklyn, and collected on tiny.cc/PerryGenovesi. He hates when you shake someone’s hand & they start talking to you while continuing shaking your hand and they’re saying whatever they want since you can only focus on how long they’ve been shaking your hand. Twitter: @unionlibrarian
Serse Luigetti
Serse Luigetti studied philosophy, and was a bookseller and publisher. He has been active for 40 years in mail art, visual poetry, artists books and audio art in hundreds of exhibitions. His work can be seen in various reviews, zines, catalogues, books archives, records and websites. Among them Alfabeta, Tam Tam, Almanacco Geiger, Arte Postale!, Doc(k)s, Commonpress, and more.
Pauline Mccarthy
Pauline is a self-taught artist who discovered the joy of painting late in life. She works mainly with acrylics as she loves the easy-going nature of this medium. She adores texture and loves nothing more than plying on the paint, pushing it around and coaxing the image she wants onto her canvas. Born and bred in Middlesbrough, she counts herself lucky to have inspirational landscapes and seascapes on her doorstep.Her paintings are an expression of her sense of pleasure and pride of the North East.
Haley Noehren
Haley Noehren is a current student at Brigham Young University majoring in English and minoring in Legal Studies. She enjoys literature that takes the specific and chops it up into bite sized generalizable pieces.
Darcey Pollard
Darcey Pollard is a 21 year old student currently studying English Language and Creative Writing at the University of Salford. She’s planning to embark on an MA in September studying Creative Writing: Innovation and Experimentation. StreetCake Magazine’s ethos perfectly aligns with her views of using writing as a form of self expression, whilst being able to push and expand the boundaries of creativity.
Stephen Sharp
Stephen Sharp was diagnosed as insane for writing a story about Margaret Thatcher breaking the law during the Falklands War.
Sean Tierney
Sean Tierney is a Parks & Recreation maintenance worker in the state of Florida. His poems can be found in issues of The Curlew, Canary and Poetry South. He was a contest judge for the Poetry Society of South Carolina in 2018 and released a book of 151 poems, titled GROUND PEARLS, in 2022.
Stephanie Ivanova
Stephanie Ivanova is a Bulgarian artist, currently studying Creative Writing at the University of Greenwich, London.
Ian Badcoe
Ian Badcoe (he/they) is a nonbinary poet from Sheffield, England. His poetry tends toward being narrative and sometimes indulges in genres, such as Sci-Fi or Noir. Topics include aspects of gender, progressive politics, science, engineering and the aforementioned Sci-Fi. His other interests include growing bonsai, walking, and gaming. He has been published in Riggwelter, En*gendered, Corporeal, Streetcake (previously), The Fig Tree, Antiphon, Snakeskin, Selcouth Station and a few other places.
Julia Biggs
Julia Biggs is a poet, writer and freelance art historian. She lives in Cambridge, UK. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Ink Sweat & Tears, Black Bough Poetry, Annie Journal, Sídhe Press, Streetcake Magazine and elsewhere. Find her on Twitter/X @Chiaroscuro1897 or via her website: https://juliabiggs1.wixsite.com/juliabiggs
Seth Crook
Seth Crook lives loves sea slugs. His poems have appeared in such places as The Rialto, Magma, Pennine Platform, Poetry Salzburg Review, Gutter. In e-zines such as Ink, Sweat and Tears and Streetcake. In recent anthologies such as Byways (Arachne), A470 (Arachne), Places of Poetry (One World). He has a pamphlet Chalked On The Path (Dreich). As "Bruach Mhor" one of his poems was recently selected as one of the Best Scottish Poems of the Year by the Scottish Poetry Library.
Salvatore Difalco
Poet and short story writer Salvatore Difalco lives in Toronto, Canada.
Perry Genovesi
Perry Genovesi lives in West Philadelphia, works as a public librarian, and serves his fellow workers in AFSCME District Council 47. He's a '24 Best Microfiction nominee, and his published fiction is forthcoming or has been featured in Bending Genres, BULL, Vol.1 Brooklyn, and collected on tiny.cc/PerryGenovesi. He hates when you shake someone’s hand & they start talking to you while continuing shaking your hand and they’re saying whatever they want since you can only focus on how long they’ve been shaking your hand. Twitter: @unionlibrarian
Serse Luigetti
Serse Luigetti studied philosophy, and was a bookseller and publisher. He has been active for 40 years in mail art, visual poetry, artists books and audio art in hundreds of exhibitions. His work can be seen in various reviews, zines, catalogues, books archives, records and websites. Among them Alfabeta, Tam Tam, Almanacco Geiger, Arte Postale!, Doc(k)s, Commonpress, and more.
Pauline Mccarthy
Pauline is a self-taught artist who discovered the joy of painting late in life. She works mainly with acrylics as she loves the easy-going nature of this medium. She adores texture and loves nothing more than plying on the paint, pushing it around and coaxing the image she wants onto her canvas. Born and bred in Middlesbrough, she counts herself lucky to have inspirational landscapes and seascapes on her doorstep.Her paintings are an expression of her sense of pleasure and pride of the North East.
Haley Noehren
Haley Noehren is a current student at Brigham Young University majoring in English and minoring in Legal Studies. She enjoys literature that takes the specific and chops it up into bite sized generalizable pieces.
Darcey Pollard
Darcey Pollard is a 21 year old student currently studying English Language and Creative Writing at the University of Salford. She’s planning to embark on an MA in September studying Creative Writing: Innovation and Experimentation. StreetCake Magazine’s ethos perfectly aligns with her views of using writing as a form of self expression, whilst being able to push and expand the boundaries of creativity.
Stephen Sharp
Stephen Sharp was diagnosed as insane for writing a story about Margaret Thatcher breaking the law during the Falklands War.
Sean Tierney
Sean Tierney is a Parks & Recreation maintenance worker in the state of Florida. His poems can be found in issues of The Curlew, Canary and Poetry South. He was a contest judge for the Poetry Society of South Carolina in 2018 and released a book of 151 poems, titled GROUND PEARLS, in 2022.