Check out the above/ground press ZOOM launch we’re doing on Wednesday, May 28, 7pm EDT, with myself reading alongside:
Orchid Tierney (OH)
Meredith Quartermain (BC)
Brook Houglum (BC)
Sandra Doller (NY)
and
Tom Jenks (UK)
, all of whom have recent above/ground press titles. Join via the link, here.Author biographies:
Orchid Tierney is a poet and scholar from Aotearoa New Zealand. Her collections include this abattoir is a college (Calamari Archive, 2025) and
a year of misreading the wildcats (The Operating System 2019). She is the author of several chapbooks including
looking at the Tiny: Mad lichen on the surfaces of reading (Essay Press, 2023),
my beatrice (Ottawa: above/ground, 2020),
ocean plastic (BlazeVOX, 2019), and
blue doors (Belladonna* Press, 2018). Tierney is the coeditor of
The Routledge Companion to Ecopoetics, and her scholarship has appeared in
SubStance,
Jacket2,
The Cambridge Companion to Australian Poetry,
Teaching the Literature of Climate Change, and
The Cambridge Companion to American Poetry and Politics Since 1900. She is a senior editor at
The Kenyon Review.
She is launching her second above/ground press title, pedagogies for the planthroposcene (May 2025), following my beatrice (2020)Brook Houglum published the chapbook
Anthronoise with above/ground press in 2024. She teaches at Capilano University and lives in Vancouver, British Columbia on unceded Skwxwú7mesh, xʷməθkʷəy̓əm, and səl̓ílwətaʔɬ lands.
She is launching her second above/ground press title, INVENTORY (April 2025)Meredith Quartermain’s most recent book is
Lullabies in the Real World (shortlisted for an Alberta Book Publishers’ award).
Vancouver Walking won a BC Book Award for Poetry, and
Nightmarker was a finalist for a Vancouver Book Award. She is also the author of two novels and two books of short fiction:
Recipes from the Red Planet (BC fiction award finalist) and
I, Bartleby. From 2014-2016, she served as Poetry Mentor in the SFU Writer’s Studio program. Her work has appeared in
The Malahat Review,
Prism International,
The Dalhousie Review,
Event Magazine,
The Capilano Review,
Golden Handcuffs Review, and many other magazines.
She is launching Things Musing (April 2025), her fourth publication but first chapbook through above/ground press, following the broadsides “December 4” (#168, April 2003) and “Geography” (#225, 2005), and “Highway 99,” produced as issue #35 of
STANZAS magazine (October 2003)
Tom Jenks is a writer and text artist living in Manchester, UK. His books include
The Philosopher (Sublunary Editions),
Melamine (The Red Ceilings Press) and
Pack My Box with Five Dozen Liquor Jugs (Penteract Press), a pangrammatical novel with Catherine Vidler. He edits the small press zimzalla, specialising in literary objects. More at
https://tomjenks.uk/He is launching his above/ground press debut, Chimneys (May 2025)Sandra Doller is the author of several books of poetry, prose, translation, and the in-between from the most valiant and precarious small presses—Les Figues, Ahsahta, Subito, and Sidebrow Books. Her newest book,
Not Now Now, is forthcoming from Rescue Press. Doller is the founder of an international literary arts journal and independent press,
1913 a journal of forms/1913 Press, where she remains éditrice-in-chief, publishing poetry, poetics, prose, and all else by emerging and established writers. She lives in the USA, for now.
She is launching her above/ground press debut, I’ll try this hour (March 2025)
