Chelsea Martin's novel Tell Me I'm An Artist is out now from Soft Skull Press. She is the author of the essay collection Caca Dolce and the novella Mickey, among other books. She lives in Spokane, Washington, with her husband and child. Find out more at www.cacadolce.com

Thank you to Theo Teravainen for the intro music.

Grant Young (he/him) is a 25-year-old writer based in San Francisco. He is an MFA candidate at the University of San Francisco, where he also graduated with a Bachelor’s Degree in Marketing and played on the baseball team for five years.

He is currently revising an essay collection on his time playing Division-1 baseball at USF, that captures the wide range of experiences that arise within a collegiate men’s sports locker room.

His published work has appeared in HAD, JAKE, Idle Ink, and The Twin Bill.

Grant is also the Founding Editor of Clinch, a literary magazine for the martial arts. He trains Muay Thai in his spare time and watches an alarming amount of UFC.

For more about grant, head over to grant-young.com

To support the podcast and hear select episodes a week early, head over to patreon.com/leftthehose

Thank you to Theo Teravainen for the intro music. 

Gabriel Blackwell is the author of seven books, the most recent of which are Doom Town (Zerogram Press, 2022) and CORRECTION

gabrielblackwell.com

therupturemag.com

Thank you to Theo Teravainen for the intro music. 

Jesi Bender is an artist from Upstate New York.  She is the author of the forthcoming chapbook Dangerous Women (dancing girl press 2022), the play Kinderkrankenhaus (Sagging Meniscus 2021), and the novel The Book of the Last Word (Whiskey Tit 2019).  Her shorter work has appeared in Fence, Vol. 1 Brooklyn, and Split Lip, among others - www.jesibender.com.  In her spare time, she helms KERNPUNKT Press, a home for experimental writing.

Read the story Jesi and I discuss here

Read an excerpt of Jesi's play here.

Thank you to Theo Teravainen for the intro music. 

Ryan Schulte and I sat down to discuss A History of Violence (2005) dir. by David Cronenberg. 

Ryan Schulte is a graduate of Macaulay Honors College @ CUNY Hunter College. His first nonfiction chapbook, 'Notes on Water and Blood,' was published by Greying Ghost Press in 2020. His fiction has appeared in Hello America Stereo Cassette's Summer and Autumn Mixtapes, and is forthcoming in EOAGH. He is currently at work on a collection of short stories, working as a farmer, and splitting his time between New York and Europe.

If you like the show, consider giving it a rating on Apple Podcasts. 

Marcus Pactor’s latest book is Begat Who Begat Who Begat, published Astrophil Press. His first book, Vs. Death Noises, won the 2011 Subito Press Prize for Fiction. His story, “Megaberry Crunch” was selected for Best Small Fictions 2021. His work has most recently appeared in 3:AM Magazine, Juked, and Harsh. He lives and works in Jacksonville, Florida.

Thank you to Theo Teravainen for the outro music. 

Claire Hopple is the author of four books. Her fiction has appeared in Hobart, Vol. 1 Brooklyn, New World Writing, and others. More at clairehopple.com.

If you're writing cool, strange, different literature, if you're publishing online, if you'd like more readers or if you know someone doing any of those things, send me some writing at [email protected]

Thank you to Theo Teravainen for the intro music.

For the first episode in my horror film series, M.C. Smith and I sat down to discuss a mutual favorite: Scream (1996) dir. by Wes Craven. 

M.C. Smith lives in Mississippi with her three-legged cat, Barry Hannah. Her work has appeared in Twin Pies Lit, HAD, and Autofocus Lit. You can find her on Twitter at @mistressofcrass, where she rants waxes poetic about SVU and all the weird things men have said to her in bed.

This will be an ongoing series of episodes involving discussions with writers about the horror films that influenced them. 

Publisher and Editor-in-Chief of Heavy Feather Review (heavyfeatherreview.org), Jason Teal is the author of We Were Called Specimens (KERNPUNKT Press, 2020), which was a finalist for Big Other’s Reader’s Choice and Best Fiction Book Awards. Amy Hempel selected his story “Inedible Human Food” as second-place winner of the Mikrokosmos 2020 Fiction Contest. Other writing appears in 3:AM Magazine, Quarterly West, SmokeLong Quarterly, Vol. 1 Brooklyn, and Hobart, among other publications.

If you're writing cool, strange, different literature, if you're publishing online, if you'd like more readers or if you know someone doing any of those things, send me some writing at [email protected]

Thank you to Theo Teravainen for the intro music.