Our In-House Readers

Kate Conover

Kate can read without the help of Hooked on Phonics. She's read for Soundzine for several past issues. She hates writing bios, but occasionally refers to herself in the third person in daily life, just for the hell of it. She has created and maintains to a lesser degree several pseudonyms, which are all variations on a theme. She lives in New York and writes - infrequently - about places which are not New York.

Kirsty Logan

Kirsty Logan lives in Glasgow with her girlfriend and the rain. Her writing is in print or upcoming in Polluto, Word Riot, Pank, Neon, Salome, Moondance and others. She can be found at kirstylogan.com

Jonathan Lu

Jonathan Lu is currently a pharmacy student, musician, and

part-time flaneur, who resides in Toronto, Canada

Taylor Mali

Taylor Mali studied with members of the Royal Shakespeare Company at Oxford University and put those skills to good use doing voiceovers for Burger King and The Partnership for a Drug Free America. He is the curator of the Page Meets Stage series at the Bowery Poetry Club in New York City where he lives with his wife, the poet Marie-Elizabeth Mali.

Carla Martin-Wood

By day, Carla Martin-Wood sells her soul as Copy Director of a large advertising agency. By night, she redeems it with her poetry. Carla’s newest chapbook, Garden of Regret, is available from Pudding House Publications, and another chapbook, Redheaded Stepchild, is forthcoming from Pudding House.

She will have poems included in two anthologies, Love Poems & Other Messages for Bruce Springsteen and Casting the Nines, both due for release in September from Pudding House.

A recent Pushcart Prize nominee, her poems have appeared in the US and Ireland in Rosebud, The Clapboard House, The Linnet’s Wings, Oak Bend Review, Flutter, The Lyric, Mississippi Crow, State Street Review, Elk River Review, and many other journals.

Carla is a strong advocate of spoken word, who has performed her work from The University of the South at Sewanee to Greenwich Village, and at many galleries, colleges, civic organizations and coffeehouses in between. She maintains a virtual open mic at Smoky Joe’s Café on her website at The Well-ReadHead: www.thewellreadhead.com

Sinéad McClure

Sinéad McClure lives in the Northwest of Ireland with her partner Jho, her border collies Aja and Gaucho and an extended family of ducks and donkeys. She is a radio producer, editor, sound engineer and scriptwriter, and co founder of All Points West Radio Productions with her partner Jho Harris.

Although most of her writing tends to be struggling with advertising copy, in 2008 Sinéad was commissioned to write a children’s serial for her local radio station – The Remarkable Adventures of Spike the Hedgehog has since been broadcast on the national radio service in Ireland and a second series Spike the Hedgehog and The Magical Pocket of Time will air in late September 2010 on RTE Junior Digital Radio.

Sinead and Jho have also recently developed an Irish Literature and Culture podcast site at www.podcasts.ie

James O'Dwyer

James O'Dwyer is a particularly pervasive mass hallucination, dreamt up by the collective fetishes of some very strange people. When he isn't fading in and out of the world like a deranged Cheshire cat, he spends time developing his evolution as an illusory poetic dilettante. He has been known to read things for Soundzine. Worse, he has been known to try and sing whilst feigning inebriation. To date, no known banishment has worked to rid the world of this pest. Not even a 4wd.

Christine Potter

Christine Potter has been head moderator at the poetry and creative prose forum The Gazebo (www.alsopreview.com) since dinosaurs walked the earth. Her first collection of poems, Zero Degrees At First Light, was released by David Robert Books in 2006, and she is published widely on the 'net and off in small magazines like Stirring, The Pedestal, Barnwood, Mimesis, and most recently The Shit Creek Review. Christine's voice can be heard daily on Randoradio.com, where she DJ's an old-fashioned freeform FM-style show called Cocktails with Chris. Hear her broadcasting live on Friday afternoons at 4PM, New York time. Christine, her spoiled and incredibly large cats Desmond and Molly Jones, and her organist/choirmaster husband Ken live in a very old house on a creek.

Zachary W. Roberts

Zachary Roberts is a young writer from the Pacific Northwest. He was first published in Soundzine and is also a staff reader for the publication.

Nic Sebastian

Nic Sebastian hails from Arlington, Virginia. She has two sons and travels widely. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Valparaiso Poetry Review, Lily, Autumn Sky Poetry, Mannequin Envy, Poems Niederngasse, Avatar Review, Anti- and elsewhere. Nic blogs at Very Like A Whale.

Salli Shepherd

Salli Shepherd lives in Melbourne, Australia with her precocious daughter, a dictatorial cat and an agoraphobic Kelpie. Her poetry has appeared in Magma, Mimesis, Chimaera and other journals, and she is currently working on a chapbook manuscript. One of her goals is to encourage people to listen to, read and enjoy poetry as a vital form of linguistic art. She is also afraid of pumpkins, particularly the blue ones.

Paul Stevens

Paul Christian Stevens was born in Yorkshire, England but lives in Australia. He has an Honours degree in Early English Language and Literature, and is a teacher by profession. He has published poems and prose in print and pixel, most recently or imminently in The Barefoot Muse, Shakespeare's Monkey Revue, The Literary Bohemian, The HyperTexts, Umbrella, Lucid Rhythms, Ourobouros Review, Innisfree, Snakeskin, The Raintown Review, Language and Culture, Not Just Air and Goblin Fruit. He edits The Chimaera literary miscellany, The Flea metaphysicalzine, and serves as a selection panelist for the online sonnet magazine 14by14.