Strange Tales from Cherokee Street

Daniel W. Wright is an award-nominated poet and fiction writer. He most recently wrote the foreword for Sacred Decay: The Art of Lauren Marx (Dark Horse, 2021). He is the author of eight collections of poetry, including Love Letters from the Underground (Spartan Press, 2021), Rodeo of the Soul (Spartan Press, 2019), and Murder City Special (Bad Jacket, 2017). His work has appeared in print journals such as The Literary Parrot, BUK100, 365 Days, and Gasconade Review, as well as online journals such as Book of Matches. He currently resides in St. Louis, MO, where you can usually find him in a bar or a bookstore.

Jim McGowin has a background in media communications and visual art. He prefers to create cool stuff, but keeps a day job. His poems have been published in Chance Operations, The UCity Review, Rusty Truck and The Gasconade Review. He is the author of several chapbooks of poetry and the collection Murmuration, published in 2018 by Spartan Press. He lives in St. Louis, Missouri with his family and two cats.

Denmark Laine is a St. Louis poet, novelist and music critic whose work has been featured on Fox 2 KTVI, Subprimal Poetry, STL TV Live, the St. Louis Poetry Slam, Eleven Magazine, Bad Jacket and Book of Matches to name a few. He has a BFA in nothing from Southern Illinois University Edwardsville with a minor in miming and is the author of Exile On Cherokee Street, The Gods of Autumn, Thorazine Ice Cream Parlor and The Absinthe Fountain.

Jessie Eikmann lives in south St. Louis, where she stocks shelves at a supermarket and occasionally screws around with writing. Though she mostly writes as a hobby these days, she spent six years obsessively devoted to poetry, culminating in her MFA from the University of Missouri-St. Louis in 2019. Her work has appeared in Sou’wester and Unbroken Magazine. Bad Jacket Press published a chapbook of her poems, The Kiss of Complicity, which she describes as “letters to all the people who disappointed me in my life.” Jessie may or may not publish any more work soon, as she lacks professional ambition and does not care what content is “appropriate” for highbrow magazines. Post-MFA, she has spent most of her time cooking fancy vegetarian food, haunting her local gym, volunteering with her labor union and the Communist party, and seeking out various sexual dalliances on OKCupid.

S. Elizabeth Cook is an award-winning author and poet of four published poetry collections, the most recent being Yellow Light. A true romantic, S. Elizabeth has spent nearly a decade writing about and capturing the raw existence of humans, nature and love. She believes there is beauty in heartache and a deflating pain in love, and that one must fall to let it hurt.

Mack Thorn is poet from St. Louis, Missouri. Growing up he has lived in almost every corner, nook, and cranny of his home town. Worked a broad array of conventional and unconventional jobs like drug rehabilitation and dry wall hanging. He also spent 6 years in the navy reserve. Published works in Badjacket zine and the Whiskey Rye Review.