"Spells for the Wicked" virtual book release party

Marc Vincenz is a poet, fiction writer, translator, editor, publisher, designer, multi-genre artist, and musician. He has published many books of poetry  and fiction; including recently The Pearl Diver of Irunmani, The King of Prussia is Drunk on Stars, The Mayfly Codex, and Spells for the Wicked (Unlikely Books). He has published twelve books of translations, most recently An Audible Blue: Selected Poems 1963-2016 by award-winning Swiss poet and novelist Klaus Merz which won the 2023 Massachusetts Book Prize for Translated Literature. His own work has been translated into many languages, including Japanese, Chinese, Russian, French, Italian, Spanish, Romanian, Greek, German, and Icelandic. Marc is editor and publisher of MadHat Press, and publisher of New American Writing.

Tara Campbell (www.taracampbell.com) is a writer, teacher, Kimbilio Fellow, and fiction co-editor at Barrelhouse. She teaches flash and speculative fiction, and is the author of two novels, two hybrid collections, and two short story collections. Her sixth book, City of Dancing Gargoyles (SFWP), was a finalist for the 2025 Philip K. Dick Award, and on Reactor Magazine’s “Best Books of 2024” list, and Locus and SFWA's Recommended Reading Lists. 

Caroline Hagood is an Assistant Professor of Literature, Writing and Publishing and Director of Undergraduate Writing at St. Francis College. She is the author of eight books, most recently Weird Girls: Writing the Art Monster, Filthy Creation, and Death and Other Speculative Fictions. Her speculative memoir, Goblin Mode, is forthcoming in September from Santa Fe Writers Project. Her work has appeared in Electric Literature, Creative Nonfiction, LitHub, the Kenyon Review, the Huffington Post, the Guardian, Salon, and Elle.

dan raphael’s chapbook How’d This Tree Get In? will be published this summer by Ravenna Press. His full-length book, In the Wordshed, came out from Last Word Press in ’22. More recent poems appear in Ink in Thirds, October Hill, Brief Wilderness, Disturb the Universe and Mad Swirl. Most Wednesdays dan writes and records a current events poem for The KBOO Evening News.