Sidebrow Books authors Joshua Marie Wilkinson and Sandy Florian
Joshua Marie Wilkinson
Joshua Marie Wilkinson is the author of Selenography (with Polaroids by Tim Rutili), Swamp Isthmus, The Courier’s Archive and Hymnal and Meadow Slasher (all from Sidebrow Books and Black Ocean). With Solan Jensen, he directed a film about Califone, and he’s edited five books of essays, poetry, conversation and poetics. He lives in Tucson, where he edits The Volta, runs a small press called Letter Machine Editions and teaches at University of Arizona.
Sandy Florian
Sandy Florian is the author of five books and one chapbook: Boxing the Compass, On Wonderland and Waste, Prelude to Air From Water, The Tree of No, Telescope and 32 Pedals and 47 Stops. Her most recent book, Boxing the Compass, launched the new Akrilica series, a collaboration between Noemi Press and Letras Latinas headed by Carmen Gimenez Smith and Francisco Aragon, which aims to complicate perceptions of contemporary Latino literature by publishing innovative writing that thwarts stereotypical expectations. Boxing the Compass won the University of Indianapolis Etchings Press Whirling Prize. Florian’s creative work appears in more than 60 international literary journals and the anthologies Beyond the Field and The Americas Anthology of New Writings. Recently, Florian was visiting assistant professor at West Virginia University.