Alexis Vergalla has had poems appear in various journals including Diode, elimae and Anemone Sidecar. She earned her M.F.A. from the University of California, Riverside where she was Editor of CRATE magazine. Her chapbook Letters through Glass came out in 2009 on Finishing Line Press. She currently lives in Seattle, Washington where she volunteers for the Richard Hugo House, is a board member of the arts organization Heroes (www.heroeseverywhere.com) and is on staff for Poetry Northwest. Her blog can be found online at http://www.alexisv.wordpress.com.

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RE:TELLING is an anthology of stories, poetry, and art edited by William Walsh, built around recycled material: purloined plots, stolen settings, appropriated characters, and borrowed premises featuring work by some of the independent publishing world’s favourite, most talented writers. Michael Martone traces the traces of Borges in Indiana and Matt Bell wonders what Mario thinks between re-sets, Joseph Riippi takes German lit personally, and Kathleen Rooney & Lily Hoang spin a love triangle of Biblical proportions. Also featuring work from Michael Kimball, Jim Ruland, Samantha Hunt, and Pedro Ponce, RE:TELLING is an homage, a subversion where nothing is off-limits. Whether it’s Shakespeare or Law and Order, children’s stories or yesteryear’s sitcoms, each piece is a fresh ransacking of our cultural troves, recreated, and made new.

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