The Release of Levee Magazine || Friday, December 14, 7:30 pm || SPC, 1719 25th Street

The release of Levee Magazine
Friday, December 14, 7:30 pm
Sacramento Poetry Center, 1719 25th St
Host Stuart Canton

Meet the Editors

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Samantha Daniels
is a former Editor-in-Chief of American River Review, Assistant to the Editors at Ad Lumen Press, Assistant Coordinator of the SummerWords Creative Writing Festival.
Eric Orosco
is a queer, Sacramento-based poet whose writing has appeared in American River Review, Jokes Review, Calliope, and Fearsome Critters. When he’s not stressing about paying back student loans, he can be found watering his peace lilies and eating carbs.
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Samantha had the idea for Levee Magazine back in the summer of 2016 while Eric was training her to take over his role as Editor-in-Chief of American River Review. For the next two years, they sporadically developed their vision for Levee—what kind of pieces they wanted to publish, what audience they were after, how often they would publish in the year, the aesthetic of the magazine, you name it.
It wasn’t until April 2018 that their planning came to fruition. After both inquired about an internship with another literary magazine but heard nothing back, Samantha and Eric decided to finally create the magazine they’ve talked about for two years. Together, they make sure to invite authors and poets in all stages of their career, communicate with their contributors, and allow opportunities in the literary and publishing community that are becoming increasingly difficult to find.

Contributors

Domenic Suntrapak is an Fresno based poet whose writing has appeared in the University of the Pacific’s Calliope magazine. He is recently graduated from Pacific with a Bachelor of Arts degree in English and Japanese Literature, and was a recipient of the 2018 Seamus Heaney Writing Prize.
Chain Shields is a recent graduate whose poetry has been published in Cherry Bomb Zine as well as thrice in xyr university’s award-winning literary and arts magazine,  Calliope; xe has also worked as a scriptwriter for a vlog fan series and a nonfiction writer for online article site Odyssey. On xyr own time, xe writes poems, serial transformative works, and long-form fiction, and xe hopes to publish more in the future.
Betsy Harper is a writer and artist living in Sacramento, California. She is excited to be included in the first issue of Levee Magazine.
Brad Buchanan’s writing has appeared in nearly 200 journals, and he has also published two book-length collections of poetry as well as two academic books. His third book of poetry, The Scars, Aligned (A Cancer Narrative), is forthcoming from Finishing Line Press. He is currently in remission from lymphoma.
Marianne Harris thinks about writing more often than she acts on those thoughts, so she is ever-grateful for those forces and voices that brought her to this point and is thrilled to be a part of the Levee Magazine community.
Luis Gael Jimenez is a freelance writer and photojournalist living in Sacramento, California.
Isabel Geerer lives in North Highlands, California, She is an American River Review alumni, serving as Assistant Editor-in-Chief as well as Managing Poetry Editor. She has worked with the amazing non-profit 916 Ink as a creative writing teacher for children from fourth grade to twelfth. Her poetry has been featured in American River Review, Tule Review, WTF Magazine, The Gap-Toothed Madness,and various 916 Ink publications.

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