Toni Oswald is a writer and musician who has performed and shown her work across the United States and Europe. She has released four albums under the altar ego The Diary of Ic Explura and publications include The Oyez Review, Bombay Gin, Heroes Are Gang Leader’s Gianthology, and The Tattered Press, among others. She is currently working on a novel about a girl clown set in the 1950s entitled The Gorgeous Funeral, as well as a collection of short stories set in Los Angeles called Dying on the Vine. Her first book, Sirens, was released by Gesture Press in 2020. She likes gold teeth, cats, and trees. She currently lives with her husband Max and their cats Kiki Pamplemousse Fontaine and Charlie Chaplin in Boulder, Colorado.
Sarah Elizabeth Schantz is a writer living on the outskirts of Boulder, Colorado with her family in a Victorian-era farmhouse, where they are surrounded by open sky, century-old cottonwoods, and coyote. She literally grew up in a bookstore. Her first novel, Fig, debuted from Simon & Schuster in 2015 and was selected by NPR as a Best Read of the Year before winning a 2016 Colorado Book Award. Her chapbook Down in the Water was published by Gesture Press in 2020 (after the story itself won The Fulton Prize in 2017 hosted by The Adirondack Review). Sarah is currently working on a novel, a novella, and a short story collection. She teaches creative writing for the Jack Kerouac School at Naropa University and Lighthouse Writers Workshop, and she runs her own private workshop series and services for authors called (W)rites of Passage.
Jade Lascelles is a writer, editor, musician, and letterpress printer based in Boulder, Colorado. Her work has appeared in numerous journals and the anthologies Women of Resistance: Poems for a New Feminism and Precipice: Writing at the Edge, as well as being featured in the Ed Bowes film Gold Hill and the visual art exhibit and accompanying book Shame Radiant. Several of her poems have been translated into Italian for the journal Le Voci della Luna. Beyond her writing endeavors, she is a longtime steward of the Harry Smith Print Shop at Naropa University, a core member of the art group The Wilds, and plays drums in a few bands. Her first full-length book is The Inevitable, published by Gesture Press in September 2021.
Heather Goodrich is the author of The Filaments of Heather (Sad Spell Press, 2015). Her work has appeared in Shame Radiant(exhibit and book) and A Poetic Inventory of Rocky Mountain National Park (Wolverine Farm, 2012). Heather is currently working on a novel about a girl growing up in a new religious movement. She lives along Colorado’s Front Range with her partner Craig and their husky Fiona. Ten years ago, Heather founded Gesture Press & Journal. They're less of a journal and more of a feminist press that publishes books of poetry, prose, essays, and plays.
