Carolyn Zukowski
Worked in editorial positions at AGNI and Harvard and Radcliffe College, before crossing the pond to teach literature and writing at the University of South Bohemia. I now live in a small town in the Czech Republic where I own and operate a hostel, Krumlov House, dabble in travel writing (Thomas Cook: CitySpots Prague and CitySpots Budapest), translate, and create a happy home for family and friends. My burritos kick ass!
Colin Lewis
Web developer, poet, erstwhile potter and American expatriate who resides in Sweden. If I’m not writing or making stuff I’m usually found renovating my large and dilapidated 200 year old house. I also work as manservant for a sweet and obstreperous kitty named Snille. I keep trying to coax him into a poem, but he just shakes his head and looks the other way.
Jonna Vikman
A word and language enthusiast from the land of a thousand lakes. Currently residing across the bay in Sweden and constantly dreaming of further places to explore.
I’m still chewing on the word writer, but as talent is subjective I dare say I might possess it.
I write mainly flash and short-short fiction; anything longer I will brag about when I reach ‘The End’.
Reading favorites include any book in Swedish I can get through without my dictionary but, at the moment, English language studies consume most of my reading time. On the waiting list I have Sally Morgan’s My Place. I try to keep the list short and rather go on impulse.
Helena Axelsson Fisk
Editor-in-chief at Frostwriting. I see my position as an opportunity to be the fairy godmother (or wicked witch) of new-born texts.
The Middle East has been my home, source of inspiration and learning institute since 1991. By now, the calls to prayer soothe me, the sun turns me off and Arabic literature turns me on.
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Judit Schoorl
An expat since childhood, I have so far lived in seven different countries. I now make my home in the Middle East, but experience tells me this is unlikely to last. Roots and restlessness are recurring themes in my writing. My current ambition is to finish a collection of stories based on family history, myth and misconception.
I hope in Frostwriting we will create a safe harbour for writers, by taking their work seriously and reading each submission in the spirit in which it was written.
Carolyn Scarbrough
I have work published in Gulf Coast, Poet Lore, Sundog, Tar River Poetry, Conduit, Connecticut River Review, High Desert Journal, Minnesota Review and The Southeast Review. I have an MFA from the Bennington College Writing Seminars and work as a pediatric ICU nurse and am the mom to five kids, two dogs and the cat. Basically, I write despite all the reasons to not write, much like a willful child!
William Males
Came to Sweden during the Vietnam War. The working title of my memoir is A Good Boy—My Military History.
Did an MFA in writing at Bennington College. My work has been used on BBC World Service, and in Stand, and Narrative.
Janni Karlsson
I’m Janni, live in Gävle, Sweden, in the house nearest to the hockey arena. I write about bitter people and death/murder, which is strange as I’m generally a happy and friendly person. There is a possibility I get my inspiration from my repressed hatred, but in that case I’d rather not know.
Being a little-more-than-full-time student, I’m looking forward to graduating: after three years of sticking to the conventional outlining and required reading, my collection of first drafts has grown outrageously large, and my list of books to read is looking more like a lifetime achievement than something a few weeks off work could fix.
The good news is that I have a lifetime ahead of me!
Christof Häberle
A German-born professional student with experience from Germany, Belgium, Sweden and the U.K.
I try new things when I can. Reading, photography and music have stuck with me; lately mountaineering and rock climbing are getting more attention.
Frostwriting is a chance to discover and delve into new realities and worlds and a chance to create a home for both readers and writers.
Inger Helldal
I grew up in Mora, did a sidetrip to Canada for a year, then moved to Linköping to study English at the university for a couple of years, before settling down in Gävle.
I’m still a student, but I’m not quite sure what of. Interesting things, simply. I don’t really write about anything specific, apart from a loose theme of questioning reality. I’m rather experimental.
The last book I read was by Paulo Coelho, can’t recall which one as I tend to only read non-textbooks when I’m travelling somewhere by train nowadays (and I’ve been doing that a lot lately). As for Frostwriting, I don’t have visions - I’m curious. That goes for everything in my life.
Åsa Eriksson
Swedish nature romantic who lived for five years in the South Bohemian forest, doing all the things you normally plan to do when you’re old. Presently resettling in the original home country, not that old after all and with a head full of jumbled impressions to process.
I read mainly fiction – good fiction that opens your mind to unknown experiences and enriches your life. Big fan of Barbara Kingsolver, Thomas Pynchon, Nabokov, Marquez, Peter Carey and a lot of others who - in my mind - fit into that category.
Addicted to pens and paper but the outcome isn’t always clear from the start. Sometimes it’s drawing, sometimes writing. Prefer to write landscapes and paint life (though it doesn’t always work out that way). Punctuation fascist and, at heart, always and forever a nerd.
Kathy Douglas
Kathy Douglas holds an MFA in Creative Writing and Literature from Bennington College and is the Assistant Director of Career Development at Yale University’s Environment School. She is currently working on a memoir of her experience as a young mother enduring aggressive breast cancer treatment. Her work has been published in The Cafe Review, Calyx, I Am Beautiful: A Celebration of Women in Their Own Words,and Palimpsest: Yale Literary & Arts Magazine. Kathy is honored to be working with the fine staff of Frostwriting.
Yvonne Carpenter
Living on an Oklahoma (USA) wheat farm furnishes most of the material for my writing. My latest adventure was to attend a Cowboy Poetry Festival; an experiment to return poetry to the oral rather than written tradition, which was an eye-opener for me. My goal is to move poetry onto common ground rather than letting it suffocate in pristine isolation.
Using the public library, I read whatever is on the new arrival shelf and devour murder mysteries like chocolate. On my bedstand right now are The Kite Runner, Brother, I’m Dying and The New Kid. Poets I read are Paul Zarzyski and William Carlos Williams.