DREKKA // CASTS // IRON LIKE NYLON

About Michael Anderson/Drekka: Since 1996, Michael Anderson has evolved from experiments in early industrial tape culture to the production of fragile bedroom noise folk with expansive cinematic textures in his project Drekka. Having released dozens of cassettes, CDs, and LPs on his own Bluesanct label as well as numerous other labels internationally, Anderson has traveled, collaborated, and relocated, all the while collecting memories and building a very personal archive of corresponding sound. Drekka’s music is made through continually delving into this archive: digging up and repurposing old recordings, live performances, and forgotten snippets of out-of-touch friends’ voices. It is a project that experiments not only with sound, but also with memory as a subject and a process. Like Tarkovsky’s The Mirror or the more abstract works of Coil and Cindytalk, Drekka is both a sonic experiment and an assemblage of memories – at one moment dissonant and intimidating, and the next warm, hospitable, and ultimately soothing. About Joshua Bohnsack/Casts: Joshua Bohnsack is the founding editor of Long Day Press, faculty advisor of Oyez Review, and teaches at Roosevelt University's MFA in creative writing program. He received an MFA in creative writing at Northwestern University and a BA at the University of Iowa. Previously he served as the managing editor for TriQuarterly, editorial assistant at Dalkey Archive Press, and managing editor of Curbside Splendor Publishing. In addition to writing & publishing, he is a printmaker and makes music, currently with the Iowa country band Gold Dust and in the ambient project Casts. About Meghan Lamb/Iron Like Nylon: Meghan Lamb is the author of MIRROR TRANSLATION (Blamage Books, 2025), COWARD (Spuyten Duyvil, 2022), FAILURE TO THRIVE (Apocalypse Party, 2021) ALL OF YOUR MOST PRIVATE PLACES (Spork Press, 2020) and SILK FLOWERS (Birds of Lace, 2017). Her work has also appeared in Quarterly West, DIAGRAM, Redivider, and Passages North, and other publications. She currently teaches creative writing through the University of Chicago, Story Studio, Hugo House, and GrubStreet. She is the fiction editor for Bridge Books and Always Crashing, and the nonfiction editor for Lover's Eye Press and Nat. Brut. She creates ambient/experimental music under the name Iron Like Nylon and co-creates noise (with her husband, Robert Kloss) under the name Violet Fistula. About Analeah Loschiavo: Analeah Loschiavo is a Brazilian-American writer living in Chicago by way of Miami. She received her MFA in Fiction from Washington University in St Louis in 2019. In 2019, she also received a Fulbright Student Research Award to complete a collection of short stories in Lisbon, Portugal. She has been the recipient of Disquiet International’s Luso-American Fellowship Award (finalist, 2018) and Bread Loaf’s Katharine Bakeless Nason Scholarship Award (2018). Additionally, she held a two-year research position with the Mellon Sawyer group, “Grounding the Ecocritical: Materializing Wastelands and Living on in the Middle East," where she focused on nuclear waste sitings. On the side, she has worked as an archivist, bookseller, and AI conversational designer. About Emma Hyche: Emma Hyche is a poet and essayist from Appalachia whose work appears or is forthcoming in Apartment, Peach, Denver Quarterly, Sugar House Review, and elsewhere. Her chapbook PICNIC IN THE ABATTOIR was released in 2021 by dancing girl press. She currently serves as a Poetry Editor for The Rumpus. She lives and writes in Chicago, Illinois with her partner and a cat named Dario Argento. About Stephanie Soileau: Stephanie Soileau's collection of short stories LAST ONE OUT SHUT OFF THE LIGHTS was published in 2020 by Little, Brown & Co. and her debut novel, SHOULD THE WATERS TAKE US, is forthcoming from Doubleday in 2026. Her work has also appeared in Best American Short Stories, Glimmer Train, Oxford American, Ecotone, Tin House, New Stories from the South, and other journals and anthologies, and has been supported by fellowships from the Wallace Stegner Fellowship Program at Stanford University, the Camargo Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown. She has an MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop and has taught creative writing at the Art Institute of Chicago, Stanford University, and the University of Southern Maine. Originally from Lake Charles, Louisiana, Stephanie now lives in Chicago and is an Assistant Professor of Practice in the Creative Writing Program at the University of Chicago. About Krystal Languell: Krystal Languell lives in Chicago. She is the author of four books of poetry, most recently SYSTEMS THINKING WITH FLOWERS, selected by Rae Armantrout as the winner of the first fonograf editions book contest, published in early 2022. She works for a family found

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