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- Viruela, Clara Kiat
- Clara Kiat is a Filipina writer based in Madrid, Spain. Her fiction has appeared in The Masters Review, Puerto del Sol, Flash Fiction Magazine, and The Other Stories. She is working on a novel and a collection of short stories set in 19th century colonial Philippines.
- Marrow, Mary Fontana | @maryfontanawrites (Instagram)
- Mary Fontana trained as an immunologist and did infectious disease research for over a decade before turning to writing full-time. Her first book is forthcoming from Orbis Books. She is a reader for the online lit mag Only Poems, and her writing has appeared in Prairie Schooner, The Seneca Review, Rust + Moth, SWWIM Everyday, Moss, and elsewhere. She lives in Seattle with her husband and two children.
maryfontana.com - Skin, Mel Piper | @tinymel18 (Instagram)
- Mel Piper is a freelance writer based in Coventry whose work focuses on bringing the weird into the everyday. She has been in publications such as Amphibian Journal, Querencia Press, and a Thi Wurd anthology, and has run creative writing workshops for adults and children. Outside of writing, Mel loves the outdoors and is a keen photographer; her work has featured in multiple publications, including Nightingale and Sparrow and Swim Press.
melpiperwriter.wordpress.com - Feeling for the Inanimate, Max Cavitch | max.cavitch (Facebook)
- Max Cavitch is Associate Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania. His books include American Elegy: The Poetry of Mourning from the Puritans to Whitman (Minnesota, 2007), Psychoanalysis and the University (Routledge, 2025), a new edition of Walt Whitman’s Specimen Days (Oxford, 2023), and, forthcoming from Punctum Books, Ashes: A History of Thought and Substance. His scholarly essays, poems, and public-facing writings have been published in dozens of journals and magazines.
www.sas.upenn.edu/~cavitch - Foothold, D. C. Nobes | @sebon52 (Instagram)
- D. C. Nobes is a physicist, poet, and photographer who, aside from 2 years on Vancouver Island, spent his first 39 years in or near Toronto, Canada, followed by 23 years based in Christchurch, New Zealand, and 4 years in China. He has since retired to Bali. He used to enjoy winter but admits that he doesn’t miss the snow or the cold. He thinks almost all poetry is meant to be read aloud. His poetry and art photographs have been widely published.
- When the Hedgehog Met the Fox, Soramimi Hanarejima
- Soramimi Hanarejima is the author of the story collection Literary Devices For Coping. Her recent work appears in Pulp Literature, Fjords Review, and Black Warrior Review.
cognitivecollage.net - More To, Nick Armbrister
- Born in Oldham, Lancashire, Nick has worked in various jobs from baking to forklift truck work to call centres in South East Asia. He was first published in 1996.
- No One to Bury, Remi Recchia
- Remi Recchia is a Lambda Special Prize-winning poet, essayist, and editor from Kalamazoo, Michigan. An eight-time Pushcart Prize nominee, he is the author of six books and chapbooks and is the editor of two contemporary poetry anthologies. He holds an MFA in poetry and a PhD in English. Remi will begin his MDiv at Yale University in Fall 2025.
- Elliptical ghazal for the man who 3D-printed the Moon, and gave it to me as a lamp, Ellora Sutton
- Ellora Sutton is a poet and PhD candidate based in Hampshire. Her work has been published in The Poetry Review, Berlin Lit, and Propel, amongst others, and she is the poetry reviewer for Mslexia. Her pamphlets include Artisanal Slush (Verve) and Antonyms for Burial (Fourteen Poems).
- Figures on the Seashore, Andreas Smith | [email protected] (Email)
- Andreas Smith lives in County Durham in the north of England and works as an editor. He is a graduate in both mathematics and philosophy. His short stories have been published in a range of UK literary magazines, including MONK, Idle Ink, Storgy, Loft Books, Fiction on the Web, and Shooter Literary Magazine. He has also written several novels, for which he is represented by a London-based literary agency.
andreassmithwriter.com - Reject and Revise, Ravneet Bawa | @onethirdabove.bsky.social
- Ravneet Bawa is a doctoral student at the LSE. Formerly a technology marketer, she now researches consumer decision making. Her poetry appears in The Bombay Literary Magazine, The Bombay Review, Asia Writes, Desi Writers’ Lounge magazine Papercuts, Coldnoon, Literally Literary, and Eksentrika. She was shortlisted for Poetry Society of India’s All India Poetry Competition 2016. She hosts the poetry podcast ‘Ellipsis’. Between poetry and science, one keeps her alive and the other keeps her sane.
medium.com/@onethirdabove - Back to the Roots, Sayani De | @sayani_quill (Instagram)
- Sayani De is an engineer who has working in the tech industry. She writes fiction and creative non-fiction. Her short fiction has been shortlisted for the Purple Pencil Project, 2024, and longlisted for the Commonwealth Short Story Prize 2025. Her work has been featured in several literary magazines including The Bangalore Review, Indian Literature (Ministry of Culture, India), Muse India, The Selkie, and Indian Review. She is working on her first novel and lives in Kolkata, India.
- When Fire Came & Venera, Joseph Buck | @joseph_buck (Instagram)
- Joseph Buck is Southern Californian. He is the former editor of the journal of the Pacific Rim, Boomtown, which still gets citations to this day despite being dark. He had poetry and freelance work published decades ago, but the pandemic and social change drove him to write again. That work has most recently been featured in Anacapa Review.
- E = mc2 and Me, Tom Tierney | @bankphysics.bsky.social
- Tom Tierney has published short fiction in the Stinging Fly, The London Magazine, Litro, and elsewhere, alongside non-fiction in Physics World and New Scientist. He is a physics teacher in Dublin and also wrote a widely used physics textbook for second level students in Ireland.
physicsresourcebank.com - In Conversation with Helen Gordon
- Helen Gordon is a writer and natural historian. Her books include The Meteorites (Profile), Notes from Deep Time (Profile), and Landfall (Penguin), a novel. She has written for, among others: 1843 magazine, The Guardian, and Wired; edited for Granta; and teaches Creative Writing at the University of Hertfordshire.
EDITORIAL
From splitting the atom to editing genes, science often presents both the promise of a brighter future and the threat of unknown dangers. We see this today in the apprehension surrounding AI, bioengineering, the colonisation of space, and countless other areas of advancement. In this issue of TAMARIND, we examine faith and fear in science: how it can be used both to liberate and to oppress.
Issue 8 does not only include prose, but also — for the first time — poetry. Through form, rhyme, and meter, poetry provides a unique canvas for examining science as a human endeavour. We are thrilled to be able to include it, working alongside poet and science communicator Jack Cooper. We feel this is a long overdue addition to TAMARIND, and we hope you appreciate it as much as our usual selection of short stories, essays, art, and an interview (this time with Helen Gordon, author of Notes from Deep Time and The Meteorites). We are also delighted to welcome back Issue 1 cover artist, Joanna Clay, marking a new beginning for TAMARIND.
We hope that this issue of TAMARIND equips you, in some small way, to tackle the challenges ahead and, as ever, we hope you enjoy it.
The TAMARIND Editors