A huge core of Death Rattle’s inception was to create local line-ups that showcase who we really are as a community ⁂ from students just taking up the craft sharing brand new work right alongside wizened authors who have made a name for themselves in the treasure valley and beyond in order to lift each other up no matter what place you are in your literary journey and artistic career. For our 9th anniversary we invite you to celebrate our local literary arts community in true Death Rattle spirit.
Featuring:
J. Reuben Appelman @j.reuben.appelman
Patricia Marcantonio @patricia.s.marcantonio
Alice Nelson @authoralicenelson
Katherine Lindberg @cryingonmylunchbreak
D. Kopec @flawnchairs
Hannah Rodabaugh @hannahrodabaugh
Kal Walters
Daphne Elizabeth Stanford @d.e.stanford
Dona Ochoa @littlewolfwords
Kitana Inthisane
Jacqui Reiko Teruya
Mark your calendars ✺
November 19th
6:00pm at Flying M Coffee Nampa
Free / Donation / Pay What U Can
& All Ages
Meet the Writers:
J. Reuben Appelman is Executive Producer of the TV docuseries, “Children of the Snow,” and author of the true-crime memoir, “The Kill Jar,” rated as among the best true-crime tales by The New York Times Book Review, Elle Magazine, Oxygen, Crime Reads, USA Today, and many other media outlets. His film and TV content has streamed on many major platforms, including Netflix, Hulu, Discovery+, and Amazon Prime. He received his MFA in poetry from Boise State University and has published two collections of poetry.
Patricia Marcantonio is the author of the mystery series Felicity Carrol and the Perilous Pursuit and Felicity Carrol and the Murderous Menace; Verdict in the Desert, published by Arte Público Press, the largest US publisher of contemporary and recovered literature by US Hispanic authors and affiliated with the University of Houston; and Red Ridin’ in the Hood and Other Cuentos, which earned an Anne Izard Storyteller’s Choice Award. Dark Ink released her horror mystery Under the Blood Moon this year, and Regal Publishing will release her YA novel Best Amigas next fall. She received an Alexa Rose Foundation Grant to direct her original play, Tears for Llorona. She is a member of the Dramatists Guild of America. She won awards for her screenplays and journalism. www.patriciamarcantonio.com
Alice Nelson is the host of a podcast series called Small Town Stories, and the co-host of a short story podcast called A Creative Mind Fiction with her friend Carrie Zylka. These original short stories are written, narrated, and produced by Alice and released through her production company Ten Feet Tall Productions. Alice is also working on a semi-autobiographical story called My Girlhood Among the Outlaws, that will deal with her experiences being bussed into a white neighborhood during the late 70s and early 80s. Check out acreativemindfiction.com and follow @authoralicenelson
Katherine is a prose and poetry writer from Boise, Idaho. She has a Bachelor of Arts in Writing, Rhetoric, and Technical Communications and currently works as a writing consultant at Boise State University. She prefers ciders over beers and plaids over florals. You can find her writing on Substack.com @ shallow water and on instagram at @cryingonmylunchbreak.
D. Kopec is a queer non-binary poet from Boise, Idaho. They have been pursuing their BFA in Creative Writing at Boise State University, often attending part-time, since 2015. They are 27 years old. D’s poems are largely concerned with queer neurodivergent life in a small, red-stated community. Short-order kitchens, flower farming, cross country running, and a dreamy admiration of birds can all serve as summations for D’s work. They live dreamily and carefully with their spouse Tay, and their two cats and two dogs.
Hannah Rodabaugh is the author of three chapbooks, including We Don't Bury Our Dead When Our Dead Are Animals, a collection of ecological elegies. Her writing has appeared or is forthcoming in Berkeley Poetry Review, ROAR Magazine, Horse Less Review, K’in Literary Journal, Linden Avenue Literary Journal, Indianapolis Review and Camas Magazine. She has been an Artist-in-Residence for the Bureau of Land Management and the National Park Service. She teaches at Boise State University and The Cabin Idaho.
Kallan 'Kestrel' Walters is a bird of varying talents currently nesting on Shoshoni-Bannock land in Southern Idaho. He is fond of his cat Nina, capes, the lowest notes of bass guitar, and gets sentimental about the first snow. He writes, draws and performs, and has published work in journals such as Timshel and Trestle Creek Magazine. However, he may be best known for making borscht soup from a (loosely guarded) secret family recipe in the winter.
Daphne Elizabeth Stanford writes poetry and creative nonfiction—as well as songs for vox/piano, on occasion. Since 2012, she’s hosted “The Poetry Show!” on KRBX/Radio Boise. She holds a BA in English from Reed College, an MAT in Secondary English Education from The University of Iowa, and an MFA in Creative Writing (poetry emphasis) from University of Oregon. Her work has been published by Caesura, Lingerpost Press, The Monarch Review, The Cabin: Writers in the Attic, Cliterature: All My Relations, Rabid Oak, Willawaw Jounal, and Reservoir. Her chapbook, The Inevitable Surfacing of Bodies, was published in 2019 from Dancing Girl Press.
Dona Ochoa is a queer, mixed-race writer and creator based in Boise, Idaho. They are influenced by a handful of passions, perplexities, and the natural world and use their writing as an avenue for expression, investigation, therapy, and joy. Dona currently serves as a Grant Writer for a local nonprofit. They are a co-founder of Boise Spoken Word Collective, and in the final stages of their latest and largest poetry series. When Dona isn't writing, they love to swim, read, sit under trees, hike, and create in many vocal and visual capacities.
Jon Schoenfelder is a poet, a scholar, and a warrior. He is also the most shameless exhibitionist since Barnum and Bailey. He studies spiritual science, the queen of the sciences, right here in beautiful Nampa, Idaho.
Jacqui Reiko Teruya received her MFA in Fiction from Boise State University. Her work has appeared in The Masters Review, CRAFT, and Passages North, and has been anthologized in Best Small Fictions 2020 and 2021. She lives in Boise, Idaho where she teaches fiction for The Cabin and BSU.