Self-Portrait as MutantWe fear the fidgeting of GMOs, spider DNA in the corn, crab DNA in the goat milk. One by one our genesare ticking off and on, dazzling broken Christmas lights, deciding: green eyes for this baby, an extra rib for that one.Magic powers, a maybe. Born with mutations you might not see, passing for normal,…
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Jeannine Hall Gailey
Jeannine Hall Gailey served as the second Poet Laureate of Redmond, Washington. She is the author of five books of poetry: Becoming the Villainess, She Returns to the Floating World, Unexplained Fevers, The Robot Scientist’s Daughter, and Field Guide to the End of the World, winner of the Moon City Press Book Prize. Her work has been featured on NPR’s The Writer’s Almanac, Verse Daily, and in The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror. Her poems have appeared in The American Poetry Review, The Iowa Review and Prairie Schooner.
Arthur Asa
Arthur Asa was born in Monterrey, Mexico. He studied graphic design and industrial design but decided to leave everything behind and become a construction worker. During this time he discovered all he ever wanted to do was draw and tell stories. He is now an illustrator by afternoon and a comic artist by night— sometimes both by night. He has a comic called Where the Heart Is that you can find online.
