In and around the edges of Metropolitan Seattle, Kathryn Rantala searches for the sublimely eccentric and well-crafted writing she and consulting editor Christiel Cottrell hope to publish in their magazine, Snow Monkey (Ravenna Press, PO Box 127, Edmonds, WA 98020.) A mossed and gloomy native Seattleite, Rantala has published poetry and prose for more than 30 years, in both print and online magazines, in a chapbook, The Dark Man, reprinted in 2000, a collection of prose and poetry, Missing Pieces, published by Ocean View Press (PO Box 102650, Denver, CO 80250), and a book of short prose, The Plant Waterer. A selection of her prose and poetry, Omnivory, is due from Alhambra Press in 2006, and she is co-editing Butterfiles of Vertigo, a book of "outstream" fiction with Madhatter's Review editor Carol Novack. Among other honors she was a 2003 screener for the William Stafford Prize, a reader for the Washington Poetry Association Annual Competition in 2005, and a lyricist for Erik Satie (see below).
 
Her interests can be summed up in one word: omnivory.
 
Scenes From Her Youth:
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Samples
 
Metropolitana
Gymnopédie No.1
from The Finnish Orchestra
Five Poems (Poem Niederngasse's Special Editor's Issue)
The Ravenna Hotel
An Appreciation of The Plant Waterer by Norman Lock
 
 
An Invitation
Writers are welcomed to submit works to Snow Monkey--short, medium or long poems and short prose--by sending an SASE to:

 
 

 

The Editors
Snow Monkey
2911 E. 57th Ave., Ste. 10B-310
Spokane, WA 99223
   

 

or by clicking here.
 

e-mail: editor@ravennapress.com