Twice a year TIMBER publishes a selection of prose, poetry, and visual text-work, along with rolling interviews and reviews with contemporary writers and artists. We believe in taking raw materials and building something beyond the expected.
Run by the MFA candidates out of the University of Colorado-Boulder, we value work which pushes against boundaries: genre-bend, build or break form, confront the rules and voices of the canon. If you’re not flirting with failure or writing risky, it’s probably not for us.
That said, experimental does not mean: intellectually elitist, inaccessible, or haphazard. Disorientation to the point of estrangement does not equal quality. Obtuse is not necessarily experimental.
For inquiries, contact our editors at:
timberjournal @ gmail . com
TIMBER stands in solidarity with anti-racist, abolitionist movements across the nation.
As a journal of experimental writing, we are aware that literary experimentation has historically been overwhelmed by white voices, despite incredible experimental works from writers of color. TIMBER is furthering our commitment to navigating beyond a Western-European experimental history toward a more robust practice of experimentation which challenges white, colonial grammars and paradigms. We recognize our pressing responsibility to reevaluate TIMBER’s role in maintaining the status quo, and to implement new approaches to foster greater diversity in our readers, writers, and staff. It is vital we more actively seek out, encourage, and otherwise support underrepresented and marginalized writers.
While we continue working on serious, sustained efforts to make TIMBER the diverse, anti-racist journal of experimentation it should be, we also want to extend gratitude to past and current editors who have worked to resist complacency despite institutional and historic barriers.
Still, we could have done much more, and we are committed to active, ongoing improvement.
Black Lives Matter.
Staff
Editor-in-Chief:
Anjali Ravi
Anjali Ravi is a writer from Gaithersburg, Maryland. They received the Henrietta Spiegel Creative Writing Award for their work in magical realism. Their work has appeared in Liminal Stories, among other journals. Besides teaching and writing, they practice martial arts, center rest, obsess over miniature things, and indulge in the occasional craft.
Prose Editor:
Anna Sheffer
Anna Sheffer is a writer from Colorado who has lived in Indiana, California, and Ehime, Japan. Her work has been published in Porter House Review and phoebe. She is trying her best to keep her houseplants alive. Find her on Twitter as @anna_sheffer.
Poetry Editor:
Bri Gonzalez
Bri Gonzalez is a queer, Chicane poet with bipolar disorder. Their debut hybrid collection, A Wellness Check, is forthcoming with Game Over Books (2024). Bri is also a graduate of the Summer ‘23 Napa Valley Writers’ Conference. More of their work can be found or forthcoming in Honey Literary, Talon Review, Crow & Cross Keys, Angel Rust, and Juke Joint, among others. In their free time, Bri enjoys playing too much D&D, watching horror movies, and helping their black cat, Dahlia, take over the world. Check out Bri at bgwriting.org or @bg_writing on Twitter.
Poetry Editor:
Lillian Rothman
Lillian May Rothman—or Lilly, as her friends and family call her—is an MFA candidate in Creative Writing. She is a recent graduate of Davidson College where she majored in English and Philosophy. Her poetry explores the interaction between the self, the natural world, and modernity through language, abstraction, and visual presentation. Her work is often inspired by philosophical literature, musical arrangements, and sound. In her free time, Lilly enjoys listening to music, visiting local coffee shops, and bird watching. Follow her on Twitter @lilly_listening.
TIMBER Talks Editor:
Havilah Barnett
Havilah Barnett is a poet and MFA candidate in Creative Writing at the University of Colorado Boulder. Her poetry explores trauma, mental illness, and the effects of mutism in a deafening world. She’s currently an Editorial Intern for Boulevard Magazine and was previously an emergency medical technician for both the Army and a civilian ambulance service. Havilah loves sharing space with animals and experiencing life as a highly sensitive empath.
TIMBER Talks Editor:
Hannah Olsson
Hannah Olsson is a writer from Grand Junction, CO. She graduated from the University of Iowa with a double major in Cinema and Creative Writing and is currently an MFA Candidate in Creative Writing at the University of Colorado, Boulder. Her fiction tries its best to explore the strangeness of wide-open spaces, and the distortions in everyday life. When she’s not struggling for words, Hannah is usually climbing big rocks with her partner and her two dogs.
TIMBER Readers:
Poetry: Beau Farris, Matt Leger, Havilah Barnett, Alaina Stellwagen, Jo Spratte
Prose: Michael Kerr, Isabel Beeman, Hannah Olsson, Emily Spacek, Jo Spratte, Alaina Stellwagen