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:
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 work—featured in Dead Skunk Mag, Complete Sentence Magazine, Hunger Mountain, and elsewhere—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 found spooning her two dogs, Bert and Eloise.
Prose Editor:
Lux Kickapoo-Johnson
Lux Kickapoo-Johnson is a writer from Oklahoma who is always writing about Oklahoma. She graduated from Oklahoma State University with a degree in English Literature and is currently an MFA Fiction Candidate at the University of Colorado Boulder. Her writing explores land, ancestry, monsters, hauntings, and healings. She's also interested in crochet art, seeing new movies, and hiking at high elevations.
Prose Editor:
Emily Spacek
Emily Spacek grew up in the California Bay Area. These days, she studies prose fiction in the MFA program at the University of Colorado, Boulder. She teaches creative writing and edits fiction at Timber Journal. Her writing is published in Whiskey Tit Journal, Red Ogre Review, and Sugar House Review.
Poetry Editor:
Annelise Freeze
Annelise Freeze is an environmental, nonsense, and experimental poet, writing through the ASD perspective. She is a master’s student at the University of Colorado - Boulder, studying Creative Writing - Poetry and instructing Creative Writing. She is currently a poetry editor for the undergraduate magazine of CU Boulder: Timber. She received her undergraduate degree at Texas State University with a BA in English (Concentration on Creative Writing) and Minor in Philosophy. Freeze is a published photographer and poet by Persona, a poetry finalist for the Mānoa Journal, and her photography is published in L'Esprit Literary Review.
Poetry Editor:
Matthew Leger
Matthew Leger is an MFA Candidate at the University of Colorado Boulder. He is the recipient of the Andrew Julius Gutow Academy of American Poets Prize. His work has appeared in such publications as DON’T SUBMIT!, poets.org, and The Denver Quarterly. Currently, he is the poetry editor at Timber. When he's not writing, he's likely holed up in his basement, recording music.
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 Readers:
Poetry: Havilah Barnett, Kiera Deer, Annelise Freeze, Matt Leger, Luz Chavez, Rosaline Nizam
Prose: Alisa Caira, Daniella Castillo Vasquez, Lux Kickapoo-Johnson, Katelynn Mulder, Emily Spacek, Andie Weber