and from the inside in

Mark Tardi is the author of the books Airport Music (Burning Deck, 2013) and Euclid Shudders (Litmus Press, 2004). A
former Fulbright scholar, he earned his MFA from Brown University and is currently a lecturer in the Department of Foreign
Languages at the University of Nizwa in Oman.
His work in Sukoon is a series of poem-scapes called “Psychoacoustics,” which reflect on the, at turns, beautiful
and unforgiving landscapes around Nizwa, Oman. They are best viewed side by side to form a triptych, though
they can also stand alone or be rearranged, much like the dunes and mountains shift shape and perspective
depending on where one stands.
J. TARWOOD has been a dishwasher, a community organizer, a medical archivist, a documentary film producer,
an oral historian, and a teacher. Much of his life has been spent in East Africa, Latin America, and the Middle East.
He has published three books, And For The Mouth A Flower, Grand Detour and The Cats In Zanzibar, and his poems
have appeared in magazines ranging from American Poetry Review to Visions. He has always been an unlikely man in
unlikely places.
Bob Tomolillo began his career during the burgeoning of the print workshops in 1970. He worked at Impressions
Workshop in Boston and at the Printshop in Amsterdam, Netherlands as a professional printer. He earned a B.F.A. from
University of Massachusetts and an M.F.A. from Syracuse University. A faculty member at the F.A.W.C. in Provincetown,
Mass. and currently executive board member of The Boston Printmakers, his lithographs are included in collections
here and abroad. In 2009 he was the co-winner of the first Dayton Peace Museums Peace Prize for The Arts. He recently
participated in the London Liberal Arts College, “Year of Subversion Exhibition.” His essays on “Art” have appeared in the
Print Alliance Journal “Prints and Politics” and Visual Overture Magazine. Other writing has appeared in Literal Minded,
Orange Alert, Shine Journal, Askew Reviews, Glossolalia, Creative Writing Now, Blinking Cursor, Bap Q, Lunarosity,
Icelandic Review, Writers Billboard , First Writers Magazine, Milspeak, Subterranean Journal, South Jersey Underground ,
Cavalier Magazine, Yellow Mama, Visual Overture,Vox Poetica, Ascent Aspirations Magazine, Bangalore Review, Forum
Magazine, The Red Fez, and Spilling Ink Anthology.
Rewa Zeinati is the founder and editor of Sukoon, and the author of the creative non-fiction book, Nietzsche’s Camel
Must Die: An Invitation to Say ‘No’ (xanadu*, 2013), as well as the poetry chapbook, Bullets & Orchids (Corrupt Press,
2013). She studied English Literature at the American University of Beirut, Lebanon, where she is originally from, and earned
her MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Missouri, Saint Louis, USA (where she is not originally from). Several of
her poems, essays, articles and translations have been published in various literary journals and anthologies across
the USA, Europe, Middle East and online, including UNCOMMON:DUBAI, Common Boundary: Stories of Immigration and
Nowhere near a damn rainbow. She teaches writing at Phoenicia University in Lebanon.
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