Authors
S. K. Kruse grew up in Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin, then left for Madison to earn her degree in English from the University of Wisconsin and launch her writing career. After making her big debut in The Onion, however, she found herself on a twenty-five-year sabbatical to raise eleven children. Since emerging from this truth-is-stranger-than-fiction period of her life, her writing has been longlisted for the John Steinbeck Award for Fiction and has won multiple awards in the National League of American Pen Women’s “Soul-making Keats Literary Competition.”
Books by S. K. Kruse
Tales From the Liminal, 2021, Deuxmers
As the son of a newspaperman, Omer Kursat discovered photography at an early age as he observed journalists with cameras, typewriters and telex machines transforming the news into printed words and pictures on a daily basis. This influence also defines his current candid style for street and documentary photography.
Books by Omer Kursat
Keep the Change, 2018, Deuxmers
Peggy Ferris Photographs, 2018, Deuxmers
Dreaming of IONA, 2018, Deuxmers
Young Turks, 2014, Deuxmers
Over the Pali, 2:00 AM, No Pork, 2011, Deuxmers
Elsha Taya Travis (formerly Elsha Bohnert) creates art and poems from wandering around and reimagining things lost, forgotten and trashed. Born in Indonesia before World War II from Dutch-Indonesian parents, she came to the US via The Netherlands as a refugee. Hawaii is the closest she comes to heaven on earth.
Books by Elsha Taya Travis
Don't Trip Over the Garden Hose & Other Blood Sacrifices, 2013, Deuxmers
Michael Sanders, a physician, scientist, writer and poet, received his undergraduate degree in philosophy from Cornell University and his MD from New York University Medical School. His first book of poetry, Fun in Space, Love in a Violent World & Other Poems was published in 2014. Dr. Sanders currently lives with his wife Diane in southern Florida and is a professor at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine.
Books by Michael Sanders
Fun in Space, Love in a Violent World & Other Poems, 2014
American Crabgrass (Two Seas Volume I), 2016, Deuxmers
The Evil That Men Do, 2017, Deuxmers
Peter Shaindlin moves unpredictably between creative writing, music, photography, and the teaching of aesthetics. His primary poetic influences include Octavio Paz, Geoffrey Hill, Kenneth Rexroth, and Federico Garcia Lorca. An alumnus of the University of Oxford, he resides in Hawaii and prefers imaginary travel to that of the physical journey.
Books by Peter Shaindlin
18 Passions, 2013, Deuxmers
Citizen Steele, 2015, Deuxmers
The Swans of Pergusa, 2015, Deuxmers
Berlin: The Living and the Dead (Two Seas Volume II), 2017, Deuxmers
Ravens, Nights, 2020, Deuxmers
Lee Siegel, Emeritus Professor of Religion at the University of Hawaii, has published eight novels, four non-fiction books, and a translation of Sanskrit love poetry. Siegel’s writing has earned him a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship, two Residency awards at the Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center, a Visiting Fellowship at All Souls College, Oxford, and the Elliot Cades Award for Literature.
Books by Lee Siegel
FICTION
Typerotica, 2020, Deuxmers
Horseplay: Equine Fables of Love and Death, 2020, Deuxmers
City of Dreadful Night: A Tale of Horror and the Macabre in India
Love in a Dead Language: A Romance
Love and Other Games of Chance: A Novelty
Who Wrote the Book of Love?
Love and the Incredibly Old Man
Trance-Migrations: Stories of India, Tales of Hypnosis
NON-FICTION
Sacred and Profane Love in Indian Traditions
Fires of Love/Waters of Peace: Passion and Renunciation in Indian Traditions
Laughing Matters: India’s Comic Tradition
Net of Magic: Wonders and Deceptions in India
TRANSLATION
The Gitagovinda of Jayadeva: Love Songs of Radha and Krishna