Katie is a writer, artist, and longtime zine maker from Philadelphia. Her most recent book is Spiritbox, a collection of visual poems that look like memes.

Spencer is best known as vocalist of Seattle rock group The Murder City Devils. We first worked together on his poetry chapbook, A Halloween Poem for Children…, in 2018, and have since worked together on dozens of zines, albums, and pieces of art.

Defectivepudding is a self-taught illustrator and visual artist who has been pursuing art professionally for several years. She’s contributed to most of our collaborative zines and books, and has exhibited her art before during EFZRR events.

lauren is a writer, singer, cellist, model, and painter. Joe’s released a few of her albums on cassette, and she’s contributed to a number of our zines, including the On the Record Poetry Series.

Lucé is a filmmaker, comedian, and host of the It’s Always Halloween podcast. Each year we collaborate on an issue of The Lantern’s Way, a zine dedicated to Halloween, and have also worked on a lathe version of Poe’s The Raven with Lucé playing narrator.

The South Street Art Mart might just be our favorite shop in Philly. We’ve been selling our zines, tapes, and other stuff with them for years, and regularly vend at events they organize. Occasionally we have a highly competitive game night with the owners, Nicole & Nicole.

Chris is a programmer and musician. Chris and Joe make moon-themed country folk music as Gravey Train, and Chris masters most of our lathe releases.

Joe Jack Talcum is a musician and founding member of The Dead Milkmen. We’ve released Joe’s music in the past on cassette and vinyl record, and Joe’s contributed to some of our zines and Katie’s upcoming book Cat Party!

Gina teaches courses focusing on a wide variety of topics including horror, working-class literature, and Middle English literature at the University of Michigan. She and Joe authored the upcoming book Queer Horror: New Perspectives on the Chilling and Macabre, and she’s contributed to Cat Party!, Katie’s anthology of cat stories.

Joshua is an essayist and a zine maker, and he runs Antiquated Future, which distributes many of our zines. We’ve also done events together and contributed to lots of each other’s projects. What a lovely human!

Jay is an A+ human, even if his two cats ignore us 100% of the time we visit. His comics are excellent, and might only be trumped by his knowledge of hip hop and record collection. Jay’s a regular contributor, and you can find his work in Cat Party! and lots of Joe’s compilations: Joe even put out a tape of Jay’s sample-based beats.

Microcosm is a Portland, Oregon based publisher who we’ve been friendly with for almost twenty years. They’ve published lots of our books and zines, and we’ve set up and vended for them at events here on the East Coast. Microcosm recently published Katie’s book The Kitchen Witch and Joe’s Queer Affirmations Coloring Book.

Emma is an artist who creates devastating and humorous prints and comics. We first met years ago at a zine fest, and have since had Em contribute to a number of our zines and done some print projects together.

We met Icelandic composer & musician Íris during our 2022 writer’s residency at Gröndalshús in Reykjavík. We’ve since released a live improvised soundscape she created on Gufunes Beach on 10” lathe record, and she reinterpreted Joe’s poetry for Dark Nature, the first release from our On the Record Poetry series. Íris is a brilliant musician and an even better person.

Ally is a cartoonist, screen printer, and small press publisher. She’s illustrated our books Out & About: Joe and Katie Walk Around Philly, The Queer Affirmations Coloring Book, and others.

We met Sergey Onischenko, who makes electronic music under the name Make Like a Tree, at a show in Ljubljana, Slovenia, in 2018. We stayed in touch, and Joe put out his album Mothernight on cassette in 2019, before we all met up to tour together in Iceland in 2023. Sergey is a world class musician and a really cool person. Photo by Ilenia Tesoro.

Fireball is a print shop we use often in Philly. While we prefer to do as much printing as we can at home, we always look to Fireball for perfect bound books like Out & About and Spiritbox, and some of our high-art projects, like the zines in the On the Record Poetry series.