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Literature from the damaged end of the machine.

The machine has declined to comment.

BROKEN ZINE / HUMAN RESOURCES

Authors & Artists

These are the people who keep Broken Zine’s machinery running, generally against their better judgment. Read their work. Follow the damage.

Darnell Price portrait art

Darnell Price

Noise, music, overlooked performances, and reviews written under duress.

Edie Brake

Fiction writer specializing in institutions, obsolete jobs, unreliable appliances, failed procedures, and people who take the wrong thing seriously.

Ellis Crowe

Poet and field recorder of buses, readings, waiting rooms, bad microphones, and other public situations that outlive their dignity.

Grant Nix

Nonfiction writer on the money, labor, status games, and institutional absurdities surrounding art, teaching, publishing, and supposedly creative work.

Jo Bellweather

Essayist of ordinary systems and civic debris: forms, counters, notices, broken machines, parking rules, and the strange little governments we meet all day.

Lulu Vex portrait art

Lulu Vex

Games, confessions, small humiliations, and the human talent for bad decisions.

Mabel Torque

Cartoonist and visual satirist drawing executives, pests, prophets, committees, appliances, and anything else capable of making a bad decision.

Marcy Coil portrait art

Marcy Coil

Advice best ignored, bureaucracy, break rooms, and domestic sabotage.

Mina Foss

Keeper of Amazing Facts: real science, history, engineering, animals, and other true things too strange to leave to fake-news accounts.

Pearl Voss

Poet of domestic failures, wrong turns, cheap coffee, and the small humiliations that deserve their own weather system.

Rita Splice

Collage artist and diagram vandal making fake forms, cut-paper arguments, corrupted charts, and visual essays from the remains of respectable communication.

Ruby Morrow portrait art

Ruby Morrow

Civic catastrophe, public relations, culture, and plans that work only in press releases.

Sam Rook portrait art

Sam Rook

Visual wreckage, small presses, inexplicable videos, and things found online.

Theo Finch portrait art

Theo Finch

Small poems, bad timing, and an ear for what the room refuses to say.

Vic Sloane portrait art

Vic Sloane

Small elegies for objects, habits, and everything that vanished without telling anyone.