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the blueshift journal
blueshift / ˈblo͞oˌSHift / noun
the displacement of the spectrum to shorter wavelengths in the light coming from distant celestial objects moving toward the observer.
Meet the Writers & Artists
In spite of this country that takes & takes & takes. In spite of all of it, look at what beautiful things, what horizons we create, too vast & unreachable for anyone else in the world. — Tyler Tsay, From the Editor
the winners
Luther Hughes received his BA in poetry from Columbia College Chicago. He currently curates, “Shade,” a literary blog for queer writers of color. He is also the Associate Poetry Editor for The Offing Magazine. A Pushcart Prize nominee, Luther’s work has been published or is forthcoming in Solstice Literary Magazine, Muzzle Magazine, Winter Tangerine, Vinyl Poetry, Word Riot, and others. You can follow him on Twitter @lutherxhughes. He thinks you are beautiful.
Nina Sharma is a writer from Edison, New Jersey. Her work has been featured in Teachers & Writers Magazine, The Asian American Literary Review, Drunken Boat, Certain Circuits Magazine, The Feminist Wire, Reverie: Midwest African American Literature, and Ginosko Literary Journal. She recently was awarded a fellowship from the Vermont Studio Center and nominated for a Pushcart Prize for her nonfiction. She is formerly the Director of Public Programs at the Asian American Writers’ Workshop and with Quincy Scott Jones, she co-created the Nor’easter Exchange: a multicultural, multi-city reading series. She has an MA from Columbia University’s American Studies, Liberal Studies program and an MFA from Columbia’s School of the Arts Writing program, where she concentrated in nonfiction. She was awarded a fellowship to teach in Columbia’s Undergraduate Writing Program, where she is a lecturer in the interdisciplinary pilot program, University Writing: Human Rights. She is also an Arts & Culture editor at The Feminist Wire. Please visit www.nina-sharma.com for further information.
the runners up
Keith S. Wilson is an Affrilachian Poet, Cave Canem fellow, and graduate of the Callaloo Creative Writing Workshop. He serves as Assistant Poetry Editor at Four Way Review and Digital Media Editor at Obsidian Journal. Keith has received three scholarships from Bread Loaf as well as scholarships from the Millay Colony and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts.
Ariana Brown is an Afromexicana poet from San Antonio, Texas, with a B.A. in African Diaspora Studies and Mexican American Studies. She is the recipient of an Academy of American Poets Prize, a 2014 national collegiate poetry slam champion, and is currently working on her first manuscript.
Jennifer Tan is a born and raised New Yorker from Queens. She writes fiction and non-fiction, often on topics of race, class, and feminism. She has been published in Open City Magazine, Asian American Writers’ Workshop, and The Seventh Wave. Jennifer was recently awarded a scholarship to attend Hedgebrook VORTEXT, and was accepted as a VONA/Voices Fellow and will be attending VONA/Voices 2016 at the University of Miami.
Bushra Rehman’s first novel Corona, a dark comedy about being South Asian American, was noted by Poets & Writers among 2013’s Best Debut Fiction and featured in LA Review of Books as a work of radical South-Asian American Literature. She co-edited the anthology Colonize This! Young Women of Color on Today’s Feminism, one of Ms. Magazine’s “100 Best Non-Fiction Books of All Time.”Ajax, Raid, Mr. Clean is a story from her forthcoming YA novel Corona: Stories of a Queens Girlhood (Tor 2018). Headshot credit: Jaishri Abichandani
the artists
Jordan Thompkins is a 19 year old photographer, and college student, living in Atlanta Georgia. Jordan has been previously featured in The Blueshift Journal and has also done work for DJ Kash of the popular Atlanta radio station, V103. Jordan can be found doing freelance photography in the Atlanta area and can be contacted at jay.thompkins365@gmail.com.
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His Flickr, Instagram, and Tumblr can be found at https://www.flickr.com/photos/87594069@N08/, https://www.instagram.com/jordant.photography/, and http://jordanxphotography.tumblr.com/, respectively.
Jasmine or Jassie UO is an artist creating simplistic visual substance throughout her art. Primarily focused in photographing subjects the artist has a wide range in visual talent. Jasmine has over 6 years experience shooting in-studio and on location. From creating photo books, video visuals, album art, promo photos, celebrity photography and holding art exhibits and image installations. Jasmine the artist is a self taught photographer, but that has not limited her experience. She has worked as a photographer for companies such as The Art Direction (a creative branding agency) as well as Coal N Terry Vintage and PRSVR (clothing companies).
Gabriel García Román was born in Zacatecas, Mexico, in 1973 and raised in Chicago. Garcia Roman’s work has been exhibited throughout the country, most recently at the Manifest Justice exhibit in Los Angeles. If he’s not in a headstand or riding his bike then he must be honing his furniture making skills.
Luther Hughes Bio
Nina Sharma Bio
Keith S. Wilson
Ariana Brown
Jennifer Tan
Bushra Rehman
Gabriel Garcia Roman
Jassie UO
Jordan Thompkins
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