Aforementioned Productions, founded in 2005, publishes magazines, books, chapbooks, and online content, and organizes readings, theatrical performances, and other events.
Bios:
Carissa Halston co-founded Aforementioned Productions in 2005 with Randolph Pfaff. She’s the author of A Girl Named Charlie Lester and an editor at apt. Her debut novel was honorably mentioned in the 2008 New York Book Festival and called “emotionally generous” and “a lovely piece of female confessional” by Kirkus Reviews. Carissa has work appearing or forthcoming in Wigleaf, kill author, Grey Sparrow Journal, and Mud Luscious, among others. In September 2009, she performed in New York, Philadelphia, St. Louis, Toronto, and Boston for her one-woman storytelling tour, Portraiture. Her novella, The Mere Weight of Words, is due out in May 2012 from Aqueous Books.
Randolph Pfaff is a writer, editor, and visual artist. He has been published in various places and his photography and mixed media art have been featured in solo and group shows. Newish developments tend to show up at randolphpfaff.com.
J.F. Lynch is a fine arts painter. He has studied at the Art Institute of Boston, Lorenzo DeMedici Art Institute of Florence, and received his MFA in painting at Pratt Institute. He has been featured in shows in Boston and NY and been curating exhibits in the Boston area since 2005. He is also known to be caught playing guitar, making leather masks, or getting sucker-punched by strangers in Allston or Everett. J.F.’ s paintings are primarily an experiment in the adequacy of text as a representative of sound and thought . They can be viewed at jflynch.com.
Robin E. Mørk is a writer, poet, playwright and illustrator, and occasionally she knits. She is a graduate of Smith College in Northampton, MA (class of 2000), and has had every hair color nature allows, and a few that it doesn’t. As a child she read the dictionary for fun, but now that she is an adult she reads a lot of children’s books. She is also the associate editor of apt. Examples of her illustration work can be found at RobinMorkArt.com, and are for sale at her Etsy shop.