About

Imagined in Galesburg, Illinois, in 2002 and established in 2004 in Providence, Rhode Island, Horse Less Press is a bare-bones, thin-skinned literary press. We publish an online journal, occasional reviews and interviews, hand-made chapbooks and pamphlets, and full-length perfect-bound books. We believe in the necessary absence of every articulated thing. Want to know what we’re up to? Sign up for our mailing list.

Jen Tynes, Founding Editor, Books Editor

Jen Tynes lives and teaches in Grand Rapids, Michigan. She is the author of  the full-length books Hunter Monies (Black Radish Books, forthcoming), Trick Rider (Trembling Pillow Press), Heron/Girlfriend (Coconut Books), and The End of Rude Handles (Red Morning Press) and the chapbooks New Pink Nudibranch (Shirt Pocket Press), Here’s the Deal (Little Red Leaves Textile Series), You’re Causing a Disturbance (Dancing Girl Press), The Fabulous Bilocation of B. Lee (Projective Industries), The Black Mariah (DoubleCross Press), Autogeography (co-authored with Michael Sikkema, Black Warrior Review), See Also Electric Light (Dancing Girl Press), and The Ohio System (co-authored with Erika Howsare, Octopus Books).

Sade Murphy, Chapbooks Editor

Sade Murphy a poet and artist from Houston, TX. Sade is a graduate of the University of Notre Dame, ​the author of Dream Machine (co-im-press, 2014)​, and a columnist at Real Pants (Lonely Britches and What’s the Tea). They are pursuing an MFA in Creative Writing and Activism​ at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn.

Soham Patel, Chapbooks Assistant Editor

Soham Patel is a Kundiman fellow. Her chapbook, and nevermind the storm (Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs) came out in 2013. Her work has been featured at Fact-Simile Editions, Copper Nickel, CURA and other places.  She is a PhD Candidate in Creative Writing at the University of Wisconsin in Milwaukee.

Shelly Taylor, Chapbooks Assistant Editor

Shelly Taylor is the author of two full-length poetry collections, Lions, Remonstrance (Coconut Books Braddock Book Prize, 2014) and Black-Eyed Heifer (Tarpaulin Sky, 2010), as well as three chapbooks,Dirt City Lions (Horse Less, 2012), Land Wide to Get a Hold Lost In (Dancing Girl, 2009), and Peaches the Yes-Girl (Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs, 2008).  Hick Poetics, co-edited with Abraham Smith, an anthology of contemporary rural American poetry, is newly released from Lost Roads Press (2015).  Born in deep southern Georgia, Taylor now lives in Tucson and is a lecturer at the University of Arizona, a bartender, and a barrel racing hopeful.

Erika Howsare, Chapbooks Assistant Editor

Erika Howsare learned to write poems in Ohio, Rhode Island, and alongside Lewis & Clark. She’s the author of Elect June Grooms and Oak Knock (horse less press), The Ohio System (with Jen Tynes, Octopus Books), and a collaboration with Kate Schapira, FILL: A Collection, forthcoming in 2016 from Trembling Pillow Press. She lives in Virginia, amid a tangle of invasives.

 Kenyatta Jean-Paul Garcia, Horse Less Review Assistant Editor

Kenyatta Jean-Paul Garcia is the author of This Sentimental Education, ROBOT, and Yawning on the Sands in addition to being the founder of ALTPOETICS. They are a poet, humorist and drummer originally from Brooklyn, NY. They now reside in Albany, NY where they received a degree in linguistics. Their work has appeared in ditch, Caliban, Barzakh, BlazeVOX and Brooklyn Rail. As well, they have performed in upstate NY and Western MA including lengthy readings of the epic poem, ROBOT, with the no wave band – Hill Haints. More of Kenyatta Jean-Paul Garcia’s work can be found at kjpgarcia.wordpress.com.

Jen Denrow, Horse Less Review Assistant Editor

Jennifer Denrow is the author of California. She lives in Colorado with a poet, a dog, and a baby.

Serena Chopra, Horse Less Review Assistant Editor

Serena Chopra is a PhD candidate in Creative Writing at the University of Denver. She is the author of This Human (Coconut Books, 2013) and Ic (Horse Less Press, 2016). She is a co-founder and performer with the poet’s theater group, GASP and a dancer with the modern dance company, Evolving Doors Dance. She is also a visual artist and was a 2011-2013 artist-in-residence at the RedLine gallery in Denver. She teaches in the MFA program at Naropa University. She lives and works in Denver.

Steven Dunn, Reviews & Interviews Editor

Steven Dunn was born and raised in West Virginia, and after 10 years in the Navy he attended University of Denver and received his B.A. in Creative Writing. His first novel, Potted Meat, is forthcoming from Tarpaulin Sky Press in 2016.

Amorak Huey, Reviews & Interviews Assistant Editor

Amorak Huey is author of the poetry collection Ha Ha Ha Thump (Sundress, 2015) and the chapbook The Insomniac Circus (Hyacinth Girl, 2014). A former newspaper editor and reporter, he teaches writing at Grand Valley State University in Michigan. His poems appear in The Best American Poetry 2012, The Cincinnati Review, The Southern Review, The Collagist, Menacing Hedge, and many other print and online journals.

Sarah Cook, Reviews & Interviews Assistant Editor

Lately, Sarah Cook is thinking about: the limits of language + the need to write, say, keep trying; the moment one thinks, “that’s not something I would do/say/be,” and the moment that follows; self-care, productive failure, and side ponytails. She currently rollerblades in the state of Oregon. She has work forthcoming in Electric Gurlesque.