Four score and three issues ago this zine did not exist. Two score 
and three issues ago LCRW popped into being just like the big bang — but
 with less burning hot plasma and fewer planets forming. The formation included a twice-yearly space for fiction, poetry, and later, when the spinning slowed enough not to spill everything, a cooking column from Nicole Kimberling.

Contributor Bios for LCRW 43:

Alisa Alering lives in Indiana where she reports on innovations in science and technology. Her rather unscientific fiction has appeared in Podcastle, Clockwork Phoenix IV, and Flash Fiction Online,
 among others and has been recognized by the Italo Calvino Prize. She is
 currently at work on a novel about two sisters prepping for the 
apocalypse in 1980s Appalachia.

Leah Bobet is a novelist, editor, and 
critic whose novels have won the Sunburst, Copper Cylinder, and Aurora 
Awards, been selected for the Ontario Library Association’s Best Bets 
program, and shortlisted for the Cybils and the Andre Norton Award. Her 
short fiction has appeared in multiple Year’s Best anthologies and been 
transformed into choral work, and is taught in high school and 
university classrooms in Canada, Australia, and the US. She is guest 
poetry editor for Reckoning: creative writing on environmental justice‘s
 2021 issue. She lives in Toronto, where she makes jam, builds civic 
engagement spaces, and plants both tomatoes and trees. Visit her at leahbobet.com.

Erica Clashe lives in Minneapolis with her cat, Ommie. She’s a professional gay auntie. This is her first published work. Find her at ericaclashe.com.

Gillian Daniels writes, works, and haunts 
the streets of the Boston area in Massachusetts. She grew up in 
Cleveland, Ohio and left shortly after attending the 2011 Clarion 
Science Fiction and Fantasy Workshop. Since then, her poetry and short 
fiction have appeared in Strange Horizons, Apex Magazine, and Beneath Ceaseless Skies,
 among more than twenty-five other publications. She serves as custodian
 to one (1) ginger cat who likes to chew the corners of her books when 
she doesn’t feed him breakfast right away.

Kathleen Jennings is a writer and illustrator based in Brisbane, Australia. Her Australian Gothic debut Flyaway (Tor.com) and her poetry debut Travelogues: Vignettes from Trains in Motion (Brain
 Jar Press) were published in 2020. She has won two Ditmars for her 
short stories and been shortlisted for the Eugie Foster Memorial Awards.
 As an illustrator (this story began as a series of pictures exhibited 
at Light Grey Art Lab, Minneapolis), she has been shortlisted four times
 for the World Fantasy Awards, as well as once for the Hugos and the 
Locus Awards, and has won several Ditmars.

Jim Marino’s stories are published or forthcoming in Apex Magazine and the Alaska Quarterly Review, and his short humor has appeared on McSweeney’s Internet Tendency. He makes his living teaching Shakespeare.

Zack Moss is a writer of weird fiction with an MFA from Western Washington University. His stories have appeared in Alimentum: the Literature of Food, The Crambo, and Zymbol, among a few others.

Quinn Ramsay is a graduate of the University of Glasgow. His prose and poetry have been published in Paragraphiti, From Glasgow to Saturn, Santa Clara Review, The Magnolia Review, and Gemini, among others. He has been a recipient of the Amy M. Young Award in Creative Writing, and a co-editor and designer for Williwaw: an Anthology of the Marvellous.

Jessy Randall’s poems, stories, and other things have appeared in Analog, Asimov’s, Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet, and Strange Horizons. Her most recent book is How to Tell If You Are Human: Diagram Poems. She is a librarian at Colorado College and her website is http://bit.ly/JessyRandall.

Joanne Rixon lives in the shadow of an 
active volcano with a rescue chihuahua named after a dinosaur, and is an
 organizer with the North Seattle Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers 
Meetup. Her poetry has appeared in GlitterShip, her book reviews in the Seattle Times and the Cascadia Subduction Zone Literary Quarterly, and her short speculative fiction in venues including Terraform, Fireside, and Liminal Stories. You can find her yelling about poetry and politics on twitter @JoanneRixon

Anne Sheldon is a librarian and storyteller in Silver Spring, MD. Her work has appeared in Cascadia Subduction Zone, The Lyric, Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet, and other magazines. Aqueduct Press has published two books of her verse, The Adventures of the Faithful Counselor and The Bone Spindle.

Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet issue number 43, June 
2021. ISSN 1544-7782. Ebook ISBN: 9781618731968. 

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reserved. Cover illustration “Black-and-White Monkey” © 2021 by 
Catherine Byun (catherinebyun.com). 

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