What is Phasmid Press?
phasmid noun.
phas·mid | \ ˈfaz-məd
: denoting the order of tropical insects that include forms resembling leaves or twigs.
Phasmid Press takes its name from this humble ecological order, in an act of literary biomimicry. Like its insect kin, Phasmid is a publishing platform for those mixed-media, digital and printed works hidden in plain sight. A place for the ‘quietly surprising’.
Submit your work for consideration, requests for the rights to material, or good ol’ fashioned admiration to phasmidpress@gmail.com.
Who is Phasmid Press?
Born in Maseru and raised in Lesotho, South Africa, and Zimbabwe, Kwasu D. Tembo earned his Honours English Lit B.A, Critical Theory MScR, and English Lit PhD in Canada and Scotland. He reads, writes and watches everything from short fiction to experimental poetry, screenplays to grimoires, comics to comment sections, cartoons to the Criterion Collection. Aside from publishing academic articles and chapters in a range of international publications from Florida to Seoul, as well as serving as editor on two international media and cultural studies journals (Corpus Mundi and Galactica Media), he has just completed his first monograph, 'Genndy Tartakovsky: Sincerity in Animation', for Bloomsbury due for publication in October 2021. Aside from maintaining his scholarly output, he produces electronic music which has been released on labels such as Prrrrrrr Records (Berlin) and Paradise Palms Records (Scotland), is currently editing a collected works of his poetry and first novel titled Bison Bison.
Hailing from Johannesburg, Robin Scher holds a masters in International Relations from the University of Cape Town as well as one in journalism, specialising in Cultural Reporting and Criticism from NYU. When he's not doing his day job as specialist writer at Razor PR, he can be found working on the various projects featured on these pages. Or, publishing journalism for various outlets, with bylines in the Village Voice, NY Magazine's Bedford + Bowery, Rolling Stone and ARTnews.