Please welcome our new contributor Tim Jones-Yelvington. Tim lives and writes in Chicago. His work has appeared in Sleepingfish, Annalemma, Pank, Keyhole, Monkeybicycle and others. He works for Crossroads Fund, a foundation that supports grassroots community organizers and activists working on issues of social and economic justice. Visit him online HERE.
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John Madera is the author of Nervosities (Anti-Oedipus Press, 2024) and Nomad Science (Spuyten Duyvil Press, forthcoming in 2026). His fiction is also published in Conjunctions, Salt Hill, Hobart, The &Now Awards 2: The Best Innovative Writing, and many other journals. His poetry is also published in elimae, Sixth Finch, Contrapuntos, and elsewhere. His criticism is published in American Book Review, Bookforum, The Review of Contemporary Fiction, Rain Taxi: Review of Books, The Believer, The Brooklyn Rail, and many other venues. Recipient of an M.F.A. in Literary Arts from Brown University, two-time New York State Council on the Arts awardee John Madera lives in New York City, where he runs Rhizomatic and manages and edits Big Other.
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It’s a growth-spurt! Welcome, Tim.
holy shit. today at big other has been like watching the draft. i’ve always wanted tim to do more blogging. nice pick.
Thanks David. We’re psyched!
welcome, tim!
yes yes, welcome, tim! do you feel bigger or more other yet?
I believe you mean “otherer,” Lily.
And to you, Tim, hello and welcome!
& welcome to you too, very nice.
Hi, Tim! I think that you and I will be sharing a room. John bought us bunk beds. (I want the top one!)
You can hang up as many Adam Lambert posters as you’d like…
Cheers,
Adam
Score!
Hello.