the 20th century who worked on the fishing boats in Alaska and the farms of Northern California and Hawai’i. 🛶 An alum of UC San Diego, the UCLA Professional Program in TV Writing and VONA/Voices, Jaime is a spoken word artist, playwright, and aspires to write for television. +

A writer and filmmaker who loves squeezing heartstrings into words and being pleasantly surprised by the soup of the day. 🍜🍜🍜 Aliyah Knight’s most recent work features in or is forthcoming in voidspace zine, small leaf press & fifth wheel press.

Eliott (he/they) is a British writer recently finished at the University of Oxford, writing near–exclusively on bodily autonomy and trans liberation. 🐚

Translating from ancient Greek and Latin, she recently earned her MFA in Literary Translation at the University of Iowa, where she also had the pleasure of working with the ancient literary translation journal Ancient Exchanges. 📖

Meet SG Huerta! 🥬🥬🥬 A Chicane writer from Dallas, they are the author of the chapbooks The Things We Bring with Us (Headmistress Press 2021) and Last Stop (Defunkt Magazine 2023). Their work has appeared in Split Lip Magazine, Infrarrealista Review, and elsewhere.

Our first feature is Josie Levin. 🍓🍅🥕 Josie Levin is a visual artist and writer whose work has appeared in several publications including Witness, Kitchen Table Quarterly, and Unstamatic Magazine.

Hello lovely readers and writers! Each day this week we will be highlighting our contributors to the Lavender Menace zine

Alyce shipping out the first round of lavender menace zines to contributors and patreon subscribers!! You can subscribe to our patreon here for as little as $1 / month: patreon.com/offmenupress

Our newest zine is here & ready for you to buy on our website!! Presenting: "Lavender Menace," featuring @bemusual @eliottcats @sg_poetry @_jaimest @pol_udora, indigo carter, and aliyah knight. Get yours here ➡️➡️➡️ offmenupress.com/lavender-me…

and tune in all month for the virtual San Fernando Valley Zine Fair! *registration link in bio*

Come visit us *this Sunday* at the lovely @sfzinefest !

Haven’t had a chance to read Nina Louise’s novella, The Sea of Dead Souls, yet? It’s now more accessible than ever in eBook format on our website. 🌍 Published in May by independent publisher Off Menu Press, The Sea of Dead Souls has been called “a magical +

Come visit OMP, pick up some earrings by Lavender Rose Resin, and check out the other vendors at Majesty Marketplace! Stop by Motion Pacific Dance in Santa Cruz, open till 8 PM ‼️ 🤭💖🌈

A reminder: If you live in the Santa Cruz area come out to our #queer #crafternoon tomorrow at 5 pm PST! Address: 1107 Seabright Avenue Unit B, Santa Cruz. ft: flower pressing, Zine making, & collaging. This will be outside / in an open garage with optimal airflow. 😷 required!