Our Mission
Allen Ginsberg said, “Fortunately art is a community effort –a small but select community living in a spiritualized world endeavoring to interpret the wars and the solitudes of the flesh.”
The Tata Nacho baffled and entertained us in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico. We didn’t know what it was. Mitch wondered if it was a cheesy, crunchy, breast shaped snack! I wondered if it was too strange of a name to use for a press. After hearing about the need for more venues for writers, we decided to start a venue, start small, but grow.
Thank you for allowing us to surf your words and wind them into villages–
Poetry Editor
Jesse Loren grew up in East Los Angeles and now resides in
Winters, California with chickens, dogs, kids and a garden. A veteran of two
marriages, she has lived with a magician, fire-eater, midget, and has castrated
sheep with her teeth. Her poetry can be found at Exquisite Corpse, Yawp, New Virginia Review and other publications. She co-edited two anthologies, “Mourning Sickness” a collection about miscarriage and infant death, and “Bombshells: War Stories and Poems by Women on the Homefront”, a collection of homefront tales spanning WWII to the present. She is a graduate of UC Irvine, and MFA graduate of UNO. Her first poetry collection, Screamin’ Meme is available from Lavender Ink.
Jesse Loren
Fiction and Non-fiction Editor
Mitchell Sommers, the fiction/non-fiction editor of Tatanacho, lives in
Lancaster, Pennsylvania, where he is an attorney practicing in the areas of
bankruptcy and debtor/creditor rights. He received his B.A. from Franklin
and Marshall College, his J.D from Dickinson School of Law, Penn State, and his
M.F.A. from the University of New Orleans. He was a columnist for Central
Penn Business Journal and has been a frequent op-ed contributor for many
Pennsylvania newspapers, including The Philadelphia Inquirer and The
Lancaster New Era. His short stories have been published in PHASE and
Ellipsis, and his story "Bando" was recently published in an edition of
Philadelphia Stories, as well as Philadelphia Stories Best of 2009 collection. Look for another story in the upcoming edition of
Big Toe Review.
He lives with his partner, Laura Lippstone and their dachsund Ginger. His
website is www.sommerslawyers.com
