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Punk Hostage Press - The Legionnaire


On Friday the 13th of January in 2012, Iris Berry & A. Razor launched their imprint PUNK HOSTAGE PRESS where they continue to champion and advocate for original voices.


Jack Grisham; lead singer for the punk bands T.S.O.L., Vicious Circle, the Joykiller, Tender Fury, Manic Low, and Cathedral of Tears; and the author of An American Demon, The Pulse of the World, A Principle of Recovery, Code Blue: a love story, Untamed, and the children's book I Wish There Were Monsters.


Iris Berry is a native Angeleno and one of the original progenitors of the L.A. punk scene. She has sung, performed, and written songs with the Dickies, the Flesh Eaters, and Pink Sabbath. She served four years on the Board of Directors for Beyond Baroque. In 2009, she received her 2nd Certificate of Recognition Award from the City of Los Angeles for her contribution as a Los Angeles writer. Along with A. Razor she is co-founder of PUNK HOSTAGE PRESS.


A. Razor was born in Brooklyn, NY in 1963. Raised in a constantly moving triumvirate from the sands of Venice Beach to the foggy shrouds of the San Francisco Bay to the squats of the Lower East Side. A humble poet whose been etching words onto the walls of this world with the hardened edges of a broken heart as a love poem to a tumultuous life in motion.


Patrick O'Neil is the author of the memoirs Anarchy At The Circle K, and Gun, Needle, Spoon. He is the co-author of Writing Your Way to Recovery: How Stories Can Save Our Lives (with James Brown), and The Sentences That Create Us: Crafting A Writer’s Life in Prison from PEN America's Prison and Justice Writing Program. 


O.R. was born with words overflowing from her lineage. She is a mother first to three adult daughters and a wife to second chance. California has been her birthplace and where she resides currently with one foot in the mountains and the other in the ocean. O.R. spends her days with children and her evenings on the track playing roller derby with her local league.


Annette Zilinskas is a bassist and vocalist who has performed with the Bangles and Blood on the Saddle. She is a noted spoken word stylist and a longtime member of the celebrated spoken word/music troupe the Ringling Sisters. She is currently compiling a short-story collection with the working title Walking after Midnight forthcoming on Punk Hostage Press.

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7pm Leg 3 - The Legionnaire Saloon