Yrik Max Valentonis

Yrik-Max Valentonis wanders through the urban landscape seeking out fairy circles. He makes puppets so other people can see his imaginary friends. He steals apples to justify his philosophy. He is Baba Yaga's favorite grandson.
Author of Short Stories Without Provocation, 120 Days of Gomorrah and Cranium Theatre
Chapbooks: iDEAL and this is visual poetry.

His comics and writings have appeared in magazines and e-zines: artiCHOKE, Cliterature, Experimental-Experimental-Literature, Folio 94, Movement, Out Where It Counts, Pipe Smoker’s Ephemeris, Poetry of the People, Re:Verse, Rio: Online, and Taverner’s Koans,
Radio broadcasts: Autobiorama.
Art exhibitions: Art Within, Cuban Sandwich Show, experimental skeleton’s Funny Pants, Flammable Art: wo

Yrik-Max Valentonis wanders through the urban landscape seeking out fairy circles. He makes puppets so other people can see his imaginary friends. He steals apples to justify his philosophy. He is Baba Yaga's favorite grandson.
Author of Short Stories Without Provocation, 120 Days of Gomorrah and Cranium Theatre
Chapbooks: iDEAL and this is visual poetry.

His comics and writings have appeared in magazines and e-zines: artiCHOKE, Cliterature, Experimental-Experimental-Literature, Folio 94, Movement, Out Where It Counts, Pipe Smoker’s Ephemeris, Poetry of the People, Re:Verse, Rio: Online, and Taverner’s Koans,
Radio broadcasts: Autobiorama.
Art exhibitions: Art Within, Cuban Sandwich Show, experimental skeleton’s Funny Pants, Flammable Art: works on Paper, Nuclear Anatomy: Iconographic reconfigurations by post-detonation artists, Sandspur (a Titanic Anatomy project), and Why: Art about the attack on the World Trade Center & Pentagon.
He was referenced in “Reversible Destiny/We Have Decided Not to Die” the Guggenheim Museum's exhibition catalogue of Arakawa/Gins and “Robert Stackhouse Editions Archive” from the University of South Florida Contemporary Art Museum.
Anthologies: Animal Blessings, Divided Again, Sinbad and the Winds of Destiny, and Zombie Nation: St. Pete.
He illustrated the book: T.B. Farmer’s Guide To Living: Without Gout!. He won Tokyopop's Sumo Manga art contest and had artwork included in Domo: the Manga.

He has M.F.A. in Poetry and Prose from the Naropa University and a B.A. in English and American Literature from the University of South Florida.