Talicha J. is a Black, queer poet, and workshop facilitator. Her work has been featured in several literary magazines and on the popular Button Poetry YouTube channel.

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Kristen Brida’s poetry has appeared in Fairy Tale Review, New Delta Review, The Journal, Notre Dame Review, and elsewhere. Currently, she runs a BookTok account dedicated to showing poetry is for everyone.

Find her on TikTok @booksby_kb

Danielle Mitchell is an intersectional feminist, poet, and teaching artist. She is host of The Poetry Lab Podcast and an artist for the California Creative Corps. Her poems have appeared in Hayden’s Ferry Review, Vinyl, Transom, and others.

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Karen Zheng is a first-generation, queer, Chinese-American. Her poetry has been featured in Emerson Review, Sine Theta Magazine, Honey Literary, The Wave, and elsewhere.

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Keimhaney Carlisle is a writer and poet currently based in Philadelphia, originally from California. She was a Get Lit-Words Ignite Fellow in the Summer of 2021 and served as an AmeriCorps member. Keimahney is passionate about human expression and social advocacy.

hr souffrant is a Chicago-based Haitian American writer, producer, and facilitator. souffrant's literary work has been featured in numerous online literary publications at Oberlin College, Hair Trigger Issue 41, Medium, Picture This Post, and Sixty Inches from Center.

Find her on Instagram @dat_haytian

Annie Freshwater is a lover of mythology, exotic houseplants, and dinosaur fossils. Her work explores the ways in which we populate our inner and outer landscapes with ghosts of our own making.

Find her on Instagram @onewingedflaw

Angela Yeh is an East Coast Canadian native who grew up a stone’s throw from Stephen King’s Maine and graduated with a BA in Psychology and Literature at Mount Allison University. She lives in Texas now with her two lovely children.

Find her on Instagram @thatpluckygirl

Allison Baldwin is a poet and disability advocate. Her work has been published in print and online, most recently in the Right to Life anthology, published by Folkways Press.

Find her on Instagram @the_awakened_poet

Leonora Simonovis is a Venezuelan American poet, editor and educator. Her debut poetry collection, Study of the Raft, won the 2021 Colorado Prize for Poetry. Leonora is the Reviews Editor at Ecotheo Review and the Currents Editor at terrain.org.

Find her at leonorasimonovis.com

Yomalis Rosario is a Black Dominican poet & teacher who was born and raised in Washington Heights, NYC. She has poems forthcoming in The Marbled Sigh and Hot Pot Magazine and writes about creativity, spirituality, & liberation in her monthly newsletter Letters From the Root.

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Bridget Kriner is a community college professor in Cleveland, Ohio. Her work has appeared in Rattle (Poets Respond), Book of Matches, Shelia-Na-Gig, Whiskey Island and Split this Rock, where she won First Place in the Abortion Rights Poetry Contest in 2012.

Find her on Instagram @bridgetakriner

is a poet and professor from South Central Los Angeles. Her debut book of poetry, be/trouble (Writ Large Press), was listed as one of Bookriot’s “9 Poetry Books That Capture the Black Experience” and L.A. Taco Book Guide’s “32 L.A.-Centered Books” in 2020. Her work is, in many respects, a love letter to Los Angeles as even when the city isn’t formally mentioned, it is always present and we are always aware that Los Angeles offers as much grit as it does glamour. bridgette bianca has also performed in many places including the LA Times Festival of Books, House of Blues: Anaheim, The World Stage, Southern California Poetry Festival, LitFest in the Dena, and Beyond Baroque. Recently, she joined forces with poet, artist, and activist GusTavo Guerra Vasquez to form South Central Spits Fire, through which they curate literary events and lead poetry workshops in their community. When she is not sharing her poetry, she hosts two Instagram series, Young, Black, and Tenured, Too where she documents her experiences in higher education and We Be Readin! Wednesdays where she discusses her romance reading obsession!

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(she/her) is a Black Dominican poet & teacher who was born and raised in Washington Heights, NYC. She was one of the recipients of the Brooklyn Poets Fall 2023 Fellowship and was awarded a Parent-Writer Fellowship from Martha's Vineyard Institute for Creative Writing in Spring 2024. She has poems forthcoming in The Marbled Sigh and Hot Pot Magazine and writes about creativity, spirituality, & liberation in her monthly newsletter Letters From the Root. She currently lives in Jersey City, NJ with her husband and two children.

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Her poetry has appeared in Fairy Tale Review, New Delta Review, The Journal, Notre Dame Review, and elsewhere. Kristen earned her MFA in poetry from George Mason University. Currently, she runs a BookTok account, @booksby_kb, dedicated to showing poetry is for everyone.

Find her on TikTok @booksby_kb | kristenbrida.com

is a Chicago-based Haitian American writer, producer, and facilitator. Many of her artist programs incorporate creative writing, visual and performance art and facilitated discussions on healing and restorative justice practices for people of color, artists, educators, youth, and adult audiences. souffrant's literary work has been featured in numerous online literary publications at Oberlin College, Hair Trigger Issue 41, Medium, Picture This Post, and Sixty Inches from Center. souffrant holds a BA in African American Studies and English from Oberlin College, and an MFA in Creative Writing from Columbia College Chicago.

Find her on Instagram @dat_haytian

is an East Coast Canadian native who grew up a stone’s throw from Stephen King’s Maine and graduated with a BA in Psychology and Literature at Mount Allison University. She lives in Texas now with her two lovely human children, three cranky fur babies, and a magical willow tree that calls itself Maddie. She writes fantasy novels and writes and reads poetry from all over the world.

Find her on Instagram @thatpluckygirl

is a poet and disability advocate. Her work has been published in print and online, most recently in the Right to Life anthology, published by Folkways Press. Her literary interests include lyrical and prose poems, ekphrasis and erasure, poetry and tarot, and young adult novels in verse. Allison holds an MFA in Poetry and Poetic Medicine from Dominican University of California and is currently developing her poetry collection, Divining the Silhouette.

Find her on Instagram @the_awakened_poet

is a writer with roots in Ecuador and Mexico. She went to USC and received her BA in Narrative Studies with a minor in Web Applications, and an MA in Literary Editing and Publishing. Professionally, she has worked with several nonprofits and startups. Joanna has several projects she is chipping away at, including a speculative fiction novel, a fairy-tale-esque short story collection, and a poetry chapbook about relationships and animals. Joanna lives in Los Angeles with her husband and their 2 cats (Pumpkin and Hopper) and 2 dogs (Zoey and Levi).

is a Venezuelan American poet, editor and educator. Her debut poetry collection, Study of the Raft, won the 2021 Colorado Prize for Poetry. Her work has appeared in DMQ Review, The Hopper, About Place Journal, River Mouth Review, Verse Daily, and others. She has received support from The Poetry Foundation, VONA, Women Who Submit, and the Vermont Studio Center. Leonora is the Reviews Editor at Ecotheo Review and the Currents Editor at terrain.org.

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