is a Black Dominican poet, teacher, and bookseller who was born and raised in Washington Heights, NYC. She was a featured poet for Poets on the Plaza hosted by SupaDupaFresh at Lincoln Center as well as Kan Yama Kan in Brooklyn. Most recently, she was one of the recipients of the Brooklyn Poets Fall 2023 Fellowship and was awarded the Parent-Writer Fellowship from Martha's Vineyard Institute for Creative Writing. She has five poems forthcoming in EcoTheo Review and writes about creativity, spirituality, & liberation in her 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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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As a poet and novelist, Annie explores the ways in which we populate our inner and outer landscapes with ghosts of our own making. She often utilizes tarot and other spiritual practices as part of her creative process: Spirituality serves as a lens through which she processes her emotions and experience. Annie is a lover of mythology, exotic houseplants, and dinosaur fossils.

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