is a queer, neurodivergent poet based in Santa Ana, California, who draws inspiration from travel, bodies of water, bodies in general, and poetry as a way to support mental health. She’s happiest when sitting on a warm, sandy beach sticking poems into notebooks, tending her garden, or cruising down the road — any road, really — with her loved ones. Rebecca uses she/her and they/them pronouns.

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is a budding poet, writer, and former Editorial Fellow for The Poetry Lab. Her stories have appeared in ¡Pa'lante!, The Plentitudes, Press Pause Press, and elsewhere. She has been a Harriet Williams Emerging Writer awardee by Literary Women Long Beach. Marilyn is the Fiction Editor for The Plentitudes and is currently working on a collection of short stories that contemplate womanhood, the body, Mexican Catholicism, and the power of blended language. Marilyn uses she/her pronouns.

@marilyniramirez

is a Philadelphia-based poet and writer whose work has previously appeared or is forthcoming in Button Poetry, Midway Journal, Kissing Dynamite, The Broadkill Review, and other journals. She is the author of Self-Portrait as a Sinking Ship, is a Best of the Net nominee, and volunteers for Button Poetry, Write or Die Magazine, and Variant Literature. Erica uses she/her pronouns. Follow her on Instagram @poetry_erica & on Twitter @erica_abbott and visit her website.

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is a writer, poet, mother with works published by Beyond The Veil Press, Nightingale & Sparrow and Sampaguita Press. You can find her @jessjunewrites. Jess uses she/her pronouns.

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is the co-founder of Not a Cult, a book publisher based in Los Angeles. He’s a producer spanning film, television, VR, and print media. He sits on the board of directors for community arts nonprofits Art Share LA and Junior High LA. (Photo by Jazzy Harvey.)

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is a writer and poet who lives in Denver. She has a bachelor’s degree in English Lit from the University of Wisconsin-Madison as well as a half-completed but ultimately abandoned master’s in public administration. She’s passionate about learning in community, artistic irreverence, and the feeling of finding the exact right word. Her poetry has appeared in Ghost City Review, Sky Island Journal, and elsewhere.

Find her on Instagram @ayla.poetry | 📚 Read More by Ginger

is an award-winning, Queer poet, playwright, memoirist and storyteller navigating the world with a chronic illness. She is a faculty member of the Community Literature Initiative through the Sims Library of Poetry. She was the 2020 recipient of the Milestone Award presented by Wyoming Writers Inc., and the Rising Star Award presented by the Jackson Hole Chamber of Commerce. She was the 2021 recipient of the Peter K. Hixson Memorial Award in poetry and was nominated as a Wyoming Woman of Influence in the arts category for her work in amplifying the voices of the LGBTQ and disabled communities in Wyoming through her writing.

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is a Queer Punjabi Canadian poet, writer, book reviewer & blogger. Her poetry & nonfiction has been published in The Poetry Lab Resource Center, Harness Magazine, Usawa Literary Review, Salt & Citrus, in three anthologies by Beyond the Veil Press and in a forthcoming anthology by Read or Green Books. Kris volunteers with The Poetry Lab, Beyond the Veil Press and Crow Collective.

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is a CSULB alumna with a BA in creative writing. Her poetry has appeared in the Santa Clara Review, ¡Pa'lante!, PSPoets, Dig Magazine, MadWomxn Magazine, Rice and Spice, and Prometheus Dreaming. Jessi serves as a staff writer for Antifragile and is the founder of "Grieving is Good for You," a virtual poetry workshop centered on the importance of expressing one’s joy and grief, launched early this year. Jessi hopes to soon pursue an MFA in creative writing and eventually teach at the college level.

Find her on Instagram @jessijarrin

is a Salvadoran-American poet that is homesick in two languages for no place in particular. She writes about love, identity, and the near colonization of her body. You can usually catch her at various poetry venues in the Orange County and Los Angeles area and chilling in local coffee shops. She has been featured at Shout! The Open Mic in Fullerton and along World Stage Press poets, her work can be found in the first fall online/print issue of Hue Journal. Becca uses she/her pronouns.

@beccuhboo

is a Pushcart Prize-winning author and the Assistant Director of The Poetry Lab. A multi-modal creative whose debut book of poems, Here Go the Knives  (Moon Tide Press 2022) is part memoir, part magical realism, part illustration and focuses on their decades surviving with debilitating scoliosis. A graduate of UCSC (go Banana Slugs!) Kelsey has helped develop The Poetry Lab’s online and accessible workshop model and continues to tend the literary hub of online community for rogue poet-scholars throughout the world.

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