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.

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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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