is a queer poet based in Boulder, Colorado. She achieved a BFA at the Savannah College of Art & Design, majoring in Sequential Art and Creative Writing, and studied abroad in Southern France. They are the author of four poetry books, including One Thousand Good Answers (Sunday Mornings At The River) and Anti/Muse (Beyond The Veil Press.) They work as the editor and co-founder of Beyond The Veil Press, focusing on mental health awareness through poetry and art. Sarah uses they/them and 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.

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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.

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is a neurodivergent poet from Tracy, California. He is currently pursuing an MFA at Randolph College. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in HAD, Heavy Feather Review, Drunk Monkeys, Rejection Letters, and elsewhere. He is the founding editor of Plum Recruit.

is an intersectional feminist, poet, and teaching artist. She is host of The Poetry Lab Podcast and a 2023 artist grantee for the California Creative Corps. Danielle is the author of Makes the Daughter-in-Law Cry, winner of the Clockwise Chapbook Prize. Her poems have appeared in journals such as Hayden’s Ferry Review, Vinyl, Four Way Review, Transom, Connotation Press, and others. She is a proud co-founder of The Poetry Lab and currently serves as the organization’s Executive Director.

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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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