ASSISTANT DIRECTOR

Kelsey (she/they) is a disabled, queer, bilingual immigrant, and author based in Los Angeles, California. Their debut poetry collection, Here Go the Knives  (Moon Tide Press 2022) focuses on their decades surviving with debilitating scoliosis.

EDITORIAL FELLOW

Marilyn (she/her) is a budding poet, writer, and 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.

EDUCATION COORDINATOR

Kris (she/her) 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.

EDITOR-IN-CHIEF

Ginger (she/her) is a writer and poet who lives in Denver. She has a bachelor’s degree in English Lit from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her poetry has appeared in Ghost City Review, Sky Island Journal, and elsewhere.

SPOKEN WORD ART NURTURER

Christian (he/him) is a second generation Filipino-American poet and teaching artist who goes by the moniker, "Soul Stuf." His debut collection of poetry has just been released via World Stage Press, alongside his first ever poetry album produced by Fictitious Professor.

STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIP FELLOW

Anne Marie (she/they) is an award-winning, Queer poet, playwright, memoirist and storyteller navigating the world with a chronic illness. She is the author of Survived By: A Memoir in Verse + Other Poems (Curious Corvid Publishing, 2023) and Happy Iceland, winner of the 2022 Wanderlust Travel Book Award through Wild Dog Press.

EDITORIAL FELLOW / LEAD STAR CHILD

Jess (she/her) is a writer, poet and Editorial Fellow at The Poetry Lab. Her debut chapbook Through The Red Door’s Open Maw will be published September 2023 with Beyond The Veil Press. She is also the source of The Poetry Lab’s awesome astrological content!

COLLABORATING FELLOW

While her writing usually dabbles in sci fi/fantasy and abstract prose poems, this llama will occasionally explore sociopolitical identity poetry in honor of April’s Arab American Heritage Month. Nadia has previously published Yalla, Habibi: Poems in 3arabeezi; and Awakening. Nadia uses (she/they) pronouns.

DEVELOPMENT FELLOW

Rebecca (she/they) 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.

PODCAST PRODUCER

Lori (she/her) is a freelance writer and copyeditor. She is the producer and co-host of DIY MFA Radio and editor-in-chief of DIYMFA.com, among other roles. Lori is a copyeditor for Amanda Filippelli and collaborating fellow for The Poetry Lab. She writes personal essays and memoir in Tulsa, where she lives with her husband and cat, Joan Didion.

FOUNDING DIRECTOR

Danielle (she/her) is an intersectional feminist, writer, and teaching artist. Her chapbook, Makes the Daughter-in-Law Cry, winner of the Clockwise Chapbook Prize (Tebot Bach, 2017). Her poems have appeared in Hayden’s Ferry Review, Vinyl, Four Way Review, Transom, New Orleans Review, Nailed Magazine and others.