Alicia Jo Rabins is a poet, composer, performer and Torah teacher. She is the author of Divinity School (APR/Honickman First Book Prize, 2015) and Fruit Geode (Augury Books, 2018). Rabins is the creator and performer of Girls in Trouble, an indie-folk song cycle about women in Torah, and A Kaddish for Bernie Madoff, a one-woman chamber-rock opera about finance and mysticism currently being made into a film. An internationally touring violinist and singer, Alicia lives in Portland, OR with her partner and two children. She loves plants, ancient texts and coffee, and is currently at work on a memoir. www.aliciajo.com
Brandon Shimoda‘s recent books are The Desert (poetry and prose; The Song Cave), Dept. of Posthumous Letters (drawings; text by Dot Devota and Caitie Moore; Argos Books), and The Grave on the Wall (an ancestral memoir, forthcoming from City Lights). He is currently researching/writing a book on the afterlife of Japanese American incarceration, passages from which have appeared in/on The Asian American Literary Review, Densho Blog, Hyperallergic, The Margins, and The New Inquiry. He lives in the desert.
Denise Jarrott is the author of NYMPH (vegetarian alcoholic press) and a chapbook, Nine Elegies (dancing girl press). She grew up in Iowa and lives in Brooklyn.
Stella Corso is a writer and performer currently living in Brooklyn. She is a founding member of the Connecticut River Valley Poets’ Theater and graduate of the MFA Program for Poets & Writers at UMass-Amherst. Her first book of poems, TANTRUM, was selected by Douglas Kearney as winner of the 2016 Black Box Prize for Poetry from Rescue Press.
Forrest Gander, a writer and translator with degrees in geology and literature, was born in the Mojave Desert and grew up in Virginia. Among his most recent books are the novel The Trace, the poems Eiko & Koma, and Alice Iris Red Horse: Selected Poems of Yoshimasu Gozo.Be With, Gander’s first full book of poems since Core Samples from the World, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award, is just out from New Directions. Gander lives in Petaluma, California.
Lorenzo Thomas was born in Panama in 1944, but his family relocated to New York in 1948, and it was there that he was schooled and began his life as a poet. Already publishing as a teenager, Thomas formed lifelong friendships with such New York poets as Ted Greenwald, and was the youngest member of the Society of Umbra, that crucial predecessor of the Black Arts Movement. Following a tour of duty in the Navy, Thomas moved to Houston, where he became an intimate part of the cultural life of that region, while continuing his national and international literary associations. A critic as well as a poet, Thomas published two volumes of scholarship as well as numerous essays, including several histories of the Umbra group. He died on July 4, 2005.
Phoebe Glick is a writer and editor concerned with preserving queer intimacy under the carceral State. She is a graduate of the Pratt MFA in Writing and Social Practice, and has received support from the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics. She is the co-founder and co-editor of The Felt. Her creative and critical work has appeared or is forthcoming in her chapbook Period Appropriate (dancing girl press, 2016) as well as in Jacket 2, No Dear Magazine, Apogee Journal, Cosmonauts Avenue and elsewhere. Phoebe’s prose and poetry explore queer monstrosity and eroticism, attempting to forge a new reality in which validation by capital is not a necessary condition for joy.
Stephon Lawrence is a Brooklyn born & based writer, and artist. She is an editor of The Felt, a journal of otherworldly poetics. Her work has appeared in Cosmonauts Avenue, Queen Mob’s Teahouse, GlitterMOB, Fanzine & other places. Her microchap //GERMZ is available from Ghost City Press. Her chapbook //EVIL TWIN is available from Resolving Host. Stephon spends her free time watching anime, yelling about white supremacy, and being cute for the ‘gram. You can find her on twitter @nnohpetss & instagram @alphaheaux
Rosamond S. King is a creative and critical writer and performer. Poetry publications include the Lambda Award-winning collection Rock | Salt | Stone and poems in more than three dozen journals, blogs, and anthologies, such as The Feminist Wire, Drunken Boat, Harriet, The Caribbean Writer and the award-winning Kindergarde: Experimental Writing for Children. Her scholarly book Island Bodies: Transgressive Sexualities in the Caribbean Imagination received the Caribbean Studies Association best book award. King’s movement- and text-based performance art has been curated around the world. She is the creative editor of sx salon: a small axe literary platform and associate professor at Brooklyn College. www.rosamondking.com
Bill Kushner (1931-2015) authored eight collections of poetry and co-authored a volume of collaborative poems with Tom Savage. His work has been anthologized in Up Late (4 Walls & Windows, 1987), In Our Time: The Gay and Lesbian Anthology (St. Martin’s, 1989), Out of This World (Crown, 1991), Best American Poetry 2002 (Scribners, 2002), and Poetry After 9/11: An Anthology of New York Poets (Melville House Publishing, 2003). He was a 1999 and 2005 Fellow of the New York Foundation of the Arts.
Marianne Shaneen is a Lebanese/Mexican-American writer of fiction, poetry, and essays, who also works in documentary video. Shaneen received her MFA in writing from the Bard Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts. She has been awarded fellowships at the MacDowell Colony and at Yaddo, and received a NYSCA Individual Artist grant for her documentary video essay—a poetic, playful, provocative exploration of fluid identity and trans-species possibility. Her work has appeared in Bomb, The Brooklyn Rail, Manchester University Press, Vanitas, and elsewhere. Her chapbook Lucent Amnesis was published by Portable Press/Yo-Yo Labs. She is currently finishing her first novel, Homing—a speculative fiction work that experiments with what she calls “writing in the first non-human-person,” from the ‘perspective’ of various animals, plants, a stone, plastic. Amidst eco-destruction and military and corporate control of technologies and bodies, its female protagonist asks, Where does self end and other begin? As she realizes that everywhere home might be is becoming uninhabitable, personal trauma becomes increasingly entwined with ecological trauma. She lives in Brooklyn and in upstate New York, with her partner and their dog Rupert Pupkin.
Divya Victor is the author of KITH (Fence Books/ Book Thug), a book of verse, prose memoir, lyric essay and visual objects; NATURAL SUBJECTS (Trembling Pillow, Winner of the Bob Kaufman Award), UNSUB (Insert Blanc), and THINGS TO DO WITH YOUR MOUTH (Les Figues). Her chapbooks include Semblance and Hellocasts by Charles Reznikoff by Divya Victor by Vanessa Place. Her criticism and commentary have appeared in Journal of Commonwealth & Postcolonial Studies, Jacket2, and The Poetry Foundation’s Harriet. Her work has been collected in numerous venues, including, more recently, the New Museum’s The Animated Reader, Crux: Journal of Conceptual Writing, The Best American Experimental Writing, and boundary2. Her poetry has been translated into French and Czech. She has been a Mark Diamond Research Fellow at the U.S Holocaust Memorial Museum, a Riverrun Fellow at the Archive for New Poetry at University of California San Diego, and a Writer in Residence at the Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibit (L.A.C.E.). Her work has been performed and installed at Museum of Contemporary Art (MoCA) Los Angeles, The National Gallery of Singapore, the Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibit (L.A.C.E.) and the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA). Divya Victor is Assistant Professor of Poetry and Writing at Michigan State University and Guest Editor at Jacket2. She is currently at work on a project commissioned by the Press at Colorado College.
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