North America

Matt Bodett (he/him) is a visual artist, poet, and activist. His work has been exhibited at venues including the Poetry Foundation, Steppenwolf Theatre Company, the Freud Museum in London, and the NO LIMITS...

Writer Chely Lima was born in Havana, Cuba. Lima studied at the University of Havana, going on to work for the Cuban Institute of Cinematographic Art and Industry. He is the author of over a dozen books, including...

Jessie Leitzel (she/they) was born in the mountains of Pennsylvania and raised in Charleston, South Carolina. They are a YoungArts award winner with distinction, a Presidential Scholar in the Arts, and a gold...

Jessica Cuello (she/her) is the author of Yours, Creature (JackLeg Press, 2023); Liar (Barrow Street Press, 2021), winner of the 2020 Barrow Street Book Prize and the Eugene Nassar Prize; Hunt (The Word Works...

Scipio Moorhead, born around 1750 to 1760, was an enslaved, African American artist in Boston, Massachusetts, who is remembered primarily for his association with the poet Phillis Wheatley Peters. Enslaved...

Michael Brownstein is a poet, a novelist, and an activist. Often associated with Beat writing and both the New York School and a second generation of New York School poets, Brownstein moved to New York City...

Crystal Carrazco (she/her) earned a Master of Arts in the humanities, with a cinema and media studies focus, from the University of Chicago. Her thesis, “Embracing the Rogue Agent in the Mission: Impossible...

Joy Young (she/her) is a Chicago-born storyteller and teaching artist. Her prose and poetry have been published in Poetry East, Lunch Ticket, Black Warrior Review, Portable Gray, and the LOCUS: VIII Gallery...

Chris Watkins (they/them) is a genderqueer poet, environmental activist, and PhD candidate in English studying at Florida State University. Their recent work has appeared in Harvard Review, Redivider, Frontier...

Lis Sanchez (she/her) grew up in California and Alaska and graduated from the University of Hawai’i with a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology. Sanchez earned a Master of Arts in English from the University of ...

Tom Snarsky (he/him) is a poet and the author of the full-length poetry collections Reclaimed Water (Ornithopter Press, 2023) and Light-Up Swan (Ornithopter Press, 2021), and the chapbooks Complete Sentences...

Theaster Gates (he/him) is an artist whose practice finds roots in conceptual formalism, sculpture, space theory, land art, and performance. Trained in urban planning and within the tradition of Japanese ceramics...

Natalie E. Illum (she/her) is a poet, disability activist, and singer living in Washington, DC. A former Jenny McKean Moore Fellow, she is the recipient of five poetry fellowship grants from the DC Arts Commission...

Kathryn Irene Glascock (she/her) was an American poet from Indiana and the author of Poems (Country Life Press, 1923). Glascock graduated Mount Holyoke College in 1922, where she was editor-in-chief of the...

Jessica Smith (she/her) is a writer, teacher, editor, and librarian. Smith’s full-length poetry collections include How to Know the Flowers (Veliz, 2019), Life-List (Chax, 2015), and Organic Furniture Cellar...

Miriam Kramer (she/they) is a queer, Jewish poet residing in New Jersey with her partner, daughter, and two cats. She is the author of Built by Storms (Write Bloody Publishing, 2024), which won the 2023 Jack...

Derrick C. Brown is a poet, comedian, and former paratrooper based in Los Angeles, California. His books of poetry include Love Ends in a Tandem Kayak (2023) and Strange Light (2013), both published by Brown...

Angelina Sáenz (she/her) is a writer, a poet, and an educator and staff developer recognized for her contributions to education. She received the 2014 Exceptional Woman Award from La Opinión newspaper and ...

Vivek Sharma’s (he/him) first book of verse, The Saga of a Crumpled Piece of Paper (Writers Workshop, 2009), was shortlisted for the Muse India Young Writer Award for 2011. His work in English is published...

Carlie Hoffman is the author of When There Was Light (Four Way Books, 2023), winner of a National Jewish Book Award, and This Alaska (Four Way Books, 2021), winner of a Northern California Publishers and Authors...