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    Matt Bodett

    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...
    A black and white headshot of a white male. Matt has has short brown hair with slight curls at the front as well as a short trimmed beard and mustache.
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    Crystal Carrazco

    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...
    Black and white photo of Crystal Carrazco, a Latina woman with short dark brown hair wearing clear glasses and smiling, looking to the left.
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    Joy Young

    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...
    Joy Young, a black woman with brown hair smiling.
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    Chris Watkins

    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...
    Chris Watkins, a white person, stands in a sunlit forest, wearing a crown of light.
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    Theaster Gates

    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...
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    Kathryn Irene Glascock

    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...
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    Vivek Sharma

    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...
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    Timothy David Rey

    Timothy David Rey (he/him) is a poet, playwright, and performer. His original solo performances, monologues, poems, and plays have been produced in Chicago, Texas, and Panama (translated into Spanish). He ...
    Timothy David Rey, a Black man wearing a gray sweater in front of a black background.
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    Rubén Medina

    Rubén Medina (he/him) is a poet, translator, and scholar, as well as one of the founders of Infrarealism. His research and teaching center on Mexican and United States Latinx literature and culture, continental...
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    Grisel Y. Acosta

    Grisel Y. Acosta (she/they) is a professor at Bronx Community College of the City University of New York. Their poetry collection, Things to Pack on the Way to Everywhere (Get Fresh Books, 2021), was a 2020...
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    Luis Tubens

    Luis Tubens (he/him), also known as “Logan Lu,” is a Chicago-born, Puerto Rican spoken-word artist and educator. He is the author of Stone Eagle (Bobbin Lace Press, 2017). In 2014 and 2018, he represented ...
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    Yolanda Nieves

    Yolanda Nieves, born and raised in Chicago’s Humboldt Park neighborhood, identifies as a second-generation Puerto Rican and is an activist scholar, poet, playwright, director, and educator. She is the author...
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    Marta Collazo

    Marta Collazo (she/her) is a Queer, Afro-Latina poet who has explored and deconstructed how heteronormative constructs, culture, gender, spirituality, monogamy, body agency, guilt, and shame play a role in...
    Marta Collazo, an Afro-Boricua woman with short cropped white hair, wearing a seafoam top with a bulldog pin and big round white sunglasses, poses for a picture in front of a cherry wood background.
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    Dawn M. Joseph

    Dawn M Joseph (she/her) is an artist and educator whose creative work spans photography and design. Her photography emphasizes the interplay of textures, light, shadows, and alternative perspectives. Central...
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    Keli Stewart

    Keli Stewart (she/her) is an author, educator, and arts activist whose writing has been published in Rhino, Meridians, and WarpLand: A Journal of Black Literature and Ideas, among others. Her published works...
    Keli Stewart, a lighter-skinned Black woman with brown braids and wearing a purple dress, is outside with greenery in the background.
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    Crystal Vance Guerra

    Crystal Vance Guerra (she/her) is a Chicana poet, historian, and educator based in Chicago and Mexico City. Her art is Latin Americanist at root, often Spanglish in expression, and written to be read out loud...
    Crystal Vance Guerra, a Chicana irish poet with brown hair and eyes, wearing plaid & her mother's red coral earrings, sits atop El Tezcutzingo, a sacred site in Mexico.
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    John B. Burroughs

    John B. Burroughs served as the National Beat Poetry Foundation’s 2022–2023 U.S. Beat Poet Laureate. Burroughs previously served for two years as Ohio’s Beat Poet Laureate. His poetry collections include The...
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    Scheherazade Tillet

    Scheherazade Tillet (she/her) is a photo-based artist, curator, and feminist activist. Tillet’s work focuses on themes like Blackness, play, freedom, trauma, and healing. Tillet’s work has been showcased at...
    An African American woman with dark brown curly hair wearing a blue dress
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    George B Bailey

    George B. Bailey (he/him) is an associate professor of English, emeritus, in the English department of Columbia College Chicago. He earned a BA in creative writing from Columbia College Chicago, an MA in English...
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    James Matthew Wilson

    James Matthew Wilson is the author of the poetry collections The Strangeness of the Good (Angelico, 2020), winner of the Catholic Media Award for poetry in 2021, The Hanging God (Angelico, 2018), and Some ...
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