Joshua E. Griffin (who goes by Josh) lives life learning love(d). Experiences through travel and letting go of self, have allowed him to walk a decolonization path of unlearning and healing. Quote: I am my ancestors’ wildest dreams – you are your ancestors’ collective reality. A biography cannot highlight nor summarize an existence. If you wish to […]
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Rasheena Fountain’s work is multidimensional. She grew up playing southern gospel and blues on lead guitar in church. You can catch her spitting a verse on an experimental beat she has produced and performed under her hip hop alias. You might find her riffing over a slow Mississippi delta blues bassline. For two decades, she […]
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E.J. Batiste is a professional writer, poet, artist and award-winning dramatist originally from Raeford, North Carolina. She has a Bachelor of Science degree in Psychology from the University of North Carolina at Pembroke and a Master of Fine Arts degree in Creative Writing from Queens University of Charlotte. E.J. ‘s work often reflects upon her […]
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Mary Pan is a writer and physician with a background in global health and narrative medicine. Her work has appeared in Fourth Genre, Creative Nonfiction, McSweeney’s, Intima, and elsewhere. She has been selected for workshops, retreats, and residencies with Tin House, Hedgebrook, Kenyon Review, and Centrum, and is a Harvard Media & Medicine alum. The […]
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Positively Positive (they/them) is a multifaceted artist and an African-American/black queer, transgender, nonbinary, HIV positive at birth educator, spoken word artist, and a hip hop emcee who is a survivor of violence. Positively Positive’s artistic journey is a testament to resilience. They hold a graduate certificate in Environmental Education from the University of Washington’s Islandwood enriching […]
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Stacy Nathaniel Jackson is a trans poet, playwright, and visual artist of African American and Filipina descent originally from Los Angeles, who began writing after a serendipitous corporate layoff. His artistic practice in multiple forms addresses gender, family history, and conflict emergence. His debut novel The Ephemera Collector is forthcoming from Liveright/W.W. Norton. His work […]
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Catherine DeNardo studied killer whale behavior in the Norwegian Arctic and worked as a volunteer at the Center for Whale Research on San Juan Island, Washington. She is a former editor at Conservation magazine (now Anthropocene) and has worked as a freelance editor on several natural history books. Catherine’s writing on killer whales has been published in Outside Magazine’s Long […]
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Anna Homler is a vocal, visual and performance artist based in Los Angeles. She has performed and exhibited her work in venues around the world. With a sensibility that is both ancient and post-modern, Homler sings in an improvised melodic language. Her work explores alternative means of communication and the poetics of ordinary things. She […]
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Jesse Minkert’s work has appeared in about fifty literary journals including the Cream City Review, Confrontation, Mount Hope, the Floating Bridge Review, the Minetta Review, Poetry Northwest, Common Knowledge, and Harpur Palate. Thanks to Raven Chronicles, he is a 2016 Pushcart Nominee. Over twenty years he has written about fifty short radio stories that were […]
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Grey Eagle, or Ken Jackson (1923-2008), was director of Sacred Circle Storytellers and a founding member of Read Eagle Soaring, a Native American theater group that produced his AIDS-awareness and substance abuse play, Story Circles. Grey Eagle told stories for many years in North America and Europe, especially in the Nordic countries. A book of […]
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