Shelby Handler is a writer, translator, and organizer with Jewish Voice for Peace. Recent work has appeared in and or is forthcoming in Poetry, The Iowa Review, Beloit Poetry Journal, Redivider, Poetry Northwest, The Journal, Black Warrior Review Online, Four Way Review, among others. Shelby has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize, Best of the […]
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Maia Brown is a Yiddish musician and dance-leader, writer, translator, visual artist and educator. Brown has a background in oral history and fine art, including a Watson Fellowship to study storytelling and advocacy in South Africa and the North of Ireland. She received her Masters of Fine Arts in Interdisciplinary Arts at Goddard College. She […]
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River Coello is a Guayaquil-born writer, translator, performer, facilitator, speaker, and researcher based in Orlando. They are the author of HAMPI, a multilingual, multimedia collection exploring their reconnection with the Andean cosmovision, published by For the Birds Trapped in Airports. Their previous collections, faith/fe and self/ser, were published by Homie House Press. Their writing is featured in the […]
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Eric Michael Acosta is a poet. He lives and works in Seattle. His debut collection Motion Flesh is out through Chat Room Books. His follow-up Underbelly is out through Carbonation Press. He runs the event series Unpoetry. Explore his work at www.printcopiesavailable.com. Sign up for the newsletter, or learn about Unpoetry at unpoetry.net. Artist Support […]
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Camila Rincon is a Colombian presenter and journalist with 10 years of experience as a news presenter and reporter. In addition, she has digital marketing skills. Her experience as a news anchor opened the doors for her to present different business and government events in Colombia. The last two years, she dedicated herself to training […]
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Arami Walker is a musician, author, and activist focused on uplifting the notion of community in our culture. Her music is a fusion of jazz, RNB, soul, and alternative songwriting. She graduated from UCLA in 2015 as a distinguished scholar and a Gates Millennium scholar. As a musician and poet, she has performed At Langston […]
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Danielle Bainbridge is an Assistant Professor of Theatre, Black Studies, and Performance Studies at Northwestern University, a web series creator and host, writer, and filmmaker. With PBS Digital Studios, in 2017 she co-founded the YouTube Channel and web series PBS Origin of Everything, which has now evolved into PBS Origins. The channel has 500,000+ subscribers […]
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Allison Masangkay (she/they) is an entity—sick, disabled, trans, queer, femme, cultural worker, researcher, aswang, cyborg, and more—with ancestors from the archipelago referred to as the Philippines. They currently reside in Duwamish territory (Seattle, WA) and previously lived in Jamestown S’Klallam land (Sequim, WA) and Lenni-Lenape land (northern New Jersey). Her current work includes essays, speculative […]
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Comedian and journalist Lee Nacozy grew up in Austin amid her big Lebanese family. She then moved west until arriving in Seattle in 2010. She is a studied improviser and storyteller who loves to teach social-justice improv. She has most recently worked as an editor for Prison Journalism Project and for Real Change and as […]
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Jarrett Ziemer is an MFA student in creative writing at Western Colorado University and an Assistant Poetry Editor for Terrain.org. Jarrett’s poem “A Fish-Tenkara” was awarded an honorable mention in Deep Wild Journal‘s 2023 graduate student writing contest, and his poem “A Bed as a Nest” was awarded an honorable mention in Dreamers Magazine’s 2023 “Dreamers […]
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