.CHISARAOKWU. (she/her) is an Igbo American transdisciplinary poet artist weaving archives, collage, and film to explore memory in the African diaspora. Her poetry is featured in Michigan Quarterly Review, Hayden’s Ferry Review, ROOM, Obsidian, and others, and was nominated for Best New American Poets and Best of Net (Poetry). Her chapbook “This Wake Holding, Mmiri” received the 2023 Evaristo Poetry Prize’s Honorable Mention from the Africa Poetry Book Fund. In 2025, she was named a National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellow. Learn more about her practice at www.chisaraokwu.com.

T. De Los Reyes is a Filipino poet and the author of And Yet Held (Bull City Press). Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Pleiades, Poetry Northwest, Epiphany, Waxwing, The Los Angeles Review, and elsewhere. She has been nominated for Best of the Net and was a finalist for the Pleiades’ Prufer Poetry Prize. She is the founder of Read A Little Poetry. Find more of her work at tdelosreyes.com.

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Julliette Holliday (she/her) is a Brooklyn based, Black, multi-hyphenate writer, poet, theater director, and educator. Her theater credits include composing, directing, and producing for the following organizations: La Mama Experimental Theatre Club, The Eugene O’Neill Theater Center, The Tank NYC, and Trusty Sidekick Theater. Today, she teaches drama and devising in high schools across NYC with Opening Act. A graduate of Sarah Lawrence College, Julliette’s writing has received support from VONA (Voices of Our Nations Arts Foundation Workshop) and Kenyon Review’s Adult Writers Workshop. She is the winner of a Katharine Bakeless Nason Participant Scholarship in Nonfiction for the 2025 Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference.

Karen Jaime is Associate Professor of Performing and Media Arts and Latina/o Studies at Cornell University. A scholar and author, Karen also served as the host/curator of the Friday Night Poetry Slam at the Nuyorican Poets Café. In her first monograph, The Queer Nuyorican: Racialized Sexualities and Aesthetics in Loisaida (NYU Press, 2021), Karen argues for a reexamination of the Nuyorican Poets Cafe as a historically queer space. Co-editor of an anthology celebrating Nuyorican Poets Cafe co-founder, Miguel Algarín entitled Memorias de Miguel: The Hard Work of Love, Karen’s poetry is included in The Best of Panic! En Vivo From the East Village, Flicker and Spark: A Queer Anthology of Spoken Word and Poetry, in Sinister Wisdom, and in Latinas: Struggles and Protest in 21st Century USA.

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Description goes hereOlivia Muñoz is the author of the forthcoming chapbook, These Women Carry Purses Full of Knives, winner of the Latin American Poetry prize from the Blue Mountain Review, selected by Richard Blanco. Her work appears in About Place Journal, San Pedro River Review, Thimble Literary Magazine, Gnashing Teeth Publishing Poem of the Day, and other publications. She has a MFA from California State University, Fresno. Born and raised in Saginaw, Michigan, Olivia now calls the West Coast home. You can find her on Bluesky @oliviamunoz.bsky.social and Instagram @oliviamunoz170

Symphonē Palmer (she/they) is an Atlanta based poet who has a passion for hosting film screenings, playing the bass, making poetry zines, practicing yoga, and writing about her experiences being a black lesbian in the south. As a 150-hour Yin Yoga Certified teacher, she's obsessed with the body and how it feels. Her practice yearns to bridge the gap between the unseen and the felt. How do you make the itchy scalp readable? How do you turn a passive moment into a sequence of action? These are the questions she begins to interrogate within her work. However, not every poetic investigation leads to a conclusion, but that's the joyful exploration within her writing practice that she enjoys so much. When she's not writing she likes spending quality time with friends, listening to CDs, and making homemade desserts with mango and passionfruit.

Victoria Reyes (she/her) is Associate Professor of Gender & Sexuality Studies at University of California, Riverside. She is author of Global Borderlands: Fantasy, Violence, and Empire in Subic Bay, Philippines (Stanford University Press, 2019) and Academic Outsider: Stories of Exclusion and Hope (Stanford Briefs, 2022). In addition to academic publications, she’s written for the Washington Post, LA Times, The Conversation, and Inside Higher Ed, among others. She also has two poems that are forthcoming in Feminist Formations and Departures in Critical Qualitative Research. Currently, she’s working on her poetry book manuscript tentatively titled “Monster.” She lives in Riverside, CA with her two children and her grandmother. She follows Palestinian artists in calling for solidary and action for a Free Palestine and to fight against and resist all systems of oppression and domination in pursuit of liberation for all. You may find her work at: https://profiles.ucr.edu/app/home/profile/vreyes

Ebbie Russell, they/them, currently residing in New England but heart-cultivated in DC, is a Blackqueer thirtysomething mover, poet/writer, collagist, hyperfluid waterbody thing writing on longing, joy, and grief. Their life-giving dreams are Queer, Trans, Afrosurrealist/futurist, Black Feminist and abolitionist-minded. Ebbie’s poetry, memoir, and performance art explore how dance can heal and honor intergenerational trauma and chronic illness. Their work reflects a black glitter militant hope that we will rise against the oppression of scarcity and carceral states. An alum of Tin House, Roots.Wounds.Words, and Voodoonauts, Ebbie’s poetry has been published in From Root to Seed: Black, Brown, and Indigenous Poets Write the Northeast.