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Diego Garcia

Diego, known as @Agitprop_poet, crafts verse that agitates, illuminates, and refuses to look away. His poetry blends political urgency with lyrical precision, drawing from lived experience, collective memory, and radical

Connor Watkins-Xu

Connor Watkins-Xu holds a BA in Professional Writing from Baylor University and an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Maryland, where he taught creative and academic writing. His

Asha Dore

Asha Dore is a writer and illustrator working on a book about fawning. Bylines includeĀ The New York Times,Ā The Cut, andĀ Slate. She hosts ā€œTotally Biased Reviews,ā€ a literary interview podcast. Her

Makayla Danielle Gay

Makayla Danielle Gay hails from Southeastern Kentucky. Her work has appeared inĀ Adroit,Ā Prairie Schooner, andĀ American Literary Review, among others. Her debut collection,Ā HacklesĀ (Girl Noise Press 2025) is available now.

Hillary Behrman

Hillary Behrman’s award winning short stories have been described as deeply humane and unsettling and have been published in journals, magazines, short story dispensers and an anthology.Ā Lake Effect, her debut

Sigrun Lane

Sigrun Susan Lane is a poet from Seattle Washington. After a successful career in business, she returned to her initial passion: to be a writer. She began writing poetry with

Joanna Demarest

Joanna Demarest has been telling stories and facilitating storytelling workshops for over 30 years. She is the Northwest Folklife Festival’s Storytelling Community Coordinator and an at-large board member of the