Archives: Teachers/Speakers

Nadine Antoinette Maestas is a poet's poet and believes that the empire of the sentence is an extremely oppressive totalitarian regime. She prefers the company of poems so much that she

Eric Michael Acosta is a poet living in Seattle. His debut collection Motion Flesh is out through Chat Room Books (2023). His follow-up Underbelly is out through Carbonation Press (2024).

Marianne is a musician and mixed-media experimenter from Hermosillo, MX. Their work serves as a vessel of self-discovery that explores regret, change, nostalgia, and liberation. Marianne finds the challenge of

Xóchilt Martinez is a Seattle born and raised poet and spoken word artist of Nicaraguan and Mexican heritage. Growing up queer and Latino in this primarily white city, in primarily

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 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 is a writer and illustrator working on a book about fawning. Bylines include The New York Times, The Cut, and Slate. She hosts “Totally Biased Reviews,” a literary interview podcast. Her

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

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. Lake Effect, her debut