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Alan Loney is a poet and his first book of poems was published in 1971. He was co-winner (poetry) in the New Zealand Book Awards in 1977, Literary Fellow at the University of Auckland in 1992, and Honorary Fellow of the Australian Centre at the University of Melbourne from 2002-2006. He was awarded The Janet Frame Award for Poetry in 2011. Loney has published 15 books of poetry, and eight books of prose with a recent emphasis on the nature of the book. He won The Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards in 2016 for his book of poems, Crankhandle (Cordite Books). He has recently retired from handpress printing and now is a full-time writer in Melbourne, Australia.

Amelia Rosselli (1930–1996) is one of the seminal experimental Italian poets of the twentieth century. Though born in Paris, she lived in England and the United States before settling in Rome in 1950, where she lived until her death in 1996. First trained as a composer and musicologist, she turned to writing in her early twenties. Often associated with the Italian avant-garde movement Gruppo 63, her trilingual writing in Italian, French and English and her gender both distinguished and alienated her from her peers. Her books include Variazioni belliche (1964), Serie ospedaliera (1969), and Documento (1976). She wrote extensively in English, a collection published in bilingual English-Italian format as Sleep-Sonno (1992).

Diana Thow’s translations include Amelia Rosselli’s Hospital Series (Otis Press/Seismicity Books, 2017) and Impromptu (Guernica Editions, 2014). Her translation, with Sarah Stickney, of Elisa Biagini’s The Guest in the Wood (Chelsea Editions, 2013) won the 2014 Best Translated Book Award. She holds an MFA in literary translation from the University of Iowa, and is a doctoral candidate in Comparative Literature at the University of California, Berkeley, where she specializes in Italian, French, and Translation Studies.

Born and raised in urban Los Angeles, Angelina Sáenz is a poet whose work focuses on memory, mujeres and motherhood. A public school teacher in LAUSD, she is eternally inspired by the daily dynamics of family life, classroom and community. She is a UCLA Writing Project fellow, an alumna of the VONA/Voices Workshop for Writers of Color and a Macondo Writer’s Workshop Fellow. Her work has appeared in venues such as Diálogo, Split this Rock, Out of Anonymity and Angels Flight Literary West. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing and hosts the monthly poetry reading series, La Palabra, in Northeast Los Angeles.

Brittany Ambree Williams aka B.A. Williams is a queer writer and performer from East Long Beach, CA. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing and is currently working on a novel-length manuscript and poetry collection. When she isn't writing or performing she is developing a platform which seeks to uplift communities of color, redefine “otherness,” and distribute intersectionality with various modes of art. B.A. co-curates and hosts un::fade::able — the requiem of Sandra Bland. Her poetry and prose focus on all things "other" with a heavy emphasis on Blackness, womanhood, and queerness. Her work has appeared in Contraposition Magazine and Rigorous Magazine.

chenel king was born and raised in Walnut, CA. She comes from a long line of storytellers and is obsessed with asking: why? Seeking to embody various different voices throughout time, history and space gives this writer the opportunity to provide prospective and bend and break held knowledge. Constantly intrigued and mystified by the obscurities this world, without pause, has to offer, one can’t help but to write. king has a B.A. in English, Creative Writing from San Francisco State University (2011) and an M.F.A. in Writing from Otis College of Art and Design (2018).

A 2019 PEN America Emerging Voices Fellow, Dare Williams is a Queer HIV- positive poet / artist rooted in Southern California. He has received fellowships from John Ashbury Home School and The Frost Place. He is a co-producer of the reading series Word of Mouth which raises money for communities facing food and nutrition inequities. Dare’s poetry has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and a two-time finalist for Blood Orange Review’s contest. His work has been featured in Cultural Weekly, Bending Genres, THRUSH, Exposition Review and is forthcoming in Limp Wrist and elsewhere. He is currently at work on his first poetry collection.

F. Douglas Brown is the author of Icon (Writ Large Press 2018), and Zero to Three (University of Georgia Press 2014), winner of the 2013 Cave Canem Prize. He also co-authored with poet Geffrey Davis, Begotten (Upper Rubber Boot Books 2016), a chapbook of poetry published as part of URB’s Floodgate series. Brown, an educator for over 20 years, teaches English at Loyola High School of Los Angeles, an all-boys Jesuit school, and holds fellowships from Cave Canem and Kundiman. He is the co-founder and curator of un::fade::able, a quarterly poetry reading series which honors the legacy of Sandra Bland while examining restorative justice, and ways to address racism through poetry.

Frank Smith is a poet, writer, video artist and filmmaker. For 15 years, he has created a body of work combining books, films, performances, installations and exhibitions that together constitute a poetic exploration of potential and existing discourses related to the major transgressions of the contemporary world. His works have been presented in arts festivals and instituions throughout the world, including: Steven Kasher Gallery, New York; Centre de la Photographie, Geneva; DocLisboa, Lisbon; Centre Pompidou, Paris; WARM Festival, Sarajevo; Pera Museum, Istanbul; STATION, Beyrouth; ArtMill, Szentendre, Hungary; Ateliers Médicis, Clichy-Montfermeil; and Fondation Michalski, Montricher, Switzerland. Smith lives in Paris and Los Angeles, and is represented by the Galerie Analix Forever (Geneva).

Guy Bennett is a writer and translator living and working in Los Angeles. His recent publications include Œuvres presque accomplies (2018) and For an Ineffable Metrics of the Desert (2018), the selected poems of Mostafa Nissabouri.

Jessica D. Gallion aka YELLAWOMAN is a writer, poet, mother, friend, from Natchitoches, Louisiana, raised in Los Angeles, California. She is the author of Can’t No Woman Woman Like Me, published by World Stage Press in Leimert Park. She is also the creator and facilitator for Creatin’ After Hours (a guided writing night cap) at The World Stage. She has performed for Compton College, various high schools in Los Angeles County through The Living Writers Series, Cafe Con Libros, The Pasadena Lit Festival, un::fade::able, The Table Lit Readings, La Palabra, and many other venues around Los Angeles. Jessica is the 2016 champion of the Spoken Word Voices Heard Poetry Slam and a graduate of the Community Literature Initiative. Her work takes you on a journey through self discovery and affirmations, colorism, singlemotherhood, and trials and overcoming with a cayenne cultural thread of “sho ya right.” A second book is in the works.

Ken Hatter is a poet. He was born and raised in East Texas at a time when being black and gay was anything but okay. Ken has spent the better part of his life in Washington DC, where he has acted as the unofficial mayor ever since.

Born in Lattakia, Syria, Maram al-Masri studied English literature at Damascus University, publishing her first poems in Arabic magazines during the 1970s. Her work has appeared in literary journals and anthologies internationally, and she has authored some ten collections of poetry, among them I Threaten You with a White Dove (1987), A Red Cherry on a White-tiled Floor (1997), Barefoot Souls (2009), Liberty Walks Naked (2013), and The Abduction (2015). Al-Masri’s writing has been translated into more than ten languages, and she appears regularly at poetry festivals around the world. She is the recipient of numerous awards, including the Prix Adonis (1998), the Prix d’Automne de la Société des gens de letters (2007), Prix Al Bayane (2013), Il Fiore d’Argento and the Prix Dante Alighieri del Premio Laurentum (2015). She lives in Paris.

Theo Dorgan is the author of five books of poetry, most recently Greek (2010) and Nine Bright Shiners (2014), for which he won the Poetry Now Award in 2015. He has also published two works of non-fiction, a novel, and has (co-)edited several volumes and anthologies, including Irish Poetry since Kavanagh (1996) and, with Malcolm Maclean, An Leabhar Mor: The Great Book of Gaelic (2002). Dorgan has served as Series Editor of the publications of the European Poetry Translation Network, and his own works have been translated into many languages. He has written for and worked as a broadcaster in both radio and television, and is a member of Aosdána, an Irish association of artists. He lives in Dublin.

Mike Sonksen aka Mike the Poet is a 3rd-generation Los Angeles native. Poet, professor, journalist, historian and tour-guide, his latest book Letters to My City was just published by Writ Large Press. His poetry’s been featured on Public Radio Stations KCRW, KPCC & KPFK & TV programs such as Spectrum News.

Nick Flynn is a poet, essayist, and writer of nonfiction who has received fellowships and awards from, among other organizations, The Guggenheim Foundation, PEN, and The Library of Congress. Some of the places his writings have appeared in include The New Yorker, the Paris Review, and National Public Radio’s This American Life. He is the author of numerous books, including Some Ether, Blind Huber, The Ticking is the Bomb, and a memoir Another Bullshit Night in Suck City, for which he served as an executive producer and artistic collaborator on the film version, Being Flynn (2012, Focus Features). In 2015 he published his ninth book, My Feelings (Graywolf Press), a collection of poems. That same year, he and Sarah Sentilles formed The Blue Sky Committee, and began documenting collective responses to state sanctioned violence in an open source project named Drone Alert Sutras. He is a professor on the creative writing faculty at the University of Houston, where he is in residence each spring. His work has been translated into fifteen languages.

Wendy C. Ortiz is the author of Excavation: A Memoir, Hollywood Notebook, and the dreamoir Bruja. In 2016 Bustle named her one of “9 Women Writers Who Are Breaking New Nonfiction Territory.” Her work has been featured in the Los Angeles Times, The Rumpus, the Los Angeles Review of Books, and the National Book Critics Circle Small Press Spotlight blog. Her writing has appeared or is forthcoming in FENCE, The New York Times, Joyland, and StoryQuarterly. Her “Urban Liminal” series of texts appear alongside signature graphic representations of the projects of Lorcan O’Herlihy Architects in the book Amplified Urbanism. Wendy is a psychotherapist in private practice in Los Angeles and teaches and talks about issues in creative writing both online and in person across the country.

Born in 1970, Mauritian poet and playwright Yusuf Kadel has published four collections to date: Un septembre noir (1998; Prix Jean Fanchette), Surenchairs (1999; shortlisted for the Prix Radio France du Livre de l’Océan Indien), Soluble dans l’œil (2010) and Minuit (2013; shortlisted for the Prix SACD de la dramaturgie de langue française). He contributes regularly to a variety of publications, primarily in Mauritius, France and Quebec. Recipient of a grant from the CnL (Centre national du Livre) and co-founder of the poetry journal Point barre, he was nominated in 2009 for the Prix Continental du jeune espoir littéraire africain. In 2014, he edited the Anthologie de la Poésie mauricienne contemporaine d’expression française (Paris, Éditions Acoria).

Guy Bennett is a writer and translator living and working in Los Angeles. His recent publications include Œuvres presque accomplies (2018) and For an Ineffable Metrics of the Desert (2018), the selected poems of Mostafa Nissabouri.