Gabrielle Civil is a black feminist performance artist, poet, and writer, originally from Detroit, MI. She has premiered over fifty performance artworks worldwide including Black Weirdo School (Pop Up Critique) (2023), the déjà vu—live (2022) and Jupiter (2021). Her performance memoirs include Swallow the Fish (2017), Experiments in Joy (2019), (ghost gestures) (2021), and the déjà vu (2022.) Her writing has also appeared in New Daughters of Africa, Bone Bouquet, Poem-a-Day, Tripwire, Kitchen Table Translation, Migrating Pedagogies and Experiments in Joy: a Workbook. A 2023 Performance Fellow at the Franconia Sculpture Park, she earned her Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from New York University and teaches at the California Institute of the Arts. The aim of her work is to open up space.

Eric Leigh received his MFA in poetry from the University of Michigan, where he was honored with Hopwood Awards in both poetry and non-fiction. His honors include a “Discovery” / The Nation Prize, the New Letters Prize for Poetry, the Robinson Jeffers Tor House Prize for Poetry, and the Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Prize. He was a finalist for the Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize, the Samuel French Morse Prize, and the Walt McDonald First-Book Competition in Poetry. He lives and works in San Francisco.

soledad con carne is a casually queer, intergalactic Oakland/Ohlone-based chicanx punk poet, working/poor multiple high school drop-out bookstore lackey, poet laureate of the San Fernando Valley, and blatant smoker sharing-trauma-with-their-mother.

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hector son of hector is from Long Beach, CA and currently lives in Oakland. He is the child of Mexican immigrants, works in a hospital, dreams of short stories and writes poetry in secret.

erica lewis was born in Cincinnati, Ohio. Herbooks include the precipice of jupiter (2009,with artist Mark Stephen Finein), camera obscura (2010,with artist Mark Stephen Finein), murmur in the inventory (2013);and the box set trilogy: daryl hall is my boyfriend (2015)and mary wants to be a superwoman (2017) and mahogany (2023).Her chapbooks have been published by Belladonna, Lame House Press, and AfterHours/The Song Cave. She lives in San Francisco.

Poet, editor, and translator, Gillian Conoley is the author of ten critically acclaimed collections of poetry, including her most recent Notes from the Passenger (Nightboat Books, 2023). Often comprising narrative, lyric, and fragmented forms, her work takes up an inquiry into spirit and matter, the individual and the state. Conoley received the Shelley Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America, a National Endowment for the Arts Grant, and a Fund for Poetry Award. Conoley has taught at the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop, the University of Denver, Vermont College, Tulane, and Sonoma State University. A long-time resident of the San Francisco Bay Area, she is editor of VOLT magazine. Her translations of three books by Henri Michaux, Thousand Times Broken, appearing in English for the first time, is with City Lights. Conoley has collaborated with installation artist Jenny Holzer, composer Jamie Leigh Sampson, and Butoh dancer Judith Kajuwara.  https://www.gillianconoley.com/

Truong Tran was born in Vietnam. He is the author of eight poetry books, a children's book and artist monograph. Works include Four Letter Words (2008), Book of the Other: Small in Comparison (2021) winner of the American Book Award, and CLMP's Firecracker Award for Poetry and recently, Looking Seeing Seeing Looking (2023). Tran’s the recipient of numerous awards and residencies including The Fund For Poetry, The California Arts Council, The Creativ Work Fund and The San Francisco Arts Commission. He’s been translated into Spanish, French and Dutch. His visual art has shown at APAture, California Institute of Integral Studies, The Peninsula Museum of Art, Telegraph Hill Gallery and The California Historical Society. Truong lives in SF and teaches at the Oakland campus of Northeastern University.

Damon Potter lives and works in San Francisco. Potter’s poems have previously been published in Elderly and Mirage #4/Period[ical]. He is the author of 100 Words (Omnidawn, 2021), which he coauthored with Truong Tran.

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