Bios:
Tess
Brown-Lavoie is author of Lite Year (Fence Modern Poets Series, 2019).
Her writing is printed in Fence, Text Means Tissue, The New Farmer’s
Almanac, and various punk publications that resist enumeration in bio
format.
Dolores
Dorantes is Mexican, living in exile in the United States. She is a
priest in the Mahajrya Buddhist tradition. She founded the organization
Cielo Portátil (for a free education), and is a journalist and writer.
She has published six books, most recently Querida fábrica and
Estilo. Her socio-cultural crónicas and political-social reflections, as
well as the majority of her books, are part of the commons at:
www.doloresdorantes.blogspot.com. She believes in a United Latin
America.
From
the mid-1970s until her death at age 31 in 1982, Korean-born artist
Theresa Hak Kyung Cha created a rich body of conceptual art that
explored displacement and loss. Her works included artists' books, mail
art, performance, audio, video, film, and installation. Although
grounded in French psychoanalytic film theory, her art is also informed
by far-ranging cultural and symbolic references, from shamanism to
Confucianism and Catholicism. Her collage-like book Dictée, which was
published posthumously in 1982, is recognized as an influential
investigation of identity in the context of history, ethnicity and
gender.
Valerie
Hsiung is a poet, writer, performer, and the author of five full-length
poetry and hybrid writing collections; hummingbird et partygirl (Essay
Press, 2021), outside voices, please (CSU, 2021), Name Date of Birth
Emergency Contact (The Gleaners, 2020), YOU & ME FOREVER (Action
Books, 2020), and e f g (Action, 2016).
Layli
Long Soldier earned a BFA from the Institute of American Indian Arts
and an MFA with honors from Bard College. She is the author of the
chapbook Chromosomory (2010) and the full-length collection Whereas
(2017), which won the National Books Critics Circle award and was a
finalist for the National Book Award.
Ladan
Osman was born in Somalia. Her chapbook, Ordinary Heaven, appears in
Seven New Generation African Poets (Slapering Hol Press, 2014). Her
full-length collection The Kitchen-Dweller’s Testimony (University of
Nebraska Press, 2015) won the Sillerman First Book Prize. Her work has
appeared in Apogee, The Normal School, Prairie Schooner, Transition
Magazine, and Waxwing.
Roger
Reeves's poems have appeared in journals such as Poetry, Ploughshares,
American Poetry Review, Boston Review, and Tin House, among others. He
was awarded a 2013 NEA Fellowship, Ruth Lilly Fellowship by the Poetry
Foundation in 2008, an Alberta H. Walker Scholarship from the
Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center, and two Cave Canem Fellowships. His
first book is King Me (Copper Canyon Press, 2013).
Mayra
A. Rodríguez Castro is a writer and translator. She is the editor of
Dream of Europe: selected seminars and interviews: 1984-1992 (Kenning
Editions, 2020). Her writing and contributions appear in Social Text
Journal, The Poetry Project Newsletter and South As a State of Mind and
Changes Press among others. Rodríguez lives in New York.
Eleni
Sikelianos is the author of eight poetry collections, including Make
Yourself Happy (2017), The Loving Detail of the Living & the Dead
(2013), Body Clock (2008), and The California Poem (2004). She is also
author of the hybrid memoirs You Animal Machine (The Golden Greek)
(2014) and The Book of Jon (2004). Sikelianos work negotiates the
boundary between poetry and prose and other forms of documentation,
including visual art and notebook writing. She teaches in the Literary
Arts Program at Brown University.
Anne
Waldman is the author of more than 40 collections of poetry and
poetics, an active member of the Outrider experimental poetry movement,
prominent figure of the Beat movement and the second generation of the
New York School. Her publications include Fast Speaking Woman (1975),
Marriage: A Sentence (2000), the multi-volume Iovis project (1992, 1993,
1997), and Voice’s Daughter of a Heart Yet to Be Born (2016).
Asiya
Wadud is the author of Crosslight for Youngbird, day pulls down the
sky/ a filament in gold leaf (written with Okwui Okpokwasili), Syncope
and No Knowledge Is Complete Until It Passes Through My Body. Her recent
writing appears in e-flux journal, BOMB Magazine, Poem-a-Day, Chicago
Review, Social Text, FENCE, and elsewhere.
Ronaldo
V. Wilson is the author of the collections Poems of the Black Object
(2009), winner of the Asian American Literary Award in Poetry and the
Publishing Triangle’s Thom Gunn Award, and Narrative of the Life of the
Brown Boy and the White Man (2008). His poetry has received four
Pushcart Prize nominations, and he has received fellowships and
residencies from Cave Canem, Kundiman, the Provincetown Fine Arts Work
Center, the Vermont Studio Center, Yaddo, the Anderson Center for the
Arts, the Squaw Valley Community of Writers, and the Djerassi Resident
Artists Program.
