CONTRIBUTORS

ADRIENNE KENNEDY is an award-winning playwright, lecturer, and author born in Pittsburgh in 1931. Her plays include Funnyhouse of a Negro and June and Jean in Concert. She is the recipient of an Obie Award for Sleep Deprivation Chamber, co-authored with her son Adam Kennedy. In 2018, Ms. Kennedy was inducted into the Theater Hall of Fame for “Lifetime Achievement in the American Theater.”

REGIE CABICO is a poet, theater artist, and spoken word pioneer having won The Nuyorican Poets Cafe Grand Slam. He is the founding Board Chair for Split This Rock, Le Maison Baldwin, and A Gathering of the Tribes. Mr. Cabico is the producer and curator for Capturing Fire Press and Slam.

CHIHOI is based between Hong Kong and Taiwan, and draws comics and paints. His major comic books include The Library & I’m with my Saint, Hijacking: Comic Hong Kong Literature, and The Train.

JEREMY CANIGLIA is an American figurative painter and illustrator, primarily in fantasy and horror genres. Caniglia’s art has been featured in the Washington Post and on CNN. He has created book covers for wellknown mainstream authors. CATHAY LINH CHE is the author of Split (Alice James Books), winner of the Kundiman Poetry Prize, the Norma Farber First Book Award from the Poetry Society of America. She is also the co-author of the children’s book A Is for Asian American (Haymarket Books), to be published in May 2023.

JOSE HERNANDEZ DIAZ is a 2017 NEA Poetry Fellow. He is the author of a collection of prose poems: The Fire Eater (Texas Review Press, 2020). He holds degrees in English and Creative Writing from UC Berkeley and Antioch University Los Angeles. His work appears in The American Poetry Review, Cincinnati Review, Georgia Review, Huizache, Iowa Review, The Nation, Poetry, and in The Best American Nonrequired Reading. Currently, he is an Editor for Frontier and Palette Poetry.

RAE DIAMOND is an artist, educator, and nature advocate, who weaves language, breath, sound, movement, and things found outside into intricate doorways that lead to vast worlds. Their poems and hybrids appear or are forthcoming in Dovecoat, The Arsonist, Sinister Wisdom, and various anthologies, and her book, Cantigee, will be published by North Atlantic Books in 2022.

ERIKA KECK does away with a traditionally integral element of the painted medium—the canvas. Using paint as both medium and subject, the artist creates abstract works in which swathes and strips of acrylic paint are directly suspended from wooden stretchers.

CHARLIE KITE is a crossgenre, off-centre writer focusing on nature, mythologies and communities in change. His plays have been performed at the Edinburgh Fringe and VAULT Festival, and his poems and prose have been published by the Oxford Review of Books, 3 of Cups Press, and Forget Me Knot Press. LISA ANN (LAMARKS) MARKUSON is the Founder of Ars Poetica, Global Creative Director for noumena, and cohost of the podcast For the Love of Freelance with Freelancing Females. Lisa Ann has worked with The Smithsonian, Google, Facebook, Bowery Poetry Club, The New School, USC’s Pacific-Asia Museum, and countless more. She wrote custom poems for Hilary Clinton and Meryl Streep at Planned Parenthood’s 50 year anniversary and is a dauntless reproductive justice advocate.

URAYOAN NOEL teaches at New York University and is the author or translator of over ten books, most recently Transversal, a New York Public Library Book of the Year.

ALISON NORRINGTON is a best-selling author, screenwriter and producer. She is CEO, Founder & Chief Creative Officer of storycentral, a London-based entertainment studio. She is also podcast host of The Story Hour, a two-time TEDx Speaker, and creator of the Supersize Your Story program.

KIMM BROCKETT STAMMEN has appeared or are forthcoming in december Magazine, CARVE, The Greensboro Review, Pembroke, Prime Number, and many others, and her work has been nominated for Pushcart and Best Short Fiction anthologies. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Spalding University.

CHAVISA WOODS is a MacDowell Fellow and the author of four books including 100 Times (A Memoir of Sexism), and Things To Do When You’re Goth in the Country, both from Seven Stories Press. Woods was the recipient of the Shirley Jackson Award, the Kathy Acker Award in Writing, and Cobalt ‘s Zora Neale Hurston Prize for Fiction. Her writing has appeared in Tin House, LitHub, Electric Lit, Full Stop, The Brooklyn Rail, The Evergreen Review, and New York Quarterly, among others. She currently serves as the Executive Director of A Gathering of the Tribes, a nonprofit art and literary organization and small press.