is a queer, mixed-race poet and writer from Southern California. They have published and performed their work though the National Queer Arts Festival, the Poetry Project, RADAR Productions, and more. They hold an MFA from Mills College, where they attended as a Community Engagement Fellow. water/tongue (Omnidawn, 2019), their first full-length poetry book, was a 2020 Lambda Literary Award nominee.

is a poet, a nonprofit arts administrator at Kundiman and an editor at Foglifter, a queer literary journal and press. He resides on the unceded territory of the Ramaytush Ohlone, also known as San Francisco.

is the author of Imagine Us, The Swarm (Nightboat Books), Bone Confetti (Noemi Press), and Images Seen to Images Felt (Antenna) in collaboration with Kristine Thompson. She is an Andrew W. Mellon Humanities in a Digital World fellow at University of Southern California’s PhD in Creative Writing and Literature program.

is a Vietnamese American poet, artist, mother. She is a Kundiman fellow, William Dickey fellow, winner of the SF Foundation’s Phelan Award, the Anne Fields Poetry Award, and a San Francisco Arts Commission grant recipient, among other mentionables. Long ago, Carolyn was coined by SF Weekly as one of several “Best Writers Without a Book” which still saddens her to this day. 

is a Diné poet from the Navajo Nation. She lives in Phoenix, Arizona. 

is a fiction MFA candidate at San Francisco State University. She is the founder of The Ana, where she serves as editor-in-chief.

(she/they) is a multidisciplinary artist, writer, and daughter of California. She has a MA in Literature from Mills College, and is currently a doctoral student in the Creative/Critical PhD in Literature at UC Santa Cruz.

is a Managing and Poetry Editor of the literary magazine The Ana. He is pursuing his MFA in Creative Writing with a concentration on Poetry at San Francisco State University.