Poetry Students

Arien Wolf

arien is a second year poet who keeps trying 

to remember how to write again. their work is preoccupied by gaps and silences

Camila Valle

Camila Valle is a writer, editor, translator, horticulturalist, and abortion doula. She loves crosswords, karaoke, and repurposing jars. She is the translator of Set Fear on Fire: The Feminist Call that Set the Americas Ablaze by the Chilean feminist art collective LASTESIS (Verso Books, 2023) and Ant Days by the Cuban poet Martha Luisa Hernández Cadenas (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2026).

Francisco García

Francisco is a poet and visual artist based in Los Angeles.

Isabel Mesko

Isabel is a poet and filmmaker based in Los Angeles.

Keayva Mitchell

Keayva Mitchell (she/they) is a Black queer CODA living in Long Beach, California. They hold a BA from CSU Long Beach in American Sign Language Linguistics & Interpreting. They write most often on the various margins of identity, place, & the rituals of desire. You can find them talking with their hands & doing everything, everywhere.

Lora Mathis

Lora Mathis is a writer and artist from Southern California and Québec. They play with poetry, performance, video, sound, and sculpture. They are the author of The Snakes Came Back (Metatron, 2023) and have released work with Hello America Stereo Cassette, Burn All Books, the HIRS Collective, and Party Trick Press. Before this, they lived in Oakland, where they worked as a civil rights paralegal.

Mishal Syed

Mishal is a poet and fiction writer. She holds a BA in English and cognitive science from UCLA, where she received the Fred and Edith Herman Memorial Prize from the Academy of American Poets, as well as the May Merrill Miller awards in both poetry and fiction, and the Clara Rusk Hastings scholarship. She is working on a poetry collection. For fiction, she is represented by Azantian Literary Agency.

Ray Reidenbaugh

Ray: A narrow beam of light or a line 
extending infinitely.

Vidhisha Mahesh

Vidhisha is a writer and filmmaker based in Los Angeles.