Alexandra Geurts
most puntable 3rd year poet & los angeles public transit aficionado
Arien Wolf
arien is a first 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 co-directs the MFA reading series and loves crosswords, karaoke, and repurposing jars. Her translation of Set Fear on Fire: The Feminist Call that Set the Americas Ablaze by the Chilean feminist art collective LASTESIS is out from Verso Books.
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.
Lauryn Payne
Lauryn is a self-proclaimed suburbanite turned poet. She earned her BA in Sociology from Chapman University where she would discover her passion for lyricism. Her work focuses on familial dynamism, trauma and identity. Consequently, her work can be found in several keepsake boxes in her parent’s closet, brother’s birthday cards and half-full diaries.
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.
Marc Huerta Osborn
Marc Huerta Osborn is a writer, educator, and college admissions counselor from Alameda, California. His poetry can be found in Rust + Moth, The Acentos Review, Defunkt Magazine, and elsewhere. His biggest creative inspirations are pelicans, pozole, and ghosts.
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.
Sara Son
Sara Son is a writer from Queens. She holds a BA from Johns Hopkins. She is working on some poems, essays, and a novel.
Vidhisha Mahesh
Vidhisha is a writer and filmmaker based in Los Angeles.
Xuân Tran
Xuân is a curious poet from Santa Ana, California. She achieved her BA in English with a minor in Creative Writing at UCI. Currently, she's a poetry section editor for The Ear.
