Laura Walker has been teaching community poetry classes at UC Berkeley Extension since 2004. She also teaches in the MFA program at University of San Francisco. She is the author of four books of poetry: Follow-Haswed; bird book; rimertown/ an atlas; and swarm lure.

Dana Teen Lomax edited the SPT project, Kindergarde: Avant-garde Poems, Plays, Stories, & Songs for Children. She has written several books including Disclosure, Curren¢y, and Room, and she co-edited Letters to Poets with Jennifer Firestone. She teaches at San Francisco State & Marin Juvenile Hall.

Douglas Kearney (poet/performer/librettist) teaches in CalArts’ School of Critical Studies and has taught in the Theater and Music schools. A Whiting award winner, his second collection, The Black Automaton, was a National Poetry Series selection. His operas include Sucktion and Crescent City.

Hoa Nguyen lives in Toronto, Ontario where she teaches poetics and creative writing in a private, virtual and in-person workshop and at Ryerson University. She is the author of eight books and chapbooks, most recently the full-length collection of poems As Long As Trees Last.

Sarah Rosenthal