Kim Roberts is the editor of the anthology By Broad Potomac's Shore: Great Poems from the Early Days of Our Nation's Capital, and author of A Literary Guide to Washington, DC and six books of poems, most recently Corona/Crown, a cross-disciplinary collaboration with photographer Robert Revere.

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Website: www.kimroberts.org

Sunu P. Chandy is a poet and civil rights attorney. Her work can be found in her award-winning book of poems My Dear Comrades, and in anthologies such as The Penguin Book of Indian Poets, The Long Devotion: Poets Writing Motherhood, and This Bridge We Call Home: Radical Visions for Transformation.

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Tanya Olson lives in Silver Spring, Maryland and is a senior Lecturer in English at UMBC (University of Maryland Baltimore County). She is the author of Boyishly and Stay, and the recipient of an American Book Award and a 92nd St Y Discovery Prize.

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Malik Thompson is a Black queer man from Washington, DC. His work is featured, or forthcoming, in MQR Mixtape, Voicemail Poems, Poet Lore, and other places. He has received support from Lambda Literary, Obsidian Foundation, Brooklyn Poets, Cave Canem, and other organizations. 

Dan Vera's publications include two books of poetry, a poetry anthology, and work featured in various publications, high school textbooks, and university curricula. Recipient of the Oscar Wilde Award, Letras Latinas/Red Hen Prize, and a CantoMundo fellow, he's served on the AWP and Split This Rock boards.

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