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\nt\u2019ai freedom ford<\/strong>\u00a0is a New York City high school English teacher and Cave Canem Fellow. Her poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in\u00a0Drunken Boat,\u00a0Sinister Wisdom,\u00a0The African American Review, Vinyl, Gulf Coast, Tin House, Poetry\u00a0and others. Her work has also been featured in several anthologies including “The BreakBeat Poets: New American Poetry in the Age of Hip-Hop”.\u00a0Winner of the 2015 To the Lighthouse Poetry Prize, her first poetry collection,\u00a0how to get over\u00a0is available from Red Hen Press. t\u2019ai\u00a0lives and loves in Brooklyn, but hangs out digitally at:howtogetover.com.<\/span><\/p>\nNicole Wallace<\/strong>\u00a0is\u00a0a poet, musician, and student of Anishinaabemowin. She is\u00a0the Managing Director of The Poetry Project, the\u00a0author of two chapbooks —\u00a0WHITE FLOWERS\u00a0and\u00a0chanson de animaux: equinox —\u00a0and\u00a0is currently at work on a third manuscript,\u00a0WAASAMOWIN.\u00a0She is from\u00a0Gakaabikaang, a place located in what is now called Minnesota, and\u00a0a descendent of the\u00a0Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa. <\/span><\/p>\nYva Las Vegass<\/strong>\u00a0is a Venezuelan born singer who came of age in Seattle, Washington where she lived for 25 years after immigrating to the USA. She was profoundly influenced by punk in the 80’s and later was part in the (awful) grunge scene of the 1990’s with her band Sweet 75 who she formed with Kris Novoselic. While influenced by different musical genres and social scenes Yva has continued over the years to celebrate her roots an cultivate the traditional folkloric Venezuelan music of her childhood. Her 2015 album, “I was born in a place of sunshine and the smell of ripe mangoes” infuses Venezuela folk tradition and a punk aesthetic.\u00a0\u00a0These days she is a happy New Yorker, living in her very queer household with her dog Moonie and her cat Damiana.<\/span><\/p>\nTanya Zamirouskaya<\/strong>\u00a0was born in Belarus. She writes surreal short stories about memory, ghosts, alienation and language deprivation.\u00a0 Her literary works have been published in Russia, Ukraine and Belarus, where shoe worked as a journalist and music critic.\u00a0 She is the author of two short stories collections, Life Without Noise and Pain (2010, Moscow, AST Publishing House) and Sparrow River (2015, Moscow, AST Publishing House). She is currently attempting to write in English in order to study the effects of the language insufficiency on memory, narration, and representation. In 2017 Tanya finished her MFA in writing at Bard College. She lives in New York City. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\nMel Elberg<\/strong>\u00a0is a queer poet and independent curator writing and fighting in Brooklyn.\u00a0 She is interested in the effects of writing on our experience of time. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/strong>
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