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Thea [thee-uh] Matthews is a poet, author, and educator originally from San Francisco, California. She attained her BA in sociology at the University of California, Berkeley; and studied June Jordan’s program Poetry for the People led by Aya de Leon. Her debut poetry collection Unearth [The Flowers] (Red Light Lit Press, 2020) is listed asContinue reading “Thea Matthews”

Jan Steckel was a Harvard- and Yale-trained pediatrician who took care of Spanish-speaking children until chronic pain persuaded her to change professions to writer, poet and medical editor. She is an activist for bisexual and disability rights who lives in Oakland, California. Her poetry book The Horizontal Poet (Zeitgeist Press, 2011) won a 2012 LambdaContinue reading “Jan Steckel”

Robert S. Pesich is the editor for Swan Scythe Press and is the author of Model Organism. He also works as a lab manager / research associate for Stanford University School of Medicine and Palo Alto Veterans Institute for Research. He is the President of Poetry Center San José and Coordinator for the Well-RED Reading Series,Continue reading “Robert S. Pesich”

Randy James received an MFA in Writing from the University of San Francisco. He has also studied at UCLA. His work has been published in Myriad, Westwind, Red Cedar Review, Palette, FEM Newsmagazine and The Rumpus. Randy has performed in venues across Los Angeles and The San Francisco Bay Area. His work was featured in Hayat Hyatt’s “Villanelle,” which has been archivedContinue reading “Randy James”

Loa Niumeitolu is a Tongan poet, community organizer and farmer. Her work appears in Whetu Moana: Contemporary Polynesian Poems in English; Homelands: Women’s Journeys across Race, Place, and Time; Yellow Medicine Review: A Journal of Indigenous Literature, Art, and Thought; Muliwai: Hawai’i Review; and was featured on BBC Radio Scotland.  As an educator and organizer,Continue reading “Loa Niumeitolu”

PC Muñoz is a recording artist, producer, and writer based in San Francisco. “Dark, sexual, sensual, confessional, and confrontational—all at the same time” (Performing Songwriter), Muñoz’s singular aesthetic bridges the gap between pop songcraft, free jazz, musique concréte, and the insistent rhythms of funk and hip-hop. An artist with a “deep social conscience…who uses music toContinue reading “PC Muñoz”

Annie Stenzel was born in Illinois, but has lived on both coasts of the U.S. and on other continents at various times in her life. Her book-length collection is The First Home Air After Absence (Big Table Publishing, 2017). Her poems appear in print and online journals in the U.S. and the U.K., from Ambit to Willawaw Journal with stops at Chestnut Review, Gargoyle, Negative CapabilityContinue reading “Annie Stenzel”

Claudia Monpere’s poems and fiction appear in such journals as New Ohio Review, Prairie Schooner, The Massachusetts Review, The Cincinnati Review, The Bellevue Review, Psaltery and Lyre, and in many anthologies, including California Fire and Water: a Climate Crisis Anthology. She recently completed a Hedgebrook residency in poetry, and teaches writing at Santa Clara University. Poem on Belonging THE TIME YOU AREContinue reading “Claudia Monpere”