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Jing Jing Yang
Jing Jing Yang Jing Jing Yang is the first immigrant Cupertino Poet Laureate (2020 – 2022), a grand winner of the city-wide Celebrate Creativity Poetry Contest 2017, with her poem “Logograph” in memory of her grandfather, Yang Shuda (the master philologist of Chinese language and a mentor of Mao Zedong). Her English and Chinese writings have…
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Julia Santos
Julia Santos Julia Santos is a finalist in the Housing Leadership Council’s 2021 Youth Poetry Competition (6-12 category). Poem on Belonging WHERE I’M FROM I am from a two story pink house From a place where there’s no neighbors and the lots filled with grass I am from a house filled with joy and happiness…
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Ronit Das
Ronit Das Ronit Das is currently in 7th grade and was the youngest finalist in the 2020 Housing Leadership Council Youth Poetry Competition. His work is published in the anthology, I Have a Dream: Inaugural Poems for a New Generation (2021). He is also featured in the program, “Celebrating Young Poets,” produced by The Midpen…
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Antonio de Jesús López
Antonio de Jesús López Antonio de Jesús López has received scholarships to attend the Community of Writers at Squaw Valley, Tin House, the Vermont Studio Center, and Bread Loaf. He is a proud member of the Macondo Writers Workshop and a CantoMundo Fellow. He holds degrees from Duke University, Rutgers-Newark, and the University of Oxford.…
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Jasmeen Karan
Jasmeen Karan Jasmeen Karan is a 33-year native of the Bay Area and was born and raised in San Mateo, California. The daughter of first-generation Indo-Fijian immigrants, (Asian and Pacific Islanders), Jasmeen is the descendant of indentured laborers from the Fiji Islands. A first-generation college graduate, she earned a Bachelor of Science (B.S.) from California…
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Paul Fericano
Paul Fericano Paul Fericano is a poet, satirist, social activist, and editor/publisher of Yossarian Universal News Service, the nation’s first parody news syndicate, founded in 1980. His poetry and satires have appeared in numerous publications and media outlets in the United States and abroad since 1971, including The Realist, The Best American Poetry, Saturday Night Live, The New York Quarterly,…
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Sanderson Dean
Sanderson Dean Sanderson Dean is an Emmy-award winning writer in the wonderful world of entertainment advertising. From NYC to LA, he’s worked on thousands of movies, tv shows, and video games for numerous movie studios, television networks, and advertising agencies. And after more than 20 years in the business, it’s a safe bet you’ve seen, heard,…
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Diane Lee Moomey
Diane Lee Moomey Diane Lee Moomey is a painter and poet living in Half Moon Bay, California, where she is co-host of the monthly reading series, Coastside Poetry; her work has appeared in Light, Think, The MacGuffin, PoetryMagazine.com, Mezzo Cammin, and others. She has won prizes for her sonnets in the Ina Coolbrith Circle and…
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Lee Rossi
Lee Rossi Lee Rossi is a winner of the Jack Grapes Poetry Prize and the Steve Kowit Prize. His latest book is Darwin’s Garden. Individual poems have appeared in The Southwest Review, Rattle, The Northwest Review, Spillway and The Southern Review. He is a member of the Northern California Book Reviewers and a Contributing Editor…
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Veronica Kornberg
Veronica Kornberg Veronica Kornberg is a poet from Northern California. Recipient of the Morton Marcus Poetry Prize, her work has appeared in numerous journals, including Indiana Review, New Ohio Review, On the Seawall, RHINO Poetry, Salamander, Beloit Poetry Journal, Menacing Hedge, The Shore, Spillway, and Tar River Poetry. She is a Peer Reviewer for Whale…
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