, a Kennedy Center’s Next 50 fellow, is a writer, playwright, organizer, & educator. Browne’s books include Vinyl Moon, Chlorine Sky, Black Girl Magic, and banned books Woke: A Young Poet’s Call to Justice and Woke Baby. Founder of the diverse lit initiative Woke Baby Book Fair, Browne holds an honorary Doctor of Philosophy degree awarded by Marymount Manhattan College and is the inaugural poet-in-residence at Lincoln Center.

is author of recombinant (2018 Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Poetry), The Heart’s Traffic: a novel in poems; and Shiny City as well as chapbooks to make black paper sing and Kundiman for Kin :: Information Retrieval for Monsters (Leslie Scalapino Finalist). Chen is co-editor of The Revolution Starts at Home: Confronting Intimate Violence Within Activist Communities. They are a Kelsey Street Press collective member, Airlie Press editor and Nonfiction Coordinator for Best of the Net. They serve on Seattle’s Cultural Space Agency’s Governing Council and on Seattle City of Literature’s board. They received fellowships from Kundiman, Lambda, Watering Hole, Can Serrat, Imagining America, Jack Straw Cultural Center, EmergeNYC, Intercultural Leadership Institute and Academy of American Poets Laureate Fellowship as well as the Judith A. Markowitz Award for Exceptional New LGBTQ Writers. They serve as Kundiman’s Pacific Northwest chapter co-lead and on the board. They collaborate with Cassie Mira on Breathing in a Time of Disaster, a performance, installation and speculative writing project exploring breath through meditation and environmental justice. They teach in the School of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences and the MFA program in Creative Writing and Poetics at the University of Washington Bothell.

is an Axinn Fellow at New York University and former Periplus Collective Fellow (2022-2023). Her fiction and creative nonfiction has been supported by Hedgebrook, Ragdale, Writing by Writers, DVAN, The Sun, and Roxane Gay’s, The Audacity. A 2019-2020 Princeton in Asia Public Health Fellow in Vietnam and former humanitarian aid worker, she has also reported on food/water security, refugee, and climate issues from Syria, Iraq, Jordan, Indonesia, Colombia, Guatemala, Ukraine, Ethiopia, and Kenya.

(he/him) is a writer, performer & educator. His work focuses on intersectional themes of race, gender, queer life, and social justice education. He is the author of The Willies (Winner of the 2021 Midwestern Independent Book Award and a 2021 Foreword Reviews Gold Medal) and Adoption (Winner of the Diode Editions Chapbook Award), and his writing has been featured on programming for HBO, in The Guardian, The New York Times, and elsewhere. He has toured the United States as a guest artist, lecturer and trainer, and was the featured performer at President Obama’s Grassroots Ball at the 2009 Presidential Inauguration.

is a literary artist, editor, educator, and winner of the Fern Academy Prize. The author of How to Not Become the Breaking (Gateway Literary Press, 2025) her writing, interviews, and visual art appear in BOMB Magazine, Chicago Review, Poet Lore, Epoch, DIAGRAM, EcoTheo Review, Northwest Review, The Rumpus, and elsewhere. Two of her essays have been recognized as notable by Best American Essays. In her transdisciplinary practice, she works back and forth over membranes of genre and media, channeling text-based works into sonic, tactile, visual, and durational installations. In doing so, she seeks to expand the definition of literary art and where we expect to encounter it. Her mission is to free text-based works from pages and stages and to spark delight by interweaving literary art into the path of everyday public life. A Jack Straw Writer and Tin House alum, her work is supported by 4Culture, Centrum, City of Burien, Civita Institute, Invoking the Pause, Jack Straw Cultural Center, Marble House, Mineral School, Seattle Public Library, Shunpike, Vermont Studio Center, and Willapa Bay AIR. She resides on the ancestral lands and waters of the Dxʷdəwʔabš (Duwamish) and Bəqəlšuł (Muckleshoot) peoples.

(she/her) is a poet, organizer, and professional daydreamer hailing from Portland, OR. She’s competed multiple times on national spoken word stages and toured with her poetry across North America. Her work has been published through Moria Magazine, Pine Row Press, Vagabond City Lit, and more, as well as in several poetry anthologies. A Best of the Net nominated artist, Julia has run the poetry mic Slamlandia since 2018, co-created the Bigfoot Poetry Festival in 2019, and she was elected to the board of the Oregon Poetry Association in 2024. Her debut full length collection, ‘weirdo’, was published through Game Over Books in 2022. Find more about her at @geekgirlgrownup.

, a first-generation Armenian-American writer, earned her MFA from Pacific University in 2023. She received a Teaching Fellowship from Anaphora Arts (2024), a Pacific University MFA Merit Scholarship (2021), and residencies from Cambridge Writers’ Workshop and Rockvale Writers’ Colony. She has led generative workshops using sensory-driven prompts and craft constraints and has given craft talks on aspects of the horror genre. She is currently developing a four-part Horror Lecture Series and has been invited to present from it at the Thunderdome Conference, The Writer’s Center, and CALYX Press events. Atina Hartunian writes literary cartoons—not the kind you’d find in The New Yorker. Her stories are more like animated cartoons, which makes sense when you grow up watching She-Ra and The Simpsons. Just read her work, and you’ll see. She is a native Los Angel-ian.

is the author of��Boys of Alabama, which was a finalist for the Oregon Book Award and shortlisted for the Stonewall Book Award. Their other books include the Lambda Literary Award finalist Pretend We Live Here and the micro-memoir��A Little in Love with Everyone.��Their second novel, Headfirst, is forthcoming with Roxane Gay Books in 2027. Genevieve’s work has appeared in Elle, Oprah Magazine, McSweeney’s, BOMB, Bookforum, and Electric Literature, and was featured in Edge of the World: An Anthology of Queer Travel Writing. They have received fellowships and artist residencies from the Fulbright Program, MacDowell, Ucross Foundation, Caldera Arts, the Sitka Center for Art and Ecology, and the Vermont Studio Center. They live in Portland, Oregon, with their wife and dog.

is a poet, emcee, and Hip Hop Theater artist from Saint Paul, MN, with a deep and resounding love for Black people. Her work explores themes of Black love, liberation, politics, and Afro-Futurism. She has exhibited her work throughout the United States and abroad as a public performance artist committed to the power of narrative change through the arts. Her writing can be found in We Are Meant to Rise (University of Minnesota Press), A Moment of Silence (Tru Ruts and The Playwrights Center), the Minnesota Humanities Center’s anthology entitled, Blues Vision: African American Writing from Minnesota (Minnesota Historical Society Press) and more.

is a Chinese-Iranian writer from the San Francisco Bay Area. Her debut poetry collection, , was selected by Patricia Smith for publication in the Miller Williams Poetry Series at University of Arkansas Press, and is forthcoming in Spring 2024.��A winner of the 2023 92NY Discovery Poetry Prize, Saba holds an MFA from UC Davis, where she was a Dean’s Graduate Fellow for Creative Arts. She is the Poetry Editor at Sundog Lit.

is the author of Starry Field: A Memoir of Lost History (Melville House), which was named a best book of 2024 by the San Francisco Chronicle. A former editor at The Nation magazine, she received a Radcliffe Institute of Advanced Study fellowship and a Korean Studies Fellowship from the Korea Foundation. She attended the Tin House and Writer’s Hotel writing workshops and was awarded residences at Mesa Refuge, Anderson Center, Mineral School and Ragdale. Her articles and interviews have been published in The Nation, Newsday, Elle, ARTnews, Writer’s Digest, and The Rumpus. She lives in Oakland with her family.

’s debut poetry collection Dear Diaspora (University of Nebraska Press, 2021) won the Raz/Shumaker Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry, an Outstanding Achievement Award from the Association of Asian American Studies, a New Mexico-Arizona Book Award, and was a finalist for the Julie Suk Award. Her poems have been nominated for Best of the Net and a Pushcart Prize and have appeared or are forthcoming in The Academy of American Poets’ Poem-A-Day series, The American Poetry Review, POETRY, Tin House, Poetry Northwest, and elsewhere. She has received fellowships from the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Vermont Studio Center, Arizona Commission on the Arts, Walt Whitman Birthplace Association, Barbara Deming Memorial Fund, and others. The winner of the 2022 Stanley Kunitz Memorial Prize, she is the editor-in-chief of Hayden’s Ferry Review and a member of the She Who Has No Master(s) collective.

is a writer and math tutor. Her work has appeared in Ecotone, Copper Nickel, PANK, The Los Angeles Review, Zyzzyva, Wigleaf, Best Microfiction, and The Year’s Best Science Fiction and Fantasy. Her honors include two Pushcart Prizes, a Rona Jaffe Award, a Steinbeck Fellowship and support from MacDowell, Tin House and Djerassi.

is a Moscow-born, Philadelphia-based poet and editor. Her poetry collection, Toska (Deep Vellum) was a 2024 Lambda Literary Award finalist. Her writing has been published by the American Poetry Review, The Poetry Foundation, Jewish Currents, The Poetry Project, b l u s h, swamp pink, the tiny, and more.

(she/they) is a Korean diasporic writer, baker, and mental health advocate with more than a decade in recovery from alcoholism and bulimia. They are currently at work on Bad Magic, a coming-of-age addiction memoir which examines how we return to our true selves after reality and illusion become one. A 2023 Periplus Fellow, she has received support from Anaphora Arts, Stove Works, and Tin House Summer Workshop. In 2021, she published Have You Received Previous Psychotherapy or Counseling? through zines + things, and her essays can be found in Provecho, The Rumpus, Memoir Magazine, and elsewhere. Based in Portland, they lead an annual food & writing workshop series called Feasting on Words, which has been funded by the Regional Arts & Culture Council and Fernland Studios.

is the author of two collections of poetry. Her first book, GILT, was released by YesYes Books and won the 2018 Milt Kessler Poetry Book Award. Published by Black Lawrence Press in October 2022, her second book, summonings, won the 2021 Hudson Prize and was shortlisted for the Julie Suk Award. Winner of a Pushcart Prize & a former Philip Roth Resident at Bucknell University, Shirali is also the recipient of prizes and honors from PEN America, VIDA, Gulf Coast, Boston Review, & Cosmonauts Avenue. Her work has appeared in American Poetry Review, The Nation, The Rumpus, and elsewhere. She serves as Contributing Editor for swamp pink and lives in Philadelphia.

was born in St. Paul, Minnesota. They are the author of Bluff (2024), Don’t Call Us Dead (2017), a finalist for the National Book Award; [insert] Boy (2014), winner of the Lambda Literary Award and the Kate Tufts Discovery Award; and the chapbook hands on ya knees (Penmanship Books, 2013). Smith is the recipient of fellowships from the McKnight Foundation, Cave Canem, Voices of Our Nation (VONA), and elsewhere. They are a founding member of the multigenre, multicultural Dark Noise Collective. Their writing has appeared in many magazines and journals, such as Poetry, Ploughshares, Beloit Poetry Journal, and Kinfolks. In poetry slam, Smith is a 2011 Individual World Poetry Slam finalist and the reigning two-time Rustbelt Individual Champion, and was on the 2014 championship team Sad Boy Supper Club. In 2014 they were the festival director for the Brave New Voices International Youth Poetry Slam, and were awarded a Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry fellowship from the Poetry Foundation.

is a lesbian writer of essays, fiction, and pop culture criticism living in Orlando. Her queer horror novelette Helen House was named one of the Best LGBTQ Books of 2022 by NBC News. She is the managing editor of Autostraddle, an assistant fiction editor at Foglifter, and the former managing editor of TriQuarterly. Her short stories appear in McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern, Catapult, The Offing, Joyland, The Rumpus, Cake Zine, and others. Some of her culture writing can be found in The Cut, The A.V. Club, Vulture, Refinery29, and Vice, and she previously worked as a restaurant reporter for Eater NY. She has held fellowships with Tin House and Lambda Literary.

��is a poet and book critic. Her debut poetry collection, Girl’s Guide to Leaving (University of Wisconsin Press 2022), was awarded Texas Institute of Letters’ John A. Robert Johnson Award for a First Book of Poetry and the Writers’ League of Texas Book Award for Poetry. ​She earned an MFA at Rutgers University—Newark and has been the recipient of fellowships and scholarships from the Stadler Center for Poetry and Literary Arts at Bucknell University, National Book Critics Circle’s Emerging Critics Program, Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, the Dobie Paisano Fellowship Program at University of Texas-Austin, The Huntington, and CantoMundo. Her writing has further been supported by residencies at Oak Spring Garden Foundation. She is currently an associate with Letras Latinas, the literary initiative at the University of Notre Dame’s Institute for Latino Studies, where she co-edits and writes for Letras Latinas Blog 2, in addition to working on other related projects. You can also find her on Instagram .

Zelmira Stevens Vindas, born in 1999, is a queer Costa Rican-American writer and artist based in Portland, Oregon. She studied creative writing at С��è��ý, where she self published her two novellas, Love be with You, and Los Cuentos. When she isn’t writing, you can catch her dancing, painting, and going on adventures with her friends and chihuahua.

Holly Zhou is an interdisciplinary artist and writer from the California desert, the unceded territory of the Cahuilla and Mojave peoples. Holly’s poetry and prose have been published in Foglifter, The Kenyon Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, and elsewhere. They are the winner of the 2023 Death Rattle Penrose Poetry Prize and the 2024 Tennessee Williams & New Orleans Literary Festival Poetry Prize. Holly enjoys thinking about strangeness, saunas, rock formations, and flight.

is a writer and art critic. She is a founding editor of ARTS.BLACK, an online journal of art criticism from Black perspectives. Her writing has been featured in publications such as Artforum, The Believer, Frieze, The Los Angeles Times, The Nation, and Oxford American. She is the recipient of a 2020 Research and Development award from the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts, a 2020 Arts Writer Grant from The Andy Warhol Foundation, and she is the inaugural recipient of the Beverley Art Writers Travel Grant awarded in 2022 by the American Australian Association. Jessica is currently an associate editor at Momus and host of the limited series podcast, Harlem is Everywhere. She holds an MFA in writing from Sarah Lawrence College

is the author of the story collection VALPARAISO, ROUND THE HORN, and the novel STAY AND FIGHT, which was a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway award, the Lambda Literary Award in Lesbian Fiction, the LA Times Book Award, and the Washington State Book Award. She has received an O. Henry Award and is included in the 2024 edition of Best American Short Stories. Her new novel, about kitchen table antifascism in Appalachia, is forthcoming from Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Madeline writes and organizes in Appalachian Ohio.

is an award-winning writer, educator, and community organizer based in Portland, Oregon. Her debut essay collection, Funeral for Flaca, has been called, “Utterly vulnerable, bold, and unique,” by Ms. Magazine and is a winner of a 2022 Pacific Northwest Book Award, amongst other prizes. She has taught creative writing at the Pacific Northwest College of Art and Williams College, and moonlights as DJ Mami Miami with , the Latiné DJ collective she co-founded in 2017. Learn more on social media @emillygprado.

is an Indigenous Chicana poet and storyteller. She is the author of the bilingual poetry and short-story collection Coatlicue Girl, named a finalist for the John A. Robertson Award for Best First Book of Poetry by the Texas Institute of Letters. Her poetry and essays have been published by The Rumpus, Huizache, Tasteful Rude and The Smithsonian Latino Center among others and she has been featured by The Texas Book Festival, The Big Read New Mexico alongside Joy Harjo, and the Latino Collection & Resource Center at San Antonio Public Library in collaboration with Texas Public Radio. Gris was born and raised in El Paso, Texas and writes about the border, the politicized body and Indigenous Mexican and Folk Curanderismo. She is of Northern Chihuahuan Apache and Yaqui descent.

is a trans nonbinary poet and translator. They are a recipient of the C.D. Wright / Academy of American Poets Prize, and their work appears in��Kenyon Review,��Beloit Poetry Journal, The Offing, Passages North, and others. Their debut poetry collection,��Scream / Queen, is forthcoming from Acre Books.

is a writer and multimedia artist of Western Armenian and Eastern European Jewish descent. She is the International Armenian Literary Alliance (IALA) Creative Writing 2023 Grant Recipient for poetry collection in progress on diaspora and genocidal aftermaths. She is an Master of Fine Arts candidate in poetry, an H. Kruger Kaprielian Scholar, and a Rachel Winer Manin Jewish Studies Interdisciplinary Graduate Fellow at the University of Virginia. Her poems and hybrid works have appeared or are forthcoming in AGNI, Bennington Review, Black Warrior Review, Guernica, Hayden’s Ferry Review, among others. She is the interviews editor for Poetry Northwest and reads for Meridian. Born in Toronto and raised in Rhode Island, she currently resides in Charlottesville, VA.

A.M. Sosa is a queer Mexican-American writer born and raised in Stockton, CA.��They hold a BA in English from UC Berkeley and an MFA in Fiction from UC Irvine, where they won the 2022 Henfield Prize. They have fiction in Zyzzyva and the Santa Monica Review. And have been supported with scholarships to Tin House and the Community of Writers.��Their first novel,��And I Will Take Out Your Eyes, will be published in late 2025 by Algonquin.

essays appear in���ҳܱ���Ծ�����,��Michigan Quarterly Review,��Passages North, Quarterly West, Shenandoah, The Kenyon Review, and elsewhere. Poems appear in��Electric Literature,��Gulf Coast, Pleiades, Ploughshares, swamp pink (formerly Crazyhorse), and others. A recipient of scholarships and fellowships from Lambda Literary, SmokeLong Quarterly, Vermont Studio Center, and more, Daniel is the InteR/e/views Editor for��Split Lip Magazine��and the Micro Editor for��The Offing. Daniel’s essays also appear as Notable Essays in��The Best American Essays.��

(she/her) is Black woman, born and raised in Watts, and other parts of South-Central Los Angeles. She is a postdoctoral scholar in the department of Health Systems and Population Health and the ARCH Center. She received her PhD in Justice Studies from Arizona State University, where her dissertation research analyzed the experiences of Black Women navigating motherhood and mass incarceration. In her writing, she focuses on the health disparities and radical organizing for women connected to systems of mass incarceration. Harris’ memoir Mainline Mama (Amistad Press, 2025) explores motherhood, familial relationships, and well-being for Black women in the United States. Her work has been published in various venues including Salon.com, So We Can Know: Writers of Color on Pregnancy, Loss, Abortion, and Birth and (Super)vision: On Motherhood and Surveillance. Harris received a 2024-2025 Haymarket Writing Freedom Fellow and 2018–2019 PEN America Writing for Justice Fellowship.

is a literary nonfiction writer and poet who earned an MFA in Nonfiction Writing and was awarded a Creative Writing Fellowship from Columbia University. Her work has been featured or is forthcoming in��Cleveland Review of Books,��Columbia Journal, Witch Craft Magazine, Some Kind of Opening, and was nominated for a Pushcart Prize by��Two Cities Review. Her poetry was included in two editions of��New York’s Best Emerging Poets��anthology. She has judged entries for NYC Scholastic Art & Writing Awards, led a workshop with Writing on It All, corresponded with writers for the Incarcerated Writers Initiative, served on the Columbia Journal reading board, and spoke on an EdSnaps program writing panel. She holds a BA in Literary Studies with Institutional and Departmental Honors from Eugene Lang College at The New School where she served as a Lang Academic Fellow and editor of Eleven and a Half.

is a Taiwanese writer and educator from the San Gabriel Valley, California. His work appears in Epiphany, Guernica,��North American Review, ���Ի���The Southampton Review, and has been commended by The Iron Horse Prize, the Halifax Ranch Fiction Prize, the Ploughshares Emerging Writers Contest, and even by (some of) his friends. He is thankful for the support of the KHN Center for the Arts, The Kerouac Project, the Carolyn Moore Writers House, and MacDowell. He edits fiction at��Okay Donkey��and holds an MFA from Cornell.

��is the author of the memoir��Meet Me Tonight in Atlantic City (Tin House, 2023). She also wrote two poetry collections: How to Not Be Afraid of Everything��(Alice James, 2021) ���Ի���Overpour��(Action Books, 2016). She is the recipient of a Pushcart Prize and fellowships and residencies from the U.S. Fulbright Program, Harvard’s Woodberry Poetry Room, Artist Trust, Hedgebrook, UCross, Loghaven, the Barbara Deming Memorial Fund, and others. An interdisciplinary artist as well, she has exhibited her poetry installations and performances at the Frye Art Museum, Richmond Art Gallery, and the Asian Art Museum.��She grew up in a take-out restaurant on the Jersey shore and is an Associate Professor at Western Washington University.

(he/him) is a writer, performer & educator. His work focuses on intersectional themes of race, gender, queer life, and social justice education. He is the author of��The Willies��(Winner of the 2021 Midwestern Independent Book Award and a 2021 Foreword Reviews Gold Medal) ���Ի���Adoption��(Winner of the Diode Editions Chapbook Award), and his writing has been featured on programming for HBO, in��The Guardian,��The New York Times, and elsewhere. He has toured the United States as a guest artist, lecturer and trainer, and was the featured performer at President Obama’s Grassroots Ball at the 2009 Presidential Inauguration.

, a Kennedy Center’s Next 50 fellow, is a writer, playwright, organizer, & educator. Browne’s books include Vinyl Moon, Chlorine Sky, Black Girl Magic, and banned books Woke: A Young Poet’s Call to Justice and Woke Baby. Founder of the diverse lit initiative Woke Baby Book Fair, Browne holds an honorary Doctor of Philosophy degree awarded by Marymount Manhattan College and is the inaugural poet-in-residence at Lincoln Center.

Sangi Lama is from Hetauda, Nepal. She is currently at work on a collection of short stories that follows a cast of Nepali and Nepali American individuals as they navigate love, separation, and community. Her writing has been supported by Kundiman and Tin House. She is currently an MFA student in Fiction at the University of Pittsburgh.

is the author of Focal Point, winner of the 2020 Steel Toe Books Poetry Award. Her essays and poems have appeared in The New York Times, The Atlantic, ZYZZYVA, San Francisco’s Asian Art Museum, and elsewhere. She has received support from organizations such as Tin House, the San Francisco Foundation, and the Crested Butte Center for the Arts. As a Brown-Handler Resident in 2022-23, she translated her late mother’s memoirs of the Chinese Cultural Revolution and life in Las Vegas and is working on a hybrid collection titled Liminal Bodies and an untitled memoir in essays in conversation with this work. She holds a B.A. from Vanderbilt University and a Ph.D. in Biomedical Science from UCSF. A freelance writer, she also teaches community workshops via the SF Writers Grotto.

Born in the Gambia, earned his MFA in poetry from the University of Michigan’s Helen Zell Writers’ Program. He is of Gambian, Ghanaian, Nigerian, and Sierra Leonean descent. Abimbola’s first full-length poetry collection, Saltwater Demands a Psalm, was published by Graywolf Press in 2023. In 2022, the début collection was selected by Tyehimba Jess to receive the Academy of American Poets’ First Book Award. His work has also received the “Indie Next Award” from the Association of American Booksellers. In 2024 Saltwater earned a Florida Book Award as well as the Nossrat Yassini First Book Award, selected by Camille Dungy. He has presented his research and creative work both nationally and internationally at venues such as the Lagos International Poetry Festival, Accra’s Afro Future Festival, and America-based AWP. Abimbola is presently an Assistant Professor of English and Creative Writing at Loyola Marymount University. He began writing after many nights spent listening to the folktales his grandfather told of life in Gambia and Sierra Leone. His work strives to recreate the intimacy and urgency of West African oral poetry.

Henneh Kyereh Kwaku is from Drobo/Gonasua in the Bono Region of Ghana. His obsessions include Bono/Akan onomatology, semiotics, faith, movement, and shadows. He is an NCHEC Certified Health Education Specialist, and studies applied art in health communication. He is��a Library of Africa and the African Diaspora (LOATAD) alum and has received fellowships from Chapman University.�� He is���ٳ�� founder and co-host of the Church of Poetry. He’s the author of��Revolution of the Scavengers��(African Poetry Book Fund/Akashic Books, 2020) and his poems/essays have appeared or are forthcoming in the Academy of American Poets’��A-Poem-A-Day, Poetry Magazine, Prairie Schooner, World Literature Today, Air/Light Magazine, Tupelo Quarterly, Poetry Society of America, Lolwe, Agbowó, CGWS, Olongo Africa, 20:35 Africa &��elsewhere.��He shares memes on Twitter/Instagram at @kwaku_kyereh.

is a Grand Ronde / Siletz artist and writer also known as Portland’s premier drag clown Carla Rossi. Anthony’s performance work, from his award-winning solo show��Looking for Tiger Lily���ٴ��� at the Hollywood Theatre, have earned him national fellowships, international engagements including the US Pavilion’s drag clown in residence at the 2024 Venice Biennale, features in Hyperallergic ���Ի���Art in America, and sainthood from the Portland Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence. A 2023 FSG Writer’s Fellowship finalist and 2024 Tin House resident, Anthony’s writing has appeared in American Theatre, BOMB Magazine, ���Ի���Arts and International Affairs. He is currently adapting��Looking for Tiger Lily��into a book.

(she/her) is a theatre historian, a director, and a dramaturg. Her project as an artist-scholar is to research, write about, and practice the ways in which theatre can be a tool for radical activism and protest. She has three books with Northwestern University Press: Occupying the Stage: The Theater of May ’68��(2018; finalist, George Freedley Award), her translation with Thalia Wolff of the Théâtre de l’Aquarium’s 1968 play The Inheritor (2024), and her multi-volume book The Diaries of Judith Malina (forthcoming, 2026). Kate has earned fellowships and awards including a Beinecke Visiting Research Fellowship at Yale; a Fulbright in Paris; residencies at Loghaven (Tennessee), Mission Street Arts (New Mexico), La Maison Dora Maar in Ménerbes (France), the Rockefeller Foundation in Bellagio (Italy), the Camargo Foundation in Cassis (France), Caldera (Oregon), Playa (Oregon), Tao House (California), and the New York Mills Artist Residency (Minnesota); fellowships from the New York Public Library, NEH, Killam Foundation, Mellon Foundation, American Philosophical Society, the Institut Français de Washington, and the American Society for Theatre Research; and a grant from the Furthermore Foundation.