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tanner menard
tanner menard (they/them/theirs) is a Q2S, non-binary poet & composer whose work embodies their Creole/Acadian/NDN lineage. Poems are their method of survival, a linguistic medicine of ambiguity which is certain …
Desiree Maultsby
Desiree Maultsby, Board President, (she/her/hers) is a native of Brooklyn, NY. For the past 20 years, she and her husband have raised two sons and made the Sonoran Desert home. …
Casely Coan (she/her/hers) grew up in New Jersey but fell in love with the desert when she moved to Tucson in 2013. She completed her PhD in Rhetoric, Composition, and the …
Estella Gonzalez
Estella Gonzalez (she/her/hers) was born and raised in East Los Angeles which inspires her writing. Her poetry and short stories have appeared in Puerto del Sol and Huizache and have …
Rylee Carrillo-Waggoner
Rylee Carrillo-Waggoner (they/them/theirs) is a recent graduate from Columbia University, where they received departmental honors for their senior thesis and overall work as a comparative literature major. They are passionate …