Risa Denenberg,r. erica doyle,Kay Gabriel, JP Howard, Jee Leong Koh, Emanuel Xavier
Risa Denenberg is the author of three chapbooks and three full-length collections of poetry, including “Whirlwind @ Lesbos” (Headmistress Press, 2016) and “slight faith” (MoonPath Press, 2018). She currently lives a quiet life on the Olympic peninsula in Washington State. A member of ACTUP NY and a volunteer at the Community Health Project from 1987-1995, she worked for many years as a nurse practitioner in HIV/AIDS and end-of-life care. She is co-founder and editor at Headmistress Press, a publisher of LBT poetry. Online at risadenenberg.weebly.com.
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r. erica doyle was born in Brooklyn to Trinidadian immigrant parents. Her debut collection, proxy (Belladonna* Books, 2013), won the 2014 Norma Farber First Book Award from the Poetry Society of America and was a Finalist for the Lambda Literary Award in Lesbian Poetry. Her current project is a hybrid text combining genealogy and revolutions of the Black Atlantic past and present. Doyle Tongues Afire, a writing workshop for queer women and trans and gender non-conforming people of color. Online at rericadoyle.com.
Kay Gabriel is the author of Elegy Department Spring (BOAAT Press, 2017), finalist for the 2016 BOAAT chapbook prize selected by Richard Siken. She is one-fifth of Negative Press, a gay Marxist poetry collective, and co-edits Vetch: A Journal of Trans Poetry and Poetics. Find her recent and forthcoming writing in Lambda Literary Poetry Spotlight, Salvage, TAGVVERK, Tripwire, The Believer and elsewhere. Twitter: @unit01barbie.
JP Howard’s is the author of SAY/MIRROR (The Operating System, 2016), a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Poetry, and the chaplet bury your love poems here (Belladonna Collaborative, 2015). She has receive numerous grants, awards, and fellowships. Howard curates Women Writers in Bloom Poetry Salon. Online at jp-howard.com.
Jee Leong Koh is the author of Steep Tea (Carcanet, 2015), named a Best Book of the Year by the Financial Times, and a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award for Gay Poetry. He has published three other books of poems and a book of zuihitsu. Originally from Singapore, he lives in New York City, where he heads the literary non-profit Singapore Unbound, dedicated to literary exchange between the two countries. Online at jeeleong.blogspot.com.
Emanuel Xavier is author of the poetry collections Radiance (Rebel Satori Press, 2016), Nefarious (QueerMojo, 2013), Americano: Growing up Gay and Latino in the USA (QueerMojo, 2013), Pier Queen (QueerMojo, 2012), If Jesus Were Gay & other poems (QueerMojo, 2010), and the novel Christ Like (QueerMojo, 2009). He also edited Mariposas: A Modern Anthology of Queer Latino Poetry (Floricanto Press, 2008), Me No Habla with Acento: Contemporary Latino Poetry (Rebel Satori Press, 2011), and Bullets & Butterflies: Queer Spoken Word Poetry (Suspect Thoughts Press, 2005).Named an Equality Forum LGBT Icon and recipient of a New York City Council Citation and a World Pride Award, he has been a finalist for Lambda Literary Awards and International Latino Book Awards. Online at emanuelxavier.com.