Ivy Johnson, Syd Staiti, Isabel Bezerra Balé

Ivy Johnson is a poet and performance artist in Oakland, CA. Her book, As They Fall, is a collection of 110 notecards for aleatoric ritual and was published by Timeless, Infinite Light in 2013. She is co-founder of The Third Thing, an ecstatic feminist performance art duo. Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs published their self-titled chapbook, The Third Thing, in 2016. Her book Born Again is just out from The Operating System.

Syd Staiti is the author of The Undying Present (Kurpskaya 2015) and In the Stitches (Trafficker 2010).

Isabel Bezerra Balée writes poems and works at a nonprofit in Berkeley. Previously, she has taught creative writing at Tulane University. Born and raised in New Orleans, with roots in Northern Brazil, she feels a deep connection to floodplains.