León, Peters, Gelman, + White

Raina J. León, PhD is a CantoMundo fellow, a Cave Canem graduate fellow, and a member of the Carolina African American Writers Collective. She is the author of three collections of poetry, Canticle of Idols, Boogeyman Dawn, and sombra: (dis)locate (2016). She has received numerous fellowships and residencies including the Macdowell Colony, the Vermont Studio Center, the Tyrone Guthrie Center in Annamaghkerrig, Ireland and Ragdale. She is a founding editor of The Acentos Review and an associate professor of education at Saint Mary’s College of California.
http://www.rainaleon.com/poems.html

Annelyse Gelman is a California Arts Scholar, the inaugural poet-in-residence at UCSD’s Brain Observatory, and recipient of the 2013 Mary Barnard Academy of American Poets Prize. Her work has appeared in Indiana Review, the PEN Poetry Series, and elsewhere, and she is the author of the poetry collection Everyone I Love is a Stranger to Someone (2014), shortlisted for the Believer Poetry Award.
www.annelysegelman.com.

Arisa White received her MFA from UMass, Amherst. She’s a Cave Canem fellow and the author of Black Pearl, Post Pardon, Hurrah’s Nest, and A Penny Saved. A 2013-14 recipient of an Investing in Artist Grant from the Center for Cultural Innovation and the northwest regional representative for Nepantla: A Journal Dedicated to Queer Poets of Color, Arisa is a BFA faculty advisor at Goddard College. Forthcoming from Augury Books in October 2016 is her third full-length collection, You’re the Most Beautiful Thing that Happened.
arisawhite.com