Conditional Love w/ Doan, Okyomon + Young

SPD PRESENTS is a monthly reading series with the aim of fostering relationships between emerging writers and readers in our national small press community.

MAI DOAN is the author of the chapbook, transgression: “things i have learned from my body”. Her work is grounded in the imaginative, intuitive, ancestral, and the felt and works towards resisting state-sponsored narratives around history, identity, healing, and trauma. mai has poetry in the upcoming issue of HOLD: a journal and is a performing artist in this year’s National Queer Arts Festival. She holds an MFA in Poetry from Mills College where she attended as a Community Engagement Fellow and is based on Oakland, CA.

PRECIOUS OKOYOMON is the author of “Ajebota” (Bottlecap Press. 2016) Her work has been featured in Metatron, Fanzine, Reality Beach and other places online and in print. She’s just a lil lamb leaking milk.

STEPHANIE YOUNG’s most recent book is “Ursula or University” (Krupskaya, 2013). She edited the anthology Bay Poetics and is a founding editor of Deep Oakland. With Juliana Spahr she coedited A Megaphone: Some Enactments, Some Numbers, and Some Essays about the Continued Usefulness of Crotchless-pants-and-a-machine-gun Feminism.