Geneva Chao + Mg Roberts

Genève/Geneva Chao has a B.A. In French Translation and Literature from Barnard College and an MA/MFA from San Francisco State University’s Creative Writing program. Her poems and translations have been published in Boxkite, Can We Have Our Ball Back?, (Satellite) Telephone, n/a literary journal, New American Writing, DIAGRAM, the L.A. Telephone Book, and others. Her book one of us is wave one of us is shore (Otis Books | Seismicity Editions, 2016) was also a finalist for the Tarpaulin Sky Book Prize. Her translations of Gérard Cartier’s Tristran and Nicolas Tardy’s (with François Luong) Encrusted on the Living have appeared from [lx] press, where she is an editor. She has twice been a Tamaas resident for work on the intersectionality of language/poetry and dance/the body. Her book Hillary Is Dreaming is forthcoming from Make Now Books.

Mg Roberts is a teacher, poet, and multimedia artist. She’s currently co-editing an anthology on the urgency of avant-garde writing written for and by writers of color entitled Responses, New writing, Flesh. She is a Kelsey Street Press member and the Northern California Kundiman Co-chair. She lives in Oakland with her three daughters, two hens, Goldendoodle, and geologist husband. Her second poetry collection Anemal, Uter Meck is forthcoming in 2017 from Black Radish Books.