Helen Klonaris + Amir Rabiyah

Helen Klonaris is a queer Greek Bahamian writer living in the Bay Area where she teaches creative writing and mythology. Her work has appeared in numerous journals including The Caribbean Writer, SX Salon, Tongues of the Ocean, HLFQ, Poui, ProudFlesh, and Calyx, and several anthologies, including Our Caribbean: A Gathering of Lesbian and Gay Writings from the Antilles, and The Racial Imaginary: Writers on Race in the Life of the Mind. Her debut short story collection, The Lovers, is forthcoming with Peepal Tree Press.

Amir Rabiyah is a mixed-race, queer, trans, and disabled poet, performer and community educator. Amir’s work has been published in Mizna, Sukoon, The Cream City Review, Enizagam, Troubling the Line: Trans and Genderqueer Poetry and Poetics, Gender Outlaws: The Next Generation and more. They live in San Diego with their partner.