Rosenthal, Duncan, + White

Sarah Rosenthal is the author of Lizard (poetry, Chax, 2016) and Manhatten (cross-genre, Spuyten Duyvil, 2009). Her interview collection A Community Writing Itself: Conversations with Vanguard Poets of the Bay Area was published by Dalkey Archive in 2010. From 2009–2011 she was an Affiliate Artist at Headlands Center for the Arts. Originally from Chicago, she lives in San Francisco where she works as a Life & Professional Coach and serves on the California Book Awards poetry jury.

Aja Couchois Duncan’s poetry collection Restless Continent was published by Litmus Press in 2016. Duncan, a Bay Area educator, writer and coach of Ojibwe, French and Scottish descent, is the recipient of a 2005 Marin Arts Council Award Grant for Literary Arts and a 2013 James D. Phelan Literary Award. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from San Francisco State University and a variety of other degrees and credentials to certify her as human. Great Spirit knew it all along.

Arisa White is the author of You’re the Most Beautiful Thing That Happened (Augury, 2016), Hurrah’s Nest (Virtual Artists Collective, 2012), and A Penny Saved (Willow, 2012). In 2013–14 she received a Cultural Funding grant from the City of Oakland to create the libretto and score for Post Pardon: The Opera, and a grant from the Center for Cultural Innovation to fund a project called dear Gerald. She is a Cave Canem fellow and a BFA faculty member at Goddard College.