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Michelle Alexander is an American-Trinidadian poet, creative nonfiction writer, New York University Gallatin School of Individualized Study graduate, and MFA candidate at Columbia College of Chicago. Her work has appeared in Salt Hill; she is a poet in residence with the Chicago Poetry Center.
Michelle Alexander is an American-Trinidadian poet, creative nonfiction writer, New York University Gallatin School of Individualized Study graduate, and MFA candidate at Columbia College of Chicago. Her work has appeared in Salt Hill; she is a poet in residence with the Chicago Poetry Center.
Alexandra, an Oak Park native, uses her writing to share the whimsy, the weird and the real. Raised in a jewish house hold, she incorporates her Eastern European Jewish heritage into her writing, while taking inspiration from some of her favorite authors: Kafka and Poe.
Izzy Dimiceli is a queer poet and artist born and raised in the Chicago suburbs. She is currently pursuing an MFA at Columbia College Chicago.
Julia writes fiction and nonfiction pieces that are heavily influenced and inspired by her Midwestern roots. She is interested in the gritty underbelly of lives and relationships, and writes on the raw edges of being human.
Gina, a Chicago resident, recently earned her MFA in creative nonfiction from Columbia College Chicago. Her literature, twice nominated for the Pushcart prize, is exceedingly personal, often satirical, with an eye cast to the side for the strange and whimsical.
Natasha is a Cuban American poet, educator, curator, and artist. Born and raised in Miami, she moved to Chicago to study creative writing at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Tony Trigilio’s most recent book of poems is Proof Something Happened. His essay collection, Craft: A Memoir, is forthcoming in September 2023. He is a Professor of English and Creative Writing at Columbia College Chicago.
“Poetry forces me to pay attention—and to do so with delight,” Tony says. “I want to read and write poems that teach me to see. ‘The eye altering,’ as William Blake writes, ‘alters all.’”
Spencer Washington is a current post graduate MFA student from Columbia College Chicago. They mainly focus on LGBT+ YA fiction and queer narratives.
Ankita is an MFA student in the Creative Writing program at Columbia College Chicago. She works at the intersection of literary and theatrical arts. Her poem ‘Sugarburn’ just won the Eileen Lannan Poetry Prize, and her chapbook ‘Pink Mortem’ was recently published by Bottlecap press.
