Karen Hampton is a mixed-media textile artist who tells stories using a loom, needle and thread, dye and cloth, creating historical narratives based on carefully researched subjects. She received her MFA in 2000 from the University of California, Davis. In 2022, Karen...
Jamie John is a two-spirit trans and queer Anishinaabe and Korean-American multi-disciplinary artist and powwow dancer. They are a dually enrolled tribal citizen of the Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians and the United States of America. Jamie’s...
Melanie Gillman is a graphic novelist and colored pencil artist who specializes in queer and trans comics for middle-grade and YA readers. They are the author of several graphic novels, including As the Crow Flies, Stage Dreams and most recently, Other Ever...
Aaron Peters received a bachelor’s in visual arts from the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) in 2016 and a Master of Fine Arts at Ohio State University in 2022. Peters has received the Global Arts + Humanities Society of Fellows Grant from Ohio State...
Denise Miller (they/she) is a poet, playwright and mixed media artist whose poetry has been published in the Offing, African American Review and Blackberry: A Magazine. They were named the 2015 Willow Books Emerging Poet, an AROHO Waves Discussion Fellowship awardee,...
