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,...
Providence-based artist John Shen uses photography to weave the past and future. Born in Shaoxing, China, Shen immigrated to New Zealand as a young child and spent the next 20 years developing a passion for painting and photography. He moved to the United States in...
Judette Elliston (they/she) is a Haitian-Canadian vocalist, composer and improviser based in Brooklyn, New York. Their work focuses on amplifying our inner worlds; exploring the emotional and ancestral histories that reverberate within. Through song, they hold space...
