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MK Chavez is the author of Virgin Eyes (Zeitgeist Press) Visitation, Next Exit #9 (with John Sweet) and Pinnacle (Kendra Steiner Editions.)
You can find recent and upcoming work in Generations, 1611, and Zone 3. She has been a fellow at Squaw Valley Writers Conference, Antioch Writers Workshop and VONA.
She is co-founder and co-curator of the Berkeley based monthly reading series Lyrics & Dirges. She is also one of the organizers of the Berkeley Poetry Festival. You can find out more about her by visitingwww.birdness.org
Kiala Givehand is a creativity and empowerment coach, poet/writer/editor, mixed media book artist, and workshop leader originally from Florida, now writing and living in Oakland where she resides with her husband, Damon. Her writing has appeared in Mabel Magazine, Calyx: A Journal of Literature by Women, Eleven Eleven, Jacket 2, deadpaper.org, the Bella Vista Art Gallery, AFFILIA, XLibris, and in the Campanil. She received an MFA in Creative Writing & Poetry from Mills College where she spent two years as the poetry editor for 580 Split. From there she went on to start Generations Literary Journal, where she currently serves as managing editor. Kiala works one-on-one and in small groups with teachers, artists, writers, and creative entrepreneurs who want to identify their passions so that they can embrace their gifts and talents through the empowered expression of their deepest desires. She is an Associate Coach for Artizen Coaching, a Right Brain Business Plan® Licensed Facilitator, a Cave Canem fellow, a Voices of Our Nations (VONA) alum, a member of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc., and the proud owner of a fabulous collection of fountain pens.
Judy Halebsky‘s book, Sky=Empty, won the New Issues Poetry Prize and was a finalist for the California Book Award. Her chapbook, Space/Gap/Interval/Distance won the Poets-Under-Forty award from Sixteen Rivers Press. On a fellowship from the Japanese Ministry of Culture, she trained in Noh theatre and Butoh dance in Japan for five years. The MacDowell Colony, the Millay Colony, and the Canada Council for the Arts have supported her work. She is an assistant professor at Dominican University of California. Originally from Halifax, Nova Scotia, she now lives in Oakland.
Genine Lentine is the author of Poses: An Essay Drawn from the Model (Kelly’s Cove Press),Mr. Worthington’s Beautiful Experiments on Splashes (New Michigan Press), and Found Dharma Talks (Missing Links Press). Recent work appears in The Baffler, Funk & Wag, andthe PEN Poetry Series. She has received fellowships from University of Arizona Poetry Center, Headlands Center for the Arts, Hedgebrook, and Montalvo Arts Center. She teaches privately and at San Francisco Art Institute.