Poetry collection. 2024. A chapbook featuring seven Bay Area poets (from two writer groups who meet regularly, one online and the other in person, and always at half past eight). Artist Bios:
SUSAN CALVILLO - Susan Calvillo is a Chinese/Mexican-American and a dead-on-her-feet mother of twins. Her poetry has appeared in numerous publications, including Audacious Women: An Anthology, Mom Egg Review, and Nightmare Magazine, and she is the author of the poetry chapbook Excerpts from My Grocery List. With her writing, Susan intends to spill all her secrets and inspire others to speak their truth too. She advocates for diversity in the publishing industry as a production editor and copyeditor for Macmillan, McGraw-Hill, Foglifter, and Literary Mama. Stay in touch on Instagram @susan_calvillo or TikTok @beardlessbard & Keep reading at susancalvillo.com
N. CUZZI - N. Cuzzi is a bookseller, poet, and musician. They were born and raised in the Bay Area, and live and work in the Sunset.
RICK D’ELIA - Rick D’Elia is a writer, cinematographer, and producer. His work has been published in the Portland Review, Switchback, Heavy Feather Review, Generations, and others. He received an MFA in Creative Writing from San Francisco State University and can be found at www.rtdelia.com
AMY KASHIWABARA - Amy Kashiwabara is a Korean adoptee who practices law, parenting, and bridge in San Francisco. Many moons ago, she was published in Seventeen magazine, The Berkeley Poetry Review, Talus & Scree, and a Scott Foresman Literature and Integrated Studies textbook. She has performed at bookstores and many other Bay Area poetry venues. These days, she prefers to puzzle but will occasionally write a poem when given a deadline.
GRIFFIN JING - griffin jing is a queer chinese american, and a san francisco-based interdisciplinary artist. her work finds form through connection with community, reverence for the collective, and adherence to the belief that every trans person is precious and completely necessary. griffin’s work strives to share the perspective of modern trans-femininity with the world; the loneliness and grief of life’s daily rejections, but also the communal joy of queer togetherness, and the pride of cultivating one’s singular identity among all the world’s whimsical, prismatic complications. griffin received her mfa in creative writing from mills college. griffin’s poetry can be found in the ana, mixed rice zines, dekopon! magazine, sine theta mag, foglifter journal, and quiet lightning’s better ancestors chapbook.
CAROLYN HO - Carolyn’s a Vietnamese American poet, artist, and mom. She’s a Kundiman fellow, recipient of the SF Foundation’s Phelan Award, Nomadic Press Award, and an SF Arts Commission grant recipient, among other mentionables. She’s folded 100K+ cranes but the crane as a symbol is irrelevant and a byproduct of coping with child-rearing, elderly-care, divorce, and poor life choices. Years ago, SF Weekly coined her as one of several “Best Writers Without a Book” which still haunts her to this day. Carolyn has an MFA/MA from SF State.
Poetry collection. 2024. A chapbook featuring seven Bay Area poets (from two writer groups who meet regularly, one online and the other in person, and always at half past eight). Artist Bios:
SUSAN CALVILLO - Susan Calvillo is a Chinese/Mexican-American and a dead-on-her-feet mother of twins. Her poetry has appeared in numerous publications, including Audacious Women: An Anthology, Mom Egg Review, and Nightmare Magazine, and she is the author of the poetry chapbook Excerpts from My Grocery List. With her writing, Susan intends to spill all her secrets and inspire others to speak their truth too. She advocates for diversity in the publishing industry as a production editor and copyeditor for Macmillan, McGraw-Hill, Foglifter, and Literary Mama. Stay in touch on Instagram @susan_calvillo or TikTok @beardlessbard & Keep reading at susancalvillo.com
N. CUZZI - N. Cuzzi is a bookseller, poet, and musician. They were born and raised in the Bay Area, and live and work in the Sunset.
RICK D’ELIA - Rick D’Elia is a writer, cinematographer, and producer. His work has been published in the Portland Review, Switchback, Heavy Feather Review, Generations, and others. He received an MFA in Creative Writing from San Francisco State University and can be found at www.rtdelia.com
AMY KASHIWABARA - Amy Kashiwabara is a Korean adoptee who practices law, parenting, and bridge in San Francisco. Many moons ago, she was published in Seventeen magazine, The Berkeley Poetry Review, Talus & Scree, and a Scott Foresman Literature and Integrated Studies textbook. She has performed at bookstores and many other Bay Area poetry venues. These days, she prefers to puzzle but will occasionally write a poem when given a deadline.
GRIFFIN JING - griffin jing is a queer chinese american, and a san francisco-based interdisciplinary artist. her work finds form through connection with community, reverence for the collective, and adherence to the belief that every trans person is precious and completely necessary. griffin’s work strives to share the perspective of modern trans-femininity with the world; the loneliness and grief of life’s daily rejections, but also the communal joy of queer togetherness, and the pride of cultivating one’s singular identity among all the world’s whimsical, prismatic complications. griffin received her mfa in creative writing from mills college. griffin’s poetry can be found in the ana, mixed rice zines, dekopon! magazine, sine theta mag, foglifter journal, and quiet lightning’s better ancestors chapbook.
CAROLYN HO - Carolyn’s a Vietnamese American poet, artist, and mom. She’s a Kundiman fellow, recipient of the SF Foundation’s Phelan Award, Nomadic Press Award, and an SF Arts Commission grant recipient, among other mentionables. She’s folded 100K+ cranes but the crane as a symbol is irrelevant and a byproduct of coping with child-rearing, elderly-care, divorce, and poor life choices. Years ago, SF Weekly coined her as one of several “Best Writers Without a Book” which still haunts her to this day. Carolyn has an MFA/MA from SF State.