Dylan Edwards, award-winning queer and trans cartoonist, keeper of Studio NDR

 

 

 

 

 

Nona Caspers, short-story writer and professor of creative writing at San Francisco State University

 

 

 

 

 

Lucy Jane Bledsoe, world traveler, explorer, hiker, and award-winning novelist

 

 

 

 

 

Terry Baum, playwright, performer, Lesbian activist, and world traveler

 

 

 

 

 

 

Vernon Keeve III reads from “My Mother Introduced Me to My Spirit,” based on ghost stories his mother told him as a child

 

 

 

 

Vernon Keeve III, high school English teacher in Oakland, CA, and director of the Association of Black & Brown Writers

 

 

 

Jeff Mann, author, poet, and teacher of creative writing at Virginia Tech