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