Gwendolyn Morgan is a Northwest poet and artist who learned the names of birds and wildflowers and inherited paint brushes and wooden paint boxes from her grandmothers. She earned an M.F.A. in Creative Writing from Goddard College, and an M.Div. from the Graduate Theological Union. Flight Feathers, her fourth book of poetry, found its filoplumes at Centrum Artist Residency following her service as Clark County Poet Laureate, Washington, and is a Nautilus Gold Winner in Lyric Prose. 

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Jaspal Kaur Singh is a poet, writer, and an educator. Jaspal’s poems and essays have appeared in South Asian Review, The Offbeat, Dreadlocks Interrupted, Emergences: Journal for the Study of Media and Composite Cultures, In Other Words: An American Poetry Anthology, and Philosophy and Global Affairs, among others. She has also created and published videopoems in Superpresent: Magazine for the Arts and Hole in the Head Review. She has a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature (University of Oregon) and a Master of Fine Arts (Northern Michigan University). She will read from her poetry book, Exiles and Pleasures: Taunggyi Dreaming (Finishing Line Press 2023). Jaspal was born and raised in Burma, lived in India and Iraq, and migrated to the US in 1984 and calls Portland, Oregon, home.