Jaye Elizabeth Elijah is an orbweaver. Their practice connects art and poetry, earth and pleasure. Their words have appeared in beestung and the Academy of American Poets Poem-a-Day series. Jaye Elizabeth is an editor-at-large at Nightboat Books and a forever student (current subject areas include stars, grief, and disability justice). Born and raised in southwest Ohio, they now reside under the wide skies of central New Mexico.

Amaris Feland Ketcham occupies her time with open space, white space, CMYK, flash nonfiction, long trails, line breaks, and several Adobe programs running simultaneously. Her books include A Poetic Inventory of the Sandia Mountains, Glitches in the FBI, Unfiltered: A Cancer Year Diary, and Best Tent Camping: New Mexico. 

Valerie Martínez is the author of five books of poetry, including two book-length works (Each and Her and Count), as well as a chapbook of poetry and prose (A Hundred Little Mouths) and a book of translations (of Uruguay’s Delmira Agustini). Her poems have been published widely in anthologies, journals, and magazines, including The Best American Poetry, Touching the Fire: Fifteen Poets of Today’s Latino Renaissance, Puerto del Sol, and Poetry. Valerie taught poetry at the undergraduate and graduate levels for over 22 years, including at the University of Arizona, Ursinus College, New Mexico Highlands University, the Institute for American Indian Arts (IAIA), the University of Miami, and the College of Santa Fe. She was the Poet Laureate of Santa Fe, New Mexico, from 2008-2010. Valerie has had a subsequent career in the field of arts and community development. She is the Founding Director of Artful Life (2015-present) whose arts engagement projects are designed to transform communities through the beauty and power of collaborative art. From 2006-2014 Valerie was Executive Director and Core Artist with Littleglobe, a New Mexico-based 501(c)(3) that creates significant works of art/performance with members of diverse and underserved communities. Learn more about Valerie at www.valeriemartinez.net.

mallika singh is a poet, farmer, and cook who makes work about ecosystems and intimacies.

in collaboration with poet and friend Rebeca Alderete Baca, mallika runs OOZE — an event series that celebrates poetry, ritual, and gathering. their debut chapbook, Retrieval, was published in 2020 from Wendy’s Subway. 

mallika is currently based in Albuquerque, NM and is growing vegetables, herbs, and flowers with their coworkers at Ashokra Farm.

Arte is an artist, poet, and activist. She’s been a Brower Youth Award Winner, an UPROSE Climate Justice Fellow, a 2022 Pushcart Prize Nominee, and Santa Fe’s 2020 Youth Poet Laureate. Her writing has appeared in publications such as Inlandia Literary Journal, Subnivean Magazine, Magma Poetry, and Fifth Wheel Press.

Loretta Trujillo is a teacher, poet, activist and mother. Loretta describes her identity and its connection to place with these words: "Place - Where the stories of my ancestors continue to live beneath the landscape that I also call home." She has been writing and performing poetry alongside other pursuits such as making authentic Mexican dishes and thrifting.

Darryl Lorenzo Wellington was the 6th Poet Laureate of Santa Fe, NM. His work has appeared in Dissent, The Nation, The Progressive, The Washington Post, The Christian Science Monitor, Boston Review, and N+1. His most recent book is Legible Walls: Poems for Santa Fe Murals, published in 2023