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Jae Casella (they/them/jae) is a queer poet, essayist, and nature photographer who lives on  the southern coast of Maine. Their writing is informed by all the thoughts they don't say aloud. Their favorite place to be is outside. Jae's poems appear in redrosethorns journal, Epistemic Literary, Bending Genres, and Monster Beauties: A Maine Transgender Poetry Anthology. Their photography has been published in Light - A Journal of Photography and Beyond Words Literary Journal.

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Lauren Saxon is a queer, Black poet and engineer living in Portland, ME. She loves her cats, her Subaru, and being chronically online. Lauren's work is featured in Barrelhouse, Empty Mirror, Across the Margin, Homology Lit, and more. Her debut chapbook, "You're My Favorite" won the 2023 Maine Literary Award for Book of Poetry, and is out now with Thirty West Publishing. 

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Marpheen Chann is a second generation Asian American, is a writer, speaker, and gay man.

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Maya Williams (ey/em, they/them, and she/her) is a religious Black multiracial nonbinary suicide survivor who is currently an Ashley Bryan Fellow, a Creative Fellow of the University of New England's Maine Women Writers Collection, and was selected as the seventh Poet Laureate of Portland, Maine for a July 2021 to July 2024 term.

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Megan E. Tripaldi is an actor, internationally produced playwright, and educator living and working in Portland, ME.

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Rylan Hynes (they/them) and their work have been a finalist for Proximity Magazine's 2024 Essay Contest, the 2024 Maine Chapbook Series, Tin House’s 2024 Summer Residency for Trans Writers, and longlisted for The Masters Review’s 2023 Novel Excerpt Contest. Hynes has received multiple accolades from the Maine Writers & Publishers Alliance, such as a Martin Dibner Fellowship and an inaugural Maine Lit Fest Fellowship.

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Since 2017, Samaa’s creative life has been focused on writing and sharing her poetry. Some of Samaa’s academic writing can be found in Bad Girls and Transgressive Women in Popular Television, Fiction, and Film (2017) and Teaching Against Islamophobia (2010). Recently, her poetry can be found in Cider Press Review, Bigger Than Bravery: Black Resilience and Reclamation in a Time of Pandemic (2023), Obsidian: Literature & Arts in the African Diaspora. Her chapbook, Towards a Retreat, was a finalist for the 2022 Maine Writers and Publisher’s Chapbook Contest. She is the editor of From Root to Seed: Black, Brown, and Indigenous Poets Write the Northeast (2023).

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33, Queer Jewish Disabled Maine Poet.

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