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Biographies NICO AMADOR | POETRY Nico Amador’s poetry has been featured or is forthcoming in Poetry Unbound, Bettering American Poetry, Poem-a-Day, PANK, Pleiades, The Cortland Review, Hypertext Review, The Visible Poetry Project and elsewhere. His chapbook, Flower Wars, was selected as the winner of the Anzaldúa Poetry Prize and was published by Newfound Press in 2017. He is a grant recipient from the Vermont Arts Council, an alumnus of the Lambda Literary Foundation’s Writers Retreat, and a reader at the New England Review. CLARESSINKA ANDERSON | POETRY Claressinka Anderson’s poetry and essays have appeared in Autre Magazine, Chiron Review, bedfellows, Contemporary Art Review Los Angeles (Carla), and elsewhere, as well as in the anthology Choice Words: Writers on Abortion (Haymarket Books, 2020). Through her ongoing collaborations with artists, her work engages the interstitial spaces of contemporary art and literature. During her time at Bennington, she wrote her first libretto. Born and raised in London, she lives in Los Angeles and dreams about rain.
