CONTRIBUTORS Rock, Le Maison Baldwin, and A Gathering of the Tribes. Mr. Cabico is the producer and curator for Capturing Fire Press and Slam.
ADRIENNE KENNEDY is an award-winning playwright, lecturer, and author born in Pittsburgh in 1931. Her plays include Funnyhouse of a Negro and June and Jean in Concert. She is the recipient of an Obie Award for Sleep Deprivation Chamber, co-authored with her son Adam Kennedy. In 2018, Ms. Kennedy was inducted into the Theater Hall of Fame for “Lifetime Achievement in the American Theater.”
REGIE CABICO is a poet, theater artist, and spoken word pioneer having won The Nuyorican Poets Cafe Grand Slam. He is the founding Board Chair for Split This 6 | LITRO
CHIHOI is based between Hong Kong and Taiwan, and draws comics and paints. His major comic books include The Library & I’m with my Saint, Hijacking: Comic Hong Kong Literature, and The Train.
JEREMY CANIGLIA is an American figurative painter and illustrator, primarily in fantasy and horror genres. Caniglia’s art has been featured in the Washington Post and on CNN. He has created book covers for wellknown mainstream authors.
The American Poetry Review, Cincinnati Review, Georgia Review, Huizache, Iowa Review, The Nation, Poetry, and in The Best American Nonrequired Reading. Currently, he is an Editor for Frontier and Palette Poetry.
CATHAY LINH CHE is the author of Split (Alice James Books), winner of the Kundiman Poetry Prize, the Norma Farber First Book Award from the Poetry Society of America. She is also the co-author of the children’s book A Is for Asian American (Haymarket Books), to be published in May 2023.
JOSE HERNANDEZ DIAZ is a 2017 NEA Poetry Fellow. He is the author of a collection of prose poems: The Fire Eater (Texas Review Press, 2020). He holds degrees in English and Creative Writing from UC Berkeley and Antioch University Los Angeles. His work appears in
RAE DIAMOND is an artist, educator, and nature advocate, who weaves language, breath, sound, movement, and things found outside into intricate doorways that lead to vast worlds. Their poems and hybrids appear or are forthcoming in Dovecoat, The Arsonist, Sinister Wisdom, and various anthologies, and her book, Cantigee, will be published by North Atlantic Books in 2022.