A night of poetry with:
Alix (@baddogbooks) is a writer and bookbinder living in the sweaty town of New Orleans. They run a small bookbinding business called Bad Dog Books (named after their bad chihuahua), are a contributing editor and book artist at Tilted House, and love to watch fruit rot away in their kitchen. They have been published in Fine Point Press and Tilted House, and have self-published most of their work. They have tried every ice cream place in New Orleans despite being mildly lactose intolerant.
Elwin Cotman is a storyteller from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He is the author of three collections of speculative short stories, The Jack Daniels Sessions EP, Hard Times Blues, and Dance on Saturday, which was nominated for the Philip K. Dick Award. He is also author of The Wizard's Homecoming (2023, Nomadic Press) as well as the upcoming Weird Black Girls (2024, Scribner) and The Age of Ignorance (2025, Scribner). Cotman earned his BA from the University of Pittsburgh and his MFA from Mills College.
grace (ge) gilbert is a poet, essayist, and collage worker based in Pittsburgh. theyreceived their MFA in poetry from the University of Pittsburgh in 2022. theyare the authorof 3 chapbooks: the closeted diaries: essays (Porkbelly Press 2022), NOTIFICATIONS IN THE DARK (Antenna Books 2023), and today is an unholy suite (Barrelhouse 2023). theywere the MCLA Under 27 Writer-in-Residence Fellow at Mass MoCA. their work can be found in 2023's Best of the Net Anthology, the Indiana Review, Ninth Letter, Passages North, the Offing, the Adroit Journal, Hayden's Ferry Review, Diode, Foglifter, TYPO, ANMLY, and elsewhere. theycurrently teach hybrid collage and poetics courses at the Minnesota Center for Book Arts, and they are a 2023 Visiting Teaching Artist at the Poetry Foundation. theyare passionate about making the hybrid arts accessible to all. find more at gracegegilbert.com.
Margaret Saigh is a writer, dancer, and teacher. She is the author of the chapbook CROSSED IN THE DARKER LIGHT OF TERROR (dancing girl press 2022), a graduate of the MFA program at the University of Pittsburgh, and the creator of circlet, a virtual poetry workshop. Her poems have been featured in Annulet Poetics Journal and Figure 1, and are forthcoming in Pitymilk Press and A Velvet Giant, among others.