Come celebrate the release of Jaz Sufi's first chapbook, Catalog of Shadows! "Catalog of Shadows is a dynamic postmortem of an abusive intimate relationship. Through both form and free-verse, these poems explore codependence, autonomy, and identity while complicating the victim-to-survivor narrative. If abuse requires the abandoning of one's self, then this collection is a chronicle of its rebuilding and reclamation."

Jaz Sufi - Jaz Sufi (she/hers) is a queer Iranian-American poet and arts educator. Her work has been published in Best New Poets, Best of the Net, AGNI, Black Warrior Review, Muzzle, and elsewhere. Her first chapbook, Catalog of Shadows, is forthcoming with Game Over Books. She is a National Poetry Slam finalist and has received fellowships from Kundiman, the Watering Hole, and New York University, where she received her MFA.  She is the Poet Laureate of San Ramon on occupied Ohlone land, where she lives with her dog, Apollo.

Tino V. H. Jr. - Fortino Vazquez Edmonds aka Tino VH Jr. is a gay Mexican American spoken word teaching artist from Oakland, CA, who uses Popular Education and Freedom frameworks in his classroom. Currently, he is serving as the Artist in Residence at Ruth Asawa School of the Arts in San Francisco, CA, for their Spoken Arts Department. An avid reader, Vazquez believes in transformative and healing education, it has led him with incarcerated youth of the Bay Area and Sonoma county. His poetry explores masculinity/feminism, addiction, indigeneity, queerness, and his Mexican-American heritage. 

Jordan Ranft - Jordan Ranft lives in Northern California, where he works as a therapist. He writes poetry and non-fiction. His poems have received nominations for the Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net, and have been published in Boulevard, Passages North, Frontier Poetry, and elsewhere. He writes about DIY art and punk scenes for his local paper. He is the author of the chapbook Said the Worms (Wrong Publishing). In 2015, he took 3rd place at the National Poetry Slam as a member of the Berkeley Slam Team.