Join us for an evening of poetry with Ivy Raff and Briana Munoz.

Briana Muñoz is a writer from Southern California. Raised in San Diego, she spent a lot of her time at her mother’s Mexican folklore dance classes and at ranches where her father trained horses into the sunset. She is the author of Loose Lips, a poetry collection published by Prickly Pear Publishing (2019). Her work has been published in the Bravura Literary Journal, LA BLOGA, the oldest Chicana Chicano Literature blog in history, the Poets Responding page, and in the Oakland Arts Review, among others. In the 2016 publication of the Bravura, she was awarded the second-place fiction prize. Her poem “Rebirth” was featured in the Reproductive Health edition of the St. Sucia zine. Briana’s work was one of ten chosen for The Best of LA BLOGA from 2015. When she isn't typing away, she enjoys Danza Azteca, live music, cats, and thrift shopping.

Ivy Raff is the author of the bilingual English/Spanish What Remains / Qué queda (Editorial DALYA, forthcoming 2024), winner of the Dolors Alberola International Poetry Prize; and Rooted and Reduced to Dust (Finishing Line Press, 2024).  Individual poems appear in The American Journal of Poetry, Electric Literature’s The Commuter, Nimrod International Journal, Midway Journal, and West Trade Review, among numerous others, as well as in the anthologies Spectrum: Poetry Celebrating Identity, Kinship: Poems on Belonging (Renard Press, 2022 & 2023), London Independent Story Prize Anthology (2023), and the Aesthetica Creative Writing Prize Annual (2023).  Ivy has backpacked through 74 countries and lived abroad in Dominica. She freelances as a copywriter, translator, and website designer, and serves on the editorial teams of Reckoning, a literary journal on environmental justice, and Seventh Wave Magazine.