by Michelle Tea
Once a union organizer at the Lusty Lady Theater in San Francisco, Siobhan Brooks is an assistant professor of African-American Studies. Her writing has been published in Colonize This! Young Women of Color on Today’s Feminism and Revolutionary Voices, and she is the author of Unequal Desires.
Chloe Caldwell is the author of the novella Women (SF/LD) and the essay collections I’ll Tell You in Person (Coffee House) and Legs Get Led Astray (SF/LD). Her nonfiction has been published in New York magazine, VICE, Lenny Letter, Longreads, and many anthologies. She teaches creative nonfiction in New York City and lives in Hudson.
Joy Castro is the author of the memoir The Truth Book: Escaping a Childhood of Abuse Among Jehovah’s Witnesses; two novels, Hell or High Water and Nearer Home; a book of short stories, How Winter Began; and a collection of essays, Island of Bones. She is a professor of English and ethnic studies at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln.
Lilly Dancyger is the author of Hunted: A Memoir of Art and Addiction and the deputy editor at Narratively, where she edits the memoir section. Her essays and articles have appeared in The Atlantic, The Washington Post, New York magazine, VICE, and more.
tatiana de la tierra (Villavicencio, Colombia, 1961) is an angry girl who rides horses in the sky and secretly wants to be a songwriter. She is the author of For the Hard Ones: A Lesbian Phenomenology/Para las duras: Una fenomenología lesbiana (Calaca/Chibcha Press), a bilingual celebration of lesbianism in poetic prose. She was cofounder and editor of the Latina lesbian magazines Esto no tiene nombre (1991–1994) and Comoción (1995–1996).
Aya de Leon is an acclaimed writer of prose and poetry and a teacher at the University of California at Berkeley. Her writing has appeared in Guernica, xoJane, The Toast, Ebony, Womans Day, Writers Digest, Mutha Magazine, The Good Men Project, KQED Pop, Bitch Magazine, The Feminist Wire, and more.
Juliana Delgado Lopera is an award-winning writer and oral historian based in San Francisco. The recipient of the 2014 Jackson Literary Award and a finalist of the Clark-Gross Novel Award, she’s received fellowships from Brush Creek Foundation of the Arts, Lambda Literary Foundation, and The SF Grotto, and an individual artist grant from the SF Arts Commission and her work has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. She’s the executive director of Radar Productions, a queer literary nonprofit.
Tina Fakhrid-Deen is an educator, activist, writer, performer, and LGBTQ family activist. She is the author of Let’s Get This Straight: The Ultimate Handbook for Youth with LGBTQ Parents. She lives with her family in Chicago.
Shell Feijo is a former foster kid from Northern California. She lives in Iowa and teaches writing and working-class literature at Kirkwood Community College. Her publications have appeared in The Fem Literary Magazine, Utne, Hip Mama, The Manifest Station, and more.
Lis Goldschmidt is a writer, artist, and licensed acupuncturist in San Francisco, where she brings an artist’s sensibility to the practice of Chinese medicine.
Ariel Gore is the editor and publisher of the Alternative Press Award–winning magazine Hip Mama and the author of eight books.
Terri Griffith is the author of the novel So Much Better. Her fiction and criticism have appeared in Art:21, Bloom, Suspect Thoughts, and Bust, as well as several anthologies. Since 2006, she has been the literary correspondent and blogger for Bad at Sports, a weekly podcast about contemporary art that focuses on the practices of artists, curators, critics, dealers, and other arts professionals. She teaches writing and literature at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Daisy Hernández is the coeditor with Bushra Rehman of Colonize This! Young Women of Color on Today’s Feminism. She has written a column for Ms. magazine and reported for The New York Times.
Silas Howard is an American director, scriptwriter, and actor. He started as a guitar player in the punk queer band Tribe 8. After creating his first feature film, By Hook or by Crook, with Harry Dodge, he went on to get a MFA in directing in UCLA. He began directing episodes during the second season of Transparent, making him the show’s first trans director.
Shawna Kenney is the author of the award-winning memoir, I Was a Teenage Dominatrix. She has written for Juxtapoz, Transworld Skateboarding, Slap, Tease, Alternative Press, SG, The Underground Guide to Los Angeles, While You Were Sleeping, Herbivore Magazine, Epitaph Records, and herself.
Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha is an artist, performer, activist, and author of Dirty River, Bodymap, Love Cake, and Consensual Genocide. Her work has appeared in several anthologies, including Colonize This! Young Women of Color on Today’s Feminism. She is the cofounder of Mangos with Chili, North America’s touring queer and trans people of color cabaret.
Bee Lavender is an activist, author, entrepreneur, and social media pioneer. The author of Lessons in Taxidermy and editor of the anthologies Breeder and Mamaphonic, she has written for The Guardian, Salon, Catapult, Bust, and Bitch, and she has appeared on NPR and BBC Radio. Her work in technology and publishing has been featured in Wired, Fast Company, USA Today, The Telegraph, The Times, Time Out, and The New Yorker. She lives in London and New York.
Liz McGlinchey King is a writer living in Los Angeles. She writes about marriage, parenthood, and growing up in working-class Philadelphia. Her essays have appeared in the Los Angeles Times, Mothering magazine, and the Youshare Project.
Eileen Myles is a poet, novelist, performer, and journalist. Myles’s twenty books include Afterglow, Cool for You, I Must Be Living Twice, and Chelsea Girls. Myles is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, an Andy Warhol/Creative Capital Arts Writers grant, four Lambda Book Awards, and the Shelley Prize. The recipient of a Creative Capital grant and the Clark Prize for excellence in art writing, Myles teaches at New York University and Naropa University in Boulder.
Ijeoma Oluo is the author of So You Want to Talk About Race and editor-at-large at The Establishment, a media platform run and funded by women. Oluo was named one of the most influential people in Seattle by Seattle magazine.
Polyestra is a painter, a poet, and the front woman for the band Polyestra.
Terry Ryan is the author of The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio: How My Mother Raised 10 Kids on 25 Words or Less.
Wendy Thompson is a writer and filmmaker. Her work has appeared in the anthologies Restoried Selves and Yell-Oh Girls.
Virgie Tovar is an author, activist, one of the nation’s leading experts and lecturers on fat discrimination and body image, and editor of the groundbreaking anthology Hot & Heavy: Fierce Fat Girls on Life, Love and Fashion. She is a former plus-size style writer for BuzzFeed, and she has been featured by The New York Times, Tech Insider, MTV, Al Jazeera, NPR, Yahoo Health, the San Francisco Chronicle, Cosmopolitan, Bust magazine, and more.
Frances Varian is a writer and performer.
ABOUT THE EDITOR
MICHELLE TEA is the author of five memoirs: The Passionate Mistakes and Intricate Corruption of One Girl in America, Valencia, The Chelsea Whistle, Rent Girl, and How to Grow Up. Her novels include Mermaid in Chelsea Creek and Girl at the Bottom of the Sea, part of a young-adult fantasy trilogy published by McSweeneys; Rose of No Man’s Land; Black Wave; Castle on the River Vistula; and Modern Tarot, a tarot how-to and spell book.
Tea is the curator of the Amethyst Editions imprint at Feminist Press. She founded the literary nonprofit RADAR Productions and the international Sister Spit performance tours, and is the former editor of Sister Spit Books, an imprint of City Lights. She created Mutha Magazine, an online publication about real-life parenting. Her writing has appeared in Harper’s, Cosmopolitan, The Believer, Marie Clare, n+1, xoJane, California Sunday Magazine, Buzzfeed and many other print and web publications.
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