2021 Massachusetts Poetry Festival

John Murillo is the author of the poetry collection, Up Jump the Boogie (Cypher 2010, Four Way Books 2020), a finalist for both the Kate Tufts Discovery Award and the Pen Open Book Award, and Kontemporary Amerikan Poetry (Four Way 2020). His honors include two Larry Neal Writers Awards... Read More →

Angela Narciso Torres is the author of Blood Orange (Willow Books Literature Award for Poetry, 2013), To the Bone (Sundress Publications, 2020), and What Happens Is Neither (Four Way Books, 2021). Recent work appears in Poetry, Missouri Review, and Quarterly West. A graduate of Warren... Read More →

Yona Harvey’s first poetry book, Hemming the Water, won the Kate Tufts Discovery Award from Claremont Graduate University. She is among the first Black women writers for Marvel Comics and earned an Eisner Award for her contribution to World of Wakanda. She co-authored Black Panther... Read More →

I am a fan of books and children; I have two of each. I am half-Tunisian, half-Texan and entirely queer. I am typically based in Brooklyn, but soon as I was healthy and strong enough to travel, after getting sick in the city last spring, I have been spending time on the Gulf Coast... Read More →