

Kamilah Aisha Moon is the author of Starshine & Clay (2017), a CLMP Firecracker Award finalist featured on NPR's "All Things Considered" as a collection that captures America in poetry, and She Has a Name (2013), a finalist for both the Audre Lorde and Lambda Literary Awards, Kamilah Aisha Moon's work has been published widely, including in The New York Times, Best American Poetry, Harvard Review, Poem-A-Day, American Poetry Review and elsewhere. He was included in Volume 380 in the Dictionary Of Literary Biography series : Twenty-First-Century American Poets. He is also the author of “Negative Space,” short-listed for an Oscar in Animated Short Films (2018). A (2017) Pushcart Prize winner, his most recent book from Red Hen Press is a comic-for-smart-people: Olympusville.

and the California Arts Council, has poems in two volumes of Best American Poetry (19). Ron Koertge (KUR-chee) is the recipient of grants from the N.E.A.
