Kindra McDonald Greene is the author of the collections Teaching a Wild Thing, Fossils and In the Meat Years. She was the recipient of the 2020 Haunted Waters Press Poetry Award and has been nominated for Bettering American Poetry and a Pushcart Prize. She received her MFA from Queens University of Charlotte. A poet artist working in mixed-media, found poetry, and ecopoetics she鈥檚 a Teaching Artist at The Muse Writers Center and the Executive Director of the Elizabeth River Trail Foundation in Norfolk, VA. She served as the Poetry Society of Virginia Southeastern region VP from 2019-2022. You can find her in the woods or at
JJJJJerome Ellis (any pronoun) is a disabled Grenadian-Jamaican-American artist, surfer, and person who stutters. The artist works across music, performance, writing, video, and photography. JJJJJerome has the great privilege of being married to poet-ecologist Lu铆sa Black Ellis. They live in a monastery on a creek in traditional Chesapeake and Nansemond territory, in Norfolk, VA. JJJJJerome dreams of building a sonic bath house!
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