OUR AUTHORS
WE STILL BE: Poems and Performances
Paul S. Flores
Paul S. Flores is one of the most influential Latino performance artists in the country and a nationally respected arts educator. He creates plays, oral narratives, and spoken word about transnationality and citizenship that spur and support societal movements that lead to change.
All Brown Boys Get Trumpets
Matthew 'Cuban' Hernandez
Matthew ‘Cuban’ Hernandez is a poet, emcee, speaker, actor, and performance coach from Jacksonville, Florida. He has toured as far as Abu Dhabi and nearly every major city in the United States and Europe, performing, teaching and coaching poetry.
El Viejo
Edward Vidaurre
Edward Vidaurre is the author of nine collections of poetry. Vidaurre’s poems have appeared in The New York Times Magazine, Avalon Literary Review, The Acentos Review, Poetrybay, as well as other journals and anthologies.
Coming in 2025
the daughterland
Margaret Elysia Garcia
Margaret Elysia Garcia is the author of Graft, a collection of Chicanx noir short stories set in Southern California and published by Tolsun Press, the eBook Sad Girls & Other Stories, and the audiobook Mary of the Chance Encounters, and the poetry chapbook Burn Scars published by the Lit Kit Collective.
God of the Air Hose and Other Blue-Collar Poems
Ceasar K. Avelar
Ceasar K. Avelar is the second poet laureate of Pomona, CA. His poems speak the truth, not only to people in a position of power, but also to the everyday person that views the working class as a stigmatized identity.
detoxification of the body
gabor g. gyukics
gabor g gyukics (b. 1958) poet, jazz poet, literary translator born in Budapest, Hungary. He is the author of 11 books of original poetry, 6 in Hungarian, 2 in English, 1 in Arabic, 1 in Czech, 1 in Bulgarian and 19 translations.
Alex Alpharaoh
Alex Alpharaoh is a Guatemalan born actor, writer, poet, solo performer, and teaching artist from Los Angeles. He is a 2022 Disruptors TV Writers Fellow, and a 2023 NEXT Commissions fellow for Antaeus Theatre Company.
Coming in 2025
Fresh as Lettuce: A Memoir
Gabriella Gutiérrez y Muhs
Gabriella Gutiérrez y Muhs was a child farmworker and is the daughter of migrant farmworkers from Durango, MX. She is currently a Professor in Modern Languages and Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies, and the Theiline Pigott McCone Endowed Chair in the Humanities (2018-2020) at Seattle University.
Coming in 2025
Blood at the Root
Tshaka Campbell
Poet Laureate Emeritus, Santa Clara County. Originally from London England, Tshaka was raised on his father’s teachings of solidarity and brought up on orators the likes of Garvey's ‘Pan-Africanism’ to William Churchill, as such, he adopted his father’s intense love of language.
Paper Birds: Feather by Feather / Pájaros de papel: Pluma por pluma
Sonia Gutiérrez
Sonia Gutiérrez is the author of Spider Woman / La Mujer Araña and the recipient of the Tomás Rivera Book Award 2021 and the International Latino Book Awards 2022 for her novel, Dreaming with Mariposas.
Touch the Sky
Donato Martinez
Donato Martinez was born in in small pueblo, Garcia de la Cadena, Zacatecas, Mexico and immigrated into the USA at six years old. He teaches English Composition, Literature, and Creative Writing at Santa Ana College.
Curandereando
Lani Cupchoy
Dr. Lani Cupchoy is a public historian, storyteller, poet, artivista, and filmmaker of Chicana, Afro-indígena, Kānaka Maoli (Native Hawaiian), and Chinese heritage. Currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Chicana(o) Latina(o) Studies at California State University, Los Angeles.
Coming in 2025
A Crown of Flames: Selected Poems & Aphorisms
Flaminia Cruciani
Flaminia Cruciani was born in Rome. She holds a BA in Archeology and History of Ancient Near East Art and a PhD in Oriental Archeology from the University of Rome, La Sapienza.
Blackout
Anna Lombardo
Anna Lombardo lives in Venice. Poet, translator and cultural activist. Degree from the Cà Foscari University of Venice with a PhD on the marginalization of female poetry at Trinity College in Dublin.
Yo soy Romero
David A. Romero
David A. Romero is a Mexican-American spoken word artist from Diamond Bar, CA. He is the co-founder and editor-in-chief of El Martillo Press.
Selected Poems
Greg Palast
Greg Palast is known for his investigative reports for The Guardian, BBC Television, Rolling Stone and his string of New York Times bestsellers including The Best Democracy Money Can Buy and Billionaires & Ballot Bandits. His latest film, “Vigilante: Georgia’s Vote Suppression Hitman” is narrated by Rosario Dawson and produced by Martin Sheen.
Coming in 2025