Spores, Stars, & Swarms: a virtual queer & trans reading

Stellium, smoke and mold, & beestung are teaming up for a v. queer reading!

Featuring: Nefertiti Asanti, Amber D. Dodd, Jason B. Crawford, Kai Minosh Pyle, Luke Sutherland, Addie Tsai, & Shaoni C. White, and emcee FEYXUAN!

Email [email protected] for the Zoom link!

Nefertiti Asanti is a poet born and raised in the Bronx and a recipient of fellowships and residencies from the Watering Hole, EmergeNYC, Lambda Literary, Anaphora Arts, Winter Tangerine, and the Hurston/Wright Foundation. Nefertiti’s debut chapbook fist of wind is the winner of the inaugural Start a Riot! Chapbook Prize sponsored by Still Here San Francisco, RADAR Productions, and Foglifter. Nefertiti is also 2021 PEN America Emerging Voices fellow and prose poetry editor of Stellium Literary Magazine.

Amber D. Dodd is the Race-Equity Reporter for The Black Lens and The Spokesman-Review in Spokane, Washington. She’s also an assistant nonfiction editor at Sundog Literary Magazine. She currently writes Extremely Unimpressed, a Substack column. Her work can be seen in CP Quarterly and Stellium Literary Magazine. She is the founder blaQplight, a visual storytelling platform for the Black and queer community. A former coprophilic, she has not been romantically involved since 2019.

jason b. crawford (They/Them)was born in Washington DC, raised in Lansing, MI. Their debut Full-Length Year of the Unicorn Kidz will be out in 2022 from Sundress.

Kai Minosh Pyle is a 2spirit Métis and Anishinaabe writer originally from Green Bay, Wisconsin. They are the author of a chapbook, AANAWI GO, and editor of a recently released anthology-zine of 2spirit Anishinaabe writing titled INAWENDAASO. They currently live in the once and future prairieland colonially known as Champaign, Illinois.

Luke Sutherland is a writer from the Jersey Shore. You can find him staring into the sea at a beach near you, or on Twitter @lukejsuth.

Addie Tsai is a queer nonbinary (any/all) artist and writer of color who teaches at Houston Community College. They also teach part time in Goddard College’s MFA for Interdisciplinary Arts and Regis University’s Mile-High MFA in Creative Writing programs. Addie collaborated with Dominic Walsh Dance Theater on Victor Frankenstein and Camille Claudel, among others. She holds an MFA from Warren Wilson College and a PhD in Dance from Texas Woman’s University. They are the author of the queer Asian young adult novel Dear Twin. Addie’s adult queer biracial genderswapped retelling of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, Unwieldy Creatures, is forthcoming from Jaded Ibis Press August 2022. Addie is Fiction co-Editor and co-Editor of Features and Reviews at Anomaly, Staff Writer at Spectrum South, and the Founding Editor / co-Editor in Chief at just femme & dandy.

Shaoni C. White’s poetry has appeared in Apparition Lit, Fantasy Magazine, smoke and mold, Channel Magazine and Augur. Their short fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in Uncanny Magazine, PodCastle, Fireside, and Nightmare Magazine. Raised in Southern California, they hold a BA in English Literature and Linguistics from Swarthmore College. Find them at shaonicwhite.com or on Twitter at @shaonicwhite.