Camisha L. Jones (she/her) is the author of the poetry chapbook Flare. Her poems are published in Poets.org, The Deaf Poets Society, The Quarry: A Social Justice Poetry Database at Split This Rock, Typo, and elsewhere. She is a 2022 Disability Futures Fellow, a multidisciplinary fellowship award supported by United States Artists, the Ford Foundation, and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
Travis Chi Wing Lau (he/him) is an assistant professor of English at Kenyon College. He has been published widely in venues of public scholarship and poetry, and his work includes three chapbooks, The Bone Setter, Paring, and Vagaries, and a full-length collection, What’s Left Is Tender.
Michael Northen (he/him) was the founder and editor of Wordgathering from 2007 to 2019. He was an editor of the anthologies Beauty Is a Verb: The New Poetry of Disability and The Right Way to Be Naked and Crippled. For twelve years Northen facilitated the Inglis House Poetry Workshop for Disabled writers in Philadelphia.
Naomi Ortiz (they/she) is the author of Rituals for Climate Change: A Crip Struggle for Ecojustice and Sustaining Spirit: Self-Care for Social Justice. A 2022 Disability Futures Fellow, their widely published poetry, writing, and visual art focuses on self-care, disability justice, and climate action in the Arizona U.S./Mexico borderlands.
