Alicia Askenase has written four poetry chapbooks, including The Luxury of Pathos (Texture Press) and Shirley Shirley (Sonaweb). She was an Editor’s Choice for the 2018 Sandy Crimmins Prize, which appears in Philadelphia Stories. Additionally, her publications include, New Works by Philadelphia Poets, The Manhattanville Review, The Big Muddy, and Poems for the Writing: Prompts for Poets, Second Edition, 2019, ed. Valerie Fox and Lynn Levin. She has poems forthcoming in the Painted Bride Quarterly

Savannah Cooper-Ramsey is author of Not Fit for Print, The Self and Other Jokes, and forthcoming Little Murders. She was a finalist for Philadelphia Stories` 2018 Crimmins National Prize for Poetry.

Heather H. Thomas is the author of Vortex Street, Blue Ruby, Resurrection Papers, and Practicing Amnesia.  Her newest book is a bilingual selected poem, Reconocimiento / Recognition. She served a term as Berks County, PA, Poet Laureate, and her recent publications include Undocumented: Great Lakes Poets Laureate on Social Justice; Women’s Studies Quarterly; and Mizna: Prose, Poetry and Art Exploring Arab America.

-Charles Carr, Host, Open Reading Follows