MELANIE GILLMAN

MELANIE GILLMAN

Melanie Gillman is a graphic novelist and colored pencil artist who specializes in queer and trans comics for middle-grade and YA readers. They are the author of several graphic novels, including As the Crow Flies, Stage Dreams and most recently, Other Ever...
AARON PETERS

AARON PETERS

Aaron Peters received a bachelor’s in visual arts from the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) in 2016 and a Master of Fine Arts at Ohio State University in 2022. Peters has received the Global Arts + Humanities Society of Fellows Grant from Ohio State...
DENISE MILLER

DENISE MILLER

Denise Miller (they/she) is a poet, playwright and mixed media artist whose poetry has been published in the Offing, African American Review and Blackberry: A Magazine. They were named the 2015 Willow Books Emerging Poet, an AROHO Waves Discussion Fellowship awardee,...
JOHN SHEN

JOHN SHEN

Providence-based artist John Shen uses photography to weave the past and future. Born in Shaoxing, China, Shen immigrated to New Zealand as a young child and spent the next 20 years developing a passion for painting and photography. He moved to the United States in...
JUDETTE ELLISTON

JUDETTE ELLISTON

Judette Elliston (they/she) is a Haitian-Canadian vocalist, composer and improviser based in Brooklyn, New York. Their work focuses on amplifying our inner worlds; exploring the emotional and ancestral histories that reverberate within. Through song, they hold space...