My name is Holly Murphy and I am a non-binary artist from San Diego…

My name is Jasanté Howard and I’m a fourth year political science student at UC Davis. I’m passionate about research on social justice issues as well as art--I love producing hip hop and music in general, writing poetry, doing calligraphy, and basically anything that engages my creative side…

Sam Schieren is a writer from Valley Cottage, New York…

Matt Simons is a writer from Sacramento, CA. He wrote this piece out of a fascination with cryptids, the wilderness, and the great love people have for one another…

In a year long exercise I wrote and posted over 300 daily Haikus to Instagram…

“Oh, fuck me.”
“No thank you.”

“Oh. Fuck me?”
“No! Thank you.”

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In writing “Sandcastles” I wanted to explore the different levels of grief and how it manifests itself in our relationships with those close to us…

it’s always been me, You, and Poverty.
the irony of NOT—for the first time in my life
crave
the sensation of partaking in a threesome…

This poem is after Morgan Parker, who unapologetically writes about her experiences as a black woman in America while also effortlessly relating her pieces to black pop culture…

I wrote this piece in my lower division nonfiction writing class during Fall 2019. That was my first quarter as a transfer student at UC Davis, and being in a whole new environment with lots of alone time gave me the space I needed to engage with and understand my identity as a mixed race woman of color…

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