Ruth Dickey is the Executive Director of the National Book Foundation and has spent 30 years working at the intersection of community building, writing, and art. The recipient of a Mayor's Arts Award from Washington DC, and a grant from the DC Commission and Arts and Humanities, Ruth is the author of Our hollowness sings (Unicorn Press, 2024), and Mud Blooms (Harbor Mountain Press, 2019). More at http://www.ruthdickey.com
Ellen Kombiyil (she/her) is a visual artist and author of two books and two chapbooks, most recently The American Journal of Insanity's Diagnostic on the Plumbing & Wiring of Females (Visual Poetry Series Award, Anhinga 2026), and Love as Invasive Species (Cornerstone 2024). She is a 2022 and 2025 recipient of a BRIO Award from the Bronx Council on the Arts, a 2025 winner of the Geri Digiorno Multi-Genre Prize, and a 2025 winner of the Tupelo Quarterly Prize for Cross-Disciplinary Writing. She is an adjunct assistant professor at Hunter College in New York City. ellenkombiyil.com
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