L. Renée is a poet, nonfiction writer, and collector of her family’s stories. She won the National Association of Black Storytellers’ 2023 Black Appalachian Storytellers Fellowship, representing the Commonwealth of Virginia, and the 2024 Gerald E. and Corinne L....
Katie Mihalek is a poet, educator, and editor living in Somerville, MA. She holds an M.S. in Medical Sciences from Boston University and, most recently, an MFA in Creative Writing at Emerson College. Her interdisciplinary studies and past careers are foundational to...
Jillian Frank (she/they) is a fourth year at Northeastern University studying Music Industry and Graphic and Information Design. As Mass Poetry’s Event and Communications Coordinator, Jillian is excited to connect with the community through engaging events and...
Erin White is a writer and fundraiser who consults for a range of organizations working to promote social justice through the humanities — locally, nationally, and internationally. Prior to her work in fundraising, Erin helped deliver, scale, and direct nonprofit arts...
Damini Singh (she/her) is currently a senior at Suffolk University with a major in graphic design and minor in marketing. She is of South Asian descent and was raised in New Hampshire. Passionate for art at a young age, Damini knew she wanted to pursue something...
Sadia AboHussien is a senior at Emerson College, double-majoring in Communications and Creative Writing with a fiction focus. She is a queer, Muslim Egyptian creative born in the mountains of Upstate New York, where she grew up waitressing for her family's restaurant....
Lo Galluccio is a poet, memoirist and vocal artist whose most recent chapbook was released on Cervena Barva Press, titled, Not for Amnesia. Lo graduated from Harvard College with a BA in Social Studies and earned an MFA from Stonecoast in Creative Writing in 2019....
Jacq Roderick (they/she) is a recent Wellesley College graduate, where she earned a Bachelor of Arts in English with Creative Writing. Their poetic work is grounded in the honest (and oftentimes gritty) experiences of their working-class upbringing on the South Shore,...
Poetry Coalition Fellow (2022-23) Anthony Febo is a Puerto Rican poet, teaching artist, and new dad living in Arlington, MA. Febo has been performing and teaching poetry and theatre for over a decade in the greater Boston area. In the...
M.P. Carver is a poet, artist and educator from Salem, MA. Currently, she teaches creative and digital writing at Salem State University, and also works privately as an editor and teacher. She received her M.A. in English from Salem State University, and her B.A....
Crystal Valentine is a Black, queer woman from the Bronx now residing in Boston, Massachusetts. A former New York City Youth Poet Laureate and two-time winner of the College Union Poetry Slam Invitational, Crystal has been offered fellowships from Callaloo, Tin House...
Daniel Johnson–a poet, educator, and veteran nonprofit leader–most recently served as the founding executive director of 826 Boston’s youth writing center in Roxbury for nearly a decade. At 826 Boston, Daniel helped deliver writing programming to more than 20,000...