Meet the Team

Adriana E. Ramírez

Adriana E. Ramírez is a Mexican-Colombian writer, critic, and performance poet based in Pittsburgh. She won the inaugural PEN/Fusion Emerging Writers Prize in 2015 for her novella-length work of nonfiction,  Dead Boys (Little A, 2016), and from 2016-2020 she served as Critic-at-Large for the Los Angeles Times Book Section. She the recipient of the Pittsburgh Foundation’s 2019 Carol R. Brown Creative Achievement Award. Her work has appeared in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, ESPN’s The Undefeated, the Los Angeles Review of Books, Guernica, PENAmerica, and Literary Hub, among others.  Once a nationally ranked slam poet, she founded the infamous Nasty Slam in Pittsburgh and continues to perform on stages around the country. She and novelist Angie Cruz founded Aster(ix) Journal, a literary journal giving voice to the censored and the marginalized. She is the author of poetry collection The Swallows (Blue Sketch Press 2016) and In the Shadow of the Mic (Bridge & Tunnel Books 2020). Her debut full-length work of nonfiction, The Violence, is forthcoming from Scribner.

More info is available at www.aeramirez.com

Karla Lamb

Karla Lamb is a multidisciplinary Chicana poet, with work in A Women’s Thing Magazine, The Shallow Ends, Yes Poetry, Word Riot, Coal Hill Review, Vox Populi, Pittsburgh Poetry Journal, Always Crashing, Fine Print Press, & translated in Revista La Peste. Her work has also been nominated for the Best of the Net Anthology. Lamb earned an MFA from Carlow University, & is currently working on a full-length manuscript. She has edited for After Happy Hour Review, & can usually be found collaborating with artists & writers.

More info is available at www.karlalamb.com

Additional Credits

Voice of Goddess & Master of the Archive: Alexis Jabour

Advisor & Spiritual Guide: Angie Cruz

Transcripts Editor: Clarissa A. León

Production/Editorial Assistant: Jesse Welch

Guest Host: Marissa Johnson-Valenzuela

Production Design & Brand Management: Little Owl Creative

Our Sponsors: Aster(ix) Journal & City of Asylum