Litquake 2024

Hernan De La Cruz Ramos (they/them) is a 29 year old emo boi from the unceded Munsee-Lenape lands, currently residing on the unceded Ohlone-Chochenyo lands (Northern New Jersey and Oakland, CA, respectively). They are a writer and educator with an MFA in Poetry from University of... Read More →

María Esquinca is a poet and journalist. A fronteriza, she was born in Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, Mexico and grew up in El Paso, Texas. She’s currently a producer for The Bay podcast, a production of KQED. Prior to that, she was New York Women’s Foundation IGNITE Fellow with... Read More →

Darius Simpson is a New Afrikan writer, educator, performer, and skilled living room dancer from Akron, Ohio. Much like the means of production, he believes poetry must be used for the positive social, political, and economic development of the majority of society. He aims to inspire... Read More →

Meilani Clay is a writer, mama, and educator from Oakland, CA. Her work has appeared in Nomadic Press’s Patrice Lumumba: An Anthology of Writers on Black Liberation, and online literary journal The Ana. Her debut poetry collection, and the creek don’t rise, was the winner of the... Read More →