Paco Márquez is a poet based out of Manhattan, author of the chapbook Portraits in G Minor (Folded Word Press, 2017). He has poems forthcoming in Fence, and previously published in Apogee, Ostrich Review, Live Mag! and Huizache. As Spanish Editor for William O’Daly, he assisted in translating Pablo Neruda’s initial book, Crepuscualrio, for the first time into English as, Book of Twilight, (Copper Canyon Press, 2017). He is currently working with Mexican poet Coral Bracho to translate her work into English. One of Paco’s poems went up on a public mural through Sacramento’s Del Paso Words & Walls Project. His work been supported by The Center for Book Arts, the New York Foundation for the Arts, and New York University, where he acquired an MFA in creative writing and was poetry editor of Washington Square. Originally from León, México, Paco has spent most of his life in Sacramento and the San Francisco Bay Area. pacomarquez.net
Stacy Gee is an Asian American poet. Her writings and poems disrupt the status quo by giving voice to her experiences navigating U.S. culture while being raised by Burmese immigrant parents and finding her voice through it all. She expresses her experiences, not as a model minority, but as a strong woman with fire and she hopes it ignites the passion in others to do the same. She will be representing Sacramento area at the Women of the World Poetry slam in Dallas Texas in March.
