Jade Sylvan comes from a family of vaudeville performers, scientists, professors, and drunks. She’s the author of the poetry collection, The Spark Singer (Spuyten Duyvil Press 2009), and has had work in PANK, Bayou, Basalt, Word Riot, The Sun, Decomp, Amethyst Arsenic, and others. She has released albums of folk music and hip-hop (under the pseudonym Madame Psychosis), and is a regular nonfiction contributor to Radius Lit Journal. She recently completed primary photography for the feature film, TEN, which she co-wrote and stars in. You can see her performing in a lot of weird places around Boston and Cambridge, including playing Jack Van Sly, the Fact Checker for the Encyclopedia Show Somerville. Other passions include queer equality, feminism, yoga, tattoos, and craft-brewed beers. www.jadesylvan.com

Sam Cha is a poet. He lives in Cambridge. He's had poems, translations, and essays in ASIA, apt, anderbo, Opium online, Amethyst Arsenic, decomP, Radius, Printer's Devil Review, and others. Currently, he's in his third and final year of his MFA program, at UMass Boston, where he was the recipient of the 2011 and 2012 Academy of American Poets Award.

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