April 18, 2019

Claudia Castro Luna is the 2018–2020 poet laureate of Washington State and served as Seattle’s inaugural civic poet (2015–2017). She is the author the Killing Marías (Two Sylvias Press), a finalist for the Washington State Book Award in 2018, and the chapbook This City (Floating Bridge Press). Born in El Salvador, she came to the United States in 1981. She has an MA in urban planning and an MFA in poetry. Claudia writes and teaches in Seattle where she gardens and keeps chickens with her husband and their three children. Visit her website.

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Alex Gallo-Brown is a writer and workers’ rights advocate from Seattle. He is the author of a poetry collection, The Language of Grief (2012), and a collection of poems and stories, Variations of Labor (forthcoming from Chin Music Press in 2019). He has received artist awards from the City of Atlanta and WonderRoot and has twice been nominated for Pushcart Prizes in poetry. Check out his website.