MoonDrop Productions is the creation of Kelechi Ubozoh & Cassandra Dallett. MoonDrop is a quarterly, submission based/themed reading. We encourage writers to share their personal evolution, revolution, love, and lust. We strive to hear from a diverse group of writers and are committed to creating new spaces where those who haven’t been given a stage or proper love can shine. ‘New Shit’ is our 14th quarterly show, and in 2021 we are celebrating our 4-year anniversary.

Kelechi Ubozoh is a Nigerian-American writer and mental health advocate who blends the reality of trauma, race, and mental health into her writing. Her book with LD Green, We’ve Been Too Patient: Voices from Radical Mental elevates lived experience and marginalized voices. Her work is featured in Argot Magazine, Multiplicity, Endangered Species, Enduring Values, Essential Truths: The Bay Area in Color, and the forthcoming anthology Trauma, Tresses, & Truth: Untangling Our Hair Through Personal Narrative. Kelechi co-hosts the Bay Area submission-based reading series MoonDrop Productions with Cassandra Dallett and is currently working on a collection of poetry through memoir. More at kelechiubozoh.com.

Cassandra Dallett lives in Oakland CA. Cassandra has published multiple chapbooks and full-length books of poetry, (two of which On Sunday, A Finch and Collapse both on Nomadic Press, were nominated for CA Book awards.) She has been nominated for six Pushcart Prizes and was recently in the running for Oakland’s first Poet Laureate, She has graced many stages, hosts the weekly writing workshop ONTWOSIX, is co-host of the quarterly-themed reading series MoonDrop Productions, host of The Badass Bookworm Podcast, and The Badass Bookworm’s Lit Loft. Her most recent book of poetry, A Pretty Little Wilderness came out on Be About It Press June of 2020. Look for links cassandradallett.com

Jaime Cortez is a writer and visual artist based in Northern California. His fiction, essays, and drawings have appeared in diverse publications that include "Kindergarde: Experimental Writing For Children" (edited 2013 by Dana Teen Lomax for Black Radish Press), "No Straight Lines," a 40-year compendium of LGBT comics (edited 2012 by Justin Hall for Fantagraphics Press), "Street Art San Francisco" (edited 2009 by Annice Jacoby for Abrams Press), and "Infinite Cities," an experimental atlas of San Francisco (edited 2010 by Rebecca Solnit for UC Berkeley Press). He wrote and illustrated the graphic novel "Sexile" for AIDS Project Los Angeles in 2003. Cortez often combines humor and tragedy to tell stories of resilient survivors on the margins of the economy, the law, and social acceptability. "Gordo" is Jaime's debut collection of short stories, and is slated for publication in August of 2021 by Black Cat, an imprint of Grove Atlantic Press. His website is www.jaimecortez.org.

K.R. Morrison is a high school English teacher, a poet, a drummer. These days, she splits her time between the Bay Area and a place she calls Mermaid Town, in Southern California near her family. Morrison’s first chapbook Cauldrons was recently published and released by Paper Press Books.

LaMar Mitchell is first and foremost, a fan-child of all the arts. He writes poetry, screenplays, novels, short stories, and nonfiction pieces such as movie reviews and articles about the mentally ill. He received his doctorate in I Don't Know What The F**k I'm Doing, and his masters in Anticonfluential Narrative at the Jorge Luis Borges School For The Clueless. He is currently working on a novel called The Phalanx Of Rabid Eunuchs, and is preparing a book of poetry tentatively titled, Psychedelic Existentialism. He is currently living in Oakland, California.

LD Green has been published on Salon, The Body is Not an Apology, Foglifter, and elsewhere. They co-edited the anthology We’ve Been Too Patient with Kelechi Ubozoh. English professor by day, they have received fellowships from Lambda Literary, Tin House, and Catwalk Artists' Residency. Their chapbook Phoenix Song will be published by Nomadic Press in February 2022.

Joel Landmine’s work has never been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. His collections, Things Change and Yeah, Well… are available from Punk Hostage Press.

Keenan Norris’s latest novel is The Confession of Copeland Cane. Keenan's first novel, Brother and the Dancer, won the 2012 James D. Houston Award and he served as editor of the critical anthology Street Lit: Representing the Urban Landscape. His editorials and essays have appeared in the Los Angeles Times and Los Angeles Review of Books, Alta, LitHub, Electric Literature and Remezcla. Keenan teaches American literature and creative writing at San Jose State University.