Readers + Presenters 

Nate Lippens is the author of two novels, My Dead Book, a finalist for the Republic of Consciousness Prize in 2023, and Ripcord.

Matthew Stadler is a writer, urbanist, and editor. His novels include Allan Stein, Landscape: Memory, and Chloe Jarren's La Cucaracha. He was the Literary Editor of Nest Magazine, co-founder of Publication Studio, and now a Reader/Advisor/Editor (RAE) at The GOAT PoL, an online writing and publishing platform that aspires to be "a polity of literature." He's also the editor of the Fellow Travelers Series. 

Brittany Menjivar was born and raised in the DMV; she now works and plays in the City of Angels. She is the author of poetry and prose collection Parasocialite and the co-founder of literary reading series Car Crash Collective. The Car Crash Collective Anthology is available now through Metalabel. 

Roberto Tejada is the author of the poetry collections Carbonate of Copper (Fordham, April 2025), Why the Assembly Disbanded (2022), Full Foreground (2012), Exposition Park (2010), and Mirrors for Gold (2006), as well as several works of art and media history.

Monique Quintana is the author of Cenote City (Clash Books) and My Favorite Sancho and Other Fairy Tales (Sword and Kettle Press). Her work  has been supported by Yaddo, The Community of Writers, Sundress Academy for the Arts, and the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center. She lives in Fresno's Tower District. 

Julio Acevedo / Lady J Monroe is a DC-based activist and performer. He serves as the Vice President of the Latinx History Project.