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VALERIE WITTE: 

Valerie Witte is the author of A Rupture in the Interiors (Airlie Press, 2023) and a game of correspondence (Black Radish, 2015). In collaboration with Sarah Rosenthal, she has published the hybrid work The Grass Is Greener When the Sun Is Yellow (Operating System, 2019), and their collection One Thing Follows Another: Experiments in Dance, Art, and Life through the Lens of Simone Forti and Yvonne Rainer is forthcoming from punctum books. She has published multiple chapbooks, most recently Listening Through the Body (above/ground press, 2021). Her work has also appeared in many literary publications such as VOLT, Diagram, Dusie, and Interim. Her previous collaborations include projects with artist Jennifer Yorke, who produced two artist books based on Witte’s manuscript Flood Diary and an installation based on her manuscript A Rupture in the Interiors. The works were exhibited in Berkeley and Chicago, respectively, and their collaboration included a residency at La Porte Peinte Center for the Arts in Noyers, France. Witte has attended residencies through Hambidge Center and Ragdale Foundation and was a founding member of the Bay Area Correspondence School (BACS). Previously she also served as a member of Kelsey Street Press and Airlie Press. She currently edits education technology books in Portland, OR, where she lives with her husband, Andrew. More at valeriewitte.com.

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JAMI MACARTY: 

Jami Macarty lives in Tucson, AZ and Vancouver, BC, teaches creative writing at Simon Fraser University, and writes essays, reviews, and poetry. The Long Now Conditions Permit (forthcoming University of Nevada Press), winner of the 2023 Test Site Poetry Series, The Minuses (Center for Literary Publishing, 2020), winner of the 2020 New Mexico/Arizona Book Award - Poetry Arizona, and four chapbooks, including The Whole Catastrophe (Vallum Chapbook Series, 2024) and Mind of Spring (Vallum Chapbook Series, 2017), winner of the 2017 Vallum Chapbook Award.   Jami’s writing has been honored by funding from the Arizona Commission on the Arts, BC Arts Council, Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, Community of Writers, and Napa Valley Writers Conference. Jami’s second manuscript The Long Now Conditions Permit has been a finalist for the 2021 Test Site Poetry Series and both the 2022 and 2023  open reading period at Brick Books. Jami’s poems have appeared in The Capilano Review, Interim, Puerto del Sol, Ocean State Review, and Volt, and are forthcoming in Colorado Review, The Laurel Review, and Vallum Magazine. To learn more, visit: www.jamimacarty.com

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SARAH ROSENTHAL: 

Sarah Rosenthal is the author of the full-length collections Estelle Meaning Star (Chax, 2024), Lizard (Chax, 2016), Manhatten (Spuyten Duyvil, 2009), and two books in collaboration with Valerie Witte: One Thing Follows Another: Experiments in Dance, Art, and Life Through the Lens of Simone Forti and Yvonne Rainer (punctum, forthcoming) and The Grass Is Greener When the Sun Is Yellow (The Operating System, 2019). She edited A Community Writing Itself: Conversations with Vanguard Writers of the Bay Area (Dalkey Archive, 2010). Her chapbooks include we could hang a radical panel of light (Drop Leaf, 2022), Fire and Flood (above/ground, 2021), Estelle Meaning Star (above/ground, 2014), disperse (Dusie, 2014), The Animal (in collaboration with artist Amy Fung-yi Lee, Dusie, 2011), How I Wrote This Story (Margin to Margin, 2001), sitings (a+bend, 2000), and not-chicago (Melodeon, 1998). Her poetry is anthologized in The Beautiful: Poets Reimagine a Nation (Gualala Arts, 2022), Kindergarde: Avant-garde Poems, Plays, and Stories for Children (Black Radish, 2013), Building is a Process / Light is an Element: essays and excursions for Myung Mi Kim (P-Queue, 2008), Bay Poetics (Faux, 2006), The Other Side of the Postcard (City Lights, 2004), and hinge (Crack, 2002). Her chapbook manuscript How Will You Move: Including All of Us in the Dance was a 2020 Gold Line Press Chapbook Finalist. Her collaborative film We Agree on the Sun has received numerous accolades including Best Experimental Short, Berlin Independent Film Festival. A new collaborative film, Lizard Song, based on Sarah's book Lizard, was screened at the San Francisco Dance Film Festival and the Art of Brooklyn Film Festival. She has received the Leo Litwak Fiction Award, a Creative Capacity Innovation Grant, a San Francisco Education Fund Grant, and residencies at This Will Take Time, Hambidge, New York Mills, Vermont Studio Center, Soul Mountain, and Ragdale, as well as a two-year term as Affiliate Artist at Headlands Center for the Arts. From 2012 to 2023, she served as a juror for the California Book Awards. She is a project manager at Collaborative Classroom and a Life & Professional Coach. More at sarahrosenthal.net.