No Land is an artist, poet, filmmaker, photographer, and cultural organizer–born and working in New York City. Her work has been recognized for continuing the lineage of downtown NYC counterculture. As a poet & vocalist, she has performed in collaborative works internationally at Jazzfest Berlin, Crossing Borders Festival in the Hague, Enclave Festival (Mexico City), LaMaMa Galleria (NYC), The Kennedy Center (DC), Roulette Intermedium, the University of New Haven, & other venues. In 2018, she released Authentic Artifice, an art-book of poetry and photographs, published by Newest York. She is an advocate for prisoner’s rights & freedoms, corresponding with and visiting incarcerated artists between Mexico and the U.S.

Cait O’Kane was born in Philadelphia and currently lives there with family. She attended a state university in Pennsylvania before spending two years as the Anne Waldman Fellow at the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa University. For most of her life, Cait worked in supermarkets, in kitchens, on farms, and in warehouses. Along with Devin Brahja Waldman, Cait currently makes music in a band called Notable Deaths.

Julie Ezelle Patton is a New York City based poet and visual artist. She is also the founder of an eco-arts housing and land conservation project based near Detroit. Patton is the author of Using Blue To Get Black, Notes for Some (Nominally) Awake, and A Garden Per Verse (or What Else do You Expect from Dirt?). Julie’s work has appeared in ((eco (lang)(uage(reader)), Critiphoria, and nocturnes. Her performance work emphasizes improvisation, collaboration, and other worldy chora-graphs. Julie is a recipient of an Acadia Arts Foundation Grant (2008, 2010), and a New York Foundation for the Arts Poetry Fellowship (2007). Julie has taught at the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science & Art, Naropa, Teachers & Writers Collaborative and Schule fur Dichtung (Vienna, Austria).

Interdisciplinary artist and writer Lucía Hinojosa Gaxiola’s time-based practice develops through ephemeral gestures that result in a corpus of text-based, visual and sound pieces. She’s the artistic director of diSONARE, an experimental editorial project from Mexico City. She recently co-founded Rizoma, a series of performance workshops led by an international poet collective for the imprisoned women of Santiaguito de Almoloya de Juárez, Estado de México. Her book The Telaraña Circuit (Tender Buttons Press) is forthcoming.

Poet, environmental activist, and teacher Mary Norbert Kortë joined the Dominican Catholic Sisterhood in San Rafael, California at the age of 17. She earned BA and MA degrees in Latin, translating Virgil’s Georgics into iambic pentameter and studying classical texts. She left the Dominican order in 1968, and continued to publish poetry, participate in anti-war activism, and spearhead environmental protection projects—including the preservation of over 200 acres of old growth redwoods in Irmulco, where she moved in the 1970s. There, she served as Northern California Coordinator for Poets in the Schools, and taught in Coyote Valley’s reservation for the Pomo people and at Mendocino Community College. She still lives in a cabin she built herself, and writes nearly every day.