Mari Herreras
Mari Herreras is a fifth-generation Tucsonan who loves her desert city for all its good, bad and ugly. As a hobby she regularly gets pissed at the local powers-that-be. When she’s not scowling and writing poetry, she keeps her son and mom close, as well as the sad cholla in the front yard she won’t give up on. Her first book of poems, At Grande and Congress, is out July 2023 from R&R Press.

Photo by Noelle Rosario Haro-Gomez
Cal Freeman

Cal Freeman is a poet and essayist from Dearborn, MI. He is the author of the book Fight Songs, and his writing has appeared in many journals including Southword, The Moth, Passages North, Hippocampus, Southwest Review, and The Poetry Review.
He is the recipient of the Devine Poetry Fellowship (judged by Terrance Hayes) and winner of Passages North’s Neutrino Prize.
Cal currently serves as Writer-In-Residence with InsideOut Literary Arts Detroit and teaches at Oakland University.
A little more about Cal:
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Get to know: John ‘Cal’ Freeman, celebrating Detroit Mercy through poetry
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Four Writers Reflect on How Their Jesuit Educations Prepared Them for Careers in the Literary Arts
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Dan Stuart
Dan Stuart is an author & musician most noted for being the leader of 80’s LA band Green on Red, and more recently his series of Marlowe Billings books and records.
