Litquake 2026

Reggie Edmonds-Vásquez (they/them) is a poet, educator, and cultural curator from Richmond, CA. Their work explores Black, queer, and gender-diverse identities and has earned recognition from Nomadic Press, Afro Urban Society, and the Museum of the African Diaspora. A two-time Berkeley... Read More →

Zara Jamshed (they/them) is a queer, trans, disabled Pakistani and Indian American poet from New York City living in the East Bay. They are the winner of the Penrose Poetry Prize for LGBTQIA+ writers and have work published in The Arrow, Foglifter, Kiwi Collective Magazine, and others. Zara has had their work supported by Anaphora Arts, Asian American Writers Workshop, Harvard University, Kearny Street Workshop, The Muslim Alliance of Sexual and Gender Diversity (MASGD), Open Mouth Literary, Periplus Collective, Queer Ancestors Project, Still Here... Read More →

Trinh Lê is a Pushcart-nominated poet of Vietnamese origin. They received the 2025 Black Mountain College Award from the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics and were a finalist for the 2024 Brett Elizabeth Jenkins Poetry Prize. As a community archivist at the Bay Area Lesbian Arch... Read More →

Mason J. is a Lambda Literary Awarded San Francisco-born Afro-Indigenous Two-Spirit artist, historian, educator, Sephardic rootworker and community archivist exploring memory, ritual, and cultural recovery. Their work weaves public record with holistic care, nightlife, harm reduction, and... Read More →

Isa Borgeson (they/she) is a queer, mixed race, filipino american poet and community organizer from Oakland. In 2020, Isa was named a Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellow by the Poetry Foundation. They have also received fellowships from Lambda Literary, Voices of Our Nation Art Fou... Read More →