Mohammed Zenia

Mohammed Zenia is a Sudanese/Eritrean poet, working through the mediums of text, visual symbols and sound to explore issues of language and the ever-changing meaning of words, identity and place, gender, sexuality and love, through a black diasporic lens. Mohammed is the author of the chapbook Barroom Seance published by Rockwell Press in 2013, An Astrex is a Mixtape published by Rly Srs Lit in 2018, and along with video artist Jonathan Rafael, co-founded Nada: the Dadaist Magazine About Nothing. Mohammed was born in Sofia Bulgaria in 1988, and currently lives in Brooklyn, NY.

Kamal Fardan

Kamal Fardan survived twenty-five years in prison in New York State. Originally from Brooklyn, he now lives and is in recovery in Utica, New York. He writes, “Presently I’m enjoying life and learning to accept it on its terms as opposed to running away from it every chance I get. I never thought of myself as an author, and yet I now find myself published, and working on a second book as well as an autobiography. My desire and goal is to help people, as a form of making amends and accumulating some good at the end of this life of mine.”