Dani Gabriel

Dani Gabriel is a queer/gender fluid poet and writer, the author of The Woman You Write Poems About (Civil Defense Poetry) and coauthor of Molotov Mouths (Manic D Press). Dani received an MFA from Mills College. They are the Poet Laureate of El Cerrito, CA. Dani lives with their feisty and rambunctious family, which includes an 11-year-old artist named Samson, a fierce 13-year-old feminist named Magdalene, and a partner who is an electrician, an amazing cook, and a phenomenal human. Dani likes gummy candy and works as a grant writer and writing teacher throughout the Bay Area.

Robert Liu-Trujillo is an author/illustrator and publisher from the Bay Area. He has worked on several picture books including Furqan's First Flat Top, which he wrote and illustrated, One of a Kind, Like Me by Laurin Mayeno, which he illustrated, and Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Black Boy by Tony Medina, for which he contributed an illustration. He is a co-founder of The Trust Your Struggle Collective, a contributor to Rad Dad, and the founder of Come Bien Books. He lives in Oakland, CA, with his wife, son, and daughter.