danilo machado is a queer undocumented poet and curator born in Medellín, Colombia currently living in Brooklyn, New York. Their poetry and criticism has been featured in Hyperallergic, Brooklyn Rail, ArtCritical,  TAYO Literary Magazine, and elsewhere. They have performed their poetry at Asian American Writer's Workshop, Brooklyn Museum, 61 Local, Starr Bar, and other venues.

An honors graduate of the University of Connecticut, Danilo is a Producer of Public Programs at the Brooklyn Museum and curated the exhibition Otherwise Obscured: Erasure in Body and Text at Franklin Street Works (Stamford, CT). Danilo co-founded the poetry series Maracuyá Peach, currently co-curated with Devyn Mañibo. 

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Alexis Aceves Garcia is a first-generation genderqueer Latinx and Indochinese poet from San Diego, CA. Their poem “ODE TO TRANS BOXING CLASS” was awarded the 2020 Peach Bronze in Poetry by guest judge ALOK. They are the curator and host of the Abuela’s Backyard Reading Series and Open Mic at Bowery Poetry, a virtual space that centers and uplifts QTBIPoC voices once a month.

In 2020, they were awarded a spot at the Tin House Summer Workshop. They are also the recipient of a full fellowship as the teaching assistant for Catapult’s 12-month Poetry Generator Workshop with Angel Nafis, and attended the Jack Jones Literary Arts Retreat as a Cisneros Poetry Fellow in 2019. Their poems are forthcoming in Apogee and Peach Mag. This past winter, Garcia was named a Brooklyn Poets Fellow for study in Shira Erlichman’s Creating a Book workshop.

Devyn Mañibo is a Brooklyn-based maker, feeder, and organizer. Through poems, art objects, and gesture, she thinks intimately about the language and texture of death & desire, fullness & loss. Mañibo has had poetry, video, performance, and installation work presented and published internationally in festivals, museums, and journals including the MIX NYC Queer Experimental Film Festival, Split This Rock, the National Queer Arts Festival, the Berlin Porn Film Festival, the Queens Museum, TAYO Literary Magazine, and Ginger Zine.

She was a 2018 [Multitude] Artist-in-Residence at The Overlook Place, a participant in the Home School’s Summer 2019 workshop in Hudson, NY, and a 2020 Tin House Summer Workshop Scholar. She received her BA in New Media and Queer Studies from Hampshire College, and an MFA in performance & performance studies from School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She is the co-curator of Maracuyá Peach with danilo machado, and the Marketing Manager at the Center For Book Arts. She can be found at www.devynmanibo.com and @bestfrienddevyn.