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Shawnie Hamer 
Founder 
Shawnie Hamer was born in the heat & dust of Bakersfield, CA. Her first book, the stove is off at home (Spuyten Duyvil, 2018) is an experimental art & poetry book curated through a community ritual that focused on the identification & exorcism of trauma. Hamer is the founder of collective.aporia, & a co-conspirator of the off.collective. She proudly received her MFA from the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa University where she was able to befriend the most inspiring group of artists she's ever met. Her poetry can most recently be found in publications such as South Broadway Ghost Society & Tiny Spoon Lit Mag. She is currently living & creating in France.

Sarah Richards Graba 
Workshop Lead | Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion Coordinator

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Sarah Richards Graba is a writer, teacher, and artist. She has lived in Colorado, USA her whole life, though her DNA comes from all over the world. She has been published for creative work, critical theory, book reviews, and interviews, and she has been on numerous publishing projects involving both digital design and letterpress.

She currently teaches at Naropa University for writing, research, and literature for writers, and multicultural foundations for future therapists. She is also a freelance writer and writing coach. Sarah is interested in disruption and subversion, ritual and tradition, and how these intersect with community and hybridity.

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april joseph
Workshop Lead 
april joseph is a poet and clarinetist from East L.A., CA. She received her BA in Literatures of the World from UC San Diego, and her MFA in Writing and Poetics from Naropa University. She has taught high school, undergraduate and graduate students in Eugene and Portland, OR, Las Vegas, NV, and Boulder, CO. april creates mourning songs to heal ancestral trauma. Collaborative, student-centered, process-oriented learning inspires her to teach artistic expression to transform lives, to be free. Her most recent publications have been included in the literary journals: Morning/Mourning (2018) and TAYO Issue 6 (2016). You can learn more about april’s work at bodyfulspace.com.

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Vera Linder
Translation & Publishing Coordinator
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​Vera Linder is a missed lawyer and
​a poet. She wishes to live in a world ruled by Poetry. She writes, translates and works in the rights department of a publishing house in Milan, Italy. 

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Andrea Becker​​
Innisfree Workshop Series Coordinator
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​Andrea Becker is a writer, editor and photographer (@a.ephemera) who believes that poetry is a force for radical expression, inclusivity and healing. She has a multidisciplinary and multicultural background: she has studied ecology, 
Japanese tea ceremony, lived in Russia, Spain and Bhutan, and is a resident in a queer, anarcho-communist co-op. She feels rooted in the rhythms of wind and water and works best in community with others (and with snacks). Andrea managed Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Café in Boulder, but during COVID, tutors at-risk kids and plays with her dog.

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C. M. Chady 
*apo-press editor 
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C. M. Chady holds her MFA Creative Writing at Poetics from Naropa University's Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics where she was the Anne Waldman Fellow of the graduating class of 2020. She received her BA in Anthropology and International & Area Studies from Washington University in St. Louis. She is the founding Editor-in-Chief of Tiny Spoon and Member of Wisdom Body Collective. In the past, she was a Contributing Editor of Bombay Gin and Managing Editor for River Styx. She is a cross-genre writer particularly interested in topics of memory, loss, time, and impermanence.

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Swanee Astrid
Dani Ferrara

neighbors ​

off.collective
Nocturne School of Lucid Writing
VIBRISSAE | call for submissions
Summer Writing Program at Naropa University
Gabby Joy Yoga
Bolder Writers Warehouse
Music by Matherial
Music by Black Market Translation
Boulder Burlesque
Vola Sessions: Write & Restore Yoga with June Lucarotti
BODYFULSPACE with april joseph
MANIFOLD: experimental criticism
Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe
Tinyspoon Lit Mag

book offerings

Say Mother Say Hand by Marie Conlan
Polalka by Karolina Zapal
Notes for Mid-Birth by Karolina Zapal
the stove is off at home by Shawnie Hamer
anonymous by Anisah Amat Ali
Unprotected Lexicon by Alexa Chrisbacher
Bruised Gospel by Sarah Escue
Quasar #6 by Megan Heise
salt of us by ellie swensson
Same Bitch, Different Era: The Real Housewives Poems by Heather Sweeney
All Through Your Multiple Selves by Blake Edward Hamilton
When Magic Calls by Caitlin Berve
Your Love Alone Is Not Enough by Richard Froude
We Knew No Mortality: Memories of Our Spiritual Home by Robert Eric Shoemaker
To Limn / Lying by J'Lyn Chapman
Striven, The Bright Treatise by Jeffrey Pethybridge
See You In the Morning by Mairead Case
The Ladies by Sara Veglahn

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