Kyce Bello

Kyce Bello is a poet, herbalist, and nurse whose work merges ecological awareness with lyric exploration. Her debut poetry collection, Refugia, was winner of the Test Site Poetry Prize and received a New Mexico Book Award. Her second collection, Far Country,  layers landscape and language into vivid sequences where the personal, collective, and ecological merge and illuminate one another. Kyce holds an interdisciplinary degree in Southwest Studies and Creative Writing from the University of New Mexico, and received an MFA in poetry from The Institute of American Indian Arts. She also edited the award-winning anthology The Return of the River: Writers, Scholars and Citizens Speak on Behalf of the Santa Fe River, a work of literary activism and writes the occasional blog, Old Recipe for a New World.  https://kycebello.com/

Tina Carlson

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Tina Carlson is the author of three full-length collections of poetry:  Ground, Wind, This Body, We Are Meant to Carry Water (a collaboration with two other NM poets) and A Guide to Tongue Tie Surgery which won first place in the 2024 NM/AZ book award for poetry. Her chapbook, Obsidian, was published by Dancing Girl Press in 2024. Her essay, "Mothers and Manta Rays," won second prize for non-fiction at Tucson’s Festival of Books 2025. She is an editor of the online journals Unbroken and Hot Flash Literary.

Jon Davis

Jon Davis is the author of seven chapbooks and seven full-length poetry collections, including, most recently Fearless Now & Nameless from Grid Books. Davis also co-translated Iraqi poet Naseer Hassan’s Dayplaces (Tebot Bach, 2017). He has received a Lannan Literary Award, the Lavan Prize from the Academy of American Poets and two National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships. He taught creative writing and literature for thirty years, twenty-eight of them at the Institute of American Indian Arts. In 2013, he founded the Low Residency MFA in Creative Writing at IAIA, which he directed until his retirement in 2018. From 2012-2014, he served as the City of Santa Fe’s fourth poet laureate. In January of 2024, Davis and poet/guitarist Greg Glazner formed the band Clap the Houses Dark. Their first album, which mixes poetic language with

complex rock compositions, is streaming on all platforms. The New Mexico Music Awards chose the song “Over the Transom” as one of five finalists for the 2025 Indie Rock song of the year. His manuscript-in-progress is Wallace Stevens on the Moon.