Angela Dalton was once a producer of online kids’ games and other cool nerdy things. An Oakland resident, she's now a writer and participates in Left Margin LIT's writers' bootcamp sessions. Angela's first book, If You Look Up to the Sky, was the recipient of the 2018 Ben Franklin Gold for Best New Voice in Children’s/YA and Silver for Children’s Book 4 to 7, and the 2018 Independent Publisher Book Awards Gold for Children’s Book 7 & Under. It also received a starred review b

Alan Chazaro is a high school teacher at the Oakland School for the Arts, the former Lawrence Ferlinghetti Fellow at the University of San Francisco, and a June Jordan Poetry for the People alum at UC Berkeley. A Bay Area native, his poems have been or will be featured in the San Francisco Chronicle, Puerto del Sol, Huizache, and Iron Horse Review. Alan's poetry collection, This Is Not a Frank Ocean Cover Album, was the winner of the 2018 Black River Chapbook Competition, and