The HIVE has these B’s inside….
Danusha Laméris is the 2019-2020 Poet Laureate of Santa Cruz and a graduate of UCSC where she studied Studio Art. Her book The Moons of August was the winner of the 2013 Autumn House Press Poetry Prize, and her new book, Bonfire Opera, will be published by the University of Pittsburgh Press in 2020. Her work has appeared in: Best American Poetry, The American Poetry Review, The New York Times Magazine, New Letters, Ploughshares, The Gettysburg Review, The SUN, and Tin House.
Julie Murphy fell in love with poetry as a child. Her favorites, “The Mitten Song” and “At the Seaside”, sparked open wonder in a post-Sputnik milieu generally void of curious musings. As a “grown-up”, reading and writing poetry carries her from the known into the unknown and keeps her close to the truths of life. A longtime counseling psychology professor and psychotherapist, Julie developed Embodied Writing™, a somatic approach to creative writing, and teaches poetry, as a volunteer, at Salinas Valley State Prison. Julie is a founding board member for the Right to Write Press. Her poems appear or are forthcoming in Massachusetts Review, Written Here: The Community of Writers Poetry Review 2019, CALYX Journal, Common Ground Review, Louisville Review, The Red Wheelbarrow, and The Alembic, among other journals. Julie lives in Santa Cruz, California. She still thinks there is little better than being laid low by a good poem.
Dion O’Reilly’s first book, Ghost Dogs ( Terrapin Books, 2020) has won or been shortlisted for a number of prizes including the Catamaran Poetry Prize and The Eric Hoffer Award. Her second book Sadness of The Apex Predator was chosen for The Portage Poetry Series out of University of Wisconsin. Her work appears in Missouri Review, Narrative, The Slowdown, Rattle, and The Sun. She leads ongoing, private Zoom workshops with small groups of poets from all over the United States and Canada.
Victoria Bañales teaches English at Cabrillo College, is founder and editor of Xinachtli Journal—Journal X, and a member of the Writers of Color Collective-Santa Cruz County. Her work has appeared in various anthologies and journals, including Translocalities/Translocalidades: Feminist Politics of Translation in the Latin/a Américas, Beyond the Frame: Women of Color and Visual Representations, The Acentos Review, Cloud Women’s Quarterly, North Dakota Quarterly, and more. She is the recipient of a Porter Gulch Review Best Poetry Award and Cabrillo EOPS Instructor of the Year Award. She lives in Watsonville, CA.
Julia Chiapella’s poetry has appeared in Avatar Review, Edison Literary Review, I-70 Review, The MacGuffin, Midwest Quarterly, OPEN: Journal of Arts & Letters, phren-Z, Pirene’s Fountain, The Wax Paper, and West Branch among others. She co-founded Santa Cruz Writes and is the retired director of the Young Writers Program, which she established in 2012. She received the Gail Rich Award in 2017 for creative contributions to Santa Cruz County and has taught as both a classroom teacher and a writing specialist.
The Hive Poetry Collective 