Billy Lombardo teaches creative writing at The Latin School of Chicago. His introduction into the writing world was through the Green Mill’s Uptown Poetry Slam. His book of short fiction: The Logic of a Rose: Chicago Stories, was a Chicago Tribune, Best Fiction of 2005 selection. He is the founder and faculty sponsor of Polyphony H.S., a national literary magazine for High School Writers. He has just completed his second book, a novel, titled “The Man with Two Arms.”
Nicole Shawan Junior
Nicole Shawan Junior is a black, queer & justice-involved counter-storyteller. Her writing appears in Lambda Literary’s anthology Emerge, Gay Mag, Zora, The Feminist Wire, Color Bloq, For Harriet, and more. A Bread
