Poetry Powerhouses: Free Reading by the Bay (Sausalito)

Terra Oliveira is the author of Itinerant Songs, and the founding editor of Recenter Press. Born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area, her poems have appeared in The American Poetry Review, Bamboo Ridge, The Common, Puerto del Sol, Protean Magazine, and more.

Francesca Bell is the author of Bright Stain and What Small Sound and translator of Max Sessner’s Whoever Drowned Here. Her work appears in ELLE, New England Review, and Rattle. She is the Marin County Poet Laureate, translation editor for the Los Angeles Review, and teaches embroidery and poetry at San Quentin.

Christina Hutchins was the first poet laureate of Albany, California from 2008-2012. She has won several awards for her poetry, including The Missouri Review Editors Prize, National Poetry Review’s Finch Prize, and a Summer Literary Seminar in St. Petersburg, Russia. Her second book Tender the Maker won the 2015 May Swenson Poetry Award, and her chapbook Radiantly We Inhabit the Air won the 2011 Robin Becker Prize. She holds a Ph.D. in Interdisciplinary Studies: Process Philosophy and Poetry from the Graduate Theological Union.