D. M. Spratley '07

D. M. Spratley '07

D. M. Spratley is a writer and intersectional equity strategist and educator. Her writing has appeared in Poetry, 32 Poems, Shenandoah, and the Lambda Literary Poetry Spotlight, among other journals. She has received awards and honors from Princeton University, Sundress Publications, Rattle, and the North Carolina Arts Council. D. M. was the 2022 Visiting Writer in Residence at Lenoir-Rhyne University.

D. M. is currently at work on a full-length poetry manuscript and a fiction project.

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Jeanette Beebe '14

Jeanette Beebe '14 is an audio producer, fact checker, journalist, and writer, mostly of poems. She supported The COVID Tracking Project at The Atlantic, and she wrote a daily newsletter for the Center for Cooperative Media. Her reporting has appeared in Time, Scientific American, NPR/WHYY, etc. She lives in Akron, Ohio

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Jessica Roemischer '82

Jessica Roemischer '82

Jessica Roemischer is an award-winning pianist, storyteller, and visual artist. Evocatively combining music and spoken word in live, interactive events, Jessica conjures a world beyond divisions, freeing the stories that are held in the silence of our hearts. New York-born and raised, Jessica lives in Sydney, Australia.

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Carla Schwartz *84

Carla Schwartz *84

Filmmaker and photographer Carla Schwartz’s poems have been widely published and anthologized, including in The Practicing Poet (Diane Lockward, Ed), and in her second collection, Intimacy with the Wind, (Finishing Line, 2017). Her CB99videos youtube channel has 2,200,000+ views. Learn more at carlapoet.com, wakewiththesun.blogspot.com, or find her on YouTube, Twitter, or Instagram @cb99videos.

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Briyana D. Clarel ‘13

Briyana D. Clarel ‘13

Briyana D. Clarel is a Black queer non-binary storyteller and curator living in Philadelphia. They explore truths through theatre, sketch comedy, writing, and teaching. Briyana is the founder of The Starfruit Project, a platform highlighting creativity for radical healing and brilliant growth. They love sleep, taro bubble tea, and ferns.

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