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About
- Nancy Miller Gomez
- Farnaz Fatemi
Nancy Miller Gomez is the author of Inconsolable Objects (YesYes Books) and Punishment (Rattle Chapbook Series). Her work has appeared in Best American Poetry, Best New Poets, Prairie Schooner, TriQuarterly, The Alaska Quarterly Review, The Adroit Journal, LitHub, New Ohio Review, and elsewhere. She received a special mention in the 2023 Pushcart Prize Anthology. Gomez co-founded an organization (poetryinthejails.org) that provides writing workshops to incarcerated women and men and has taught poetry in Salinas Valley State Prison, the Santa Cruz County Jails, the Juvenile Hall and as part of Cornell University’s Prison Education Program. As the Poet Laureate of Santa Cruz County, she is cooking up a flurry of projects to spread poetry into every corner of Santa Cruz.
Farnaz Fatemi is an Iranian American writer and editor in Santa Cruz, CA. Her debut book, Sister Tongue زبان خواهر , was published in Sept 2022. It won the 2021 Stan and Tom Wick Poetry Prize, selected by Tracy K. Smith, from Kent State University Press, and received a Starred Review from Publisher’s Weekly and an Honorable Mention from the Foreword Indies.
Farnaz was Santa Cruz County’s Poet Laureate for 2023 and 2024. Her many programs included: The Santa Cruz County Youth Poet Laureate program, For Better or Verse (begun as a newsletter about SCC poetry), Poetry & Music in the Park, youth poetry library programs, and the establishment of Mapping My Place, a digital space for anyone interested in poetry about place in Santa Cruz County.
She is a founding member of The Hive Poetry Collective, which presents a weekly radio show and podcast in Santa Cruz County and hosts readings and poetry-related events.
