Britt Billmeyer-Finn (she/they)
Britt Billmeyer-Finn is a psychotherapist, poet and playwright living in Northampton, MA. She has published two books of poetry, The Meshes (Black Radish Books, 2015) and Slabs (Timeless Infinite Light, 2016). She was a resident at SAFEhouse Arts in SF where she directed and produced her play Meshes an Iteration in Two Acts. She facilitates generative writing workshops through the tarot and is co-curator of the living room reading series, The But Also. She continues to publish poetry in La Vague Journal, Foglifter's anthology, Home is Where You Queer Your Heart and Baest:a journal of queer forms and affects. She is currently writing a collection of poetry called Sensational Gestational and a play called My Fellow Lesbian Wife.

Kate Grube (she/her)
Kate Grube is a costume designer and music-person in Chicago. She is interested in how we communicate and what we can learn from systems and species before us.

Dharushana Muthulingam (she/her)
D Muthulingam is a writer, teacher, health worker, researcher and activist interested in care labor in its many forms: clinical care, teaching, home care, children, elders, our own bodies that fall short of “productive.” She is probing the uses and limitations of narrative medicine in characterizing that invisible labor. She explores this with social sciences (materialist analysis of resources and power relationship in institutions), as well as through cultural criticism, speculative fiction and nonfiction narrative, exploring alternative storytelling as a path to alternative ways of knowing, to reclaim history and futures from the colonial and clinical gaze. She is looking at how this impacts the clinical encounter as well as science communication, medical education, and health labor organizing.

Sabel Santa (she/they)
Sabel Santa is a queer multidisciplinary artist, educator and astrologer based in Florida. She has held workshops on topics including astrology, spiritual healing, shadow work and creativity. Her goal is to provide artists with the tools to navigate their inner selves and harness the full power of their creativity.

Sophie Traub (she/they)
Sophie Traub (they/she) is a queer performing artist and performance maker with a particular interest in impact-focused arts, and facilitating individual and group transformation through creative processes towards social change. Sophie has been designing and running residencies for The School of Making Thinking (SMT) since 2013, and is currently the Artistic Executive Director of SMT. They completed their Masters in Theatre and Performance Studies from York University in Toronto in 2019, focusing on the politics of cultural production and group dynamics in collaboration. Since 2020, Sophie designed and co-produced OUT Dance Project, connecting rural queers in Oregon through story and dance. Sophie has trained extensively in movement theatre techniques such as Viewpoints, Suzuki, Grotowski, and a host of other approaches, and holds a long background of working in experimental devised theatre productions and in film in the US and Canada, to much acclaim.

Zoe Tuck (she/her)
Zoe Tuck was born in Texas, became a person in California, and now lives in Massachusetts. She is the author of Terror Matrix (Timeless, Infinite Light) and the chapbooks “Vape Cloud of Unknowing” (Belladonna*) and the “The Book of Bella” (DoubleCross Press), the latter of which is bound in a dos-a-dos edition with Emily Hunerwadel’s “Peach Woman”. In addition to teaching private creative writing and literature classes, Zoe is the co-host of The But Also reading series with Britt Billmeyer-Finn and the co-editor of Hot Pink Magazine with Emily Bark Brown. Since 2019, she has been an active member of the Belladonna* Collaborative, where she has co-curated both the Close Distances and the In-Flux reading series.

Jonathan Curtin (she/they)
Jonathan “Johnnie” Curtin is a municipal sanitation driver and former fleet mechanic. She has 7 years of professional experience in the auto repair field as well as 8 years operating CDL vehicles. Her hobbies include cycling, walking her dog, and amateur RC aviation.

lo bil (she/they)
lo bil is a cross-disciplinary artist working with intuitive felt research through moving-thinkings, spontaneous utterance, impulse-based scores, object manipulation, unexpected humour, and inter-relational proposals with audience. She has performed her work in Toronto, Montreal, Edmonton, Chicago, New York, Mexico City, Berlin, Amsterdam and Glasgow; and at venues including: 7a*11d International Festival of Performance Art, Harbourfront Centre, Duration & Dialogue Performance Art Festival, First Thursdays at AGO, Luminato Online, Nuit Blanche, Flowchart at Dancemakers, Summerworks, Fringe and Rhubarb Performance Festivals.

In 2022, Lo received a Chalmers Award and Studio 303 and FADO Performance Art Centre residencies to develop her participatory score, COMPASS. Lo received a Kathy Acker Award (2019) and the FADO Live Art Award at Summerworks (2016). Lo teaches Performance-Based art at Sheridan College and has facilitated as a guest artist at Concordia, University of Toronto, CCOV, Toronto Dance Community Love-in, and is a mentor with the Choreographic Marathon.

Swati Piparsania (she/her)
Swati Piparsania is a designer and educator whose work incorporates making objects and devising movement. She is interested in understanding built environments shape behaviors esp. as a form of surveillance and oppression. She utilizes elements of sculpture, dance and theatre to research and develop a series of sculptural propositions that critique a body’s inherent design and its choreography in space. This inquiry through quotidian objects reinvents them, making anew ordinary social experience. As a result the audience transcends the role of a viewer and assumes the role of a curious performer.

Swati (b. Bhilai, India) has received her MFA in 3D Design from Cranbrook Academy of Art and BFA in Furniture and Spatial Design from Srishti School of Art, Design, and Technology. She currently teaches Industrial design as an Assistant Professor at Pratt Institute, NY.