RTS is excited to welcome two January Small Press Traffic writers in residence. We are lucky to have Andrea Abi-Karam and Alex Cruse working in our studio this month!
ANDREA ABI-KARAM is a trans, arab-american poet-performer cyborg. They are the author of EXTRATRANSMISSION (Kelsey Street Press, 2019) and with Kay Gabriel, they co-edited We Want It All: An Anthology of Radical Trans Poetics (Nightboat Books, 2020). Their second book, Villainy (Nightboat Books, Sept 2021) reimagines militant collectivity in the wake of the Ghost Ship Fire and the Muslim Ban. They are currently working on a poet’s novel.
Alex Cruse is an Oakland-based writer, artist, and educator, who works in poetry, video, installation, performance, and new media. She is interested in systems of governmentality/surveillance as social modalities; technology’s capacity to both build and dismantle informational and linguistic structures, and the politics of representation produced therein. Her first book of poetry, CONTRAVERSE, will appear from Timeless, Infinite Light this year. She has performed nationally and abroad as half of the audio/visual/textual experiment DROUGHT SPA, with her husband Kevin Lo.