Join us for another First Friday poetry and art walk at Birdhouse Books!

Dr. Jennifer Tullos (she/her) is a content developer, researcher, and educator in English and the Humanities working to advocate for equity-centered programs and practices. She holds as PhD in English from Illinois State University with an emphasis in queer young adult literature, queer theory, and pedagogy. Jenn began writing poetry in 2015 and has been featured on Write About Now and A+, where her work continues to get under the skin of insecure men. 

AYOKUNLE FALOMO is Nigerian, American, and the author of Autobiomythography of (Alice James Books, 2024), AFRICANAMERICAN’T(FlowerSong Press, 2022), two self-published collections and African, American (New Delta Review, 2019; selected by Selah Saterstrom as the winner of New Delta Review’s 8th annual chapbook contest). A recipient of fellowships from Vermont Studio Center, MacDowell, and the University of Michigan’s Helen Zell Writers’ Program, where he obtained his MFA in Creative Writing—Poetry, his work has been anthologized and widely published.

Christopher Diaz (he/him) is a Chamorro poet, freelance photographer, and military veteran. He has been featured by NBC news, the Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center, Poets & Writers.org, and more. He is a two-time grand slam champion of Houston’s slam poetry team, “Write About Now,” which ranked fifth in the nation in 2018, and recently competed with team “(tbd)”, winning first place at the 2023 Bigfoot Regional Poetry Slam festival. He has previously taught poetry with the non-profit “Writers in the Schools”, and too often spends his time making fake album covers with pictures of his three dogs.