What The Universe Is: Quintin Collins and Michal “MJ” Jones

Join us for June’s installment of What The Universe Is — you don’t want to miss Quintin and MJ reading their phenomenal poems!

Quintin Collins (he/him) is a writer, assistant director of the Solstice MFA in Creative Writing Program, and a poetry editor for Salamander. He is the author of The Dandelion Speaks of Survival and Claim Tickets for Stolen People, selected by Marcus Jackson as winner of The Journal's 2020 Charles B. Wheeler Prize. Quintin's other awards and accolades include a Pushcart Prize, a BCALA Literary Award honor, the 2019 Atlantis Award from the Poet's Billow, and Best of the Net nominations. Quintin’s website is https://www.qcollinswriter.com/

Michal ‘MJ’ Jones is a Lambda Literary nominated- poet in Oakland, CA. MJ serves as the Editor-In-Chief of Foglifter Press, a premier literary journal publishing trans and queer writers. Their poems have appeared in Anomaly, Kissing Dynamite, TriQuarterly Review, & RHINO Poetry, wildness. They received their MFA in Poetry from Mills College. They founded & facilitate Litany!, a workshop for a cohort of Black queer poets. They have a debut full-length poetry collection HOOD VACATIONS from Black Lawrence Press, and a chapbook, SOFT ARMOR, from Nomadic Press. Find them on the web at http://michal-jones.com

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