Trinidad Escobar is a cartoonist, poet, and musician in Northern California. Her work appears in literary journals and publications like The Nib, NPR, and the New Yorker. Trinidad was named as one of YBCA’s most influential global artists in 2019. In 2020, her works were featured in Eisner and Ignatz-winning anthologies like Drawing Power: Women’s Stories of Sexual Violence, Harassment, and Survival (Abrams, 2019) and Be Gay, Do Comics (IDW, 2020). Her comics will be exhibited in the first-ever international Women in Comics exhibition in Italy, 2021. Her forthcoming books will be published by Black Josei Press and Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
Meredith Hobbs Coons is a writer and musician from Nipomo, California. She obtained her BA in creative writing at San Francisco State University, then studied communication disorders and sciences at California State University, Northridge, achieving a master’s degree. Her written work appears in North of the Internet, Coyote + Oak, and Talkhouse. She records and performs companionate, lyrical folk songs as Lamb’s Ear. She lives with her partner, her two children, three cats, and a dog.
