Sunday Reading Series: Lisa Low, Dez Brown, & Ana Caballero
Lisa Low is the author of Replica (University of Wisconsin Press, 2026) and the chapbook Crown for the Girl Inside (YesYes Books, 2023). She is the recipient of a 2023 Pushcart Prize and the 2020 Gulf Coast Nonfiction Prize, and her poems have appeared in American Poetry Review, Ecotone, The Massachusetts Review, Poetry, The Southern Review, and elsewhere. Originally from Maryland, she lives in Chicago.
dr. dez brown (they/he), publishing as dezireé a. brown, is a Black queer nonbinary Pushcart Prize–nominated poet, interdisciplinary scholar, and sjw, born and raised in Flint, MI. Their debut collection of poetry, they/she/he: ritual to forget your (un)becoming, was the winner of the Joe W. Bratcher Prize and a finalist for the 2025 Leslie Feinberg Award for Trans and Gender-Variant Literature. Often claiming to have been born with a poem written across his chest, he spends much of his time gaming and plays a mean hand of spades. Follow them online at @deziree.the.writer.
Ana María Caballero is a Colombian-American multidisciplinary artist and poet whose work critically examines how biology shapes cultural and societal structures, particularly the gendered ideal of sacrifice. Through a practice spanning poetry, performance, sculpture and digital installation, Caballero challenges entrenched narratives, revealing the often-silenced emotional and existential costs of care. Her work also explores memory and the evolution of the book into the contemporary and digital world. Caballero's innovative fusion of literature and technology has positioned her at the forefront of digital poetry. She co-founded theVERSEverse, a digital poetry gallery, and became the first living poet to sell a poem at Sotheby’s. The author of 8 books, she has also exhibited at venues like Ashmolean Museum, HEK Basel, Philips and has been acquired by: the Reina Sofia Museum, MACBA Barcelona, the Ashmolean Museum, HEK Basel, Francisco Carolinum Museum, the Arab Bank Switzerland, Spalter Digital and Mad Arts Museum. She has also performed live at the Venice Biennale, Art Basel, Art Genève and Fundación Telefónica. Featured in Artnet, Observer, The Art Newspaper, Poetry International, BOMB, El País, and NPR. In 2025, she was named one of Forbes' Top 50 Latin Women to Follow, recognizing her significant contributions to contemporary art and literature.
dr. dez brown (they/he), publishing as dezireé a. brown, is a Black queer nonbinary Pushcart Prize–nominated poet, interdisciplinary scholar, and sjw, born and raised in Flint, MI. Their debut collection of poetry, they/she/he: ritual to forget your (un)becoming, was the winner of the Joe W. Bratcher Prize and a finalist for the 2025 Leslie Feinberg Award for Trans and Gender-Variant Literature. Often claiming to have been born with a poem written across his chest, he spends much of his time gaming and plays a mean hand of spades. Follow them online at @deziree.the.writer.
Ana María Caballero is a Colombian-American multidisciplinary artist and poet whose work critically examines how biology shapes cultural and societal structures, particularly the gendered ideal of sacrifice. Through a practice spanning poetry, performance, sculpture and digital installation, Caballero challenges entrenched narratives, revealing the often-silenced emotional and existential costs of care. Her work also explores memory and the evolution of the book into the contemporary and digital world. Caballero's innovative fusion of literature and technology has positioned her at the forefront of digital poetry. She co-founded theVERSEverse, a digital poetry gallery, and became the first living poet to sell a poem at Sotheby’s. The author of 8 books, she has also exhibited at venues like Ashmolean Museum, HEK Basel, Philips and has been acquired by: the Reina Sofia Museum, MACBA Barcelona, the Ashmolean Museum, HEK Basel, Francisco Carolinum Museum, the Arab Bank Switzerland, Spalter Digital and Mad Arts Museum. She has also performed live at the Venice Biennale, Art Basel, Art Genève and Fundación Telefónica. Featured in Artnet, Observer, The Art Newspaper, Poetry International, BOMB, El País, and NPR. In 2025, she was named one of Forbes' Top 50 Latin Women to Follow, recognizing her significant contributions to contemporary art and literature.
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