She has been published in the Portland Review, Welter, Vinyl, Saranac Review, Kweli, 491, and Apogee. She is founding editor of shufpoetry, an online journal for experimental poetry, and founding editor of Jamii Publishing, a publishing imprint dedicated to fostering community service among poets and writers. She has served as Inlandia Literary Laureate (2016-2018). Nikia Chaney is the author of us mouth (University of Hell Press, 2018) and two chapbooks, Sis Fuss (2012, Orange Monkey Publishing) and ladies, please (2012, Dancing Girl Press).

She is the recipient of the 2020 Porter Gulch Review Best Poetry Award and 2017 EOPS Instructor of the Year Award. Her writing has appeared in various anthologies and journals, including The Acentos Review, Cloud Women’s Quarterly, North Dakota Quarterly, and more. Victoria Bañales teaches English at Cabrillo College, is founder and editor of Journal X, and a member of the Writers of Color Collective-Santa Cruz County.

A critical mass of six Hive members buzz in to this episode to share new poems.

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