aja monet is a surrealist blues poet, storyteller, and organizer born and raised in Brooklyn, NY. She won the legendary Nuyorican Poets Cafe Grand Slam poetry award title in 2007 and aja monet follows in the long legacy and tradition of poets participating and assembling in social movements. Her first full collection of poems is titled, My Mother Was a Freedom Fighter on Haymarket Books. Her poems explore gender, race, migration, and spirituality. In 2018, she was nominated for a NAACP Literary Award for Poetry and in 2019 was awarded the Marjory Stoneman Douglas Award for Poetry for her cultural organizing work in South Florida. aja monet cofounded a political home for artists and organizers called, Smoke Signals Studio. She facilitates “Voices: Poetry for the People,” a workshop and collective in collaboration with Community Justice Project and Dream Defenders. She is currently working on her next full collection of poems entitled, Florida Water. aja monet also serves as the new Artistic Creative Director for V-Day, a global movement to end violence against all women and girls.

Jazz Money is a Wiradjuri poet and artist based on Gadigal land, Sydney. Her practice is centred around poetics while producing works that encompass installation, digital, performance, film and print. Jazz’s writing and art has been widely presented, performed and published nationally and internationally. Their first poetry collection, the best-selling how to make a basket (UQP, 2021) won the David Unaipon Award, and a second collection The Fire Inside will be released through UQP in 2024. In October 2023 WINHANGANHA their feature length film reconfiguring the visual archive as poetry commissioned by the National Film and Sound Archive will premiere at the British Film Institute in London. Jazz is a 2023 resident artist at the Carriageworks Clothing Store in Sydney.

A shapeshifter, able to take on many forms and disciplines within the creative sphere. These forms are (however, not secluded to); poetry, portraiture, cinematography, set design, as well as fashion. The Colour Beige (Heritier Kasanda) tilts deeply into narratives, beckoning ghosts into stranger into kin.