
Kay Ulanday Barrett aka @brownroundboi is a poet, performer, and cultural strategist, navigating life as a disabled pilipinx-amerikan transgender queer. They are a fellow of VONA, The Home School, Lambda Literary, and Drunken Boat retreats. They are 2018 Guest Faculty for The Poetry Foundation, 2018 Writer-in-Residence for Poetry at Lambda Literary Review, and Co-curator at Asian American Writers Workshop. K. has featured on stages like The Lincoln Center, Princeton University, UC Berkeley, Chicago Historical Society, Brooklyn Museum, The New York City Poetry Festival, The Dodge Poetry Festival, Tucson Poetry Festival, The Guild Literary Complex, The Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics, and National Queer Arts Festival. They have featured in Vogue, PBS News Hour Poetry, Asian American Literary Review, VIDA, The Deaf Poets Society, NYLON, Apogee, Entropy, and Race Forward, among others. When The Chant Comes, is their first book of poetry (Topside Press, 2016). Their second book, More Than Organs, is forthcoming (Sibling Rivalry Press, Spring 2020). Please visit their website.
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