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Gabi Abrao is an artist, writer, and digital creator that was born and raised in West Los Angeles. She is also known under her Internet username, sighswoon. With over 130K followers online, her work has embraced the ephemerality of the human experience. Abrao has produced numerous how-to guides on topics such as How to Embrace Your Shape-Shifting and Ever-Changing Nature, Things You Can Pretend to Be When You Feel Uncentered, and How to Have a Positive Experience on Instagram. All of Abrao's life's work is devoted to developing a language with the invisible. Abrao's work has been described by The Outline as ?an existential funhouse of familiar thoughts? that ?publicly grapples with pillars of its own existence within the influencer economy.? Alongside The Outline, her work has been featured in publications such as The Atlantic, Dazed, The Harvard Crimson, and The Face, among others. In response to Abrao's work, Dazed Magazine wrote, ?Gabi debunks the myth that wellness is the preserve of the privileged, and in doing so hands it back to the masses,? and Notes on Shapeshifting is a reminder that we are agents of the change that we seek.Gabi Abrao's Notes on Shapeshifting is an ode to existing in physical form, fully aware of the changing energy that flows through every aspect of it. As Abrao writes, ?tapping into the ether body to take a break from the demands of the earth body, / making peace with ephemerality, / lightness, / shapeshifting?. Throughout this collection, you are invited to travel through various states; pure infatuation to heartbreak, confidence to defeat, from a skepticism for living to a full-on trust in it. And Notes on Shapeshifting yearns to soothe and arouse along the way.

Debut best-selling title by nationally recognized poet Yesika Salgado.

Our life contains several lives as well as several deaths; we attempt to understand these little rebirths through poetry. decompose explores pruning our past to make room for future growth; the expanse we are offered through the crush of heartbreak, discovering family beyond our original home, finding new meaning in our own name - S. Fey picks these timeless themes like roses from a flourishing garden to compose a thorny and succulent bouquet of living, loss, and rebirth throughout the rejuvenating pages of their debut poetry collection.

Landsmoder, by the Salvadoran poet, historian, and performance artist Elena Salamanca, is a searing, and sometimes grotesque, exploration of the intersections between nationalism, dogma, patriarchy, and violence. Originally read aloud from the oldest standing monument in San Salvador‿s centro histórico, the performance poems in Landsmoder retool the laudatory pomp of patriotic ceremony to protest the weaponization of national myth as a mask for erasure, cruelty, and neglect at the hands of the state. This unflinching collection, whose title comes from a Norwegian word that Salamanca translates as “madre de la patriaâ€? ‿ or “mother of the nation/homeland/fatherlandâ€?‿ is a work of feminist grief, rage, and irony populated with churning wombs, bloodied flags, and ratteboned she-wolves. Appearing now in a bilingual edition nearly a decade after it was first performed, Landsmoder remains an urgent subversion, loud as ever, both on and off the page.Â

Tesoro is a story of family, survival, and the formative power of the women in Salgado's life. It is a telling of the balance between love and perseverance. Tesoro is an unearthing of the sacred connections that make a person whole; the treasure we forever keep with us when we learn from those we love, when we mourn those we've lost, and what grows in between.

From Rufio to Zuko is a personal examination of the upbringing, culture, and work of Dante Basco. Basco ruminates on the formative power of his Filipino-American heritage, his family, the dynamics that evolved throughout his career, and his experiences behind playing a couple of America's most popular characters.From Rufio to Zuko is a memoir detailing the life and work of Dante Basco. Basco takes us behind the scenes of his earliest projects, sharing personal examinations of his life on the set of Hook, through his second rise as a cultural icon as Zuko in Avatar: The Last Airbender. Throughout his career as a 'working class' actor of Filipino heritage, Basco shares how his family and culture play a crucial role in the foundation of his work and his focus for the future.

From Rufio to Zuko is a personal examination of the upbringing, culture, and work of Dante Basco. Basco ruminates on the formative power of his Filipino-American heritage, his family, the dynamics that evolved throughout his career, and his experiences behind playing a couple of America's most popular characters.From Rufio to Zuko is a memoir detailing the life and work of Dante Basco. Basco takes us behind the scenes of his earliest projects, sharing personal examinations of his life on the set of Hook, through his second rise as a cultural icon as Zuko in Avatar: The Last Airbender. Throughout his career as a 'working class' actor of Filipino heritage, Basco shares how his family and culture play a crucial role in the foundation of his work and his focus for the future.

An emerging poet that has long engaged in the Los Angeles literary and education scenes. Deeply engaged with community planning, events, readings, and youth literary programs.

"[Salgado] stayed true to her voice, and it has paid off." - Los Angeles TimesHermosa is the path to becoming one's own home. A thread pulled when Salgado thinks about who she is and who she has been. Beyond the survival, grief, and fight, Hermosa lives in the small moments hidden beneath it all. A journey of firsts, of mistakes, of celebrations, of the love, the crush, the disaster, the rebuilding, and the never-ending cycle of growth.

This book began as an answer to power. In the face of the undeniable, it became a reckoning. Of the lies that are lived to feel belonging. Of the lies that are told to hide shame. Of the lies that are believed to remain within illusions. Well Played is a warning to the present, a welcoming of the truth, and a poet working to earn a way beyond power.

When Aneesha returns to Chicago for the summer, all she wants to do is write and carouse with friends. Maybe rekindle things with her old flame, Whitney, who has a serious new job and relationship. Aneesha weaves through dance parties, dive bars, and all-night Mexican joints on her bike, but keeping old friends is complicated in this charming debut novel from Kamala Puligandla.

A mentally challenged mother and her young son navigate their way through tumultuous waters to survive the ordained Gods of a city of angels.  Envisioned as a social thriller, narrated by the protagonists of a ragtag world, where 'The Spirits' are real humans and humans are spirits fighting to survive. Saolomea, Saolomea! is the story of who these 'Spirits' are, - that one would call 'monsters', 'creatures' etc... but really are more like Gods; and how they handle a single mother working to outlive the reality of worlds in deadly competitions.

Ümair Zia is a visionary architect and assistant professor at National College of Arts, Lahore- the oldest art school in Pakistan. He is the founder of Nature Tutor magazine and a member of the editorial board of ii International Journal of Interior Architecture and Spatial Design. Zia’s nature-inspired projects have been featured at multiple international forums including CTBUH, Urban SOS, Adaptable Futures and Arctic Perspective Initiative, and others. In 2020, Zia was admitted to the first cohort of the Design Science Studio (The Buckminster Fuller Institute + HabRitual), where he joined the Living Systems Collaboratory (Emergent Media Lab, University of California, Irvine). He is the founder of design blog, Nature Gadgets (naturegadget.com).Zia’s work has been recognized at Venice Art Biennale (2017), Arctic Perspective Initiative (2015), Council on Tall Buildings, and Urban Habitat (2011), as well as at several local and international platforms. He has contributed to multiple research publications including ii International Journal of Interior Architecture and Spatial Design, Pratt Journal of Architecture, and the Journal of Art, Architecture and Built Environment. Describing Tree Tech, Roxanne Shohadee, director of the Design Science Studio wrote, “...I cried. It was not only beautiful and delicate, but also deep, touching, profound.”Ümair Zia’s Tree Tech: 50 Lessons for Life offers fifty observations of the function of trees and how humans can learn from the elegant "technology" of the natural force keeping our planet alive. At a time where mounting environmental impacts are becoming increasingly visible around the world, this timely text offers a roadmap for societies and individuals to rethink structures such as hierarchy, education, resource use, and what it means to co-exist with a living, breathing world. A visual and personal journey, Tree Tech: 50 Lessons for Life is a thrilling and spiritual quest to understand the biomimicry and hidden ancient technologies of the trees.

Inspired by Lanford Wilson’s play Talley’s Folly, Jeremy Radin’s Dear Sal is a series of epistolary meditations on loneliness, longing, the Jewish diaspora, bewilderment, divinity, and love. Radin’s second collection lays bare a life lived in romantic exile, using the play’s events—one year after a brief but passionate affair, a man returns to a deserted boathouse on his beloved’s family property in order to offer himself to her—as the foundation for a mystifying interior stage, populated by a cast of eccentrics, upon which a man must wrestle, each moment, with his own unremitting desire.

If the word stanza means "room," then this book is an orchard. Former Youth Poet Laureate of Los Angeles, Rhiannon McGavin crafts poems with scraps of the everyday, from dream diaries to postcards. She integrates the facts of daily life into lyric verse, switching out traditional forms easily as trying on new sweaters. Led by emotions "real as the mosaic air between screen and projector," McGavin explores what it means to become your own calendar.--Publisher's description.

First full-length collection of Stoya's writings pertaining to sex workers, their rights, and personal anecdotes detailing the life of this robust creator.