(January, 2021)

A 2019 PEN America Emerging Voices Fellow, Dare Williams is a Queer HIV- positive poet / artist rooted in Southern California. He has received fellowships from John Ashbury Home School and The Frost Place. He is a co-producer of the reading series Word of Mouth which raises money for communities facing food and nutrition inequities. Dare’s poetry has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and a two-time finalist for Blood Orange Review’s contest. His work has been featured in Cultural Weekly, Bending Genres, THRUSH, Exposition Review and is forthcoming in Limp Wrist and elsewhere. He is currently at work on his first poetry collection.