BIPOC Reading Series

Kyle Yoshioka thinks and writes a lot about belonging. He is the founder and editorial director of Provecho, a publication about the intersection of food and identity, and co-hosts the BIPOC Reading Series at Literary Arts. His writing projects have been supported by the Independent Publishing Resource Center, the McCormack Writing Center Workshop (formerly the Tin House Workshop), and the Andy Warhol Foundation's Precipice Fund. Kyle is working on his debut novel about a multigenerational Japanese American family that explores whether inheritance is destiny.

Amelia Ralston-Okabayashi, known as Mealz in digital space, is a systems poet, new media artist, and mythopoetic mystic. She writes from her multidimensional perspective engaging with paradox as scaffolding for convolution that sprouts new forms. Their work stems from her mixed-cultural identity, neurocomplexity, and magical practice that inspires the mediums described in their poetry. She is currently developing a form of telepathic poetry, leaving myths and archetypes in the web of consciousness.