06/17/2026
THIS SATURDAY at the VINE FEST we have three great poets representing us! Come check them out!
Bios, in order of slides:
Kristen is a q***r, non-binary writer from Melbourne, Australia. She currently teaches at Western Michigan University and her work can be found in Hayden’s Ferry Review’s The Dock, Qu Lit Mag, The Citron Review, and other presses.
Emelia Shaw is a Creative Writing student at Western Michigan University where she was recently awarded the Gwen Frostic Creative Writing Award in Undergraduate Poetry chosen by judge Jericho Brown. She is interested in exploring, in the words of Arturo Escobar, “whether it is possible to imagine other forms of knowing~being~doing without losing our ability to navigate skillfully the meanderings of the modern constellation.“
Ella Betz (she/her) is a poet born and raised in Kalamazoo and is currently pursuing an MFA in Creative Writing at Cedar Crest College. Her work is forthcoming with Neologism Poetry Journal, Thimble Literary Magazine, FlowerSong Press, and the Kalamazoo Writing Circle’s inaugural anthology.
