Sherrie Fernandez-Williams is a Black, Queer writer who earned her MFA in Writing from Hamline University. She was a Jerome Hill Artist Fellow and received a Black Voices in Children’s Literature award.

She received additional grants and awards from the Minnesota State Arts Board, The Loft Literary Center, The Givens Foundation for African American Literature, Intermedia Arts,  SASE: The Write Place, and The Playwrights’ Center.

The author of the book of poems,  Goddess of the Whole Self,  and the memoir Soft, Fernandez-Williams, has published poems in journals including New Limestone Review, Aquifer: The Florida Review, and Duke University Press, among others.

Her essays can be found in anthologies including We are Meant to Rise: Voices for Justice from Minneapolis to the World, How Dare We Write: A Multicultural Creative Writing Discourse, and The Poverty and Education Reader. 

Sherrie co-directs Queer Voices Minnesota with LM Brimmer. She teaches within community and academic spaces. 

Liz Miller’s work has been featured in solo and group exhibitions throughout the United States and abroad.

Her awards include a McKnight Foundation Fellowship for Fiber Artists, a McKnight Foundation Fellowship for Visual Artists, a Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters & Sculptors Grant, and numerous grants from the Minnesota State Arts Board.

Miller has completed residencies at Mass MoCA (North Adams, MA), Stove Works (Chattanooga, TN), the Joan Mitchell Center (New Orleans, LA), and the McColl Center for Art + Innovation (Charlotte, NC), among others.

Miller lives and works in Good Thunder, MN and is Professor of Installation Art and Drawing at Minnesota State University-Mankato.

2025 Participating Poets

Amelia Colwell, Betty Benson, Becky Boling, Elizabeth Curry, Daniel Dietrich, Tom Driscoll, Catherine Galascione, Mac Gimse, Patrick Cabello Hansel, Rob Hardy, Margaret Hasse, B. Haugen, Jennifer Jesseph, Mary Kelly, Molly Sutton Kiefer, Kathleen T. Leuschen, Scott Lowery, Becka Mara McKay, Susan Jaret McKinstry, Loren Niemi, Meggie Royer, Marcia Savela, Pamela Sinicrope, Amie Stager, Steven R. Vogel

2025 Participating Artists

Lukas Carlson, E.C. Comstock, Rachel Coyne, Dawn Zero Erickson, Kristina Estell, Kendra Gebbia, Katharine Gotham, Bruce Hecksel, Ellen Hutchinson, Emily Gray Koehler, Anne Landreman, Nipinet Landsem, Connie Ludwig, Leah Monson, Jennifer Osborne Anderson, Matt Quinn, Trudi Schaefer, Kurt Schulzetenberg, Dana Sikkila, Peter Stein, Richard Swanson, Taylor Tinkham, James Turner, Jamie Weinfurter, Dan Wiemer