Keep the Channel Open Creators & Guests

Mike Sakasegawa is a writer, photographer, book artist, and activist. His writing has appeared in Last Exit, Catapult, PetaPixel, and Don’t Take Pictures Magazine. His photographs have been featured on Lenscratch, A Photo Editor, and SD Voyager, and included in exhibitions around the US.He is originally from the Central Coast region of California. Nowadays he lives in San Diego with his family.

David Bowles is an award-winning writer, translator, professor, musician.

Jeffery Saddoris is the serial conversationalist, podcaster, an author, painter, photographer and co-host of On Taking Pictures Podcast.

Mari Ness is a poet, author, and critic.Ness's work has appeared in multiple science fiction and fantasy magazines and anthologies, including Apex Magazine, Clarkesworld, Daily Science Fiction, Fantasy Magazine, Fireside Magazine, Lightspeed, Nightmare Magazine, Strange Horizons, Tor.com, and Uncanny Magazine.

Helen Zaltzman is an English podcaster, broadcaster, and writer. She is best known for her work that she presents the comedy podcast Answer Me This!.

Lilliam Rivera is a fiction writer. She has written for the episodic podcast series "Love in Gravity."Rivera's short fiction and personal essays have appeared in Tin House, New York Times, Buzzfeed Books, and The Washington Post. She has published eight books: four young adult novels, three children's books, and a graphic novel. Her novel "Never Look Back" is being adapted for television by Amazon.

Ada Limón is a poet and writer.

Brandon Taylor is a writer.

R. Okyong Kwon is an author, best known for her first novel, "The Incendiaries," which was published in 2018.Kwon’s writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Guardian, Vanity Fair, The Paris Review, Bookforum, and NPR.

Matika Wilbur is a member of the Swinomish and Tulalip tribes of the State of Washington where she was raised in a family of commercial fishermen.

Franny Choi is a Korean-American queer writer and poet. She has published many poems focusing on social activism and equality.

Lyz Lenz is a writer and editor. She is a columnist at The Cedar Rapids Gazette and previously served as managing editor of The Rumpus.

Julian K. Jarboe is a writer, sound designer, and associate editor. They also co-host the PodCastle podcast.

Alexander Chee is a fiction writer, poet, journalist, reviewer, and author of the book How to Write an Autobiographical Novel.

Celeste Ng is an American writer, novelist, and author of the book Little Fires Everywhere.

Poet & playwright from Edinburgh.

Esmé Weijun Wang is a writer and the author of The Border of Paradise.

Keah Brown is a disability rights activist, author, journalist, and writer.

Maggie Smith is a poet, freelance writer, and editor