November 2024: 'Stories from the Edge of Town' by Barbara Mumby,

“Stories from the Edge of Town” features literary and visual art work that seek to uplift the stories from communities that are often forgotten or disregarded by mainstream society.

Barbara Mumby-Huerta (painter) was born and raised in California's rural Central Valley, where her family's Native American heritage and work as migrant farmers greatly influenced her passion for social justice. The youngest of five children raised by a single mother, the arts became an integral part of her life and worked as a coping mechanism for the poverty and instability surrounding her. Barbara earned her BAs in Studio Arts and Native American Studies from UC Berkeley and her Master degrees in Museum Studies and Business from the John F Kennedy University. Her art work can be found in private collections as well as in the public collections of the University of California, Berkeley, and the County of Merced. She is a lineal descendent of the Patawomeck, Pamunkey, and Mattaponi Nations from the Southeastern United States.

Kim Shuck (poet/weaver) is an enrolled citizen of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma with Sac and Fox and Polish ancestry. She is a poet, author, weaver, and beadwork artist who draws from Southeastern Native American culture and tradition as well as contemporary urban Indian life. She earned her B.A. in art  and M.F.A. in Textiles from San Francisco State University. Her basket weaving work is influenced by her grandmother Etta Mae Rowe and the long history of California Native American basket making. She has taught American Indian Studies at San Francisco State University, was an artist in residence at the de Young Museum and was named the 7th poet laureate of San Francisco in 2017.

Victoria 'Tory' Grace Canby (visual artist) was born in Albuquerque, New Mexico and moved to Marin County at an early age. She has her BA in Art History from Sonoma State University, MA in Humanities from Dominican University and Museum Studies Certification from the Institute of American Indian Art in Sante Fe New Mexico. Throughout her educational and creative journey her focus has always been centered around her Dine heritage and passion for Contemporary Indian Art.

E. K. Keith (poet): is a Latinx poet who calls San Francisco home, but her hometown is Houston where she learned to write in the sprawl. She performs her poems on the street corner and takes the mic at coffee shops, bars, and radio stations. Her work appears online and in magazines on all three coasts and places beyond, and ORDINARY VILLAINS is her first book of poetry. E.K. organizes Poems Under the Dome, San Francisco's annual open mic celebration of Poetry Month inside City Hall. Her work as a public-school librarian creates opportunities for her to make the world a better place every day.