Bailey Pope (She/Her/Etc) is a New York based Comedian, writer, and pigeon-holed actor, providing the overly-tattooed, failed rock star transgender woman comedy that everyone has been searching centuries for. Bailey has shared stages with Roy Wood Jr, Sam Jay, Mark Normand and Ashley Gavin. As an actor, she often appears as “Angry bartender” or “Aloof tattoo artist” in shows such as AppleTV+ “City On Fire”. Her writing has been published by Hard Times and Refinery29.

Noah C. Lekas

Noah C. Lekas is a worker-writer and folksinger based in Colorado’s Front Range. Carrying on the labor poet tradition, his first book, Saturday Night Sage was published by Blind Owl in 2019. His debut EP, Sounds From the Shadow Factory followed in 2021. With a new record, The Flowers of Perennial Dissent slated for a 2026 Lekas, as Third Coast Review put it, continues to "Tell of the struggles of working-class laborers through poems equally acerbic and transcendental.“