Domi J. Shoemaker is a gender-free writer who lives in Portland, OR. Domi spent several years with Tom Spanbauer's Dangerous Writers, and started the quarterly reading series, Burnt Tongue in 2012, just before snatching a gig with Lidia Yuknavitch for the launch of Dora: A Headcase. While finishing an MFA in Writing from Pacific University in 2015, Lidia asked Domi to help create the Corporeal Writing Seasonal Creative Lab Series. Domi is now the Seasonal Workshop Lead-Facilitator, Corporeal Center Manager, as well as prime holder of space.

Carol Fischbach is a writer with an MFA in Creative Nonfiction, a retired RN, Reiki master, and a student archetype with several other degrees, but her favorite classroom is everyday life and listening to and reading others’ stories. Writing is the portal through which she enters her life, seeks insight, reframes it, forgives it. She has been published in Khora, Propeller, Nailed Magazine, Oregon East, Tide Pools, and the Port Townsend Leader. She is currently working on a memoir.

Brune Smith felt isolated and unrelatable until she moved from France to Canada at 33 and went to an event where random people told vulnerable stories from their lived experience. She just moved back to Europe after 5 years. In the meantime, she became a storyteller, a writer and editor, a storytelling producer and instructor, a bit of a tech nerd, the creator of the first online storytelling show, the co-founder of the first global storytelling festival held online, a multicultural business owner, and an avid attendee of Corporeal's Virtual Hours.

Melissa Leto is a writer from New York who now lives near the Beeline Highway and Salt River. Her/their work has appeared in KHÔRA, Bloody Funny Zine, Shrew Lit Magazine, Tom Maxedon's Word podcast, and Write on Downtown. Their wordmaking weaves trauma, grief, and joy while upholding nature and queer love in realms of hybridity. They have an MFA from Northern Arizona University used as a framework for demolishing form. They are the lead facilitator for literary arts non-profit Revisionary Arts and an editor for Rinky Dink Press.

Anya Pearson is an award-winning playwright, poet, screenwriter, producer, actress, and activist. On staff at Corporeal Writing, she was a ‘21-22 Hodder Fellow at Princeton University. She is currently finishing her debut collection of poetry, writing a novel, three pilots, a feature,  launching a BIPOC-owned wearable activism clothing label, and constantly plotting, planning, devising, creating, imagining, and revising visions of a better, more just world. A spoonie. A survivor. A single mother. A body alive with multiple nexuses of marginalized identity and sediments of trauma, Anya is passionate about helping others find their voice through the transformational power of story. Her plays include: THE MEASURE OF INNOCENCE (The Kilroys List, Drammy Award for Best Original Script, Finalist: Oregon Book Award for Drama), MADE TO DANCE IN BURNING BUILDINGS (Showcase: Joe’s Pub, NYC; Shaking the Tree, Portland, OR), THE KILLING FIELDS (2018 Orphic Commission; Last Frontier Theatre Conference; Seven Devils New Play Foundry; Great Plains Theatre Conference), WITHOUT A FORMAL DECLARATION OF WAR (PCS Commission, Seven Devils, JAW), THREE LOVE SONGS (Play at Home Initiative, PCS), BUTTERFLIES EAT DECAY (Go Play Outside). Memberships: Linestorm Playwrights, Dramatists Guild, Actors’ Equity Association.

Ella deCastro Baron is a second generation Filipina American born and raised in Coastal Miwok territory (Vallejo, California). She is a VONA alum, holds an MFA, teaches Composition and Creative Writing at San Diego City College and U Mass, and co-facilitates "Where We Come From: Writing Your Ethnoautobiography" and "To Exist is to Flare: Loving Our Chronically Ill Minds and Bodies" through Corporeal Writing. Ella's first book of creative nonfiction is, Itchy, Brown Girl Seeks Employment, and she's published in Nonwhite and Woman, (Her)oics: Women’s Lived Experiences During the Coronavirus Epidemic, Anomaly, and The Rumpus. Her next book, Subos and Baon: A Memoir in Bites, will be published in 2023. As a woman of color who lives with chronic dis-ease, Ella honors sensations, images, story, dance, and decolonial truth-telling. She produces workshops and kapwa (deep interconnection) gatherings that stir love and justice via writing, art, joy, grief-tending, movement, food (yes!) and community. She lives and loves on Kumeyaay territory (San Diego, CA) with her husband and interracial family. Her favorite pronoun is We.

Yashasvi Vachhani is a poet, editor and facilitator. She facilitates creative writing and reading programmes for children across ages and a classroom is her favourite space. Her work can be found in the journal SWWIM Miami, an anthology of women's writing called Of Brave Hearts and Dry Tongues and Suspect by Singapore Unbound. She is an associate editor with The Bombay Literary Magazine. She can usually be found at the library down the street or with a cup of tea at her favourite café.