Unchaste Variety Show, April 15th, 2021, 6 p.m. Mountain Time

Sarah Pincock (they/them) is an artist making comics that reimagine history with genderqueer and fabulist interpretations of medieval iconography and storytelling. You can find some of their comics in Anomalyand FORGEand you can follow their work @artmuseum.edu_,subscribe to their monthly by-mail comic newsletterMagic Leafon patreon, or find their art shop at artmuseum.education. They are also co-editor for Oroboro Lit Mag, and board member and head of design and marketing at Death Rattle Writers Festival.

Alyssa Graybeal is a writer/cartoonist in Astoria, Oregon who writes and draws about living with chronic illness. Her first book, Floppy: Tales of a Genetic Freak of Nature at the End of the World, won the 2020 Red Hen Press Nonfiction Book Award and will be out Spring 2023. You can also find her slice-of-life comics on Instagram at @floppyqueerdo. 

Tawnysha Greene received her PhD from the University of Tennessee where she served as the fiction editor for Grist: The Journal for Writers. Her work has appeared in PANK, Bellingham Review, and Weave Magazine. Her first novel, A House Made of Stars, was released from Burlesque Press in 2015.

Author Tara Galeano has worked with women for over two decades to get their sexy back.

Shayla Lawson is the author of This Is Major: Notes on Diana Ross, Dark Girls, and Being Dope (Harper Perennial, 2020) and three poetry collections: I Think I'm Ready To See Frank Ocean,A Speed Education in Human Beingand PANTONE. She is a regular columnist at Bustlemagazineand has written for ESPN, Guernica, Vulture, New York,and The Cut. Shayla is a MacDowell and Yaddo Artist Colony Fellow and a 2020 National Book Critics Circle Finalist. She has also recently appeared on OPBwith Tiffany Camhi, NPR’s Live Wire Radiobroadcast, The Special Reportwith Areva Martin, Salon Talkswith D. Watkins, The True RomancePodcast, at The Center for Fictionwith 2 Dope Queens’ Phoebe Robinson, Storyboundby LitHub, at The Strandwith Ashley C. Ford, Memoir Monday, and the Tanz Im August Art Festivalin Berlin, Germany. She is a regular columnist at Bustlemagazineand has written for ESPN, Guernica, Vulture, New York,and The Cut. Shayla is a MacDowell and Yaddo Artist Colony Fellow and a 2020 National Book Critics Circle Finalist. 

Elisa Sinnett is an immigrant to the middle class and was dismayed to discover shortly after her arrival that it was being dismantled. She enjoys life on her severely curtailed teacher’s salary, and is a member of the American Federation of Teachers. She lives in Windsor, Ontario with her family across the river from her original hometown of Detroit, MI. She admires writers, peacemakers, Dreamers, activists and fellow teachers who are hanging in there for public education.  She works on her writing with author Ariel Gore and the Literary Kitchen. Selections of her book Detroit Fairy Tales have been published in and/or recognized by YesYes Books, Hipmamazine, Mutha Magazine, The Woven Tale Press, Penduline Press, Glimmer Train, Stealing Time Magazine and Friends Journal. Detroit Fairy Tales is her first book publication

Angela Braxton-Johnson published her first stoetry book (poetic storytelling) in a series called, Who’s Watchin’ Me?: Season One, which can be purchased on her website at angelabraxtonjohnson.com. This book explores black girlhood, black culture, childhood abuse & trauma and a closer look at the intersections of growing up in a marginalized body; black, female and fat. She is also published in Unchaste Anthologies, 2nd & 3rd volumes. A new collection of poems about Blackness, recovery, pandemic, as well as body, mind & spirit liberation, is forthcoming in the Spring of 2021, called Black Fury; Fierce Recovery. Angela brings her experience of being an educator, social worker, woman of faith and poetess to her current Body Trust practice in hopes of Poetically Inspiring Change.

During our Quarantine time, Lacy curates the BOOKLOVER'S BURLESQUE: Bedtime Stories Series on YouTube, bringing international  burlesque, drag, theatre, and literary arts communities together to bring joy, pleasure, and empowerment for our audience during this time. They have also virtually produced numerous shows during this last year, including BOOKLOVER’S BURLESQUE: Cozy Classics & BOOKLOVER'S BURLESQUE: Once Upon a Tease. Their next virtual production, BOOKLOVER'S BURLESQUE: To Tease Or Not To Tease (Shakespeare Edition), will livestream on Saturday, May 22nd at 7pm PST on Crowdcast. Bringing vintage class and naughty sass is the international award-winning Bookish Babe of Burlesque from Portland, Oregon...Lacy Knickers! Lacy performs all over the United States and around the world, appearing in both the 2016 and 2019 Oregon Burlesque Festival, the 2017 Hollywood Burlesque Festival, the 2019 Bohemian Burlesque Festival in Prague, the virtual 2020 Glasgow Festival of Burlesque, the December 2018 Wunder Kabarett in Paris, and the virtual 2021 That's Amore Burlesque Festival in Rome where she earned the "Best Mimics/Facial Expressions" Award. Lacy also won Best Overall and Master of Bump & Grind in the 2020 BurlyPicks Croatia competition.  They perform genderbending draglesque as the debonair drag king/draglesque persona, Nick Lacy, as well. Along with performing, Lacy is the producer, artistic director, and writer of the world's sexiest literary salon, Booklover’s Burlesque, as well as other Lacy Productions' such as MasterTease Theatre Burlesque, Burly Night Live: A Tribute to Saturday Night Live, Tease As Old As Time: A Tale Inspired by Beauty & the Beast, The Burlesque Over Broadway Spectacular, Glitter Fever: A Burlesque Tribute to Disco, Phantom Burlesque: A Tribute to Phantom of the Opera, Storylesque: A Storytelling & Burlesque Medley, Cabaret des Arts: A Fusion of Visual Arts & Burlesque, The Bitch is Back: A Burlesque Tribute to Elton John,  A Burly Carol: A Tale Inspired by A Christmas Carol, and CinemaLesque: A Tribute to Classic Hollywood. They have co-produced the entertainment for Magical Beats: A 1920's Evening in the Wizarding World & The Enchanted Forest Ball for the Time Traveler's Costume Guild and created the pre-show for the Experience Theatre Project's "The Rise of Houdini" and "The Witching Hour."  During our Quarantine time, Lacy curates the BOOKLOVER'S BURLESQUE: Bedtime Stories Series on YouTube page and at  www.bookloversburlesque.com website, bringing international  burlesque, drag, theatre, and literary arts communities together to bring joy, pleasure, and empowerment for our audience during this time.  They also directed and curated the virtual artist salon Le Chat Noir Moderne with the Experience Theatre Project in Oregon as well as co-produced the virtual shows THROUGH THE AETHER: A Virtual Vaudevillian Cabaret and the RHINESTONE THE VOTE fundraising Weekender. They have also virtually produced BOOKLOVER’S BURLESQUE: Cozy Classics & BOOKLOVER'S BURLESQUE: Once Upon a Tease. Their next virtual production, BOOKLOVER'S BURLESQUE: To Tease Or Not To Tease (Shakespeare Edition), will livestream on Saturday, May 22nd at 7pm PST on Crowdcast. Find Lacy Knickers on Facebook at Booklover's Burlesque and Lacy Productions and follow Lacy Knickers/Nick Lacy on Instagram at @lacyknickers123

Rowena Alegría is Chief Storyteller for the City & County of Denver, founder and director of the city’s first Office of Storytelling and the citywide storytelling project I Am Denver. She is a 2019 Jack Jones Literary Arts Fellow, a 2019 Vermont Studio Center Fellow and a 2018 Writing by Writers Fellow. She earned an MFA in Fiction from the Institute of American Indian Arts. A career journalist, communications executive and speech writer, she is writing a novel that plays with form and the history of the Southwest.