Meet the Creator of Songs of Ourselves
Sage Mitchell (he/they) is a queer, transgender writer living in Ann Arbor, Michigan. They graduated from Eastern Michigan University with a degree in Literature, Language, and Writing for Secondary Education. Sage has been using writing as a reflective tool since elementary school and particularly enjoys journaling and poetry. To read some of Sage's writing click here.
Sage is available to teach workshops, facilitate conversations, and consult on different writing projects connected to the following topics:
Sage is available to teach workshops, facilitate conversations, and consult on different writing projects connected to the following topics:
- Identity exploration through writing
- Gender development and the gender journey
- Healing writing for LGBTQIA+ people
- Place-based education and writing
Guest Instructors
Remy Emerson Lee (they/them) is a queer, non-binary, transgender Asian-American writer and artist living in Grand Rapids, MI. They were educated at Hope College in the liberal arts of CRW and Philosophy. Among other things, Remy is an advocate of living at your own pace and speaking your heart to find words warmly embraced. They find writing to be for themself a tool towards self-discovery, growth, and connection, in addition to being an end in its own right, as both practice and motion. Remy’s focus is on sharing tools and practices for both writing and daily life that are tailored towards a neuro-divergent, non-binary QTBIPOC+ population. They love dogs and children, and enjoy clean modern coffee shops, fresh-pressed books, and afternoons throwing clay in the studio. “Anyone can drop in, and we are always becoming.”
Caffeyne luv (they/them) is your neighborhood genderfluid #unfriendlyblackhottie bringing their Southern Californian Afro-Latinx attitude to the Midwest. Their favorite pastimes include long walks on the beach, sipping tequila, dismantling the patriarchy and decolonizing beauty standards. Their work focuses on black and brown liberation and body politik, with an emphasis in understanding and unlearning the ways that BIPOC bodies navigate Yt Colonial spaces and structures through movement in every form. With a firm belief that the personal is political, their creations explore the self, and dream of a future of black joy, imagination, love, rest, and a shift in consciousness that allow us to exist outside of survival and scarcity, and into abundance and truth.
J. C. “Jace” Meyer-Crosby (he/they) is a writer and theatre professional based in Portland, OR and Rochester, NY before that. Past poetry publications include university literary magazines ‘The Peregrine Review’ and ‘The Beacon.’ Meyer-Crosby has had several original plays produced and workshopped over the years, notably ‘Positive,’ ‘Sharks,’ ‘The Tinker’s Bell,’ and a stunning adaptation of ‘Faust’ that unites both the Marlowe and Goethe source materials. He is also a published writer of queer erotica and an Intimacy Director for the stage, uniting his passions and aptitudes for both consent culture and storytelling excellence. He identifies as a white, queer, disabled, nonbinary man who loves coffee, pears, and video games.
