Spend the end of February sharing drinks and claps and loving our readers on the Poison Girl Patio. This month's debonair line-up features Patrick Stockwell, Raie Crawford, and Bruno Ríos.

Patrick Stockwell is an Inprint MD Anderson Foundation fellow and PhD candidate in fiction at the University of Houston. He holds an MFA from New Mexico State University and is the author of The Light Here Changes Everything, winner of the 2018 Clay Reynolds Novella Prize. 

Raie Crawford is a Wiley College Alumna from Houston, Texas. As the 2017-2018 Houston VIP Slam Champion and Houston Performance Poet of the Year, Raie is ranked within the top 20 among the Women of the World Poetry Slam (2014-2015/2017-2018) and top 25 within the rankings of the Individual World Poetry Slam (2017-2018).  Raie has performed as a poet within every corner of houston, as a guest speaker at several HBCUs around the country, and as the keynote speaker at the Women of Solidarity Conference in New York. She considers herself both an “artivist” and “trap music connoisseur”, ready to perform at a city near you. 

Bruno Ríos is a translator, multigenre writer, and educator from Sonora, México. He holds a PhD in Latin American literature from the University of Houston and teaches Spanish and Latin American Lit at The Emery/Weiner School. He is the author of three poetry books, most recently the revised second edition of Cueva de leones/Lion’s Den (2021), partially translated into English by Roberto Tejada, and a novel, La voz de las abejas (Sediento Ediciones, 2016). He is the founder and director of Books & Bikes: A Book Club on Two Wheels, organizing and leading rides through the city as well as promoting community building through literature and cycling.