Amber DiPietra and Denise Leto

Amber DiPietra

Amber DiPietra is a disability advocate and peer counselor at the Independent Living Resource Center in San Francisco. She is also a poet and a somatic writing teacher.

Denise Leto

Denise Leto is a poet, writer and senior editor at University of California, Berkeley. Her poetry, reviews and essays have appeared or are forthcoming in a number of journals and anthologies. Leto was a fellow for University of Michigan’s Research and Practice Symposium on Movement, Somatics and Writing; a guest editor for Sinister Wisdom: A Journal for the Lesbian Imagination in the Arts and Politics; and is a past honorary fellow and artist in residence at Djerassi Resident Artist Program.