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Tommy Pico
Tommy “Teebs” Pico is founder and editor in chief of birdsong, an antiracist/queer-positive collective, small press, and zine for art and writing. He is the author of the absentMINDR chapbook APP, was a Queer/Art/Mentors inaugural fellow, and a Lambda Literary fellow, and has poems in BOMB, Guernica, and [PANK]. Originally from the Viejas Indian reservation, he now lives in Brooklyn.
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