SIBLING RIVALRY PRESS
BRIDGES SERIES
MISSION
Sibling Rivalry Press proud to present the Bridges Series, a chapbook series curated by a different poet each year. The Bridges Series is dedicated to showcasing poets whose work builds connections across lives, communities, and generations—and, at times, even across the boundary between life and death.
At its core, the Bridges Series honors poetry as an act of connection: a reaching toward another person, another truth, another way of surviving. These chapbooks recognize poetry’s capacity not only to link one life to another, but also—sometimes—to help carry a reader into their next day.
Our curator for 2026 is Kay Ulanday Barrett. Kay (they/them) is a poet, essayist, cultural strategist, and A+ napper. Kay is a 2024 Disabled Futures fellow awarded by The Ford Foundation, Mellon Foundation, and United States Artists. They are the winner of the 2022 Foundation for Contemporary Arts Cy Twombly Award for Poetry, a winner of the 2022 Next Book Residency with Tin House, a James Baldwin Fellowship at MacDowell, and residencies at Baldwin for the Arts and Millay Arts awarded by Lambda Literary. Their second book, More Than Organs (Sibling Rivalry Press, 2020) received a 2021 Stonewall Honor Book Award by the American Library Association and is a 2021 Lambda Literary Award Finalist. They have featured at The United Nations, The Lincoln Center, The Hemispheric Institute, The Whitney, The MoMA, Symphony Space, The Ford Foundation, Brooklyn Museum, Princeton, Columbia, Yale, Manchester PRIDE, Sesame Street, & more. Their contributions are found in The New York Times, Poetry, Colorlines, Literary Hub, The Advocate, Poetry Unbound, Split This Rock, Al Jazeera, NYLON, Vogue, The Rumpus, The Lily, and elsewhere. For more info: kaybarrett.net & @Brownroundboi on social media.
BRIDGES SERIES #1:
ABOMINATION PINK by ZUGGIE TATE
Zuggie Tate (she/her) is a poet and spoken word artist from Cleveland, Ohio, whose work rises from her intersectional identity as a Black, Trans, larger-bodied, poverty-born woman living with invisible disabilities. Rooted in celebration, affirmation, and truth-telling, her poems center Black Trans women while inviting audiences toward empathy, re-education, and acceptance. Her work appears in Black Midwest Anthology, Wasteland Review, Exposed Bone Lit Mag, Shade Literary Arts, and Verum Literary Press. A recipient of Margie Hope’s 2023 Living Heritage Award, Zuggie is a fellow of Twelve Literary Arts, Assembly of the Arts, Lambda Literary, and The Watering Hole, and has been honored with the Cleveland Arts Prize’s Verge Fellowship (2025) and Literary Cleveland’s Amplify Fellowship (2025). SRP is thrilled to welcome Zuggie to the Bridges Series with her chapbook, Abomination Pink, in June 2026.
BRIDGES SERIES #2:
PAPER DOLLS by KAITLIN HSU
Kaitlin Hsu 徐欣 (she/她) is a 2025 Lambda Literary Fellow and 2024 Margins Fellow at the Asian American Writers’ Workshop. Her work can be found in or is forthcoming from A Public Space, Poet Lore, Peach Mag, and more. She has also received support from Brooklyn Poets, Tin House, the Mendocino Coast Writers Conference, and genARTS Silicon Valley. She currently works at Kaya Press as an associate editor and freelances as a crossword constructor. Find her on Instagram as @kaitlinhsu or on X as @hsuperemo. Look for her chapbook, Paper Dolls, in September 2026.
BRIDGES SERIES #3:
OUT OF YEARNING by CAI SHERLEY
Cai Sherley (he/him) is a black trans poet, teaching artist, and archivist with roots in Boston, Massachusetts. He received his undergraduate degree from Smith College, where he helped establish the Weaving Voices Archives, documenting the history of student activism on campus. Upon graduation, he was the recipient of both the Ida B. Wells Prize for Distinguished Work in Africana Studies and the Emily Babcock Poetry Prize. Cai is a two-time Pushcart Prize nominee and has an MFA in Creative Writing from NYU. He is also an alum of The Watering Hole, a 2023 Brooklyn Poets Summer Fellow, and a 2025 Tin House Scholar and Lambda Emerging Writers Fellow. Cai is passionate about writing Black trans-masculine lives past & present in Amerikka, calling on a lineage of becoming. He now lives in Chicago, where he serves as a Poet in Residence at the Chicago Poetry Center, and is an active member of the Crossroads Writers Collective for Black Queer writers. Look for Cai's chapbook, Out of Yearning, in October 2026.
BRIDGES SERIES #4:
WHOEVER WE MAY BECOME by JIMEMA LUCERO
Jimena Lucero (she/her) is a writer, actor, & cultural worker from New York City. Jimena was a 2019-2020 Emerge-Surface-Be fellow at the Poetry Project. Her writing appears in Zoeglossia, The Recluse, Entropy, and elsewhere. Her short film Silver Femme won the Barbara Hammer Feminist Film Award at the Ann Arbor Film Festival. Silver Femme has screened at Outfest Fusion, Inside Out, the Museum of Modern Art, and more. Her chapbook, Whoever We May Become, will be published in November 2026.