SIBLING RIVALRY PRESS
BRIDGES SERIES
MISSION
Sibling Rivalry Press is 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) iis a poet, essayist, cultural strategist, and A+ napper. Barrett 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, residencies at Baldwin for the Arts, and Millay Arts awarded by Lambda Literary. Their second book, More Than Organs (Sibling Rivalry Press, 2020) rreceived a 2021 Stonewall Honor Book Award by the American Library Association and was a Lambda Literary Award Finalist. They have featured at The United Nations, Lincoln Center, Hemispheric Institute, The Whitney, MoMA, Symphony Space, The Ford Foundation, Brooklyn Museum, Princeton, Columbia, Yale, Manchester PRIDE, Sesame Street, & more. For more info: kaybarrett.net & @Brownroundboi on social media.
BRIDGES SERIES #1:
ABOMINATION PINK by ZUGGIE TATE
Zuggie Tate (she/her) Black in the Middle: An Anthology of the Black Midwest, Wasteland Review, Exposed Bone, Shade Literary Arts, and Verum Literary Press. She is the recipient of the Margie’s Hope 2023 Living Heritage Award for her advocacy and poetry addressing Trans issues. Zuggie has been a fellow with Twelve Literary Arts, Assembly for the Arts, and The Watering Hole, and has participated in workshops hosted by Torch Literary Arts, Flash in the Pan!, and Deathrattle Literary. In 2023, she was voted Cleveland Scene’s No. 2 Poet and has performed at venues including the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland Public Theatre, and Heights Arts. She was also invited to serve as a panelist at Literary Cleveland’s 2024 Inkubator Conference. In 2025, she received the Cleveland Arts Prize Verge Fellowship, Literary Cleveland’s Amplify Fellowship, and was named a Lambda Literary Fellow. SRP is thrilled to welcome Zuggie to the Bridges Series with her chapbook, Abomination Pink.
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.
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 soon!
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 join the Bridges Series in 2026.