CWC   Chicago Writers Collective

             

Who We Are
Marlon Billups, President
Chicago performance poet Marlon Billups is the co-founder and host of Third Floor Poets and has been featured at the Chicago Cultural Center. Marlon’s poetry has braced the audiences at the DuSable Museum, Chicago State University, Guild Complex, and Afrika West to name a few. His work has been published in the Eagle, Role Call: A Generational Anthology of Social and Political Black Literature and Art and Egg: A Literary Journal.
Katríel, Vice President
Katriél is a writer living on the south side of Chicago. Her first published collection of poetry, Promised Land: Poems from the Journey, ranged from social commentary to narrative. Her second collection, Night Fall, consists of short stories and poems in the Horror genre.