Jasmine Lee-Holt is a Twin Cities–based artist and educator dedicated to making literature and the arts more accessible and community-centered. Before joining Milkweed Editions, Jasmine received a Bachelor of Arts in Critical Media Studies and Studio Art from Pomona College. Drawing on their experiences growing up in fragmented environments and their love for the Midwest, Jasmine’s undergraduate research explored Korean traditional crafts using local flora—such as papermaking and natural dyeing—to better understand and nurture connection to people and place.

Kamra Heldman is a poet and educator from Minneapolis. Her experience in librarianship, academia, and publishing empowered her to cultivate a reverence for community. She is committed to learning about the human condition through art and is fascinated by work that explores relationships to the self, other people, and the natural world. Her writing centers around femininity, spirituality, social justice, and connection. She received her Masters in Poetry from the University of St Andrews and teaches creative writing in the Twin Cities.