The 826 Quarterly, Volume 28 - Softcover

826 Valencia, based in San Francisco, is a nonprofit organization dedicated to supporting under-resourced students ages six to eighteen with their creative and expository writing skills and to helping teachers inspire their students to write. Our services are structured around the understanding that great leaps in learning can happen with one-on-one attention and that strong writing skills are fundamental to future success.

Vickie Vértiz, a graduate of Williams College, UT Austin, and UC Riverside, is a writer from Bell Gardens. The oldest child of an immigrant Mexican family, Vértiz’s writing is featured in the New York Times magazine, the Los Angeles Review of Books, and the San Francisco Chronicle, among many others. Her book Palm Frond with Its Throat Cut won the 2018 PEN America literary prize in poetry. Vértiz is a former fellow of the Mellon Minority Undergraduate Fellowship, the Macondo Foundation, and earned numerous other scholarships. She has given lectures and readings in France, Japan, Mexico, and throughout the United States. Vickie teaches writing at UC Santa Barbara. To keep up with her work, follow her on IG @vickievertiz.

Sonja Kari is an illustrator based out of sunny Oakland, California. She graduated from the California College of the Arts in 2011 and has been drawing, painting, reading and writing ever since.