Gay Guard-Chamberlin is a Chicago poet and artist living in the redolent Devon Ave. neighborhood. Her first book of 36 poems, Red Thread Through a Rusty Needle, was released by New Wind Publishing. Gay has a Masters in Interdisciplinary Arts from Columbia College, Chicago. She has also studied and taught an array of topics, from collage and papermaking to women’s self-defense and InterPlay.

As often as possible, she and her sister in California, Anara Guard, perform their poetry together as Sibling Revelry; in April of this year they co-taught a workshop in Collaborative Poetry online for the Chicago Public Library’s celebration of Poetry Month. Gay also edits manuscripts, teaches creativity to adults, and poetry to young writers.