CHANCELIER “XERO” SKIDMORE is an Executive Director with a trained teaching-artist, facilitator, curriculum writer, and youth worker core. All that started with a love for art and performance. Xero has worked extensively in the community with organizations including City at Peace (now known as The Possibility Project), Big Buddy Program’s WordPlay Teaching Writing Project, and Forward Arts. As a spoken word artist, Chancelier has been ranked twice among the top five slam poets in the United States and in October of 2013 he ranked 1st at the Individual World Poetry Slam Festival. You can find his work published in the anthology, Spoken Word Revolution Redux by Sourcebooks mediaFusion, the Spring 2010 volume of the New Delta Review by LSU Press, and a collection of his work on Next Left Press entitled upBEAT DOWNbeat.