RA Washington is a writer and musician living on Cleveland's West Side.  He co-founded Guide To Kulchur, a Cleveland bookshop doubling as a co-op workshop and event space, in 2013.  Guide to Kulchur incubates emerging and marginalized voices within the print medium, through projects including Cleveland Books 2 Prisoners, GTK Press and the Cleveland Zine Archive. RA is a 2014 recipient of The Community Partnership for Arts & Culture Creative Workforce Fellowship.