Ivanna Baranova is a poet and artist based in Los Angeles and the author of Confirmation Bias, selected as a finalist for the 2018 Metatron Prize. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Blush Lit, Cixous72, Jubilat, Newest York, Peace on Earth Review, and elsewhere. She is the Creative Communications Coordinator at The Poetry Project. [email]

Anney Bolgiano lives with her dog, Simon, in Washington, DC where she teaches first year writing at Howard University and George Washington University. Her poems, stories, and essays have appeared or are forthcoming in The Iowa Review, TriQuarterly, Nashville Review, DIAGRAM, The Rupture, Salamander, A Velvet Giant, The Figure One, Funny Looking Dog Quarterly, and elsewhere. Flat-Pack (New Michigan Press, 2022) is her first chapbook. 

Gayle Brandeis is the author, most recently, of the novel in poems, Many Restless Concerns (Black Lawrence Press) and the memoir The Art of Misdiagnosis (Beacon Press). Her collection Drawing Breath: Essays on Writing, the Body, and Grief will be published by Overcup Press February, 2023. She teaches at Antioch University and Sierra Nevada University. [email]

James Butler-Gruett's writing has appeared in Cardiff Review, Sonora Review, Entropy, and other places. [website]

Laura Carter lives in Atlanta. She has published several chapbooks since then, including three with Dancing Girl Press. She has also published numerous individual poems and reviews. Thanks for taking the time to read these. [email]

Kylie Gellatly is the author of The Fever Poems (Finishing Line Press, 2021). Her visual poems are recently published or forthcoming in Diode, Tupelo Quarterly, TAB Journal, Poetry.onl, Tele-, ctrl+v, and elsewhere. She is a Frances Perkins Scholar at Mount Holyoke College where she is Editor-in-Chief of Mount Holyoke Review. [website]

Alexandria Hall is the author of Field Music (Ecco, 2020). She is a founding editor of Tele- Magazine. She lives in Los Angeles. [email] [website]

Julia Heney lives in Chicago, Illinois. [website]

Elise Houcek's writing has appeared in NOMATERIALISM, New Delta Review, The Comstock Review, Prelude, Posit, Afternoon Visitor, Always Crashing, and elsewhere. She is the author of the poetic novel TRACTATUS (Spuyten Duyvil, 2022). Currently, she teaches filmmaking, writing, and multimedia. [website] [email]

Kij Johnson writes experimental and fantasy literature, and is a winner of the Hugo, the Nebula, and the World Fantasy Awards, and the Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire. She teaches creative writing for the University of Kansas, and a professional novel-writing workshop each summer.

Barbara Johnstone's poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in the New York Quarterly anthology, Without a Doubt; and in journals including Raven Chronicles, Hummingbird, Blue Heron Review, and Crosswinds. She is a former psychotherapist in Shoreline, WA who now works for trees under a thousand-year-old Doug fir who supervises her from Mt. Rainier. [email]

Jocelyn Li Sin Ting was born and is based in Hong Kong. Her poetry has appeared in Glass, Oxford Poetry, and PEN Hong Kong among others, and is forthcoming in Cicada. [website] [email]

Deirdre Lockwood is a poet and fiction writer based in Seattle. Her work has appeared in The Threepenny Review, The Yale Review, Poetry Northwest, Mud Season Review, 32 Poems and elsewhere. She's done lab and field research in the US, Thailand, Cambodia and the Pacific Ocean. [website] [twitter] [email]

Cameron Lovejoy is the editor at Tilted House, a small press in New Orleans, and hosts the Rubber Flower Poetry Hour, a monthly reading series in the same town. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Xavier Review, Poets Reading the News, Barrelhouse, and elsewhere. [email] [website]

Jesse Motte is an MFA candidate for fiction at the University of South Carolina. He is currently a reader for Witness, a fiction editor at Word West, and an assistant editor at Yemassee. He's been an interviewer and editorial assistant at CRAFT Literary and has been reading for magazines for over four years.

Steven Pfau is working on a collection of essays on uncles, nephews, and queer tutelage. His writing appears or is forthcoming in Hobart, Passages North, and The Shore. [email]

Nicholas Rombes is author of the novel The Absolution of Roberto Acestes Laing and director of the film The Removals (both by Two Dollar Radio). His work has appeared in The Believer, Oxford American, Electric Literature, and the Los Angeles Review of Books. He teaches at the University of Detroit Mercy in northwest Detroit, where he hosts the Creative Writing Collective. [twitter] [email]

Jamie Thomson is a poet from Northampton, MA. He currently lives in Easthampton, MA. His first chapbook, Possibilityism, was recently published by Factory Hollow Press.. [email]

Ames Varos is an artist and writer whose work appears in Gulf Coast Journal and New Delta Review, and is forthcoming in Cream City Review. [website] [instagram] [twitter]

G C Waldrep's most recent books are The Earliest Witnesses (Tupelo/Carcanet, 2021) and feast gently (Tupelo, 2018), winner of the William Carlos Williams Award from the Poetry Society of America.  Waldrep lives in Lewisburg, PA., where he teaches at Bucknell University. [email]