2025 Poets and Presenters

NOPF co-founder Bill Lavender is a poet, novelist, musician, carpenter and publisher living in New Orleans. My ID, his eleventh book of poetry, was published by BlazeVOX in October, 2019. His novel trilogy, Three Letters, (comprised of Q, Little A, and The Private I) was released in 2021 by Spuyten Duyvil. His verse memoir, Memory Wing, called by Rodger Kamentetz "a contemporary autobiographical masterpiece," was published by Black Widow in 2011. A chapbook, surrealism, was published in 2016 and translated into Spanish by Enrique Solinas and Peter Thompson; the bilingual edition was released by Yauguru in Uruguay as surrealismo in 2017. Essays, fiction, poem-like objects and other ephemera appear regularly in Xavier Review, Fell Swoop, Southern Review, Jacket2 and other such print and online journals. 

He founded Lavender Ink, a small press devoted mainly to poetry, in 1995, and he founded Diálogos, an imprint devoted to cross-cultural literatures (mostly in translation) in 2011. Lavender Ink/Diálogos now has more than 200 books in print.

Read an interview with Bill about his poetics and about the press at Jacket2, or visit his Amazon author page.

He is the co-founder, with Megan Burns of Trembling Pillow Press, of the New Orleans Poetry Festival (i.e. this).

Skye Jackson was born in New Orleans, Louisiana. She is a graduate of the UNO Creative Writing Workshop. Her work has appeared in RHINO, The Southern Review, Palette Poetry, RATTLE and elsewhere. Her poetry has been a finalist for the Iowa Review Poetry Award, the RATTLE Poetry Prize, the RHINO Founders' Prize, and in 2021 she received the AWP Intro Journals Award. Jackson’s work was also selected by Billy Collins for inclusion in the Library of Congress Poetry 180 Project.  She has received support for her work from The Frost Place, The Key West Literary Seminar & Cave Canem. This summer, she will serve as Writer-in-Residence of the Jack Kerouac House. In 2024, she was appointed as the Chairwoman of the New Orleans Poetry Festival Board. Her debut poetry collection, Libre, has recently been published with Regalo Press and distributed by Simon & Schuster. She currently teaches at Xavier University. 

A poet, writer, and researcher, Benjamin Morris is the author of Hattiesburg, Mississippi: A History of the Hub City (Arcadia/History Press, 2014), and three collections of poetry, most recently The Singing River (Belle Point Press, 2025). He holds an MSc in English Literature and Creative Writing from the University of Edinburgh, and among other honors has received a Pushcart nomination, the Academy of American Poets Prize from Duke University, and the Chancellor’s Medal for Poetry from the University of Cambridge, where he earned his Ph.D. The recipient of academic and creative fellowships from the Mississippi Arts Commission and Tulane University, his writing appears regularly in the United States and Europe.

Sean F. Munro is a poet, filmmaker, Associate Professor of English, Associate Editor for Lavender Ink / Diálogos, & Executive Director of the New Orleans Poetry Festival. Sean also co-curates The Splice Poetry Series and manages LitWire: the literary events calendar of New Orleans. Recent or forthcoming poetry, criticism, and translation can be found in Annulet Poetics Journal, Antiphony, and The Texas Review. Performances and older publications can be experienced at seanfmunro.com

Jonathan Penton founded the electronic journal Unlikely Stories in 1998, and continues to run it as editor-in-chief. He serves and has served in an editorial, management, or technical role for numerous arts organizations, including Big Bridge and MadHat, Inc. He now serves as Technical Director for the New Orleans Poetry Festival and Rigorous: a journal by people of color. He has organized literary performances, and performed himself, across the United States. His own books of poems are BACKSTORIES (Argotist Ebooks), Standards of Sadiddy (Lit Fest Press), Painting Rust and Blood and Salsa (Unlikely Books), and Last Chap (Vergin’ Press). He lives in New Orleans.

Henry Goldkamp (he/they) is an interdisciplinary poet who enjoys clowning boundaries of language, visual art, and sensory performance. He lives in New Orleans, where he hosts the monthly poetry series Splice, acts as intermedia editor of TILT for Tilted House, and teaches experimental poetics and clown studies at Louisiana State University. His debut collection, Joy Buzzer, is forthcoming from Ricochet Editions in September 2025. Recent art, criticism, and performance appear in Chicago Review, Annulet, VOLT,  Poetry Northwest, Accelerants: An Action Books Poetry Film Series, Triquarterly, Afternoon Visitor, Hot Pink, and DIAGRAM, among others. He wishes dunce caps would make a comeback, stat.

Lisa Pasold is originally from Tiohtià:ke/Montréal and has published 6 books. Her 2012 book, Any Bright Horse, was nominated for Canada’s Governor General’s Award for Poetry. She has been writing daily poems for two decades; the resulting work has appeared in magazines such as Fence, Room, and New American Writing. Lisa has taught Creative Writing at the American University in Paris and has worked as a journalist for publications such as The Chicago Tribune and Billboard Magazine; her favorite cocktail is the French75. www.lisapasold.com

Gabrielle Octavia Rucker is a writer, editor and teaching artist from the Great Lakes currently living in the Gulf Coast. She is a 2020 Poetry Project Fellow, a 2016 Kimbilio Fiction Fellow, and the founder of the The Seminary of Ecstatic Poetics, a non-traditional learning space for the poetically minded. Her debut poetry collection, Dereliction, is currently available via The Song Cave.

Stefene Russell is a recent New Orleans transplant by way of St. Louis and is currently pursuing her MFA in poetry at the University of New Orleans. She was the 2018 Laumeier Sculpture Park poet-in-residence and is the author of 47 Incantatory Essays (Spartan Press, 2019), The Possum Codex (Otis Nebula, 2015) and Inferna (Intagliata Press, 2013). 

Rodrigo Toscano is a poet and essayist based in New Orleans. He is the author of eleven books of poetry. His latest two books are The Cut Point (Counterpath, 2023), The Charm & The Dread (Fence Books, 2022). His previous books include In Range, Explosion Rocks Springfield, Deck of Deeds, Collapsible Poetics Theater (a National Poetry Series selection), To Leveling Swerve, Platform, Partisans, andThe Disparities. His poetry has appeared in over 20 anthologies, including Best American Poetry and Best American Experimental Poetry (BAX).  Toscano has received a New York State Fellowship in Poetry. He won the Edwin Markham 2019 prize for poetry. He works for the Labor Institute in conjunction with the United Steelworkers, the National Institute for Environmental Health Science, National Day Laborers Organizing Network educational / training projects that involve environmental and labor justice culture transformation. rodrigotoscano.com

Nam Hoang Tran is a multidisciplinary artist living in New Orleans. His work appears in Posit, The Brooklyn Review, ANMLY, New Delta Review, Tagvverk, Always Crashing, and Diode, among others. W/ Henry Goldkamp, he co-edits TILT – a journal of intermedia poetics.

Born & raised in New Orleans, Bernardo Wade tries at poems, catches elbows on the court, & rides his bike around Bloomington, IN, because IU funds his present period of studying with others. He currently serves as Editor & CNF Editor of Indiana Review. Though he’s published in a bunch of literary journals no one in his family has ever heard of, they remain proud of him, especially when they are featured in the poems. He's infatuated with Ed Roberson's question, "Can you O.D. on life?" Check out his website: bernardowade.com

Rachel Zavecz is a book artist, writer, and co-editor of the small press Carrion Bloom Books. Her book, The Book is a Tower Always Never Watching, is available from Cloak, and her writing has appeared in DREGINALD, Always Crashing, Fatal Flaw, DIAGRAM, Fairy Tale Review, and elsewhere. She teaches at Loyola University New Orleans. 

V. Joshua Adams is the author of Past Lives: Poems (JackLeg Press, 2024), and Skepticism and Impersonality in Modern Poetry (Bloomsbury, 2025). A poet, translator, and critic, he teaches at the University of Louisville. 

Jeff Alessandrelli is a writer and editor based in Portland, OR. He is the Publisher of the non-profit press/record label Fonograf Editions. 

Nadia Alexis is a poet, writer, and photographer born and raised in Harlem, New York City to Haitian immigrants. She is the debut author of Beyond the Watershed (CavanKerry Press, March 2025), a full-length collection of poetry and photography, that was also a finalist for the 2022 Ghost Peach Press Prize.

Her writing and photography have been published widely. A Pushcart Prize nominated poet, she has received several awards and honors including a 2025 Literary Arts Fellowship and a 2024 Artist Mini-Grant from the Mississippi Arts Commission, a 2024 Mississippi STAR Teacher Award, a 2024 Vance Fellowship from the Natchez Literary and Cinema Celebration, the 2023 Poet of the Year Honoree of the Haitian Creatives Digital Awards, a semifinalist position in the 2020 92Y Discovery Poetry Contest, a nomination for the 2020 Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters photography award, and an honorable mention prize in the 2019 Hurston/Wright College Writers Award for poetry.

Nadia's photography has been exhibited in several shows in the U.S., Cuba, and virtually.  A fellow and participant of the Callaloo Creative Writing Workshop, The Watering Hole, and the Poets & Writers Get the Word Out Publicity Incubator, she holds a PhD and an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Mississippi. She currently resides in Southwest Mississippi, where she teaches creative writing.

Alexis Almeida grew up in Chicago. She is the author of the chapbooks I Have Never Been Able to Sing (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2018), and Things I Have Made a Fiction (Oversound, 2023), and most recently the translator of Roberta Iannamico's Many Poems, which is just out from The Song Cave. Her first full-length collection, Caetano, is forthcoming in 2026. She teaches at the Bard Microcollege at the Brooklyn Public Library and edits 18 Owls Press. 

Emily Barton Altman is the author of two chapbooks, "Bathymetry" (Present Tense Pamphlets, 2016), and "Alice Hangs Her Map" (dancing girl press, 2019). Recent poems are appearing or forthcoming in Bone Bouquet, Gigantic Sequins, The Iowa Review Online, and elsewhere. She is a recipient of a Poets & Writers Amy Award and received her MFA from New York University. She is currently pursuing a PhD in English and Creative Writing at the University of Denver where she is a conversations editor for Denver Quarterly.

Toby Altman is the author of Jewel Box (Essay Press, 2025), Discipline Park (Wendy’s Subway, 2023), and Arcadia, Indiana (Plays Inverse, 2017). He has held fellowships from the Graham Foundation for Advanced Study in the Fine Arts, MacDowell, and the National Endowment for the Arts, where he was a 2021 Poetry Fellow. He teaches at Michigan State University, where he is Assistant Professor in the Residential College in the Arts and Humanities (RCAH) and Director of the RCAH Center for Poetry. 

Stephanie Anderson (she/they) is the author of several books and chapbooks, including If You Love Error So Love Zero (Trembling Pillow Press) and Bearings (DIAGRAM/New Michigan Press). She is the editor of Women in Independent Publishing and the co-editor of All This Thinking: The Correspondence of Bernadette Mayer and Clark Coolidge (both from University of New Mexico Press). Recent work has appeared in Gulf Coast, Fence Steaming, Post45, Textual Practice, and elsewhere. She lives and works in Suzhou, China.

Zachary Anderson holds an MFA from the University of Notre Dame and a PhD from the University of Georgia, where he served as a graduate editor for The Georgia Review. His book reviews and critical writings can be found in Harvard Review, Kenyon Review, and the Action Books blog, and his poems have recently appeared in Annulet, New Delta Review, and Denver Quarterly.

Brian Ang wrote The Totality Cantos (Atelos 2022). totalitycantos.net includes the complete text and a generator that randomizes assemblages of its one thousand sections. Current poetic project: A Thousand Albums, open to the totality of music.

Rob Arnold is a CHamoru poet, essayist, and arts leader whose work has appeared in Ploughshares, Gettysburg Review, Poetry Northwest, RED INK, The Volta, and Solstice, among others, and has been anthologized in New CHamoru Literature and Na'huyong: An Anthology of CHamoru Literature. He lives in Brooklyn, NY, where he serves as Executive Director of Poets House.

Dara Wier's newest books are Extremely Expensive Mystical Experiences for Astronauts, 2024 from Conduit Books and Tolstoy Killed Anna Karenina, 2022 from Wave Books. New poems in ITINERANT and INCESSANT PIPE.  Her book length Reverse Rapture won the Poetry Center's book of the year award. You Good Thing is a Believer's Readers Choice; Lannan, Guggenheim and National Endowment for the Arts fellowships have supported her work. She lives in North Amherst, Massachusetts where she edits and publishes factory hollow press. Born in New Orleans, raised in Plaquemines Parish, attended high school in Baton Rouge and attended Louisiana State University.

Leslie Bary teaches Latin American literature at UL Lafayette. She writes on modern poetry, among other literary topics. She is a translator of Oswald de Andrade and other Brazilian modernist poets, of Cuban fiction writer Mirta Yáñez, and of two Peruvian poets, Pedro Granados and César Moro. Moro's The Equestrian Turtle and Other Poems is due April 15, 2025 from Cardboard House Press.

Aileen Bassis is a visual artist and poet in NYC with a practice in book arts, printmaking, photography and installation. She began exploring the craft of poetry after she retired from teaching elementary school art. She’s the author of two chapbooks, “The Other Side of the Mirror” (Unlikely Books)  and “Advice for Travelers and other poems” (Black Sunflowers Press). Her journal publications include B o d y Literature, Spillway, Grey Sparrow Journal, Canary, The Pinch and Prelude. Her artist books are in many public collections including libraries at Yale, RISD, Swarthmore and Wellesley. She was awarded two poetry residencies to the Atlantic Center for the Arts and a grant in Literature from NY State Council on the Arts. 

Grace Bauer has published six books of poems--most recently, Unholy Heart: New & Selected Poems (Backwaters Press). She also co-edited (with Julie Kane) the anthologies Nasty Women Poets: An Unapologetic Anthology of Subversive Verse and Umpteen Ways of Looking at a Possum: Critical & Creative Responses to Everette Maddox. Grace was active in the New Orleans poetry community in the late 70s and early 80s. She then taught in the Creative Writing Program at the University of Nebraska for more than 25 years. She now lives and writes in Philadelphia.

Maxime Berclaz is a Graduate Editor at the Georgia Review and a PhD Student in Creative Writing at UGA, where he writes poetry and thinks about horror, particularly its utopian aspects. He has published poems in Burning House, Prelude, and Deluge, and reviews in Pank and Tarpaulin Sky.

Anselm Berrigan is a poet, editor, and teacher. His most recent book of poems is Don't Forget to Love Me, published by Wave Books in fall 2024. He is the current Bagley-Wright lecturer, author of ten books of poetry, and co-editor of several volumes of writing by his father Ted Berrigan. He was poetry editor for the Brooklyn Rail from 2008-2024, and Artistic Director of The Poetry Project at St. Mark's Church from 2003-2007.

XANDER BILYK (he/she/they/them/whatchamacallit/candy bar/water/muppet) is a composer of poetry, fiction, music, and stand up comedy. He is currently pursuing an MFA degree in Creative Writing at Hamline University in St. Paul, MN. She previously lived in New Orleans where they produced events showcases queer and POC comedians and poets, The XX Comedy Show, and Queermedy, and was voted top five local queer performers in New Orleans Flame Magazine (he lost to Big Freedia.) Xander is published in Unlikely Stories, Mad Hat Lit, Haute Dish. 

David Blair is the author of five books of poetry. His most recent collections are True Figures: Selected Shorter Poems and Prose Poems (2022) and Barbarian Seasons (2020), both from MadHat Press. He is Lecturer in Poetry and teaches in the MFA Writing Program at the University of New Hampshire. He lives just outside of Boston in Somerville, Massachusetts, with his wife and daughter. 

Marina Blitshteyn is the author of 2 poetry collections, 'Two Hunters' (Argos Books, 2019), and 'i take your voice' (Switchback Books, 2022), winner of The Gatewood Prize. Prior chapbooks include 'Russian for Lovers' (Argos Books), 'Nothing Personal' (Bone Bouquet Books), '$kill$' (dancing girl press), and 'Sheet Music' (Sunnyoutside Press). More chapbooks are forthcoming with Ghost Proposal and Bunny Presse, from Fonograf Editions. She is working on a novel about motherhood and grief.

Emily Bludworth de Barrios is the author of Rich Wife (University of Wisconsin 2025),  recipient of the Four Lakes Prize, as well as Shopping or The End of Time (University of Wisconsin 2022), which received the Felix Pollak Prize. Her poems have recently appeared in publications such as Harvard Review, Copper Nickel, The Poetry Review, and Oxford Poetry. She received her MFA from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and also holds degrees from Goldsmiths College and The College of William & Mary. She was raised in Houston, Cairo, and Caracas, and now lives in Houston, Texas and Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia.

David Boeving (they, them) is a writer, a teacher, and a psychotherapist. David has earned an MA in Creative Writing, and an MSW in clinical social work. David has published poetry, photography, and pedagogy. David teaches Creative Writing at Eastern Michigan University, tutors writing in the Huron Valley Women’s Correctional Facility; and produces wellness-focused writing content through YpsiWrites Write for Wellness initiative. David lives in Ypsilanti, Michigan with their partner, their cats, and their dog. You can find a longer bio here.

Samantha Bounkeua is a queer performer-composer-producer and founder of Rogue Violin Studios, a remote string-driven production company dedicated to supporting creatives in elevating the emotional impact of their storytelling.  A recent recipient of the California Arts Council Emerging Individual Artist Fellowship for 2023, she specializes in cross-media collaborations that amplify queer/femme voices that often explore themes of vulnerability and mental-health. A graduate of Oberlin Conservatory, Samantha participated in the Re-Presence Artist Residency at Stanford University (2022) and has performed internationally at the Britten-Pears New Music Festival, Festival de Opera San Luis, Tuscia Opera Festival and more. Her work has featured in the International Meg Quigley Vivaldi Symposium, Kerala Short Film Festival, Breaking Ground Contemporary Dance Festival, among others (www.rogueviolin.com).

Ellen Boyette is a poet and essayist whose work is interested in the occult, the internet, and how to occupy oneself as an object. She received her MFA in Poetry from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. Her first book of poetry, BEDIEVAL, was a finalist at Slope Editions, CSU Press, and Inside the Castle.  Her work appears in poets.org, Poetry Daily, The Columbia Review, Denver Quarterly, Bennington Review, New Delta Review, and elsewhere.​ She has two chapbooks, NITROUS OR MY VELVET KNIFE (2024) and CUFFING SEASON (2023). She is now dipping her toe into the realm of translation and hybrid prose. 

Traci Brimhall is a professor of creative writing and narrative medicine at Kansas State University. She is the author of five collections of poetry, including Love Prodigal (published November 2024 by Copper Canyon). Her poems have appeared in publications such as The New Yorker, The Nation, The New Republic, Poetry, The New York Times Magazine, and Best American Poetry. She’s received fellowships from National Endowment for the Arts, the National Parks Service, the Academy of American Poets, and Purdue Library’s Special Collections to study the lost poem drafts of Amelia Earhart. She’s the current poet laureate for the State of Kansas.

Jace Brittain is the author of the novel Sorcererer (Schism) and a founding editor of Carrion Bloom Books. Their writing, poetry, and translations have appeared in or are forthcoming from Puerto del Sol, ANMLY, Annulet, Propagule, Grotto Journal, and elsewhere.

Matt Broaddus is the author of Deeper the Tropics (BUNNY, 2024) and Temporal Anomalies (Ricochet Editions, 2023). His poetry has appeared in American Poetry Review, Denver Quarterly, Mercury Firs, and The Paris Review. He has received support for his writing in the form of fellowships from Cave Canem, NYU, and Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation. He lives in Colorado and works at a public library. 

Emily Bark Brown is a poet from Mobile, Alabama and Brooklyn, New York. They co-edit Hot Pink, an online poetry magazine. They received an MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop. Recent work can be found in The Poetry Project Newsletter, mercury firs, Noir Sauna, Bennington Review, Oversound, and blush, among others. Their chapbook, Welcome to August, is forthcoming in 2025 from The Year. They work at Nightboat Books as Managing Editor and host a reading series in public spaces around New York City. You can find them online at https://www.emilybarkbrown.com/poems and on Instagram @bedgloom

Poet Lee Ann Brown is the author of five books beginning with Polyverse (Sun & Moon, 1999), and most recently Other Archer (PURH, 2015). She was the Judith E. Wilson Poetry Fellow at the University of Cambridge and is Professor of English at St. John's University in New York City. She was born in Japan, raised in North Carolina and now lives in New York City at Torn Page where she curates an event space for poetry, theater and developing cross-genre performance. She's also the founding editrix of Tender Buttons Press: https://www.tenderbuttonspress.com/ and her author website is: https://leeannbrownpoet.com/

Marie Buck is the co-author of Spoilers (Golias Books, 2024) with Matthew Walker. Her previous collections of poetry are Unsolved Mysteries (Roof Books, 2020), Goodnight, Marie, May God Have Mercy on Your Soul (Roof Books, 2017), and Portrait of Doom (Krupskaya, 2015). She is a graduate of the MFA Program for Poets and Writers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, and she currently works as the managing editor of the scholarly journal Social Text and teaches writing at NYU as a member of UAW Local 7902. 

Clint Burnham is a poet based in Vancouver, Canada. Recent books include The Goldberg Variations (New Star, 2024) and Pound @ Guantànamo (Talon, 2016). He has published work in The Capilano Review, Some, and above/ground press.

Courtney Bush is a poet and filmmaker from the Mississippi Gulf Coast who lives and works in New York City. Her second poetry collection, I Love Information, published by Milkweed Editions, was a winner of the 2022 National Poetry Series. She is also the author of Every Book Is About The Same Thing, and the chapbooks Isn’t This Nice? and Thirteen Morisettes, written in collaboration with Jack Underwood. Her third book, A Movie, is forthcoming from Lavender Ink in Spring 2025. 

David Buuck lives in Oakland, from where he edits Tripwire, a journal of poetics & pamphlet press (tripwirejournal.com). Books include Noise in the Face of (Roof Books 2016), SITE CITE CITY (Futurepoem, 2015) and An Army of Lovers, co-written with Juliana Spahr (City Lights, 2013), along with the chapbook The Riotous Outside (Commune Editions, 2018). He is the Academic Director of the Clemente Course in the Humanities at Oakland Adult Career Education and teaches at San Quentin's Prison University Program.

Nicolás Cabrera-Schneider is a writer born and raised in Guatemala, that now lives in New Orleans. 

Miriam Calleja is an award-winning Pushcart-nominated poet, writer, workshop leader, and translator. She has hosted community generative writing workshops in Europe and the US for the past 10 years. She is the author of three poetry collections, two chapbooks, and several collaborative works. Her poetry has been published in anthologies and in translation worldwide. She has been Highly Commended for a translated poem by the Stephen Spender Trust. Her latest chapbook is titled Come Closer, I Don’t Mind the Silence (BottleCap Press, 2023). Her work has appeared in platform review, Odyssey, Taos Journal, Tupelo Quarterly, Modern Poetry in Translation, humana obscura, and elsewhere. Miriam is from Malta and currently lives in Birmingham, Alabama. Read more on miriamcalleja.com and Permission to Write.

Winner of the 2023 Tenth Gate Prize and a 2023 Alma Award, Nicole Callihan has two recent poetry collections: chigger ridge (The Word Works 2024) and SLIP (Saturnalia 2025). Other books include This Strange Garment (Terrapin 2023), SuperLoop (Sock Monkey 2014), and the poetry chapbooks: The Deeply Flawed Human, Downtown, and ELSEWHERE (with Zoë Ryder White), as well as a novella, The Couples. Her work has appeared in The Kenyon Review, Colorado Review, Conduit, The American Poetry Review, and as a Poem-a-Day selection from the Academy of American Poets. She has received support from the Rockefeller Foundation, Ludwig Vogelstein, and the Sustainable Arts Foundation. Find out more at www.nicolecallihan.com.  

Peter Campion is the author of Radical as Reality: Form and Freedom in American Poetry; four collections of poems, Other People, The Lions, El Dorado, and One Summer Evening at the Falls; and several monographs and catalog essays on modern and contemporary visual art. A recipient of the John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship, the Larry Levis Reading Prize, the Pushcart Prize, and the Joseph Brodsky Rome Prize, he teaches in the writing program at the University of Minnesota and edits the magazine REVEL. More information at https://www.petercampion.net.

Tina Cane is the founder/director of Writers-in-the-Schools, RI, and, from 2016-2024, served as the Poet Laureate of Rhode Island where she lives with her husband and three children. Cane is the author of The Fifth Thought, Dear Elena: Letters for Elena Ferrante, poems with art by Esther Solondz, Once More With Feeling (Veliz Books,2017), and Body of Work (Veliz Books,2019). She was a 2020 Poet Laureate Fellow with the Academy of American Poets and the creator/curator of the distance reading series, Poetry is Bread, as well as editor of the forthcoming Poetry is Bread: The Anthology, (Nirala, 2025. Her most recent poetry collection is Year of the Murder Hornet (Veliz Books,2022), and her debut novel-in-verse for young adults, Alma Presses Play (Penguin/Random House) was released in September 2021. Her second verse novel for young readers, Are You Nobody Too? (Penguin/ Random House) was published in August 2024.

Diana Cao's (she/they) poetry and fiction have appeared or are forthcoming in Ploughshares, The Threepenny Review, The Yale Review, The Georgia Review, and elsewhere. She has received support from MacDowell, the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, and she is Just Buffalo Literary Center's 2024 Poetry Fellow, selected by Megan Fernandes. She is a winner of Nimrod International's 2023 Neruda Prize, selected by Tarfia Faizullah, and her debut collection, Slipstream, won the 2024 Berkshire Prize at Tupelo Press, selected by Matthew Rohrer.

Angela Carr is the author of four books of poetry: Ropewalk (2006), The Rose Concordance (2009), Here in There (2014) and Without Ceremony (2020). She has also translated several works of poetry from French to English, including the book Ardor by Nicole Brossard (2016). She has a PhD in Comparative Literature from the Université de Montréal. She lives in New York City where she teaches poetry and literature courses at The New School University. 

Ash(ley) Michelle C. is a pastoral erotic scum poet\a/rtist. She’s genre fluid and her style—she got it at Ross and stock shows. She is the author of the chapbook, Hotel Gilbert and Other Horny Poems (Esto es un Libro), and founder of Poetry Slut Rodeo and yeehaw. press. Her work has been published by Taco Bell Quarterly, TILT, Poetry Society of New York, Adult Groceries, Bullshit Lit, and other experimental lit mags. Currently, she is developing her phallic poetry sculptures and coca-cola trash poems/performance. The processes are documented on her website, www.scumpoet.com.

Melissa Castro Almandina is from Chicago. They write poetry, teach restorative justice to youth, & dance ballet in their spare time. Find their work online, in zines, & in The Breakbeat Poets Vol. 4: LatiNext.

Genève/Geneva Chao is the author of several books of poetry and translations, most recently émigré (Tinfish, 2018). Chao's work engages how language warps and wefts identify, definition, and allegiance, existing in the liminal space between ancestry and acculturation. Chao was repeatedly stopped at immigration during the first Trump administration and is wondering if the same will happen over the next four years.

Carrie Chappell is the author of Loving Tallulah Bankhead (Paris Heretics 2022) and Quarantine Daybook (Bottlecap Press 2021). Some of her recent poems have been published in Birdcoat Quarterly, Iron Horse Literary Review, Nashville Review, Redivider, SWIMM, and Westerly Magazine, and her essays have previously appeared in DIAGRAM, Fanzine, New Delta Review, The Iowa Review, The Rumpus, The Rupture, and Xavier Review. With Amanda Murphy, she co-translated Cassandra at point-blank range by Sandra Moussempès (Diálogos 2025). Carrie holds an MFA from the University of New Orleans’ Creative Writing Workshop and, presently, teaches English as a Foreign Language at Conservatoire national des arts et métiers (CNAM). Each spring, she curates Verse of April, of which she is the founder, and one of her newest ventures is writing Spiritual Material: Musings from My Second-Hand, Parisian Wardrobe, which she hosts via Substack. As a current doctoral student in French Literature at CY Cergy Paris University, Carrie is finishing a research-creation project around the poetic novels of Hélène Bessette. 

Cecily Chen is a writer and translator from Beijing, China. She is currently completing her PhD in English literature at the University of Chicago, where she works on experimental Asian American literature, Marxist aesthetics, and negative affect. You can find her translations in The Poetry Project Newsletter, the tiny, SARKA, DISCOUNT GUILLOTINE, Hot Pink, mercury firs, and elsewhere. She is the poetry editor at Chicago Review. 

Yuyi Chen is from Sichuan, China. First coming to the US in 2017, they are now in a PhD program in anthropology at Johns Hopkins University. Their work can be found or forthcoming in antiphony, Nat. Brut, HOT PINK MAG, blue bag press, mercury firs, and elsewhere. Their first chapbook Erotic Continent is out now from Discount Guillotine. They go by Echo.

Jack Christian is the author of the poetry collections Family System (2012 Colorado Prize) and Domestic Yoga (2016 Groundhog Poetry Press). His poems and essays have appeared in places such as ArtForum, Bennington Review, Cleveland Review of Books, Diagram, The New York Times Magazine, and Slate. He lives in Minneapolis with his partner and two kids.

Kelly Clare is an artist, writer, and curator based in Western Massachusetts. Author of the chapbook NEARLY EARLY ARTLY NEVER (Greying Ghost, 2024), her multidisciplinary work can be found in Fence, The Digital Review, Prelude, and Ugly Duckling’s Second Factory. They are an editor at Ghost Proposal. 

Elizabeth Clark Wessel lives in Stockholm, Sweden and works as a translator of Swedish literature. She was born in rural Nebraska and lived for many years in New York, where she pursued a BA at Sarah Lawrence College and an MFA at Columbia University. In 2010, she co-founded Argos Books, which has been publishing innovative poetry books ever since. The author of four chapbooks of poetry, her poems have appeared Fence, Boston Review, and the American Poetry Review. None of It Belongs to Me (Game Over Books, 2024) is her first full-length collection.

Kai Coggin (she/her) is the Inaugural Poet Laureate of Hot Springs, AR, and author of five collections most recently Mother of Other Kingdoms (Harbor Editions, 2024). Coggin is a recipient of a 2024 Academy of American Poets Laureate Fellowship, along with an INTERCHANGE Community Grant, and the 2023 Don Munro Leadership in the Arts Award for Visionary Service. Her poems have been published in POETRY, Academy of American Poets, Best of the Net, Prairie Schooner, and elsewhere. Coggin is a Certified Master Naturalist, a K-12 Teaching Artist in poetry with the Arkansas Arts Council, and host of the longest running consecutive weekly open mic series in the country—Wednesday Night Poetry. She lives with her wife in a peaceful valley, where they tend to wild ones and each other. www.kaicoggin.com
 

Stella Corso is the author of the poetry collections Green Knife (Rescue Press, 2023) and TANTRUM (Rescue Press, 2017) along with the chapbooks the people were lovely, but I was not (Bateau Press, 2025), Taboo Vivant (Blush Lit, 2022) and Wind & the Augur (Sixth Finch, 2021). She is a founding member of the Connecticut River Valley Poets’ Theater (CRVPT) and cohost of The Ritter Podcast. 

​Paul Cunningham co-manages Action Books. He is the author of two poetry collections from Schism Press: Fall Garment (2022) and The House of the Tree of Sores (2020). His next chapbook Sociocide at the 24/7 is forthcoming from New Michigan Press in 2025. His translation of Sara Tuss Efrik's play Danse Macabre Piggies was anthologized in Experimental Writing: A Guidebook and Anthology (Bloomsbury, 2024). Cunningham currently manages the MFA in Creative Writing Program at the University of Notre Dame where also teaches.

Iris Cushing is a poet and scholar living in the Catskill mountains of New York. Her poems and critical writings have appeared in Granta, Fence, and the Academy of American Poets Poem-A-Day series. She is the co-editor of Mary Norbert Korte's Jumping into the American River: New and Selected Poems Vol. I and II (Argos Books/Subseries) and the author of The First Books of David Henderson and Mary Korte: A Research (Ugly Duckling Presse) and Wyoming (Furniture Press Books).

Agnieszka Czeblakow is the Curator of Rare Books and Head of Research Services at Tulane University Special Collections. In this role, she develops instructional programs utilizing Tulane's rare book and archival collections. She also manages outreach and exhibit activities, oversees reference services, and collaborates on collection development, focusing on locally created zines, small presses publications, and artists' books.

Christy Davids is a poet, a teacher, a birder. Some of her creative and critical work can be found at VOLT, Open House, PennSound, Bedfellows, Jacket2, Dusie, The Tiny, and the Poetry Foundation’s Harriet, among others. She is the author of three chapbooks: on heat (BOAAT Press, 2017), Dysphoric Geography (Neighboring Systems, 2019), and wanton (DoubleCross Press, 2020). In August 2023 she was a poet in residence at Millay Arts, and in April 2024 she was honored with an award for Excellence in Teaching by Temple University. 

Jesse DeLong  works as Assistant Director of Creative Writing at Louisiana State University where he teaches writing and literature. His books include The Amateur Scientist's Notebook (Baobab Press) and The Bird Triolets (Cornerstone Press, forthcoming). Other work has appeared in the anthologies Best New Poets 2011 and Feast: Poetry and Recipes for a Full Seating at Dinner.  Find him on x @jessemdelong or Bluesky @jessemdelong.bsky.social.

Shira Dentz is the author of five books — SISYPHUSINA (PANK Books; soon to be republished by Astrophil Press), winner of the Eugene Paul Nassar Prize, how do i net thee (Salmon Poetry, Ireland), a National Poetry Series finalist, the sun a blazing zero (Lavender Ink/Diálogos), door of thin skins (CavanKerry Press), and black seeds on a white dish (Shearsman, UK), as well as two chapbooks including FLOUNDERS (Essay Press). Shira's poetry, hybrid and visual writing, nonfiction, criticism, and conversations have been featured in diverse venues such as Poetry, American Poetry Review, Iowa Review, Ploughshares, Kenyon Review, Pleiades, Gulf Coast, Seneca Review, Brooklyn Rail, Cincinnati Review, jubilat, Black Warrior Review, Denver Quarterly, Colorado Review, FIELD, Lana Turner, VOLT, Annulet, Apartment, New American Writing, Diagram, Dialogist, Quarter After Eight, Idaho Review, Berlin Lit, New Orleans Review, The Rumpus, The Academy of American Poets’ Poem-a-Day Series (Poets.org), Verse Daily, Poetry Daily, NPR, and The Poetry Society of America and The Poetry Foundation websites. She is the recipient of awards including an Academy of American Poets Prize and Poetry Society of America's Lyric Poem and Cecil Hemley Awards. Most recently, she’s the recipient of NELLE Literary Journal’s Three Sisters Award for creative nonfiction and an NEA/NYS arts grant for an image/text work-in-progress. Her creative work has been recognized with fellowships from the Ragdale Foundation, Vermont Studio Center, and MacDowell, and appears/is forthcoming in anthologies including Witness: An Anthology of Documentary Poems (Wesleyan University Press). More at shiradentz.com

Jeff Derksen’s poetry books include Future Works, The Vestiges, Transnational Muscle Cars, Dwell, Until, and Down Time and his critical books are After Euphoria, Annihilated Time: Poetry and other Politics and How High Is the City, How Deep Is Our Love. He collaborates  in the artistic collective Urban Subjects. They have published The Militant Image Reader, Autogestion, or Henri Lefebvre in New Belgrade, and Momentarily: Learning from Mega-events as well as curating exhibitions in Canada and Europe. He lives in Vancouver, Canada and Vienna, Austria.

Claire DeVoogd is a poet. Her first book is Via (Winter Editions, 2023). Her chapbook Apocalypses 1-12 was published through Belladonna Collaborative in 2021. She co-edits Terrific Books, a fly-by-night chapbook press. Recent writing can be found in Little Mirror, Antiphony, The Atlantic, the New York Review of Books, Pfeil Magazine, and Prelude.

Anthony DiCarlo is a poet currently pursuing an MFA at the University of Michigan. He has had poems published with RHINO and Palette, and most recently put out a group of Catullus translations with Antiphony. He was the winner of the Ina Coolbrith Memorial Poetry Prize and a finalist in the 2024 Hopwood award for graduate poetry, selected by Donika Kelly and Garrett Hongo. 

Isabel Duarte-Gray's first book of poems, Even Shorn, debuted with Sarabande Books in 2021. She lives in New Orleans and teaches at Loyola University New Orleans. 

Jordan Dunn is the author of Notation (Thirdhand Books), Physical Geography as Modified by Human Action (Partly Press), as well as various chapbooks and ephemeral prints including Common Names, Reactor Woods, and A Walk at Doolittle State Preserve. He lives with his family in Madison, WI, where he edits and publishes Oxeye Press.

 Susanne Dyckman is the author of three poetry collections, equilibrium’s form (Shearsman Books), A Dark Ordinary (Furniture Press Books), and, in collaboration with the poet Elizabeth Robinson, Rendered Paradise (Apogee Press), as well as five chapbooks. Her work has appeared in a number of journals, most recently Posit and the anthology Winter in America (Again. She has taught in the creative writing programs at the University of San Francisco and SF State University, and for a number of years hosted the now occasional Evelyn Avenue Summer Reading Series. She lives in Albany, California. 

Michael Tod Edgerton is a queerboy poet of fluid gender and genre alike. The author of Vitreous Hide (Lavender Ink, 2013), his poems have appeared previously as the winner of the Boston Review and Five Fingers Review contests, and in Coconut, Denver Quarterly, EOAGH, Interim, New American Writing, New Orleans Review, Posit, Sonora Review, and VOLT, among other journals. He holds an MFA in Literary Arts from Brown University and a PhD in English from the University of Georgia. Tod serves on the poetry-editing teams of Conjunctions and Seneca Review, where he's also Reviews Editor. You can check out Tod’s ongoing participatory text and sound project, What Most Vividly, at WhatMostVividly.com. He lives bodily in the city that used to be San Francisco and virtually at his main author page, MTodEdge.com. 

Thom Eichelberger-Young is an artist, theorist, editor, publisher, and mental health caregiver based in Buffalo, New York. They are the author of the long poems BESPOKE and THE PANELS (the third volume, ANTIKYTHERA, is recently out from Antiphony Press). A work of theory and political documentary is forthcoming from CLOAK in the Spring of 2025. They also operate Blue Bag Press. 

Alyson (“Al”) Favilla is an MFA student and a Grisham Fellow in poetry at the University of Mississippi. You can find their work in Poetry Ireland Review, Diode, Electric Literature, McSweeney’s, and the forthcoing anthology, Attached to the Living World. 

Marguerite Feitlowitz’s newest book-length translations are Night, by Ennio Moltedo, a collection of 113 prose poems written during and against the Pinochet dictatorship (supported by an NEA Fellowship and published byWorld Poetry Books, 2023), and Small Bibles for Bad Times: Selected Prose and Poetry by French Holocaust writer Liliane Atlan (2021); and Pillar of Salt: An Autobiography withNineteen Erotic Sonnets, by Salvador Novo (2014). She also published two volumes of plays by Griselda Gambaro (Argentina). I'm the author of A LEXICON OF TERROR: Argentina and the Legacies of Torture, a New York Times Notable Book and Notable paperback, and a Finalist for PEN-L.L. Winship Prize. This book was also published in Argentina.

Her fiction, essays, translation, and writings on visual art and theatre have appeared in ACM, Asymptote, BOMB, Catapult, DELOS, Dissent,The Nation, Les Temps Modernes, el viejo topo, among other journals and anthologies. From 2002-2023, she taught Literature and Literary Translation at Bennington College, where she founded and directed “Bennington Translates,” a multi-disciplinary initiative spanning literary to humanitarian translation with a focus on forced displacement, migration, and linguistic justice.

Among her awards and fellowships, are two Fulbrights to Argentina, a fellowship to the Bunting Institute (now called the Radcliffe Institute), and a Harvard Faculty Research Grant.

Jennifer Firestone is the author of five books of poetry: Story (Ugly Duckling Presse); TEN (BlazeVOX [books]); Gates & Fields (Belladonna* Collaborative); Flashes, Poetry Foundation’s Harriet Blog’s “Poetry Pick” for 2013 (Shearsman Books); and Holiday (Shearsman Books). She is the author of five chapbooks: Swimming Pool (DoubleCross Press), Waves (Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs), from Flashes and snapshot (Sona Books) and Fanimaly (Dusie Kollektiv). Firestone co-edited with Marcella Durand Other Influences: An Untold History of Feminst Avant-garde Poetry and  with Dana Teen Lomax Letters To Poets: Conversations about Poetics, Politics and Community (Saturnalia Books) and co-authored LITtle by LITtle with photographer and urban geographer, Laura Y. Liu. Firestone has work anthologized in Kindergarde: Avant-Garde Poems, Plays, Songs, & Stories for Children and Building is a Process / Light is an Element: essays and excursions for Myung Mi Kim. Firestone won the 2014 Marsh Hawk Press’ Robert Creeley Memorial Prize. She is an Associate Professor of Literary Studies and Chair of Writing at the New School’s Eugene Lang College. 

Robert Fitterman is the author of 16 books of poetry. His most recent book, Creve Coeur, is a long poem recently published with Winter Editions (2024). Other titles include: This Window Makes Me Feel (Ugly Duckling Presse), No Wait, Yep. Definitely Still Hate Myself (Ugly Duckling Presse), Nevermind (Wonder Books) and Rob the Plagiarist (Roof Books). He has collaborated with several visual artists, including Serkan Ozkaya, Nayland Blake, Sabine Herrmann, Natalie Czech, Tim Davis, and Klaus Killisch. He is the founding member of the artists-poets collective Collective Task www.collectivetask.org. He lives in New York City and teaches writing at New York University.

Leah Flax Barber is the author of The Mirror of Simple Souls, forthcoming from Winter Editions in May 2025. Recent writing has appeared in Conjunctions, The Cleveland Review of Books, Reading in Translation, and Peach Mag. 

M. Forajter is author of Interrogating the Eye (Schism Neurotics, 2022), a poetry-essay on the poetics of looking/the gaze and the ecstasy of art making. She is the editor of Tarpaulin Sky Press and Magazine. Her poetry has been published with the Journal Petra, the Action Books blog, the Udolpho Gothic Journal, Impossible Task, Court Green, Deluge, and Witch Craft Magazine. She really likes Nirvana, werewolves, and medieval art.

Frédéric Forte was born in Toulouse, France, in 1973, and lives in Paris and currently co-heads an MFA in Creative Writing in Le Havre. He has been a member of the well-known Oulipo (Workshop of Potential Litterature) since 2005. He has published 13 collections of poetry (the most recent being Transformation de la condition humaine dans toutes les branches de l'activité [P.O.L, Paris, 2023]) and several chapbooks. Three of his books have been translated in English: Seven String Quartets (La Presse/Fence Books, Iowa City, 2014), Minute-Operas (Burning Deck, Providence, 2015) and 33 Flat Sonnets (Mindmade Books, Los Angeles, 2016). He has also translated into French the American poets Michelle Noteboom and Guy Bennett.

Raised in New Orleans, a Louisianian from generations back on the maternal and paternal lines, Tonya M. Foster is a poet, essayist, editor, and Black feminist scholar. She's the author of A Swarm of Bees in High Court, the bilingual chapbook La Grammaire des Os, and coeditor of Third Mind: Teaching Creative Writing through Visual Art , (Teachers & Writers) and of the forthcoming The Umbra Galaxy, a two-volume compendium on the Umbra Writers Workshop (Wesleyan University Press). Her poetry collection thingifications::a mathematics of chaos is forthcoming from Ugly Duckling Presse.  A recipient of fellowships and awards from the Radcliffe institute, the 2023 C.D. Wright award from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, Creative Capital Foundation, NYFA, San Francisco MoAD,  the Emily Harvey foundation, Headlands Center for the Arts, Macdowell, and Djerassi, among others, Tonya holds the George & Judy Marcus Endowed Chair in Poetry at SFSU where she's established Undisciplining the Fields: Study, Performance, and (Re:)Creation, a conversation (and sometimes performance) series that invites writers, artists, filmmakers, and scholars into creative conversation and collaboration. She is a member of a 50-year old Emeryville Artists Co-op, and the newest co-leader of the SFSU Poetry Center.

Ariel Francisco is the author of Under Capitalism If Your Head Aches They Just Yank Off Your Head (Flowersong Press, 2022), A Sinking Ship is Still a Ship (Burrow Press, 2020) and All My Heroes Are Broke (C&R Press, 2017), and the translator of Haitian-Dominican poet Jacques Viau Renaud’s Poet of One Island (Get Fresh Books, 2023) and Guatemalan poet Hael Lopez’s Routines/Goodbyes (Spuyten Duyvil, 2022). A poet and translator born in the Bronx to Dominican and Guatemalan parents and raised in Miami, his work has been published in The New Yorker, American Poetry Review, Academy of American Poets Poem-a-Day, The New York City Ballet, Latino Book Review, and elsewhere. He is Assistant Professor of Poetry and Hispanic Studies at Louisiana State University.

Nicholas Freeman was born and raised in Chicago where he studied at The School of the Art Institute. Following a period of travel, he founded The Finch Gallery, an independent project space and gallery that operated at night to accommodate worker and student access. Through a variety of practices, from editorial cartoonist to performance to publisher, Nicholas has sought to help narrow the accessibility gap between audience and artist. While living in Brooklyn, he helped launch The Wax Paper, a literary journal for which he still serves as art director and editor. Nicholas continues to pursue the ideal of bringing art to the people as a muralist, carrying on the vibrant public art tradition of the west coast, where he currently resides.

www.freequencyspeaks.com |Based in New Orleans, FreeQuency  is the founder of Paza Sauti: Kenya and is an internationally recognized spoken word poet, TEDspeaker and slam champion. They are looking forward to reading excerpts from their new works which are available for pre-order at https://www.freequencyspeaks.com/buy-fq-s-books

Their increasingly anti-disciplinary work interrogates liminality and occupies the in between while exploring the nuances and stark contradictions of existence under late stage racialized capitalism. They are a local youth worker who spends their time teaching young writers to recognize that they are in fact writers.

Kenning JP García is a diarist, humorist, and antipoet. García is also the author of With (Really Serious Literature) as well as an editor at Rigorous and Dream Pop Press. 

Diana Garza Islas is a textual and interdisciplinary artist born in 1985. She has published six books of poetry. Her recent publications include: El sol es verde si lo miras (UANL, 2024) and Black Box Named Like to Me (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2024). Her chapbook Probable Synonyms of the Word Sololoy is forthcoming from Carrion Bloom Books in 2025. In the US her poems have appeared in publications such as: ANMLY, Denver Quaterly, Black Warrior Review, San Diego Poetry Annual, Waxwing, Literal Magazine, Asymptote, Mayday and The Paris Review. She has published her work in magazines and anthologies from México, Brasil, Argentina, Perú, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, República Dominicana, Cuba, Germany, Spain and Sydney. She is a member of the National System of Art Creators of Mexico.

Juliet Gelfman-Randazzo is a recent graduate of the Rutgers University-Camden MFA program, where she wrote about deer, hand models, and trees. She is the author of the chapbook "DUH" (Bullshit Lit) and recent work appears in The Offing, The Cleveland Review of Books, TAGVVERK, the tiny, and Annulet: A Journal of Poetics, among others. Juliet lives in Philadelphia, where she runs the reading and open mic series Spit Poetry. She can be followed @tall.spy (Instagram) and @tall__spy (Twitter) but she can never be caught.

Kate Gibbel is a poet. She lives in Vermont where she edits, typesets, and prints Send Me Press, a monthly letterpress poetry series. 

Daryna Gladun is a Ukrainian poet, translator, artist and researcher from Bucha (born in Khmelnytskyi)

She is the author of four poetry collections (in Ukrainian): «Рубати дерево» [To chop the tree] (2017), the winner of Smoloskyp Literary Prize and Oles Honchar International Ukrainian-German Literary Prize; «Із тіні красивих червоних хлопчиків» [From the shadow of handsome red boys] (2020), named one of the best poetry books of 2020 by PEN Ukraine; «Радіо «Війна» [Radio "War"] (2022), translated into Polish by Janusz Radwański, and into Montenegrin by Anđela Radovanović; «Війна не почнеться завтра» [The war doesn't start tomorrow] (2023), translated into Swedish by Mikael Nydahl. Co-author with Lesyk Panasiuk of poetry collection «Портрет сонця в бомбосховищі» [Portrait of the sun in the bomb shelter] (2023), translated into Polish by Aneta Kamińska. Co-author of children book about prominent Ukrainian women «Це теж зробила вона» [She also made it] (2018). Her poems and short stories have been translated into dozens of languages and published in numerous Ukrainian and International magazines and anthologies.

Carlos Gerardo Gonzalez Orellana: Born in El Jícaro, El Progreso, 1987. Guatemalan poet. He is currently a doctoral student in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at Tulane University. He worked as a professor of literature and literary theory at Rafael Landívar University, where he also coordinated the Master’s programs in Latin American Literature and Philosophy. Additionally, he served as coordinator of Cultura de Guatemala magazine and managed the publications of the Antonio Gallo Center for Critical Thought within the university’s Faculty of Humanities.

His publications in poetry are: Música rara (2015, Alambique Editores, Guatemala), Genealogías (2017, EquiZZero Ediciones, El Salvador; 2019, Mandrágora Ediciones, Guatemala), Intemperie (2020, Editorial Praxis, México), La hoguera invisible  (Editorial Universitaria, Guatemala, 2020), Sedición (Tujaal Ediciones, Guatemala, 2021) and Habitar las islas (Editorial BGR, Spain, 2022). 

Academically, he holds a degree in Chemical Engineering from Rafael Landívar University (URL), a Bachelor’s in Literature from the University of San Carlos (USAC), and a Master’s in Philosophy from URL. He has also been a guest lecturer in the postgraduate network of the Latin American Council of Social Sciences (CLACSO). González Orellana has published several poetry books and academic articles. His research focuses on cultural representations of grief, memory, and Central American poetry.

Max Gregg is a Henry Hoyns Fellow in Poetry at the University of Virginia, where they are pursuing their MFA. Their poems appear in Dirt Child, Afternoon Visitor, Yalobusha Review, Iterant, Poetry Daily, blush lit, and in Permanent Record (Nightboat, 2025). They are a 2024 Lambda emerging writer. 

Gabriel Gudding is an essayist, poet, and translator from Norwegian. A 2024 NEA Translation Fellow, he is the author of four books of poetry and has translated from Norwegian the books Inventarium by Pedro Carmona-Alvarez (co•im•press 2025) and, by Gunnar Wærness, Friends with Everyone (Action Books 2024) and Touch Jesus (Oktober 2021), which seeks to rescue an avatar of love from the prisonhouse of religion.

Julia Guez is a writer and translator based in the city of Houston. The Certain Body (Four Way Books, 2022) is her second collection of poetry, written while she was recovering from COVID in the spring of 2020. Guez holds degrees from Rice and Columbia. To date, she has received a handful of recognitions for her work, including the Discovery / Boston Review Poetry Prize, a Fulbright Fellowship, an Inprint/Restrepo Americas Translation Fellowship and a translation fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. Her work has appeared in POETRY, The Guardian, BOMB, Kenyon Review and The Brooklyn Rail. 

For the last decade, she has worked with Teach For America, New York; Guez has taught creative writing at NYU and Rutgers and in workshops across the country. With her wife, Elizabeth, she has three sons. More information on new writing and events can be found online at www.juliaguez.net

Anna Gurton-Wachter is a writer, editor and archivist. Her full length book Utopia Pipe Dream Memory is availble from Ugly Duckling Presse. Her most recent chapbook is Lucy from Belladonna* Collaborative.  Anna edits and makes books with DoubleCross Press, a micro-press focusing on handmade chapbooks of poetry and poetics. She lives in Brooklyn NY with Ian and Lev.

Rebecca Hawkes is a queer painter-poet originally from rural Aotearoa New Zealand. Her first book MEAT LOVERS won Best First International Collection in the UK Poet Laureate's 2022 Laurel Prize and was a Lambda Literary Award finalist for bisexual poetry. She is head shepherd of warm-blooded literary journal Sweet Mammalian and co-edited the Antipodean climate crisis anthology No Other Place to Stand. In the US her poems have been awarded Salt Hill's Philip Booth Poetry Prize and Palette Poetry's Sappho Prize, with more work published or forthcoming in Phoebe, Hayden's Ferry Review, Glass, Gigantic Sequins, and elsewhere. Rebecca is currently topsy-turvy between hemispheres studying an MFA in yearning (and, to a lesser extent, poetry) at the University of Michigan.

Cole Heinowitz is a poet, translator, scholar, gardener, and woodwind player. She is Professor of Literature at Bard College, where she has taught since 2004, and is co-curator (with Iris Cushing) of the Imaginary Elegies Poetry Series at Pete’s Candy Store in Brooklyn.

Carolyn Hembree's third collection, For Today, was published by LSU Press in 2024 as part of their Barataria Series. She is also the author of Rigging a Chevy into a Time Machine and Other Ways to Escape a Plague (Trio House Press, 2016), winner of the 2015 Trio Award and the 2015 Rochelle Ratner Memorial Award, and Skinny (Kore Press, 2012). She received a 2016-2017 ATLAS grant from the Louisiana Board of Regents and has also received grants and fellowships from PEN, the Louisiana Division of the Arts, and the Southern Arts Federation. A professor in the MFA program at the University of New Orleans, she was awarded the 2017 International Alumni Association Excellence in Teaching Award. Carolyn serves as poetry editor of Bayou Magazine. 

Tobey Hiller writes poetry, flash and fiction. She is the author of four books of poetry (CROSSINGS, CERTAIN WEATHERS, (Oyez), AQUEDUCT, (Clear Mountain Press) and most recently CROW MIND, Finishing Line Press, 2020). Her fiction includes flash and short stories, a novel, CHARLIE’S EXIT (EdgeWork Books), and a collection of fabulist/surreal stories, FLIGHT ADVICE: A FABULARY (Unlikely Books, 2021), which was named a finalist in Omnidawn’s 2020 Fabulist Collection Contest. Her poems and stories have appeared widely in journals, print and online, and in eight anthologies, most recently Scarlet Tanager’s FIRE AND RAIN: ECOPOETRY OF CALIFORNIA, two Marin Poetry Center Anthologies, and ARRIVING AT A SHORELINE (great weather for MEDIA, New York, 2022) and BEACON RADIANT (great weather for MEDIA, 2024). Her story Splinter won First Prize in CRAFT’s 2020 Short Story Contest; two of her other stories have been short-listed for prizes. CROW MIND is reviewed in The Los Angeles Review. A prose/flash collection of her work appears in the Ravenna Press TRIPLE SERIES (#21, 2023). She has recently completed a new poetry collection, BEFORE ANYTHING IS DUST, which was just named a finalist for the 2024 Catamaran Poetry Book Prize. Learn more at https://thiller.ag-sites.net/

Lucía Hinojosa Gaxiola (Mexico City, 1987) is an artist, poet and editor working with language in a variety of ways. She exhibits and performs in multiple media, fusing her poetic practice with sound, film, drawing and installation to explore the materiality and transmutation of language, archive, memory, and the ecology of sound. Her work also explores the somatic and improvisatory aspects of performance as a collective and collaborative practice. She has recently exhibited & performed at Vernacular Institute (Mexico City); Ex-Teresa Arte Actual (Mexico City); Pequod Co. (Mexico City);  Museo de Arte Moderno (Mexico City); The Poetry Project (NYC); Microscope Gallery (NYC); among others. She is the author of O (Cielo Abierto) and The Telaraña Circuit (Tender Buttons) and co-edits diSONARE, an experimental editorial platform from Mexico City.

Kelly Hoffer is a poet and book artist. Her debut collection of poetry, UNDERSHORE (2023), was selected by Diana Khoi Nguyen as the winner of the Lightscatter Press Prize. Her chapbook The Photo I Don't Write About  was selected for Tilted House's 2023 Netsuke Micro Series and is forthcoming in 2025.  Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Gulf Coast, TAGVVERK, American Chordata, Denver Quarterly, Chicago Review, Prelude, and Second Factory among others. She currently teaches in the MFA program at the University of Michigan as the Helen Zell Visiting Professor in Poetry. Learn more at https://www.kellyrosehoffer.com/.

Patrycja Humienik, daughter of Polish immigrants, is a writer, performer, and editor currently based in Madison, Wisconsin. She has developed writing and movement workshops for the Henry Art Gallery, Arts+Literature Laboratory, Northwest Film Forum, Puksta Civic Engagement Foundation, in prisons, and elsewhere. Her poetry can be found or is forthcoming in The New Yorker, Gulf Coast, The Atlantic, Poetry Daily, Poetry Society of America, the Slowdown show, and elsewhere. Patrycja's first book, We Contain Landscapes, is forthcoming with Tin House in 2025.

H.K. Hummel is the author of Lessons in Breathing Underwater (Sundress Publications, 2019), and the co-author of Short-Form Creative Writing: A Writer's Guide and Anthology (Bloomsbury, 2018). She is an Associate Professor of creative writing at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, and one of the founding editors of Blood Orange Review.

MC Hyland (she/they) is the founding editor of DoubleCross Press, a poetry micropress. MC is the author of two full-length books of poems: THE END (Sidebrow 2019) and Neveragainland (Lowbrow Press 2010) and a forthcoming book of short essays, The Dead and the Living and the Bridge (Meekling Press 2025). They have also published over a dozen poetry chapbooks/artist books. Holding MFAs in Creative Writing and Book Arts from the University of Alabama and a PhD in English Literature from NYU, MC lives in St. Paul, Minnesota.

Kai Ihns is a poet and filmmaker based in Chicago. She's the author of two full length collections of poetry, most recently Of (The Elephants, 2024). She edits The Year, a chapbook press. 

K. Iver was born in Mississippi. Their debut collection Short Film Starring My Beloved’s Red Bronco won the 2022 Ballard Spahr Prize for Poetry from Milkweed Editions, selected by Tyehimba Jess. Short Film won the Wisconsin Literary Award and was a finalist for the L.A. Times Book Award, the Kate Tufts Discovery Award, and the Lambda Literary Awards. It was named a Best Book of 2023 by the New York Public Library. Iver’s poems have appeared in Boston Review, Kenyon Review, LA Review of Books, and elsewhere. Iver has received fellowships from the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing, the Sewanee Writers Conference, and the Helene Wurlitzer Foundation. They have a Ph.D. in Poetry from Florida State University. 

Elijah Jackson is a writer based in New York. Recent poetry has been published in Fence, Second Factory, Annulet, Keith LLC, fieldnotes, and others. He is the poetry editor of the Washington Square Review.

Laura Jaramillo is a poet and critic. Born to Colombian parents in Queens, New York, she now lives in Durham, North Carolina. Her books include Material Girl (subpress, 2012) and Making Water (Futurepoem, 2022). She holds a PhD in critical theory from Duke University. She co-runs the North Carolina-based reading and performance series Paradiso. An archive of her critical and creative writing can be found at her website.

Alix Jason is a writer and bookbinder living in the sweaty town of New Orleans. They run a small bookbinding business called Bad Dog Books, are a contributing editor and book artist at Tilted House, and love to watch fruit rot away in their kitchen. Their work has been published in Fine Print Press, Tilted House Press, and ANTIGRAVITY but have self-published most of their work. They have tried every ice cream place in New Orleans despite being mildly lactose intolerant. 

Roman Johnson, PhD  is a writer and scientist from Memphis, TN. He is a Master of Fine Arts scholar in poetry at Brown University. He has a Ph.D. in Medical Sociology from the University of Alabama at Birmingham, a M.A. in African American Studies from Georgia State University and obtained a B.A. in Political Science from Morehouse College. He is the co-founder of the New England Hoodoo Society.  He is the current Radical Reversal Poet in Residence at the Suffolk County House of Corrections in Boston, Massachusetts. He is the winner of the Lucille Clifton Poetry Prize from Backbone Press,  a past winner of the Clark Atlanta University Poetry Prize and has received fellowships from Harvard University, Northwestern University,  the University of Alabama at Birmingham, Brown University, the National Institutes of Health, Breadloaf, Tin House, the Writers’ Studio, Martha Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing, Obsidian Foundation United Kingdom,  the City of Boston, Massachusetts Cultural Council, the New England Poetry Club, the Palm Beach Literary Festival, the Hudson Valley Writers Center, the Poets and Scholars Summer Writing Retreat at Rutgers University, and the Watering Hole. His work has received both Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net nominations and concerns itself with grief, longing, masculinity, violence, and connection. His work can be found in Obsidian. African Voices Magazine, and elsewhere. He can be found online at @SonoftheDelta on Twitter and thefreedomdoctor on Instagram. He believes the real work of writing is living well.

Amanda Johnston is a writer, visual artist, Poet Laureate of Texas, and founder/executive director of Torch Literary Arts. 

Bryce Kahari is Black queer poet, playwright, spoken word artist, and public health leader who has empowered and engaged creative writing artists around the world. He founded the online Instagram poetry community Poetry Battles where he serves as its Editor-in-Chief. Through this online community, Bryce has pioneered over 20 month-long creative writing competitions, artist education guides, competition challenges, and activities. He's also had the distinct honor of interviewing Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Jericho Brown. Bryce often writes about social justice topics. He lives in Biloxi, Mississippi. You can check out his poetry on Instagram at @therebelpoet_. 

Julie Kane's previous collections include Rhythm & Booze, winner of the National Poetry Series; Jazz Funeral, winner of the Donald Justice Poetry Prize; and Mothers of Ireland, winner of the Poetry by the Sea Book Award. Forthcoming in spring 2025 from LSU Press will be Naked Ladies: New & Selected Poems. With Grace Bauer, she co-edited Nasty Women Poets: An Unapologetic Anthology of Subversive Verse, and with H. L. Hix she co-edited Terribly in Love, selected poems in translation from the Lithuanian poet Tautvyda Marcinkevičiūtė. A past Louisiana Poet Laureate, Fulbright Scholar, Best American Poetry selection, George Bennett Fellow in Writing at Phillips Exeter Academy, and New Orleans Writer in Residence at Tulane University, she retired as Professor Emerita of English from Northwestern State University of Louisiana. She currently teaches in the low-residency MFA program at Western Colorado University.

Jennifer Karmin’s multidisciplinary work has transpired at festivals, in artist-run spaces, and on city streets across the U.S., Cuba, Japan, Kenya, and Europe.  Performances have been featured at venues such as the Poetry Project, the Walker Art Center, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, and Woodland Pattern Book Center.  Widely published in poetry anthologies, journals and handmade editions, her books include the text-sound epic "Aaaaaaaaaaalice" and "The Sexual Organs of the IRS" a collaboration with Bernadette Mayer. She teaches creative writing to immigrants at Truman College and has been a Visiting Writer at Naropa University, Oberlin College, California Institute of the Arts, plus a myriad of sites. Since 2005, she has curated the Red Rover Series in Chicago and often led ensembles of poets improvising together.  Her current project is Democracy Lessons.

Rodney Koeneke is the author of four books of poems: Body & Glass (Wave, 2018), Etruria (Wave, 2014), Musee Mechanique (BlazeVOX, 2006), and Rouge State (Pavement Saw, 2003). His work has appeared in Chicago Review, Fence, Granta, Harper’s, The Nation, Poetry, Zyzzyva, and elsewhere. He teaches history at Portland State University in Portland, Oregon.  

Inna Krasnoper is a poet, artist, and literary translator born in Ufa (Bashqortostan) and based in Berlin. She graduated from the Chto Delat Collective School of Engaged Art in Saint Petersburg and holds a BA in Dance, Context, Choreography from University of the Arts in Berlin. Her Russophone poetry collections include Нитки торчат (Loose Threads), published by the Voznesensky Center in 2021, and Дорогой человек (Dear Person), published by NLO in 2024. Her English-language poetry has appeared in her chapbooks Over Sight (Eulalia Books) and Sealed (Black Sunflowers Poetry Press), as well as in Annulet, Vestiges, Gulf Coast, Ghost Proposal, Oversound, TILT, and elsewhere. Krasnoper's full-length English-language poetry collection dis tanz was published by Veliz Books in 2025.

https://msha.ke/innakrasnoper

Dylan Krieger is a Louisiana writer whose experience in the intersection of poetry and online sex work was featured in The Big Smoke in 2021. She is the Managing Editor of Fine Print and the author of six full-length collections of poetry, as well as a recent chapbook, Hideous Compass (Underground Books, 2022). Find her at DylanKrieger.com.

Justin Lacour lives in New Orleans.  He edits Trampoline: A Journal of Poetry, http://www.trampolinepoetry.com.  He is the author of five chapbooks of poetry, including This Fire (Ursus Americanus Press 2024) and Hulk Church (Belle Point Press, 2023).

Karen An-hwei Lee’s recent poetry collections are The Beautiful Immunity (Tupelo Press 2024) and Duress (Cascade Books 2022). Her writing has appeared in Kenyon Review, Iowa Review, Michigan Quarterly, Poetry Northwest, Washington Square Review, Image: Art, Faith, Mystery, and anthologized in Best Spiritual Writing and Pearson’s Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, Drama, and Writing (14th Edition, ed. by X.J. Kennedy and Dana Gioia). Lee has received a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, the Glenna Luschei Award from Prairie Schooner, and the Norma Farber First Book Award for In Medias Res (Sarabande 2004). She lives in greater Chicago.

Cat Ingrid Leeches is a writer, editor, and teacher from Galveston, Texas. Their work has been published in Mid-American Review, Adroit, Passages North, The Offing, and elsewhere. Their debut collection, I Wander the Earth, Hungry for Semen, is forthcoming from Carrion Bloom Books. 

Rebecca Lehmann is the author of the poetry collections The Sweating Sickness (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2025) Ringer (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2019), and Between the Crackups (Salt, 2011). Her writing has been featured in The American Poetry Review, NPR's The Slowdown, and The Academy of American Poet's Poem-a-Day. She is the founding editor of the online journal Couplet Poetry. 

Stephanie Lenox is the co-author of Short-Form Creative Writing: A Writer's Guide and Anthology with H.K. Hummel. Her most recent poetry collection, The Business, was the winner of the 2015 Colorado Prize in Poetry. She is the author of Congress of Strange People (poems) and a poetry chapbook, The Heart That Lies Outside the Body, winner of the Slapering Hol Chapbook Competition. She is an enrolled member of the Pokagon Band of Potawatomi and a student of the language of her tribe. She lives with her family in Salem, Oregon, and works as an editor at Chemeketa Press.

Timothy Ashley Leo is an editor for DIALOGIST. His writing may be found in Annulet, The Cincinnati Review, Conjunctions, Denver Quarterly, Lana Turner, Narrative, Nat. Brut and elsewhere. He lives in Chicago. timothyleo.com/work

Rachel Levitsky is the author of The Story of My Accident Is Ours, Under the Sun (both out from Futurepoem, 2013 & 2003) NEIGHBOR (UDP, 2009, reissue 2020), Against Travel : Anti Voyage (Pamenar, 2020) and several other small press editions. In 1999, she-they founded the feminist avant-garde network Belladonna Series, and is a member of Belladonna* Collaborative, a non-hierarchical and variously organized collective making objects, thoughts, actions, events. Levitsky is a professor at Pratt Institute and lives in Woodstock, NY.

Winshen Liu has studied anthropology and computer science but most enjoys learning languages. Her writing has appeared in Cincinnati Review, Electric Literature, The Malahat Review, and The Rumpus, among others, and her debut chapbook, Paper Money, is forthcoming with Driftwood Press. She is grateful to the de Groot Foundation and the University of Mississippi for their support of her work. In addition to writing, she loves long-distance train travel, dogs, bakeries, and stickers. You can learn more about her at winshenliu.com.

Ian U Lockaby is a poet, translator, and editor of the online journal mercury firs. He's the author of Defensible Space/if a crow— (Omnidawn Publishing) and A Seam of Electricity (Ghost Proposal). Recent work appears in journals such as Ecotone, Denver Quarterly, Kenyon Review, FENCE, and West Branch. He lives in New Orleans.

Matt Longabucco is the author of the poetry collection Heroic Dose and M/W: An essay on Jean Eustache’s La maman et la putain, a book-length study of a landmark of French cinema and its creator. He teaches writing, innovative pedagogy, and critical theory as a Clinical Professor at New York University’s Liberal Studies Program, and as an Associate at Bard College’s Institute for Writing & Thinking.

James Loop is a poet living in Brooklyn. His most recent chapbook, Mezzogiorno, is available from SLAB. Prior works include Amatory Imitations, The There Poems, I put this moment here, and, with Claire Devoogd, Appletini, or, the Perills of Speeche by Anonymous Botch. 

Cameron Lovejoy is a poet and printer who operates Tilted House, a slow press publishing books of poetry slash visuals under letterpress machines. His manuscript dark room was a finalist for the 2024 Omnidawn Chapbook Prize. In 2025, Eulalia published his translation of Argentina’s Olivia Milberg’s dos dedos de agua. Various things appear in Annulet, DIAGRAM, Denver Quarterly, Fugue, Ghost Proposal, and others. He lives slash prints in New Orleans.

Alexa Luborsky is a writer and multimedia artist of Western Armenian and Jewish descent. She is the 2023 Creative Writing Grant Recipient from the International Armenian Literary Alliance (IALA) for her work-in-progress poetry collection on diaspora and genocidal aftermaths. Her poems and hybrid works have appeared or are forthcoming in Adroit, AGNI, Black Warrior Review, The Rumpus, and West Branch, among others. Currently an MFA candidate in poetry at the University of Virginia, she serves as the interviews editor for Poetry Northwest. You can find out more at alexaluborsky.com. 

Irina Mashinski was born and raised in Moscow and in 1991 emigrated to the United States. Mashinski is the author The Naked World (MadHat Press, 2022) and Giornata (Červená Barva Press, 2022) and of twelve books of poetry, prose, and essays in Russian. She is co-editor, with Robert Chandler and Boris Dralyuk, of The Penguin Book of Russian Poetry (Penguin Classics, 2015) and of Cardinal Points, the journal of Brown University’s Slavic Department. Her work has been translated into several languages and has appeared in Poetry International, World Literature Today, Asymptote, Modern Poetry in Translation, New American Writing, and elsewhere.  Irina Mashinski is the recipient of several literary awards and, with Boris Dralyuk, of the First Prize in the 2012 Joseph Brodsky / Stephen Spender Translation Prize competition. She is a Hawthornden fellow (2017) and a Pushcart Prize nominee (2023). Website: irinamashinski.com

Louise Mathias is the author of three full-length books of poems, Lark Apprentice (Winner of the New Issues Poetry Prize), The Traps  (Four Way Books) and, most recently What if the Invader is Beautiful (Four Way Books, 2024).  Her work has appeared in journals such as Tin House, Academy of American Poet Poem-a-Day, Gulf Coast, Colorado Review and many others. A long time resident of the Mojave Desert, her work explores the intersection of the natural world and our interior lives through a feminist lens. 

Kristi Maxwell is the author of nine books of poems, including Wide Ass of Night (Saturnalia Books, 2025); Goners (Green Linden Press, 2023), winner of the Wishing Jewel Prize; Realm Sixty-four, editor’s choice for the Sawtooth Poetry Prize and finalist for the National Poetry Series; and Hush Sessions, editor’s choice for the Saturnalia Books Poetry Prize. She’s the Director of Creative Writing and an associate professor of English at the University of Louisville.

E.J. McAdams is a poet, artist, and collaborator exploring language and mark-making in the urban environment using procedures and improvisation with found and natural materials.  His first book LAST came out in September 2023 from BlazeVOX [books]. He has published five chapbooks and curated the Social-Environmental-Aesthetics reading at EXIT ART. www.ejmcadams.com

James McWilliams is a historian and the biographer of Frank Stanford. His The Life and Poetry of Frank Stanford  is due out in the summer 2025 from the University of Arkansas Press. McWilliams is also editing the third edition of Stanford's The Battlefield Where the Moon Says I Love You, which will be published by Arkansas as well in late 2025. 

David Middleton is Professor Emeritus at Nicholls State Univeristy. His books of verse include The Burning Fields (LSU Press, 1991), As Far as Light Remains (The Cummington Press, 1993), Beyond the Chandeleurs (LSU Press, 1999), The Habitual Peacefulness of Gruchy: Poems After Pictures by Jean-Francois Millet (LSU Press, 2005), The Fiddler of Driskill Hill (LSU Press, 2013), and Outside the Gates of Eden (Measure Press, 2023). Time Will Tell: Collected Poems of David Middleton appears in 2025 from Texas Review Press.   

A classically trained flutist, Joce Mienniel is also a composer, arranger, electronica and saxophone player. He graduated from CNSM in Paris with a unanimous Premier Prix de Jazz and is a member of Daniel Yvinec’s Orchestre National de Jazz. Mienniel is difficult to classify, with his improvised work in jazz, pop, rock and world music, along with compositions for film and television, and experimental poetry performances.

olga mikolaivna was born in Kyiv and works in the (intersectional/textual) liminal space of photography, word, translation, and installation. Her debut chapbook cities as fathers is out with Tilted House, and "our monuments to Southern California," she calls them is forthcoming with Ursus Americanus. Other works can be found in mercury firs, Metatron Press, Cleveland Review of Books, and elsewhere. She lives in Philadelphia and co-curates ( peel lit ).

Nora Claire Miller is the author of the chapbook LULL (2020). Their poems have recently appeared in The Paris Review, FENCE, Chicago Review, Bennington Review, and Washington Square Review. Nora is the editor-in-chief of Ghost Proposal. They hold an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop.

Alyssa Moore is an intermedia poet and artist and the author of WET MEDIA (Titled House Press, 2024).  They spin surreal fables and myths and misuse tools of productivity for lyricism and pleasure. Alyssa holds degrees from Harvard and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop where she was an Iowa Arts Fellow. She was the inaugural winner of Poetry Magazine's Prize for Visual Poetry. Their work has appeared in Boston Review, Poetry, Hyperallergic, Tagvverk, Futurepoem, and elsewhere. She is an editor for Ghost Proposal, a journal for poetry and work outside of traditional notions of genre.

Marian D Moore grew up in Shreveport, Louisiana and works in the city of New Orleans. An early reader, her parents encouraged a love of both science and literature.    In 1998, she became a member of the NOMMO Literary Society, a writing workshop led by New Orleans writer and activist Kalamu ya Salaam.  

Her fiction has been published in the anthology “Crossroads: Tales of the Southern Literary Fantastic”, the online journal “Rigorous”, and the anthology “Dominion: An Anthology of Speculative Fiction from Africa and the African Diaspora”

Her poetry has been published in the journals “Drumvoices", “The Louisiana Review” and “Bridges”, Asimov’s SF magazine, the anthologies “Mending for Memory: Sewing in Louisiana Essays, Stories, and Poems”, “Dominion: An Anthology of Speculative Fiction from Africa and the African Diaspora” and  “I am New Orleans”.  Her book of poetry, Louisiana Midrash, was published by UNO Press/Runagate in January 2019.

Olivia Muenz holds an MFA in creative writing from Louisiana State University, where she earned the Robert Penn Warren Thesis Award in prose and served as an editor for New Delta Review. She is the author of forthcoming chapbook Where Was I Again (Essay Press). Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Gulf Coast, Black Warrior Review, Pleiades, Salt Hill Journal, Anomaly, Denver Quarterly's F I V E S, The Boiler, and elsewhere. She currently teaches at Louisiana State University. Find her online at oliviamuenz.com.

Harryette Mullen teaches creative writing, American poetry, and African American literature at UCLA. Her books include Regaining Unconsciousness (Graywolf, 2025), Her Silver-Tongued Companion (Edinburgh University, 2024) Open Leaves (Black Sunflowers, 2023), Urban Tumbleweed (Graywolf, 2013), Recyclopedia (Graywolf, 2006), and Sleeping with the Dictionary (University of California, 2002), as well as a collection of essays and interviews, The Cracks Between (University of Alabama, 2012). 

Laura Mullen has been a MacDowell and Karolyi Foundation Fellow, a featured poet at the International Poetry Festival in Taipei, a Rona Jaffe Award recipient and a National Endowment for the Arts Fellow. She holds degrees from the University of Iowa and U.C. Berkeley and has taught at Naropa, Brown, and Columbia College as well as Colby, Colorado State University, and Louisiana State University—among other institutions Her collections of poetry include EtC (2023), Complicated Grief (2015), Enduring Freedom (2012), Dark Archive (2011), Murmur (2007), After I Was Dead (1999), and The Surface (1991), which was a National Poetry Series selection. Her poems are included in Postmodern American Poetry (2013), American Hybrid (2009), The Arcadia Project: North American Postmodern Pastoral (2012), and I'll Drown my Book: Conceptual Writing by Women (2012), among other anthologies. Black Square Editions published her translation of Véronique Pittolo’s HERO (2019) and an artist’s book with photographs by John David O’Brien, Verge, was published in a limited edition in 2018. Her translation of Stéphanie Chaillou's first book is forthcoming from Lavender Ink / Diálogos. She lives in California.

An Ohio-native, born in 1985, Amanda Murphy has called Paris, France home since 2007. She is a Translator, Writer and Associate Professor of English, Translation Studies and Comparative Literature at the Sorbonne Nouvelle in Paris. She holds a PhD in Comparartive Literature from the Sorbonne Nouvelle, is the author of the monograph Écrire, lire, traduire: Défis et pratiques de la poétique multilingue (Classiques Garnier, 2023) and is the co-translator of Sandra Moussempès' Cassandra at point blank range (Dialogos/Lavender Ink, 2025). Some of her writing can be found on Substack. 

Kristen E. Nelson is a queer writer, scholar, and performer. She is the author of two books In the  Away Time (Autofocus Books, April 2024) and the length of this gap (Damaged Goods, August 2018); and two chapbooks sometimes I gets lost and is grateful for noises in the dark (Dancing Girl, 2017) and Write, Dad (Unthinkable Creatures, 2012). She has published creative and critical writing in Feminist Studies, Bombay Gin, Denver Quarterly, Drunken Boat, Tarpaulin Sky Journal, Trickhouse, and Everyday Genius, among others. Kristen founded Casa Libre en la Solana, a non-profit writing center in Tucson, Arizona, where she worked as the Executive Director for 14 years and co-founded Four Queens, a platform for divinatory poetics with Selah Saterstrom. Kristen is currently a Ph.D. student and instructor of creative writing at the University of California – Santa Cruz in the Literature Department’s creative/critical writing concentration. Her research centers on Creative Writing, Divinatory Poetics, Feminist Autotheory, and Witchcraft Studies. More info: kristenenelson.org

M.A. Nicholson is a New Orleans poet, editor, educator, journalist, and arts administrator. An alumna of Loyola University and a M.F.A. graduate from the University of New Orleans—where she served as Associate Poetry Editor for Bayou Magazine—M.A. was the recipient of the 2021 Andrea-Saunders Gereighty Academy of American Poets Award and was selected for publication in Best New Poets 2022. Her debut poetry collection Around the Gate  (Word Works Books, 2024) was selected by judge Carolyne Wright as a winner for the Hilary Tham Capital Collection prize. M.A. is a co-founder of LMNL Arts, an non-profit organization connecting and supporting writers in New Orleans and beyond. Connect with M.A. at www.michellenicholsonpoetry.com

Leah Nieboer grew up in rural Iowa. She is a poet, Deep Listener, graduate of the Warren Wilson MFA Program for Writers, and current PhD candidate in English & Literary Arts at the University of Denver. Her debut book, SOFT APOCALYPSE, was selected by Andrew Zawacki for the 2021 Georgia Poetry Prize (UGA Press, 2023) and named a best debut collection of 2023 by Poets & Writers Magazine. She is the winner of the 2022 Mountain West Writers’ Contest in Poetry, and the recipient of grants and fellowships from the Center for Deep Listening at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, the University of Denver, and the Virginia Center for Creative Arts at Mt. San Angelo and the Oberpfälzer Künstlerhaus in Schwandorf, Germany. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in the Brooklyn Rail, Oversound, Poetry Daily, Interim: A Journal of Poetry & Poetics, HERE, and elsewhere. She lives in Denver, where she co-hosts The Ritter, a new cultural podcast.
 

Sarah Rose Nordgren is a poet, writer, educator, and activist. She is the author of four books of poetry and prose, including, most recently, Feathers: A Bird Hat Wearer’s Journal, which earned the Essay Press Book Prize and was called “a one-of-a-kind book that raises great insights into flesh and forms of theory and poetry” by judge Ronaldo Wilson, as well as the poetry collections Darwin’s Mother and Best Bones (winner of the Agnes Lynch Starrett Prize),  and the chapbook The Creation Museum. Her poems and essays have appeared in American Poetry Review, Kenyon Review, Ploughshares, and Narrative, and have been featured by PBS Newshour, The Slowdown podcast, Poetry Daily, and elsewhere. Nordgren lives in Durham, North Carolina where she teaches poetry, serves as Emerging Poet Feature editor for 32 Poems, and is the Founding Director of the School for Living Futures, an experimental, interdisciplinary project dedicated to creating new knowledge and possibility for our climate-changed future.

Michelle Noteboom is the author of Landskips (Estepa Editions, Paris, 2022), Roadkill (Corrupt Press, 2013), The Chia Letters (Dusie Kollektiv 2009), Edging (Cracked Slab Books, 2006), which won the Heartland Poetry Prize, and Hors-cage (in French translation by Frédéric Forte, Editions de l’attente, 2010). Her translations include Minute Operas by Frédéric Forte (Burning Deck, 2015) and The Unlikeness of Things by Virginie Poitrasson (forthcoming from Litmus Press). Originally from Michigan, she has lived in Paris since 1991 where she translates films for the French audio-visual industry, and co-curated the Ivy Writers bilingual reading series with Jennifer K. Dick for over 10 years.

Claudia Nuñez de Ibieta is a bookseller, bookmaker, and translator working between English and Spanish. While working for over a decade at her city's local indie bookstore, she joined Cardboard House Press' Cartonera Collective in 2018, learning the craft of cartonera bookmaking in community-based workshops which she helps to facilitate. Her translations of short fiction and poetry, primarily from Chile and Argentina, have appeared in publications including Harpy Hybrid Review, Doublespeak Magazine, Hayden's Ferry Review, Carbon Copy, and Poetry. She grew up in Los Angeles, California and Santiago, Chile, and has called Tempe, Arizona her home for the longest time.

Bevin O’Connor is a poet and educator from Southern California and received her MFA in Poetry from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. She is the winner of the Prairie Lights Donald Justice Poetry Contest, and her poem “Harvest Syntax” won the 2023 Michelle Boisseau Poetry Prize. Bevin has taught writing at the University of Iowa, the University of Southern California, and the University of Houston. Her work can be found or is forthcoming in Southern Indiana Review, Third Coast, Bear Review, Annulet, Palette Poetry, Afternoon Visitor, Denver Quarterly, and elsewhere. She is currently pursuing a PhD in Poetry at the University of Houston, where she is an Inprint Nina and Michael Zilkha Fellowship recipient and winner of the Inprint Donald Barthelme Prize in Poetry. Bevin serves as a poetry editor for Gulf Coast magazine.

Noreen Ocampo is a Filipino American writer and poet from metro Atlanta. She is the author of the chapbooks Not Flowers (Variant Literature, 2022) and There Are No Filipinos in Mississippi (Porkbelly Press, forthcoming). Her work can also be found in The Margins, Tinderbox Poetry Journal, and Baltimore Review, among others. She studies poetry in the MFA program at the University of Mississippi, where she is working to document and elevate stories of Filipino Americans in the Deep South.

Danielle Pafunda [she/they] is author of ten books of poetry and prose including Along the Road Everyone Must Travel (Saturnalia 2025) chosen by Hoa Nguyen as winner of the Saturnalia Poetry Prize, Spite (The Operating System), The Book of Scab (Ricochet Editions), and The Dead Girls Speak in Unison (Bloof Books). Pafunda teaches creative writing, worldbuilding, literature, and queer and gender studies at Rochester Institute of Technology. 

Erasmo Pantoja  is a writer, translator and editor from Colombia. Since 2016 he runs the artisanal publishing house biblioteca popular bruce lee (bpbl), in collaboration with Mónica Mejía. He wrote El visitador (bpbl, 2018), Esta casa no es de nadie (bpbl, 2022), Florenciana (Sic Semper ediciones, 2022, part of the anthology Feliz coincidencia) and co-directed “La palabra del mudo” (2016), a literary documentary film on the poet Lunero Páez. Biblioteca popular bruce lee has published a textile version of Un kafkafarabeuf  and a codex version of La escuela del dolor humano de Sechuán, based on the writings of Mario Bellatin.

Sebastian Páramo is the author of Portrait of Us Burning (Northwestern University Press/Curbstone Books). His work has recently appeared in the Academy of American Poets‘ Poem-A-Day, Split Lip, New England Review, Southern Indiana Review, Southeast Review, Bennington Review, and elsewhere. His work has received fellowships and support from the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, the Vermont Studio Center, the Dobie Paisano Fellowship Program at UT-Austin, and CantoMundo. He is the founding editor of The Boiler, an Assistant Editor for Texas Review Press, and teaches at Southern Methodist University.   

Afrasiab Pashangpur is a pseudonym for an artist living in Iran under a repressive regime and fearing reprisal or imprisonment. He wrote his first stories on The GOAT PoL.

Laura Paul is a writer and artist published in The Brooklyn Rail, Los Angeles Review of Books, Tarpaulin Sky Magazine, Pangyrus, minor literature[s], Dream Pop Journal, and other outlets. Her work has been exhibited at the Armory Center for the Arts, Other Places Art Fair, L.A. Zine Fest, and West Hollywood Book Fair. She earned her B.A. in Comparative History of Ideas from the University of Washington and her Master's Degree in Cinema and Media Studies from UCLA. Her book, Film Elegy, came out in October 2024 from PRROBLEM Press. From 2023-2024 she was the Marketing Director at Asterism Books, where she was a central figure in developing the independent distribution company. To find out more, visit LauraPaulWriter.com.

Zach Peckham is a writer, editor, and educator. He is the author of the poetry collection As If And (New Mundo, 2026) and his poems, essays, and reviews have appeared in jubilat, Annulet, Territory, Poetry Northwest, Always Crashing, APARTMENT, Oversound, American Book Review, mercury firs, and elsewhere. He holds an MFA in poetry from the NEOMFA and teaches at Cleveland State and the Cleveland Institute of Art. He is the managing editor at the CSU Poetry Center and an editor-at-large at Cleveland Review of Books. He also runs a small press called Community Mausoleum and a journal called Coma.

Cate Peebles is the author of the poetry collections The Haunting (Tupelo Press, 2025) and Thicket (Lost Roads Press, 2018), and several chapbooks, including Sun King (2025), the Editor's Choice selection for the Tomaz Salamun Prize from Factory Hollow Press. Recent work has appeared in diode, Ploughshares, Bennington Review, Fence, Ghost Proposal Volt and elsewhere. She lives in Pittsburgh.

Current Louisiana Poet Laureate Alison Pelegrin is the author of four poetry collections, most recently Waterlines (2016) and Our Lady of Bewilderments (2022), both with LSU Press. The recipient of fellowships from the NEA, and the Louisiana Board of Regents, she is Writer-in-Residence at Southeastern Louisiana University. She has work in recent or forthcoming issues of The Missouri Review, The Bennington Review, Limp Wrist, and as printable broadsides at Broadsided. Her Lifelines Poetry Project, an initiating to bring poetry workshops to Louisiana Prisons and Communities, was awarded a 2024 Poet Laureate Fellowship from the Academy of American Poets. 

Charlotte Pence’s most recent book of poems, Code, received the 2020 Book of the Year award from APS and was shortlisted for Best Indie Poetry Books of 2020 by Foreword Reviews. Code details not only the life cycle of birth and death, but also the means of this cycle: DNA itself. Her first book of poems, Many Small Fires (Black Lawrence Press, 2015), received an INDIEFAB Book of the Year Award from Foreword Reviews. She is also the author of two award-winning poetry chapbooks and the editor of The Poetics of American Song Lyrics. Her poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction have recently been published in Harvard Review, Sewanee Review, Southern Review, Brevity, and featured on The Slowdown. A graduate of Emerson College (MFA) and the University of Tennessee (PhD), she is now the director of the Stokes Center for Creative Writing at University of South Alabama. 

Alyssa Perry is the author of Oily Doily (Bench Editions, 2024). Her writing appears online with Annulet, Apartment, Coma, Experimental Sound Studio, Fence, Mercury Firs, River Styx, and Yalobusha Review. Perry is an editor at Rescue Press and poetry editor at Cleveland Review of Books. She teaches at the Cleveland Institute of Art.

New Orleanian Valentine Pierce is a spoken word artist, writer and graphic designer. She was the Writer-in-Residence at A Studio in the Woods, 2006. Pierce co-hosted Rhythm & Muse feature/open mic at Berkeley Museum in the early 2000s. Pierce also hosted the WRBH Writer's Forum and produced poetry programs and open mics throughout New Orleans. Recent publication includes the New Orleans Poetry Journal. Her book Up Decatur: Second Edition, was published in 2023 and her debut book, Geometry of the Heart, in 2007. Performances/readings include the 2023 New Orleans Words & Music showcase and 2024 Louisiana Book Festival.

Jeannine Marie Pitas is a teacher, poet, writer and Spanish-English literary translator living in western Pennsylvania. She is the author of two full-length poetry collections and three chapbooks. She is also the translator or co-translator of twelve Latin American books of poetry and prose, most recently Uruguayan poet Silvia Guerra's A Sea at Dawn, co-translated with Jesse Lee Kercheval and published in 2023 by Eulalia Books, whose editorial staff she recently joined. She teaches at Saint Vincent College in Latrobe, PA. https://www.jeanninemariepitas.com/ 

Emily Pittinos is a Great Lakes poet and essayist currently teaching in Providence, RI. Pittinos has received a 2022 Literature Fellowship from the Idaho Commission on the Arts, as well as support from Vermont Studio Center, the Alexa Rose Foundation, and Washington University in St. Louis, where she served as the Senior Fellow in Poetry. Her recent work appears, or will soon appear, in Academy of American Poets’ poem-a-day, Bennington Review, New England Review, Poetry Society of America, and elsewhere. She is the author of Animal, Roadkill, Ashes, Gone: Essays (Bull City Press, 2022) and The Last Unkillable Thing (University of Iowa Press, 2021), which was a winner of the Iowa Poetry Prize and a finalist for a 2022 Midwest Book Award.

Hilary Plum (she/her) is the author of six books of poetry and prose, including the essay collection Hole Studies and the volume of poetry Excisions. Her novel State Champ is forthcoming from Bloomsbury in May 2025. With Zach Savich she edits the Open Prose Series at Rescue Press. With Zach Peckham she co-hosts the podcast Index for Continuance. She teaches at Cleveland State University and serves as associate director of the CSU Poetry Center. www.hilaryplum.com.

Born in 1975, Virginie Poitrasson is a poet, translator and performer. Originally from Lyon, she taught at Tulane University in New Orleans and Fordham University in New York and now lives in Paris. Virginie Poitrasson’s poetry collections include among others: Tantôt, tantôt, tantôt (éditions du Seuil), Une position qui est une position qui en est une autre (éditions Lanskine), Le pas-comme-si des choses (éditions de l’Attente), Il faut toujours garder en tête une formule magique (éditions de l’Attente), Demi-valeurs (éditions de l’Attente) and Série ombragée (Propos2 éditions). Poitrasson also translates poets Cole Swensen, Mei Mei Berssenbrugge, Marylin Hacker, Charles Bernstein, Jennifer K. Dick, Michelle Noteboom, Shanxing Wang, Rodrigo Toscano, and Laura Elrick for a French audience and has published the following booklength translations: Angle of yaw by Ben Lerner (Joca Seria), First figure by Michael Palmer, with Éric Suchère (José Corti), and Slowly by Lyn Hejinian (Format Américain). She has also written about the work of Pierre Soulages for the New York gallery Levy Gorvy Dayan. The unlikeness of things  translated by Michelle Noteboom will be published in 2025 by Litmus Press. She regularly performs and gives public readings in France and abroad. With the composer and flautist Joce Mienniel, she created Chambre(s) à Écho(s), a musical show awarded by SACD/Beaumarchais. https://linktr.ee/virginiepoitrasson 

Randy Prunty lives in the Bay Area where he works as a bus driver. In 2022 BlazeVox published Test Camp, a collection of his poetry. Other work can be seen in Poemeleon, Volt, the tiny, Poem Alone, Parentheses, New American Writing, Noon: Journal of the Short Poem, Fence, Trilobite,  and forthcoming in Posit. He has five chapbooks and one forthcoming from Three Count Pour, a Selva Oscura Press imprint. 

Cleo Qian is a queer fiction writer and poet. She is the author of the short story collection LET'S GO LET'S GO LET'S GO, and her poetry has been published in ZYZZYVA, Sundog Lit, The Brazenhead Review, mercury firs and elsewhere. She has been awarded fellowships from MacDowell, Notre Dame University, Casa Snowapple, and Sundress Academy for the Arts.

Sarah A. Rae lives in Chicago and is a native of Champaign, Illinois.  She has worked as an educator and holds an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of New Orleans. Her chapbook, Someplace Else, was published by dancing girl press in 2020. Her work may also be found in Gyroscope Review, Jet Fuel Review, Naugatuck River Review, On a Wednesday Night, Anti-Heroin Chic, and the New Orleans-based Poetry Buffet Anthology, among others. Her translations of work by Mexican poet Guadalupe Ángela have been featured in Ezra and in video format online in Jill! A Woman+ in Translation Reading Series.

Preeti Kaur Rajpal is the author of membery (Tupelo Press, 2023.) Her honors include being named a Jerome Hill Artist Fellow in Literature and a McKnight Artist Fellow in Creative Writing. Her poems can be found in AGNI Magazine, Beloit Poetry Journal, Tupelo Quarterly, and other journals. 

Evelyn Reilly is a New York-based poet, scholar, and environmentalist. Her books include Styrofoam, Apocalypso and Echolocation, published by Roof Books; Hiatus, published by Barrow Street Press; and Having Broken, Are recently published by BlazeVOX. Styrofoam is widely read and written about as an example of ecopoetics and avant-garde experimentation. Reilly's poetry and essays have appeared in many journals and anthologies. She is co-curator of the OtherWords Reading Series in Great Barrington, MA and also a member of the Steering Committee of the climate activist group 350NYC.

Brad Richard is the author of Habitations (Portals Press, 2000); Motion Studies (The Word Works, 2011 - winner of the 2010 Washington Prize); Butcher’s Sugar (Sibling Rivalry Press, 2012); and Parasite Kingdom (The Word Works, 2019 - winner of the 2018 Tenth Gate Prize). He has also published four chapbooks, including Larval Songs (Antenna, 2018), a collaboration with artist Kelly Anne Mueller, and, most recently, In Place, chosen for the Robin Becker Series from Seven Kitchens Press. He serves on the editorial board of The Word Works (as imprint editor for the Hilary Tham Capital Collection) and is on the faculty of the Kenyon Review Writing Workshops for teachers. He lives, writes, edits, and occasionally teaches in New Orleans. More at bradrichard.org.

Sarah Riggs is a poet, artist, filmmaker and translator.  Her recent books of poetry include The Nerve Epistle (Roof), Eavesdrop (Chax), and Lines (Winter Editions, spring 2025). She showed her painting series The Emotional Earth in Marseille for the Salon du Salon in 2023, and Riggs is featured drawing in the film Poetry, New York.  Riggs' film Six Lives showed in 2023 in São Paolo in the Virginia Woolf Film Festival. Recent translations from the French include Etel Adnan's Time and Liliane Giraudon's Love is Colder than the Lake (co-translated with Lindsay Turner) both out with Nightboat, and Olivia Elias' Your Name, Palestine (co-translated with Jérémy Robert) published by World Poetry Books.  Sarah Riggs lives in Brooklyn with her partner Omar Berrada, with whom she runs tamaas.org, and edited Another Room to Live In: 15 Contemporary Arab Poets (Litmus). Some of her work is available to read and view at www.sarahriggs.org

Elizabeth Robinson is the author of multiple collections of poetry, most recently Rendered Paradise, with Susanne Dyckman (Apogee), and Excursive (Roof Books). Robinson was selected for inclusion in the 2023 Pushcart Prize as well as The Best American Poetry of 2024, and has recently won Editors' Choice prizes from Scoundrel Time and New Letters.  With Jennifer Phelps, she co-edited the critical anthology Quo Anima: innovation and spirituality in contemporary women's poetry (University of Akron Press.)  Forthcoming later in 2025: Vulnerability Index (Northwestern University Press) and Being Modernists Together (Solid Objects).

Jaime Robles is a writer and visual artist. She has produced many artist books, including Loup d’Oulipo, Letters from Overseas, and Aube/Afternoon. Her bookworks are at the University of California, Berkeley; Yale University; and the Oulipo Archive in Paris, among others. She has two collections published by Shearsman Books (UK), Anime Animus Anima and Hoard, and has been published in many journals, among them Conjunctions, Black Sun Lit, New American Writing and Volt. While pursuing her doctorate in the UK, she created several environmental poetry installations, including Autumn Leaving and Wall of Miracles, which can be seen on her website, jaimerobles.com. Her has worked in small press to corporate publishing throughout her artistic career. 

David Rothenberg is a musician and philosopher whose books include, Why Birds Sing, Bug Music, Survival of the Beautiful, Nightingales in Berlin and his latest book Secret Sounds of Ponds from Roof Books includes QR codes to online audio. He has more than forty recordings including, One Dark Night I Left My Silent House with Marilyn Crispell on ECM, and most recently In the Wake of Memories and Faultlines. He has performed or recorded with Pauline Oliveros, Peter Gabriel, Ray Phiri, Suzanne Vega, Scanner, Elliott Sharp, Iva Bittová, and the Karnataka College of Percussion. Rothenberg is a Distinguished Professor at the New Jersey Institute of Technology.

Gryphon Rue (b. New York, NY) is an artist, composer, and musician. "Elements of field recordings and sampling, analogue and digital instruments, live performance and studio work, all come together as a sum greater than its parts. If we’re throwing the names of artists around then these tracks evoke in sound the bold and playful paper creations of, say, Kurt Schwitters a century ago, a kind of Merz converted into hertz." – The Quietus. "Rue’s music feels like going on a trip you may have taken before, albeit not in a long, long time … his sense of dynamics and texture revealing a finely honed craftsmanship." – Pitchfork.

Aidan Ryan is a writer, publisher, and filmmaker. He is the author of I Am Here You Are Not I Love You: Andrew Topolski, Cindy Suffoletto, and Their Life in the Arts, forthcoming from the University of Iowa Press in May 2025. The short documentary film version of I Am Here You Are Not I Love You premiered at the Buffalo International Film Festival in October 2024 and was a multiple award nominee at the LA IndieX and New York City Winter Film Festivals. His nonfiction and cultural criticism have appeared in The Millions, Public Books, Annulet, Humanities, The White Review, Brink, Colorado Review, and elsewhere. He is a cofounder of Foundlings Press, senior editor at Traffic East Magazine, and literary curator at Artpark. He lives in Buffalo, New York.

Abby Ryder-Huth is a poet and translator whose work has appeared in Poetry, Bennington Review, Apartment Poetry, Changes Review, and elsewhere. The Glass Clouding, a hybrid translation project on Masaoka Shiki's work, was published by Ugly Duckling Presse.

Natasha Sajé is the author of five books of poems, including The Future Will Call You Something else (Tupelo, 2023); a postmodern poetry handbook, Windows and Doors: A Poet Reads Literary Theory (Michigan, 2014); and a book of creative nonfiction, Terroir: Love, Out of Place (Trinity UP, 2020). Professor emerita at Westminster University in Salt Lake City, she continues to teach in the Vermont College of Fine Arts MFA in Writing Program, and now lives in Washington, D.C. www.natashasaje.com

Zach Savich's latest books are the poetry collection Momently (Black Ocean, 2024) and the hybrid critical-memoir for performance A Field of Telephones (53rd State Press, 2025). He teaches at the Cleveland Institute of Art.

Lloyd Schwartz is the Frederick S. Troy Professor of English Emeritus at the University of Massachusetts Boston and the longtime classical music and arts critic for NPR’s Fresh Air and Boston’s public radio station WBUR. In 2019 he was appointed poet laureate of Somerville, Massachusetts, and continues in that position. His other honors include fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, NEA, and Academy of American Poets for his poetry, the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism for his reviews in The Boston Phoenix, and three ASCAP-Deems Taylor Awards for his writing on music. His poems have been selected for the Pushcart Prize, The Best American Poetry, and The Best of the Best American Poetry. He has published five books of poetry and a collection of his music reviews and has edited three volumes dedicated to the poetry and prose of Elizabeth Bishop. His work has appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, The New Republic, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Ploughshares, and numerous other periodicals. His most recent collection is Who’s on First? New and Selected Poems (University of Chicago Press).

Anne Lesley Selcer (aka Alx) is a writer and artist. Their books include Sun Cycle and Blank Sign Book. Poetry appears in Baest, Fence, Annulet, Prelude and The Chicago Review among others. Art Writing has been commissioned for catalogs and monographs internationally. Their parallel, overlapping art practice has produced works shown at The Berkeley Art Museum, the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, The Moscow International Experimental Film Festival and other spaces. They recently curated Sky Will Learn Sky, a sound-based compilation of poets and sound artists. They have also curated the cross-disciplinary Chroma Reading Series and singular events for poets making art/artists using language. Their discipline transgressing research, criticism and creative work have been presented at Gestures: Writing That Moves Between, &Now and AWP, among places. Poetry criticism can be found in Jacket2, Formes Poetiques Contemporaines and SFMOMA’s Open Space. Writing is collected in multiple anthologies, including the forthcoming Writing on Raving. They have been awarded the CSU Poetry Center Book Prize and The Gazing Grain Prize, in addition to the Southern Exposure Art Writing Fellowship.

Jimin Seo was born in Seoul, Korea and immigrated to the US to join his  family at the age of eight. He earned his MFA from Columbia University and BA from Florida State University.  He is the author of OSSIA (2024), winner of The Changes Book Prize judged by Louise Glück.  His poems can be found in Action Fokus, The Canary, LitHub, Pleiades,  mercury firs, and The Bronx Museum. 

Rone Shavers is author of the experimental Afrofuturist novel Silverfish (Clash Books), a finalist for the 2021 CLMP Firecracker Award in Fiction and one of The Brooklyn Rail’s “Best Books of 2020.” His work has appeared in numerous journals, including Action Spectacle, Big Other, BOMB, Black Warrior Review, Notre Dame Review, and PANK. He is Associate Professor of English at The University of Utah in Salt Lake City and fiction editor at Obsidian: Literature and Arts in the African Diaspora.

Michael Martin Shea is the author of multiple chapbooks of poetry and hybrid writing, including To Hell With Good Intentions (Beautiful Days Press, 2024) and I'm Sorry But None of This Is My Fault (Essay Press, 2025). He is also the translator of the Argentine poet Liliana Ponce's Theory of the Voice and Dream (World Poetry Books, 2025). His poems and translations have appeared in Chicago Review, Conjunctions, Denver Quarterly, Fence, Guernica, jubilat, New England Review, Poetry, and elsewhere. He lives in Lafayette, LA, where he is an assistant professor of English at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette.

Christopher Shipman (he/him) lives on Eno, Sappony, & Shakori land in Greensboro, NC, where he teaches literature and creative writing at New Garden Friends School & plays drums in The Goodbye Horses. Recent work appears or is forthcoming in Denver Quarterly, Iron Horse Literary Review, Fence, Pedestal, Poetry Magazine, Rattle (online), & elsewhere. His experimental play Metaphysique D’ Ephemera has been staged at four universities. Getting Away with Everything (Unlikely Books, 2021), in collaboration with Vincent Cellucci, is his most recent collection. More at www.cshipmanwriting.com

Margo Shohl is known for her work in the arts and humanities: as a writer and translator, chamber music violist and violinist and concert producer, professor teaching World literature, and as owner of The Bow-ery, a shop for repair and maintenance of stringed instrument bows on New York’s Upper West Side. Her literary work has appeared in the Penguin Book of Russian Poetry, Октябрь, Harvard Review, London Review of Books, and elsewhere.

Sandra Simonds, an award-winning writer and professor, has dedicated the past two decades to teaching creative writing and literature. She has taught at Thomas University, Bennington College, Florida State University, and the University of Montana. Much of her writing focuses on capitalism, class, ecology, and gender through avant-garde experiments with genre and form. She is the author of nine collections of poetry, most recently, Triptychs (Wave Books, November 2022) which was a 2022 New York Times selection. Burning Oracle, her forthcoming book of poetry from Wesleyan University Press will be published in 2026. Her awards include the University of Akron Poetry Prize for Further Problems with Pleasure chosen by Carmen Giménez and the Cleveland State University Open Poetry Prize for Mother Was a Tragic Girl. She has been a finalist for numerous awards including the National Poetry Series. Her first novel, Assia (Noemi Press, 2023), based on the life of Assia Wevill, won the 2023 Vermont Book Award in Fiction and was shortlisted for the Dzanc Fiction Prize. Her poetry, criticism, and creative nonfiction have been published in the New Yorker, The New York Times, Best American Poetry, Poetry, American Poetry Review, Chicago Review, Granta, Boston Review, Ploughshares, and others. She was the recipient of the Reader’s Choice Award from the Academy of American Poets and is currently working on a book of experimental essays that are a hybrid of memoir, journalism, and literary criticism. Pieces from this manuscript are forthcoming in McSweeneys, Gulf Coast, the Seneca Review and elsewhere. Sandra has also been granted residencies at The Arctic Circle Residency, Millay Arts Colony, the Archipelago Arts Residency in Korpo, Finland, Vermont Studio Center ,and Studio Faire in Southern France. She earned a B.A. in Psychology and English at UCLA, an M.F.A. at the University of Montana, and her Ph.D. (with honors) in Creative Writing at Florida State University. In her spare time, she enjoys trail running, camping, yoga, and travel.

Ryan Skrabalak wrote National Lube (speCt!, 2024) and The Technicolor Sycamore 10,000 Afternoon Family Earth Band Revue (Ursus Americanus, 2024) among other chapbooks. He lives in "Kingston, New York" and edits the poetry press Spiral Editions.

Dorsía Smith Silva is the author of In Inheritance of Drowning (CavanKerry, 2024), which was a finalist for the Whirling Prize and reviewed by Publishers Weekly. She is also an eight-time Pushcart Prize nominee, Best of the Net finalist, Best New Poets nominee, Cave Canem Poetry Prize Semifinalist, Obsidian Fellow, Poetry Editor at The Hopper, and Full Professor of English at the University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras. Literary Hub, The Los Angeles Times Review, Electric Lit and Poets.org have published her work, and poems are forthcoming in The Ecopoetry Anthology: Volume II, The Cimarron Review, Split This Rock's Poem of the Week Series, and Beloit Poetry Journal. She has attended the Bread Loaf Environmental Writers’ Workshop, Bread Loaf Writers’ Workshop, Kenyon Review Writers’ Workshop, Tin House Winter Workshop, Looking Glass Rock Writers’ Conference, and Poets and Scholars Summer Writers Retreat at the Institute for the Study of Global Racial Justice. She is the recipient of the Katharine Bakeless Nason Scholarship from Bread Loaf and Voices of Color Fellowship (Second Place) from Martha’s Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing. She has also given several poetry readings and conversations, including Poet Talk, the Wild and Precious Reading Series, and The Writer's Center. Moreover, she is the author of Good Girl (poetry micro-chapbook), editor of Latina/Chicana Mothering, and the co-editor of seven books: Mothering Community, and Friendship; Travellin' Mama; Mothers, Mothering, and Globalization; Mothers and Daughters, Feminist and Critical Perspectives on Caribbean Mothering; Critical Perspectives on Caribbean Literature and Culture; and Caribbean without Borders: Literature, Language, and Culture. Hoping to increase the visibility of poetry by BIPOC authors, she is the creator of the Smith Silva Reading Challenge. Dorsía Smith Silva has a Ph.D. in Caribbean Literature and Language. She is on social media at @DSmithSilva. Her website is https://dorsiasmithsilva.com. 

Chloe Bliss Snyder is a poet from New York state who now writes poèmes de terre in Idaho, where she studies and teaches poetry at Boise State University. Some of her recent work has appeared in Landfill, Mercury Firs, Tagvverk, Noir Sauna, Annulet, and is forthcoming in the Chicago Review. Her chapbook Ekho and Narkissos was published by the pamphlet series The Swan and its recording can be heard on PennSound.

Carlos Soto-Román is a poet and translator. Author of 11 (Municipal Poetry Prize, Santiago, 2018) he has published Chile Project: [Re-Classified] (Gauss PDF, 2013), Bluff (Commune Editions, 2018), Common Sense (Make Now Books, 2019), Nature of Objects (Pamenar Press, 2019) and Alternative Set of Procedures (Rosa Press, 2023) among others. He is also the author of the first translation of Charles Reznikoff’s Holocaust into Spanish. He lives and works in Santiago, Chile. https://linktr.ee/strmn

Rosalyn Spencer graduated from the University of Louisiana with a B.A. in English and a minor in Women Studies. She has a Masters in Library Science from North Carolina Central University, directs Project S.O.U.N.D. (an arts and activism group), coordinates children’s programs at the Thensted Center in Grand Coteau, Louisiana and teaches English and Language Arts in Jefferson Parish, Louisiana. She is a freelance writer, advocate and supporter of the arts in education.

Matthew Stadler is a writer and editor. His novels include Allan Stein, Landscape: Memory, and Chloe Jarren's La Cucaracha. He was literary editor of Nest Magazine, co-founder of Publication Studio, and currently works as a Reader/Advisor/Editor (RAE), at The GOAT PoL (https://thegoatpol.org), a global writing and publishing platform that aspires to be "a polity of literature."

Jessica Q. Stark is the author of Buffalo Girl (BOA Editions, 2023), winner of a Florida Book Award and a finalist for the 2023 Maya Angelou Book Award, Savage Pageant (Birds, LLC, 2020), and four poetry chapbooks, including INNANET (The Offending Adam, 2021). Her poems have recently appeared in The Nation, Best American Poetry, Gulf Coast, The Florida Review, Pleiades, among other publications. She is a Poetry Editor at AGNI and is an Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at the University of North Florida. She co-organizes the Dreamboat Reading Series in Jacksonville, Florida. Find out more here: https://jessicaqstark.com/. 

Mark Statman has written fourteen books; his most recent is the book of poems, Volverse/Volver (Lavender Ink, 2025) and the chapbook Chicatanas (Subpress, 2023, published simultaneously in English and in Spanish with a translation by Efraín Velasco). Statman’s other poetry collections include  Hechizo (Lavender Ink, 2022), Exile Home (Lavender Ink, 2019), That Train Again (Lavender Ink, 2015), A Map of the Winds (Lavender Ink, 2013) and Tourist at a Miracle (Hanging Loose, 2010). His translations include Never Made in America: Selected Poetry of Martín Barea Mattos (Lavender Ink/diálogos, 2017), as well as Black Tulips: The Selected Poems of José María Hinojosa (University of New Orleans Press, 2012), the first English language translation of the significant poet of Spain’s Generation of 1927, and, with Pablo Medina, a translation of Federico García Lorca's Poet in New York (Grove 2008). Statman’s poetry, essays, and translations have appeared in over 25 anthologies, as well as such publications as New American Writing, Tin House, Hanging Loose, Xavier Review, Ping Pong, and American Poetry Review. A recipient of awards from the NEA and the National Writers Project, he is Emeritus Professor of Literary Studies at Eugene Lang College of Liberal Arts, The New School, lives in San Pedro Ixtlahuaca and Oaxaca de Juárez, Oaxaca, MX, and is a dual national of Mexico and the United States.

Ed Steck is a writer from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He is the author of A Place Beyond Shame (Wonder), An Interface for a Fractal Landscape (UDP), The Garden (UDP), and more. 

Alina Stefanescu was born in Romania and lives in Birmingham, Alabama with her partner and several intense mammals. Recent books include a creative nonfiction chapbook, Ribald (Bull City Press Inch Series, Nov. 2020) and Dor, which won the Wandering Aengus Press Prize (September, 2021). Her debut fiction collection, Every Mask I Tried On, won the Brighthorse Books Prize (April 2018). Alina's poems, essays, and fiction can be found in Prairie Schooner, North American Review, World Literature Today, Pleiades, Poetry, BOMB, Crab Creek Review, and others. She serves as editor, reviewer, and critic for various journals and is currently working on a novel-like creature. Her new poetry collection, My Heresies, will be published by Sarabande in 2025. More online at www.alinastefanescuwriter.com.

Jaclyn Dwyer is the author of The Bride Aflame (2019 Black Lawrence Press). She lives in Thibodaux with her husband and four children and teaches at Nicholls State University.

Sarah Stickney's poems have appeared in journals such as Crazyhorse, Massachusetts Review, Guesthouse Lit, Forklift Ohio, and others. Her chapbook Portico was selected by Thomas Lux as 2016 winner of Emrys Press's annual competition. Her co-translations of Elisa Biagini's selected poems, The Guest in the Wood, won the Best Translated Book Award for poetry in 2014, and a more complete collection of Biagini’s translated work To the Teeth was published in September 2021. Her translation of Albanian/Italian poet Gëzim Hajdari’s Selected Poems was published by Shearsman Books in January 2025. Her first full-length book of poetry, A Lion, was published by MadHat press in the spring of 2024. Stickney teaches philosophy at St. John’s College in Santa Fe, New Mexico.  

Kendra Sullivan is a poet, a public artist, and an activist scholar. She is Director of the Center for the Humanities at the CUNY Graduate Center; co-director of the NYC Climate Justice Hub; publisher of Lost & Found: The CUNY Poetics Document Initiative; and a co-editorial director of Women’s Studies Quarterly. She led the Andrew W. Mellon Seminar on Public Engagement and Collaborative Research from 2014-2024. Kendra has produced public art addressing water access and equity issues in cities around the world and has published her writing on art, environment, and engagement widely–her most recent op-ed in City Limits calls on civic leaders to help make CUNY the climate justice university of New York. She is the co-founder of the Sunview Luncheonette, a cooperative arts venue in Greenpoint, Brooklyn; and a member of Mare Liberum, an eco-art collective. Her books include Zero Point Dream Poems (Doublecross Press) and Reps (Ugly Duckling Presse). 

Anthony Sutton resides on former Akokisas, Atakapa, Karankawa, and Sana land (currently named Houston, TX), as an Inprint C. Glenn Cambor fellow at the University of Houston’s Creative Writing and Literature PhD program and is Managing Editor of Gulf Coast: A Magazine of Literature and Fine Art. A winner of the 2024 Inprint Marion Barthelme Prize in Creative Writing, the author of the poetry collection Particles of a Stranger Light (Veliz Books, 2023), and co-editor of Tom Postell: On the Life and Work of an American Master (Unsung Masters, 2024), Anthony’s poetry has appeared in Prairie Schooner, Texas Review, Zocalo Public Square, the anthology In the Tempered Dark: Contemporary Poets Transcending Elegy, and elsewhere.

Wendy Taylor Carlisle lives and writes in the Arkansas Ozarks. She is the author of four books and five chapbooks and is the 2020 winner of the Phillip H. McMath Post-Publication Award for The Mercy of Traffic (Unlikely Books, 2019). Two of her books have been reprinted, Discount Fireworks  (Doubleback books in 2020)  https://tinyurl.com/2d9zenxr and Reading Berryman to the Dog  ( Belle Point Press, 2023). Her chapbook length entry in Wild Muse: Ozarks Nature Poetry is out now from Cornerpost Press. Her new book, Hallelujah Shoes, was a finalist in the Concrete Wolf book contest. See other work in print and online and at her website www.wendytaylorcarlisle.com. 

Wendy M. Thompson is an Oakland native and author of Black California Gold (Bucknell University Press, 2025). Her creative work has most recently appeared in Obsidian: Literature & Arts in the African Diaspora​, Juked, and Hayden’s Ferry Review. She is an associate professor of African American studies at San José State University.

Aliah Lavonne Tigh is an Iranian American author, teacher, artist, and their work studies both infrastructures of power and ecological connection. The author of Weren’t We Natural Swimmers, a 2022 chapbook with Tram Editions, their poems have appeared in the Academy of American Poets’ Poem-A-Day, Mizna, Guernica, The Texas Review, Matter Monthly, The Rupture, and others. They have recent work in Split This Rock’s Poem of the Week and Gulf Coast Journal.  Tigh has contributed work for a Gulf Coast Journal and Texas Contemporary ekphrastic collaboration, and their work has also been supported by the Tin House Summer Workshop, The Brooklyn Rail, and others. Tigh lives and works in Houston, Texas. You can find them on social media @ALoveTigh. 

Edwin Torres is a NYC native and author of 15 poetry collections including; Quanundrum: i will be your many angled thing (Roof Books, awarded an American Book Award), Xoeteox: the infinite word object (Wave Books), Ameriscopia (U of Arizona), and editor of The Body In Language: An Anthology (Counterpath Press). Fellowships include; NYSCA, Foundation for Contemporary Arts, and Arts MidHudson. His performances and collaborations with cultural nomads over the years have contributed to the development of his bodylingo poetics. Anthologies include; The Difference Is Spreading: 50 Contemporary Poets on Fifty Poems, Poets In The 21st Century: Poetics of Social Engagement, and Aloud: Voices from The Nuyorican Poets Cafe.

Elise Thi Tran is a writer, poet, and multimedia artist. Currently an MFA candidate at WashU, she is the 2022 First Pages Prize winner and a fiction judge for NYC Midnight. Her work appears or is forthcoming in Apogee, Blackbird, Diode, Copper Nickel, The Kenyon Review, Poet Lore, Salt Hill, and elsewhere. Find Elise on Instagram @elise.tran and selections of her work at linktr.ee/elisethi 

Alex Tretbar is the author of the chapbooks According to the Plat Thereof (Ethel, 2025) and Kansas City Gothic (Broken Sleep, 2025). As a Writers for Readers Fellow with the Kansas City Public Library, he teaches free writing classes to the community. His poems, nonfiction, and fiction appear or are forthcoming in Always Crashing, Annulet, APARTMENT, Bat City Review, Coma, Kenyon Review, mercury firs, Protean, The Threepenny Review, and elsewhere.

Nahum Villamil Garcés (1997) is a Colombian writer, editor, cultural journalist, and host of the literary podcast Librería Bizarra. He is currently completing a PhD at Tulane University, with a focus on Latin American Literature. 

Stalina Emmanuelle Villarreal (she/they) sees, hears, feels, and communicates across mediums and cultures. She’s a deep-watching ekphrastic poet, a photographic eco-essayist, a broad-stroke sketch artist, a sonic improv performer, a sound-sensitive literary translator, and an assistant professor of English. Their bilingualism stems from her 1.5-generation experience being both Mexican and Xicanx. Her debut collection of poetry called Watcha is out now from Deep Vellum Publishing. Their poetry can be found in the Rio Grande Review, Texas Review, The Acentos Review, Defunkt Magazine, and elsewhere. Her published translations of poetry include Enigmas by Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, Photograms of My Conceptual Heart Absolutely Blind by Minerva Reynosa, Kilimanjaro by Maricela Guerrero, and Postcards in Braille by Sergio Pérez Torres. Stalina is the recipient of the Inprint Donald Barthelme Prize in Poetry. Their visual poetry—spanning queer erotica, interactive digital art, and video installation—was part of the Antena@Blaffer exhibit at University of Houston’s Blaffer Art Museum. She is currently writing ekphrastic elegies about her interpretative drawings of portraits and a memoir about her photographs of nature—revealing her ability to look backward and within, to write new ways forward.

Matthew Walker is the executive director of Primary Information, a nonprofit publisher of artists' books and writings, and one half of Ex-Official, an imprint and production house for music occupying a liminal space between hard boundaries. He lives and works in Brooklyn.

Michael Joseph Walsh is the author of Innocence (CSU Poetry Center, 2022) and co-editor of APARTMENT Poetry. His poems, reviews, and translations from the Korean have appeared in the Brooklyn Rail, Denver Quarterly, DIAGRAM, Guernica, Fence, jubilat, and elsewhere. He lives in Philadelphia. 

A. P. Walton, a poet and writer, is the editor of Letters of a Poet Dying, a selected edition of Frank Stanford’s letters forthcoming from the University of Arkansas Press. He authored a graduate thesis on Stanford at Lund University, Toward Innumerable Futures: Frank Stanford & Origins (2015). 

Originally from Mississippi, Hannah V Warren is a poet, translator, literary critic, and Fulbright Scholar living in Birmingham, AL. Along with authoring the poetry collection Slaughterhouse for Old Wives’ Tales (2024) and two chapbooks, she was awarded a Pen/HEIM Translation Grant for her work with German poetry and will attend the 2025 Bread Loaf Translators’ Conference. Her work has appeared in Gulf Coast, Passages North, and Denver Quarterly, among others. Warren has a PhD in literature from the University of Georgia and an MFA in creative writing from the University of Kansas. 

Jennifer Whalen (she/her) is a poet, educator, & labor organizer from the Northern Kentucky/Cincinnati, Ohio area. She is the author of the poetry collection Eveningful, which was selected by Rick Barot as the winner of the Lightscatter Press Prize. Her poems can be found in Gulf Coast, Denver Quarterly, Fourteen Hills, Sixth Finch, Grist, The Boiler, & elsewhere. She previously served as writer-in-residence at Texas State University’s Clark House & currently teaches English at the University of Illinois Springfield.

Keagan Wheat (he/him) is a trans, Latinx, disabled poet, educator, and visual artist from Houston. In 2020, he released Viaticum. The Houston Transgender Unity Committee awarded him the Media and Arts Award for 2024. He’s a Pushcart Prize nominee with work appearing in The Acentos Review, Anomaly, Variant Literature and more. Check out his interviews with Brooklyn Poets and Latinx Lit. Find them on social media @kwheat09.

Lesley Wheeler's sixth poetry collection, Mycocosmic, is forthcoming from Tupelo Press in March 2025. Other books include the hybrid memoir Poetry’s Possible Worlds and the novel Unbecoming. Her poems and essays appear in Poetry, Kenyon Review Online, Poets & Writers, and Guernica, and her work has received support from the Fulbright Foundation, Bread Loaf, and the Sewanee Writers Workshop. Poetry Editor of Shenandoah, she lives in Virginia and posts as @LesleyMWheeler.

Mary Jane White, MFA Iowa, NEA Fellowships (poetry and one in translation). Older poems and translations of Marina Tsvetaeva's two cycles of poems addressed to Akhmatova appeared in APR as a feature, and then in Starry Sky to Starry Sky, appeared 1988 from Holy Cow! Press (Duluth, MN) New poems Dragonfly.  Toad. Moon. appeared April 2022 from Press 53 (Winston-Salem, N.C.) New translations of Marina Tsvetaeva in After Russia, appeared 2021 from Adelaide Books, (NYC, Lisbon). Contact her at maryjanewhite@gmail.com.

As the Creative Director of Southern Equality Studios, the art program of the LGBTQ+ nonprofit Campaign for Southern Equality, Liz leads initiatives that amplify LGBTQ+ and BIPOC voices through public art, workshops, and artivism. Their work explores themes of identity, community, and resistance, using art as a tool for social change.

Notable projects include You Are Powerful, You Are Loved, a mural and book supporting trans youth, and The Projection Series, a public installation confronting racial injustice. Liz's exhibitions have been featured at Black Mountain College Museum, Asheville Art Museum (permanent collection), and Atlanta Contemporary.

Recognized with the Tzedek Impact Award and Center for Craft's Craft Futures Fund, Liz fosters inclusion and creative expression through workshops, public art, and exhibitions. Their work centers on storytelling, collaboration, and empowering marginalized communities through art.

Rachel Franklin Wood grew up in Laramie, Wyoming. Now she lives in Boulder, Colorado where she teaches and serves as the managing editor of Subito. Her poems have appeared in Annulet, Denver Quarterly, Fence, Hayden’s Ferry Review, smoke and mold, We Want It All: An Anthology of Radical Trans Poetics, and elsewhere.

Alicia Wright is the author of You're Called By The Same Sound (Thirdhand Books) and A Coin, A Moth, A Literary Journal (DoubleCross Press), both forthcoming in 2025. Her poems appear in the Paris Review, Kenyon Review, and jubilat, among others. She lives in Iowa City, where she serves as editor of Annulet  and Annulet Editions, works as Managing Editor of The Iowa Review, and hosts the poetry reading series Normie Creep in the Sacred Grove.

kathy wu (she/they) is an artist, poet, designer, and  translator living in Providence, RI, on Narragansett land. Her cross-disciplinary work sits within racialized histories of science and technology as well as geology and extinction. She has been published via The New School, Dialogist, Rain Taxi, and anthologized via Fonograf and Nightboat Books (forthcoming). She has been artist-in-residence at Blue Mountain Center, Black Mountain College Museum, and Pao Arts Center. She is an assistant professor at RISD, and a graduate of Brown University’s Literary Arts MFA. 

Matvei Yankelevich is a poet, translator, and editor whose publications include Some Worlds for Dr. Vogt (Black Square), Today I Wrote Nothing: The Selected Writings of Daniil Kharms (Overlook), and the chapbook Dead Winter (Fonograf). Since 2022, he is the editor of World Poetry Books, a nonprofit publisher of poetry in translation. In 2023, he founded the small press Winter Editions. He teaches translation at Columbia University's School of the Arts.

Margaret Yapp is from Iowa City, Iowa. She works as the managing editor at Prompt Press and runs Rampage Party Press, an ongoing hand-printed broadside project and poetry magazine. She has an MFA in poetry from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and is currently an MFA candidate at the University of Iowa Center for the Book. Her debut book of poems, Green for Luck, is out now from EastOver Press. You can read more at Margaret’s website which is margaret yapp dot com / instagram @bigbabymarg.  

Andy Young's second full-length collection, Museum of the Soon to Depart, was published by Carnegie Mellon University Press in October. She is also the author of All Night It Is Morning (Diálogos Press, 2014) and four chapbooks. She holds an MFA from the Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College and teaches at New Orleans Center for Creative Arts. Her work has recently been published, or is forthcoming, in The Greensboro Review, Michigan Quarterly Review and Missouri Review. Her poems have also been featured in contemporary and flamenco dance productions. andyyoung.org