Emma Golden is a New York City-based writer and teacher. She has an MFA in creative nonfiction from Columbia University, and her essays and criticism have appeared in Literary Hub and Qu. She teaches writing at Hunter College-CUNY and Stevens Institute of Technology.

Katie Harms received her MFA in Creative Writing from Ohio State University. She was shortlisted for The Malahat Review‘s 2024 Open Season Award, Writer’s Digest‘s 93rd Annual Writing Competition, and the 2024 Novel Slices Contest. Her work can be found in Action, Spectacle and Creation Magazine and is forthcoming in Every Day Fiction and The Other Journal. 

Josiah Nelson holds an MFA from the University of Saskatchewan, where he teaches creative writing. His work has appeared (or is forthcoming) in Contemporary Verse 2, Grain, Hunger Mountain, Queen’s Quarterly, QWERTY, The Rumpus, Sonora Review, and South Dakota Review. He lives in Saskatoon.

Michael Brosnan is a poet and writer based in Exeter, New Hampshire. His most recent collection of poetry, Emu Blis, Bums Lie, Blue-ism, a finalist for the Wandering Aengus Book Award, was published in early 2024 by Broadstone Books. He is the author of two previous collections — The Sovereignty of the Accidental (2018) and Adrift (2023). His poetry has appeared in numerous literary journals and has won awards from various arts organizations, including the New Hampshire State Council on the Arts. In 2023, he was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. He is also the author of Against the Current, a book on inner-city education, and writes often on issues related to school and learning. More at www.michaelabrosnan.com

GR Collins is a writer from Milwaukee who has held jobs as brick mason, farmhand, middle school teacher, prep cook, and currently works in biotech. His fiction and poetry have appeared in Whitefish Review, Interim, Red Flag, Hive Avenue, Red Rock Review, Flint Hills, and others.

Brian Builta lives in Arlington, Texas, and works at Texas Wesleyan University in Fort Worth. His work has been published in North of Oxford, Hole in the Head Review, South Florida Poetry Journal, New Ohio Review, TriQuarterly and 2River View among others.

Amanda Dettmann is a queer poet, performer, and educator who is the author of Untranslatable Honeyed Bruises. She earned her MFA in Poetry from New York University where she taught undergraduates and has received support from the Kenyon Review Writers Workshops and the Juniper Summer Writing Institute. Dettmann was one of two finalists for the 2022 Action, Spectacle contest judged by Mary Jo Bang, as well as the winner of the 2023 Peseroff Prize in Poetry selected by Jake Skeets. Her work has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize by The Emerson Review and has appeared in FENCE, The Oakland Review, Portland Review, The Adroit Journal, Stanford’s Poetry Journal Mantis, and The National Poetry Quarterly, among others.

Daniel Lusk is author of eight poetry collections and other books, most recently Every Slow Thing, poems (Kelsay Books 2022), and Farthings eBook (Yavanika Press 2022). Among the work published in literary journals, his genre-bending essay “Bomb” (New Letters), was awarded a Pushcart Prize. Native of the prairie Midwest and former commentator on small press books for NPR (“Off the Wall” 1978-1983), Daniel is a Senior Lecturer of English Emeritus at the University of Vermont.

Carla Schick is a queer nonbinary activist who grew up poor with a love of language that fed their imagination. Along with language and poetry, they discovered jazz as a way to bring rhythm and spirit into language. Their works can be found in the anthologies Colossus: Body, Moonstone Press: Which Side Are You On, and Pure Slush’s lifespan series. They are most recently published by Sinister Wisdom, Fourteen Hills, and Forum. Carla was a 2023 recipient of a Literary Award in Poetry from Nomadic Press/SF Foundation.

Susan Cronin earned an MFA in poetry from the New School and has participated in the Juniper Summer Writing Institute and the Community of Writers Poetry Program. Her poems are forthcoming or have appeared in journals such as Pine Hills Review, Crow & Cross Keys, Tinderbox Poetry Journal, Nashville Review, LIGEIA, and Southwest Review (2022 Elizabeth Matchett Stover Award).