Abraham Smith is the author of five poetry collections--Destruction of Man (Third Man Books, 2018); Ashagalomancy (Action Books, 2015); Only Jesus Could Icefish in Summer (Action Books, 2014); Hank (Action Books, 2010); and Whim Man Mammon (Action Books, 2007)--and one coauthored fiction collection, Tuskaloosa Kills (Spork Press, 2018). In 2015, he released Hick Poetics (Lost Roads Press), a co-edited anthology of contemporary rural American poetry and related essays. His creative work has been recognized with fellowships from the Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, MA, and the Alabama State Council on the Arts. He recently completed a poetry manuscript about cranes--birds whose song and stature electrify him. He lives in Ogden, Utah, where he is Assistant Professor of English at Weber State University.

Alexis Pope is a queer poet and writer living in Chicago. Author of That Which Comes After (Big Lucks Books, 2018), Pope has published four chapbooks, most recently Debt (Madhouse Press, 2017). Work has appeared in Denver Quarterly, Hobart, jubilat, Poor Claudia, Powder Keg, and West Branch, among others. More at alexis-pope.com.

Alicia Wright is originally from Rome, Georgia, and has received fellowships from the Iowa Writers' Workshop. Poems appear in Ecotone, The Greensboro Review, Flag + Void, Poetry Northwest, and The Literary Review, among others, and she is the recipient of the 2017 Wabash Prize from Sycamore Review. At present, she is working towards a PhD in Creative Writing and Literature at the University of Denver, where she serves as Conversations Editor for Denver Quarterly.

Amy Lawless is the author of the poetry collections My Dead (2013) and Broadax (2017), both from Octopus Books. With Chris Cheney, she is the author of the hybrid book I Cry: The Desire to Be Rejected from Pioneer Works Press’ Groundworks Series (2016). Her chapbook, A Woman Alone, was published by Sixth Finch in 2017.

Anastasia Dotzauer holds a BA in Creative Writing from Weber State University. Her work has appeared in Metaphor, Miracle Monocle, and Canary (forthcoming). She currently lives in Salt Lake City, where she works as a marketing professional.

​April Freely is a poet and essayist whose writing has appeared in Forklift, OH, Ninth Letter, Gulf Coast, Kenyon Review, and elsewhere. She has received fellowships and awards from the Ohio Arts Council, Vermont Studio Center, Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, and the George Kaiser Family Foundation.

Bailey Schaumburg Bailey Schaumburg is a poet. She lives in St. Louis, MO.

Alex Gallo-Brown
Alex Gallo-Brown is a poet, fiction writer, and essayist based in Seattle. He is the author of The Language of Grief (2012), a self-published collection of poems, and Variations of Labor (Chin Music Press, 2019), a collection of poems and stories. Gallo-Brown’s essays, articles, poems, stories, and interviews have appeared in numerous publications, including Los Angeles Review of Books, The Brooklyn Rail, Salon.com, Literary Hub, Electric Literature, The Rumpus, The Stranger, Fanzine, Vice’s Motherboard, Poetry Northwest, Crosscut, The Oregonian, City Arts, Seattle Review of Books, and Pacifica Literary Review. He currently lives in Seattle with his wife and daughter, where he works as a union organizer.

Callie Garnett is the author of the chapbooks Hallelujah, I'm a Bum (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2015), and On Knowingness (The Song Cave, 2017). Her poems have appeared in Prelude, Company, jubilat, the Recluse and elsewhere. She works as an Assistant Editor at Bloomsbury Publishing and lives in Brooklyn.

Cassandra de Alba's work has appeared in Big Lucks, Underblong, and Smoking Glue Gun, among other publications. Her chapbooks are habitats (Horse Less Press, 2016) and ORB (Reality Hands, 2018). She is an associate editor at pizza pi press and co-host at the Boston Poetry Slam at the Cantab Lounge.

Christopher Kennedy s the author of Clues from the Animal Kingdom (BOA Editions, Ltd., 2018) Ennui Prophet (BOA Editions, Ltd., 2011), Encouragement for a Man Falling to His Death (BOA Editions, Ltd., 2007), which received the Isabella Gardner Poetry Award, Trouble with the Machine (Low Fidelity Press, 2003), and Nietzsche’s Horse (Mitki/Mitki Press, 2001). He is one of the translators of Light and Heavy Things: Selected Poems of Zeeshan Sahil, BOA Editions, Ltd., 2013), published as part of the Lannan Translation Series. His work has appeared in many print and on-line journals and magazines, including Ploughshares, Plume, New York Tyrant, Ninth Letter, Wigleaf, The Threepenny Review, Mississippi Review, and McSweeney’s. In 2011,
he was awarded an NEA Fellowship for Poetry. He is a professor of English at Syracuse University where he directs the MFA Program in Creative Writing.

​Colby Gates lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico. He received an MFA from The University of New Mexico. His work has appeared in Ninth Letter and Knack Magazine. His book Quantitative Chemistry was a finalist in the Subito Prose Prize Contest in 2016.

Connie Yu is a writer and performer living in Philadelphia, attending to queer Asian worry,meetingplaces for this, that body and what it wears, alternate and constricted transmissions of information. They hold a BA in English from UPenn, and work as an educator at Center for Creative Works. Find them in Apiary, Supplement, Jacket2, & on their corner.

Dave Harrity's writing has appeared in Verse Daily, Memorious, Revolver, The Los Angeles Review, Copper Nickel, Confrontation, Softblow and elsewhere. Author of three books, his most recent are These Intricacies (Cascade Books, 2015) and Our Father in the Year of the Wolf (Word Farm, 2016). The recipient of an Al Smith Fellowship from the Kentucky Arts Council and a William Alexander II and Lisa Percy Fellowship recipient from the Rivendell Writers’ Colony, he lives in Louisville, Kentucky, with his wife and children. Reach out via daveharrity.net.

Dulce María Loynaz
Dulce María Loynaz (1902-1997) was a Cuban poet who won the Cervantes Prize in 1992. She wrote Bestiarium as a student prank in the 1920s, submitting it as part of her written exam in Natural History. It was not published until 1985. The other two notebooks, containing the vegetable and the mineral portions of the exam, do not survive..

Elizabeth Clark Wessel is the author of four chapbooks of poetry, a founding editor at Argos Book, and the translator of numerous novels from the Swedish, including The Believer by Joakim Zander & What We Owe by Golnaz Hashemzadeh Bonde. Originally from rural Nebraska, she spent many years living in New York and Connecticut, and these days calls Stockholm, Sweden home.

Emily Toder is the author of Waste, newly out from BlazeVOX Books. Past publications include Beachy Head and Science (each published by Coconut Books) and the chapbooks It's Not Over Yet (If a Leaf Falls Press), No Land (Brave Men Press), I Hear a Boat (Duets Books), and Brushes With (Tarpaulin Sky). A graduate of the MFA Program for Poets & Writers at UMass Amherst, she lives in New York and works at the Transit Museum.

Eric Stiefel is a graduate of the MFA program at Washington University in St. Louis, where he also served as junior fellow in poetry. He was named the winner of the 2018 Sequestrum New Writer Awards and a finalist in the 2018 Penn Review Poetry Prize.

GennaRose Nethercott's book The Lumberjack’s Dove (Ecco/HarperCollins) was selected by Louise Glück as a winner of the National Poetry Series for 2017. She is also the lyricist behind the narrative song collection Modern Ballads, and is a Mass Cultural Council Artist Fellow. A born Vermonter, she has lived in many cities across the United States and Europe, and has been writer-in-residence at the Shakespeare & Company bookstore, Art Farm Nebraska, and The Vermont Studio Center, among others. She tours nationally and internationally composing poems-to-order for strangers on a 1952 Hermes Rocket typewriter.

Heather Hughes still hangs her heart in her native Miami. She is Associate Editor at Harvard University Press. Her poems explore ecologies of bodies and disembodiment. She writes for Mass Poetry online and leads K-12 workshops for their Student Day of Poetry. She is also an editorial associate at Scoundrel Time. heather often combines poetry with her work as a letterpress printer. She is a tutor and instructor at Bow & Arrow Press at Harvard University. She never outgrew her science fiction & fantasy obsession. All her tattoos have wings.

Heather Madden lives and writes in Chesterfield, NH. She holds an MFA from IU and an MA from NMSU. Currently, Madden works in human services, and she serves as a contributing editor to Salamander. Her work has been supported by awards from the St. Botolph Club Foundation and the Somerville, Massachusetts Arts Council.

Jennifer Hancock's book, Between Hurricanes, is available from Lithic Press. Her work has appeared in Spoon River Poetry Review, Crab Orchard Review, Quarterly West, and other journals. She teaches creative writing and literature at Colorado Mesa University

Lauren Hunter is the author of HUMAN ACHIEVEMENTS (Birds, LLC 2017). She lives in her hometown of Durham, North Carolina, and can be found online at breakfast-etc.com.

Liz Howard is a writer of mixed European and Anishinaabe (Ojibway) descent, born and raised on Treaty 9 territory in northern Ontario. Her first book Infinite Citizen of the Shaking Tent won the 2016 Griffin Poetry Prize, Her recent work has appeared in Poetry Magazine, Camera Austria, and Best Canadian Poetry 2017. After working many years in cognitive and neuropsychological research she is currently the Canadian Writer in Residence at the University of Calgary.

Lizzy Golda is a poet, comic and educator in New York who came by way of California and elsewhere. Her poems have appeared in No, Dear Magazine, the sensations feelings journal, JDB records and on the the record Warzsawa by the band Point Reyes. .

Maggie Wells is the author of Pluto (The Wrath of Dynasty) and co-founder of Be Witched, an art and literary event machine. Her work has been featured in Best American Erotic Poems: From 1800 to the Present, The Cadence of Hooves Anthology, Nailed Magazine, Free Lunch, Inquisitive Eater and others. If you look hard enough, you may also uncover her advice column written under a pseudonym. Maggie currently lives and DJs in Nashville, TN..

Michael Estes Michael Estes teaches in Louisville, KY. His poems have appeared in Boulevard, jubilat, Quarterly West, Rattle, and elsewhere.

Peter Vanderberg is the founding editor of Ghostbird Press. He served in the US Navy from 1999 – 2003 and received an MFA in Poetry from CUNY Queens College. His work has appeared in journals such as Prairie Schooner, Drunken Boat, CURA and LUMINA, and his chapbook Crossing Pleasant Lake is available from Red Bird Press. He lives on Long Island with his wife and four children.

Roger Smith is a poet from Queens NY of Bajan heritage. Amarried father of three, he has self-published two collections of poetry, Laundromats & Lounges (2013) and Chambers of a Beating Heart (2015). French Kissed Black Roses (2015) won third place in the Local Gems NaPoWriMo chapbook contest. Currently attending Queens College's MFA Program in Creative Writing, Smith serves as co-editor of poetry at Armstrong Literary Online Magazine and was a 2017 Louis Armstrong House Archives writer in residence. Smith writes with the focus on uplifting the arts and black culture amidst the working middle class

Simeon Berry has been an Associate Editor for Ploughshares, and won a Massachusetts Cultural Council Individual Artist Grant and a Career Chapter Award from the National Society of Arts and Letters. His first book, Ampersand Revisited, won the 2013 National Poetry Series (Fence Books), and his second book, Monograph, won the 2014 National Poetry Series (University of Georgia Press). He lives in Somerville, Massachusetts.

Sylvia Beato is a writer and an educator. Her work revolves around the phenomenology of the body, the politics of linguistics, and post-colonial identity. She laughs with her wife and their dog in Brooklyn.

Born in Halifax, Trish Salah is the author of the Lambda award winning poetry book, Wanting in Arabic, and of Lyric Sexology Vol. 1, and co-editor of a special issue of TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly on Transgender Cultural Production. She has fiction in the science fiction and fantasy anthology, Meanwhile, Elsewhere and poetry in numerous magazines, including Anomaly, Prism International and Supplement. She was recently a finalist for the Writers' Trust of Canada's Dayne Ogilvie prize, and is currently working on “Lyric Sexology, Vol. 2,” as well as on a short story collection and a book of criticism. She is an associate professor of Gender Studies at Queen’s University.

Whitney Kerutis is a poet from Arizona residing in Stillwater, Oklahoma. She is Managing Editor of GASHER Journal, Poetry Editor of Timber Literary Journal, and is a Ph.D. student in Creative Writing/Literature at Oklahoma State University. She received her MFA from the University of Colorado, Boulder. She is the 2017 poetry winner of the Tucson Festival of Books Literary Awards. Her work has appeared in journals such as Breakwater Review, Anamesa, WINDOW, Thought Erotic, and others.

Zakia Henderson-Brown is a writer and performer living in Philadelphia, attending to queer Asian worry,meetingplaces for this, that body and what it wears, alternate and constricted transmissions of information. They hold a BA in English from UPenn, and work as an educator at Center for Creative Works. Find them in Apiary, Supplement, Jacket2, & on their corner.