Zaid Aldarghme is from Birmingham & Amman, but has roots in the West Bank. They're moving to Harrison, New York, this August. This is just one of their names. [email]

John Arthur is a writer and musician from New Jersey. He is the 2025 Grand Prize winner of The Poetry Box's chapbook contest for Lucy the Elephant Wins in a Landslide, which will be released in 2026. His work has appeared in Rattle, trampset, Failbetter, ONE ART, Frogpond, and elsewhere. His band is The Deafening Colors.

Andre Bagoo's latest books include The Undiscovered Country, The Dreaming, Narcissus and Midnight Bestiaries. [website] [insta]

Nathaniel Calhoun works to protect and restore biodiversity around the Amazon basin and in his home country, Aotearoa New Zealand. His poems have featured or will soon feature in Oxford Poetry, Lana Turner, Puerto del Sol, New York Quarterly, and many others. He reads for Only Poems. [twitter] [email]

Kinsey Cantrell is a Brooklyn-based poet and the author of cells, fully differentiated (Noemi Press, 2025). Recent work can be found in Second Factory, Puerto Del Sol, Something in the Water Zine, Apogee, and elsewhere. [website] [email]

Douglas Cole has published six poetry collections and the novel The White Field, winner of the American Fiction Award. He lives and teaches in Seattle, Washington. [website]

These poems come from Katharine Coles' tenth poetry collection, Time and Chance, forthcoming from Turtle Point Press. Turtle Point also published her essays, The Stranger I Become: On Walking, Looking, and Writing. She teaches in the Creative Writing Program at the University of Utah. [email]

Grace Ezra is originally from the Blue Ridge Mountains and currently lives in Washington, D.C. Their work has been previously published or is forthcoming in Denver Quarterly, Indiana Review, Salt Hill Journal, Raleigh Review, South Carolina Review, and elsewhere. She is the founder and managing editor of Hood of Bone Review. 

Olivia Garard served as an active-duty Marine Officer from 2014-2020. She has published poems with War, Literature & the Arts, Inkstick Media, War on the Rocks, The Wrath-Bearing Tree, Collateral Journal, and The Line Literary Review. When she is not reading and writing about old books on war, she begins poems on her notes app. [bluesky]

Kevin Grauke is the author of Shadows of Men (Queen's Ferry Press) and Yonderites (Bullshit Lit). West of Destry (Cowboy Jamboree Press) and Bullies & Cowards (Cornerstone Press) are forthcoming in 2025 and 2026, respectively. He teaches at La Salle University and lives in Philadelphia. [bluesky] [email]

Dan Gutstein is the author of 8 books and chapbooks, vocalist for the post-punk album States of America, and co-director of a forthcoming documentary on the folk song "Little Liza Jane." [website] [email]

Harrison Hamm is a poet, screenwriter, and essayist from rural Tennessee. His debut chapbook, If It's Country Music You Want, is forthcoming from Poetry Society of America. His writing appears in POETRY, The Missouri Review, The Poetry Review, Foglifter, Verse Daily, and more. [website] [instagram]

Seth Landman has published two books of poetry: Sign You Were Mistaken (2013, Factory Hollow Press) and Confidence (2015, Brooklyn Arts Press). He lives in Rhode Island. [email]

Angie Macri was born in Kyiv and works in the (intersectional/textual) liminal space of photography, word, translation, and installation. Her translation of Stanislav Belsky's first full length collection in English will be out with Dialogos / Lavender Ink. She lives in Philadelphia.  [website]

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 other works can be found in the Tiny Mag, LitHub, Metatron Press, Cleveland Review of Books, and elsewhere. [website]

Author of Trans Studies, Crystal Odelle (they / she) is a storyteller of trans, polyamorous, and whore practice, writing and revising into the desire for something like a life. Their stories have appeared in Black Warrior Review, Foglifter, Split Lip Magazine, smoke and mold, Apogee, Strange Horizons, and elsewhere. Crystal is anthologized in We're Here: The Best Queer Speculative Fiction. Her writing and performances trouble the divide between fiction and reality toward liberation. [website] [Instagram]

Oli Peters' work appears in Pleiades, New World Writing, Rain Taxi, and Heavy Feather Review. Her dance-performance piece "Body Glyph State" will be performed at the 2025 Iowa Choreography Festival. [website]

Glenn Shaheen is the author of four books. He is the President of the Radius of Arab American Writers and teaches at Prairie View A&M University. 

Abraham Smith was raised around Ladysmith, Wisconsin, and lives in Ogden, Utah, where he is associate professor of English and co-director of Creative Writing at Weber State University. His recent poetry collections include Insomniac Sentinel (Baobab Press, 2023) and Dear Weirdo (Propeller Books, 2022). Away from his desk, Smith improvises poems inside songs with [The Snarlin' Yarns]. [email]

Sidney Tilghman lives in rural Vermont where she farms, teaches, and walks her dog. Her work has appeared in New Flash Fiction Review, Vermont Almanac, and elsewhere. [email]

Jodie Noel Vinson is writing a book about the intersections of chronic illness and creative expression. Her essays and reviews have been published in The New York Times, Harvard Review, Ninth Letter, Literary Hub, Fence, Ploughshares,and Electric Literature, among other places. She lives in Providence, where she serves as program director of a literary arts nonprofit.

Catherine Weiss is a poet and artist from Maine, living in Western Massachusetts. Her full-length collections are Wolf Girls vs Horse Girls and Griefcake. [website] [email]

Adele Elise Williams is the author of WAGER selected by Patricia Smith for the 2024 Miller Williams Poetry Series, and, with Dana Levin, is co-editor of Bert Meyers: On the Life and Work of an American Master. Her critical and creative work explore how gender performance and working-class ecologies engage designations of high and low art, specifically within confessionally-innovative poetics. [website] [email]

Marshall Woodward co-directs Space City Medieval, a project promoting creative responses to medieval poetry supported by the Medieval Academy of America and the Houston Arts Alliance. His writing appears in or is forthcoming in Annulet, Fence, The Indiana Review, and elsewhere.

Burgi Zenhaeusern (she/her) is the author of the chapbook Behind Normalcy (CityLit Press, 2020) and co-edited the translations of the anthology Knocking on the Door of The White House (zozobra publishing, 2017). Her work appeared in a number of journals and as broadside (Ashland Poetry Press). Originally from Switzerland, she lives in Maryland. [website] [bsky]

Katherine Zlabek's story collection, When, winner of The Journal's 2018 Non/Fiction Collection Prize, is available from The Ohio State University Press. Her stories and essays have appeared in Boulevard, The Kenyon Review, The Iowa Review, and other journals. Ricochet Editions published her chapbook, Let the Rivers Clap Their Hands, in 2015. She currently writes in Madison, Wisconsin, where she is an artist-in-residence at Dane Arts.