Connor Arakaki is a writer at Yale University, where they previously served as the Editor-in-Chief of the Yale Herald. You can also find her journalism in The Nation, The New Journal, Yale Daily News, Hawai'i News Now, and Honolulu Civil Beat.

Mohammad Azarm is the author of six books of poetry and two books of critical essays. He is a leading contemporary experimental poet in Iran, working within various formal and conceptual constraints. As part of a bold generation of Persian writers called the "Poets of the Seventies" (referring to the 1370s in the Iranian calendar, which roughly maps to the 1990s), they rejected established poetic conventions and experimented with language and forms.

Brent Armendinger is the author of two books of poetry, Street Gloss (The Operating System, 2019) and The Ghost in Us Was Multiplying (Noemi Press, 2015), and two chapbooks, Undetectable (New Michigan Press, 2009) and Archipelago (Noemi Press, 2009). Recent work has appeared in The Texas Review, Broken Lens Journal, and the Queer Nature anthology (Autumn House Press, 2022). He teaches creative writing at Pitzer College and lives in Los Angeles with his husband Joseph Gallucci, an audiovisual archivist and DJ. [website]

Kaveh Bassiri is Iranian-American writer and translator. He is the author of 99 Names of Exile and Elementary English. His translations can be found in American Poetry Review, Virginia Quarterly Review, Guernica, Chicago Review, Denver Quarterly, Fence, and Lana Turner. [website]

Lily Blackburn was raised in Humboldt County, California and lives in Portland, Oregon. Her other work appears in JMWW, Heavy Feather Review, and Little Fiction's inaugural nonfiction issue, among others. She works as an editor and serves on the board of the People's Colloquium, a nonprofit that endows grants to programs offering free education in the arts and humanities. She's writing a novella. [instagram [website] [email]

Leia K Bradley (they/she) is a backwoods Georgia born, Brooklyn based lesbian writer and performance artist who also teaches Writing in Gender & Sexuality, among other delicious things. With recent work out in POETRY, BOOTH, and Black Warrior Review, all the vile beautiful rest of their writing can be found on their website. After climbing out from the coffin of her first divorce, she is also accepting love and lust letters through her twitter & bluesky @ or instagram @. And put your Sunday dress on for Venus In Transit, out with Red Hen Press, in early 2027.  [instagram] [twitter] [bluesky] [website] [email]

Christine Byrne is a writer and visual artist based in Baltimore. You can find more of her poetry in New England Review, Ninth Letter, Plume, Southeast Review, Poet Lore, and elsewhere. [email]

Patricia Clark is the author of Self-Portrait with a Million Dollars. She has recent work in Plume, North American Review, I-70 Review, Sheila-na-Gig, and elsewhere. Her poem "Astronomy: In Perfect Silence'" is going to the moon as part of the Lunar Codex on a NASA Space X flight in fall 2024. She has a new book (her seventh) recently out: O Lucky Day (Madville Publishing).

Jie Venus Cohen is a mixed, intersex writer, author of chapbook VENUS LIMBS ('25, Thirty West) and 2025 Lambda Literary Poetry Fellow. Their work has been recognized or is forthcoming in The McNeese Review, The Offing, The Minnesota Review, Hayden's Ferry Review, Strange Horizons, The Ex-Puritan, [POETS.org], and others. [website]

Ella Flores is currently a creative writing PhD candidate at SUNY Binghamton, and has work appearing or forthcoming in The Penn Review, Salamander, Hunger Mountain, Nimrod, among others. [email]

Jane Freiman (she/her) is a writer, archives worker, and oral historian based in Baltimore. [website] 

Heather M Godden is an editor, ghostwriter, vintage vinyl seller, and social work student in southern Ontario. Her poems have appeared in Arc, CV2, and The Malahat Review. She's actively seeking a publisher for her collection PSYCHO DOG. [email]

Jacob Griffin Hall was raised outside of Atlanta, Ga and lives in Columbia, Mo, where he teaches English at the University of Missouri. His first collection of poetry, Burial Machine, won the 2021 Backlash Best Book Award and is available with Backlash Press. Jacob's writing has appeared in the Missouri Review, 32 Poems, New Ohio Review, Black Warrior Review, New Orleans Review, Southern Humanities Review, and elsewhere. [email]

Matt Hart is the author of twelve books of poetry, including most recently FALLING FINE: Selected and New Poems (Ledge Mule Press/Pickpocket Books, 2024). The Head of Creative Writing at the Art Academy of Cincinnati and a Faculty Mentor in the PNCA/Willamette University Low Res MFA Program, he plays in the post-punk/indie rock band NEVERNEW and edits, solders, and publishes the poetry journal Solid State. [email]

Eva Heisler's poems can be found online at Colorado Review, The Los Angeles Review, swamp pink, Poetry Daily, and BOMB. Work is forthcoming in Mississippi Review and Copper Nickel. Her books of poetry include Reading Emily Dickinson in Icelandic. [email]

Amanda Hodes is a writer and new media artist, and she currently teaches creative writing at Oberlin College & Conservatory. Winner of the 2024 Philip Levine Prize for Poetry, her debut collection Into the Into of Earth Itself is forthcoming on Black Lawrence Press in 2026. In it, she uses poetic text mining to explore pollution, gender, and extractivism. She has also been published in Black Warrior Review, Prairie Schooner, Pleiades, AMBIT, Denver Quarterly, PANK, and elsewhere. Her new media work has been exhibited in the Crisp-Ellert Art Museum, Torpedo Factory, Abington Arts Center, Hirshhorn Sound Scene Festival, and Ammerman Center for Arts & Technology. [website] [contact]

Jake Levine is the author of the The Imagined Country (Tolsun Books 2023), translator of the books Whale and Vapor (Black Ocean 2020), Butterfly Sleep (Tupelo Press 2019), Bred From the Eyes of a Wolf (Plays Inverse 2018), I Am a Season that Doesn't Exist in the World (Black Ocean 2016) by Kim Kyung Ju, co-translated Kim Yideum's Hysteria (Action Books 2019), Kim Minjeong's Beautiful and Useless (Black Ocean 2020), and many others. He edits the Moon Country series at Black Ocean and lives in Daegu, South Korea. [email]

Betsy Mitchell Martinez's recent poems have appeared or are forthcoming in New Letters, Rattle, Shenandoah, The Pinch Journal Online, Sugar House Review, and Nashville Review.

Edward Mayes is the author of several volumes of poetry, including First Language, Juniper Prize (University of Massachusetts Press) and Works and Days, AWP Prize in Poetry (University of Pittsburgh Press). He's published poems in The New Yorker, APR, Kenyon Review, New England Review, Best American Poetry, and Poetry. He lives in Durham, North Carolina and Cortona, Italy, with his wife, the writer Frances Mayes. [email]

Sati Mookherjee is the author of the collections Eye and Ways of Being. Recent work appears / is forthcoming in Gulf Coast, Poetry Northwest, and Michigan Quarterly Review. Her collaborations with contemporary classical composers have been performed or recorded by ensemble (The Esoterics, Contemporary Chamber Composers and Players) and solo musicians (Hope Wechkin on Ravello Records). A lifelong resident of the Pacific Northwest, she is Vice President of the Board of Directors of CASCADIA International Women's Film Festival. [website]

Alicia Rebecca Myers's poetry has appeared in publications that include River Styx, Sixth Finch, Raleigh Review, and Frozen Sea. Her first full-length manuscript, Warble, was chosen as winner of the 2024 Birdy Poetry Prize (Meadowlark Press) and was published in January 2025. She lives with her family in Western Colorado.

Emily Rosko's books include Weather Inventions, Prop Rockery, and Raw Goods Inventory. She is the editor of A Broken Thing: Poets on the Line and is poetry editor for swamp pink. New poems can be found in Bellingham Review, Bennington Review, Epoch, Laurel Review, New American Writing, The Offing, South Carolina Review, and Third Coast. She teaches at the College of Charleston. [email]

Joe Sacksteder is the author of Make/Shift (Sarabande Books) and Driftless Quintet (Schaffner Press)—plus he has an album of Werner Herzog audio collages, Fugitive Traces (Punctum Books). Publications include The Offing, Salt Hill, Ninth Letter, and Denver Quarterly.

Scott Withiam has published two books of poems, Doors Out of the Underworld (MadHat Press) and Arson & Prophets (Ashland Poetry Press), and a chapbook (Desperate Acts & Deliveries, Two Rivers Review Prize). A third book, Waste Management Facility, was released by MadHat Press in July 2025. His most recent poems can be found in Another Chicago Magazine, Barrow St., I-70 Review, On the Seawall, Rattle, and Tampa Review. Poems are forthcoming in Plume. [email]

Rachel Franklin Wood grew up in Laramie, Wyoming. Now, she lives and teaches in Boulder, CO. 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.