Katie Berta's debut poetry collection, retribution forthcoming, was published by Ohio University Press in 2024. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Ploughshares, Poetry Daily, The Kenyon Review, The Georgia Review, The Cincinnati Review, The Yale Review, The Iowa Review, Colorado Review, Pleiades, and Sixth Finch, among other magazines. She teaches creative writing in Arizona. [email]

Amber Burke's writing appears in swamp pink, The Sun, Michigan Quarterly Review, and Best Microfiction 2026, among other places. She also frequently contributes to Yoga Journal. After nearly a decade teaching writing and yoga in New Mexico, she has relocated to London with her husband and two dogs. [website] [email]

Chris Campanioni was born in Manhattan in 1985 and grew up in a very nineties New Jersey. His essays, poetry, and fiction have been translated into Spanish and Portuguese, and have appeared in several journals and anthologies, including Best American Essays and Latin American Literature Today. Recent books include the poetry collections Windows 85 and Rolling Windows (Roof Books), a novel named VHS (CLASH Books), and a book of creative nonfiction called north by north/west (West Virginia University Press). [x] [instagram]

Kevin Chesser is a writer and musician who lives in West Virginia. His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Passages North, BRUISER, elsewhere, Annulet, Spectra Poets, Only Poems, Pithead Chapel, and other places. His second collection of poetry, (Please Consider These) Alternate Names for the Moon, is forthcoming this fall from Pulley Press. [website] [instagram]

Celeste Colarič-Gonzales (she/her) is a writer, artist, editor, educator, and mother living in Oakland, CA, on stolen Chochenyo Ohlone land. She teaches Creative Writing and Composition at SFSU. When not wording, she paints, does old-school analog photography, or otherwise crafts. Find her words+ in/forthcoming from Isele, Tinderbox Poetry Journal, Blood Orange Review, NELLE, The Ana, Corporeal, Petrichor, and elsewhere. [email]

Michael Credico is the author of the novella Technicolor Horses (Autumn House Press, 2027), and the story collection Heartland Calamitous (Autumn House Press, 2020). He is an editor at the Cleveland Review of Books. He lives in Cleveland, Ohio. [website] [email]

Jen Frantz is a bathtub reader from Ohio. [website] [instagram] [email]

Jess Gallerie is a queer writer and scholar from New York, living in the South. You can find their work in Farewell Transmission, Bruiser, and HAD, among others. [website]

Aaron Gilbreath is a nonfiction writer in Oregon. You can read his work in Harper's, The Atlantic, Sierra, The Dublin Review, Adventure Journal, Spin, and his books The Heart of California: Exploring the San Joaquin Valley and This Is: Essays on Jazz. [email]

Sonia Greenfield (she/they) is the author of three books of poetry: All Possible Histories (Riot in Your Throat, 2022), Helen of Troy is High AF (Harbor Editions, 2022), and Letdown (White Pine Press, 2020), and two forthcoming titles: a chapbook of elegies for her mother, The Nautilus, out in November of 2026 with Harbor editions and a new full-length, Blade of Hunger, about how family can fuck us up (God love em') out in early 2027 with Riot in Your Throat. Sonia lives in Minneapolis where she teaches at Normandale College and tries to ski whenever she can. [website] [email]

Rebekah Denison Hewitt is the author of Creature in Bloom (University of Wisconsin Press, 2026). Her work has appeared in journals such as Narrative, The Rumpus, and Bellevue Poetry Review. She lives in the midwest with her family and works as a librarian. Rebekah writes about the intersections of writing, friendship, caretaking, and dayjobbing at her Substack The Broadax. [website]

L Lois lives in an urban hermitage where trauma-informed themes flow during walks by the ocean. She is pivoting into her grandmother-era, figuring out why her bevy of adult children don’t have babies, while prioritizing writing, publication, and arts-related volunteerism. Her poems have appeared in North Dakota Quarterly, The Brussels Review, Washington Square Review, Hanging Loose Magazine, Chiron Review, Poetry Breakfast, among other publications. L. Lois is an Associate Member of the League of Canadian Poets, is part of the editorial team at Quibble Lit, and freelances as a business feature writer and poetry workshop leader. [website]

Valerie Loveland is a poet living in the New Jersey suburbs of Philadelphia. Her two most recent books are The Mailbox is a Miniature Version of the House and [unsolved mysteries theme song]. [instagram] [email]

Adrian Lu is a writer and a painter. His work appears in Guernica, Denver Quarterly, The Cleveland Review of Books, and Miracle Monocle, among others. [website] [email]

Zoé Mahfouz is an award-winning French actress, screenwriter, and comedy writer, as well as a content creator working across fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. Her comedy screenplays have been recognized at international film festivals, including Canadian Screen Award-qualifying events. Her voice, described as "very tongue-in-cheek," "kookie," and "random," is reflected in work published in over 80 journals worldwide, with pieces translated and anthologized in Japanese print publications, notably Ginyu and The Asahi Shimbun. A Best Small Fictions nominee, she is the author of ADHD in D Minor (North Meridian Press, 2026) and Borges Must Be Rolling in His Grave (Dancing Girl Press, 2025). [imdb] [tiktok]

Nation Makes is a trans poet, scholarnaliast, and neuroscientist living in Montréal / Tiohtià:ke. Their work examines how the brain and body conspire to create experience. Their poetry appears in guerrilla zines found in queer bars, experimental booksellers, postal slots, and now also in DIAGRAM. [email]

Alison Mandaville grew up in Portland, Oregon, Türkiye, Massachusetts and Yemen. Her prose, poetry and translations have appeared or are forthcoming in DIAGRAM, Redivider, Terrain, Magma, Four Way Review, Stone Coast Review, and World Literature Today among other places. She splits her time between Seattle and Fresno where she teaches comics, writing and literary civics at Fresno State. [email]

Marilyn McCabe's collections of poems include Being Many Seeds, Glass Factory, Perpetual Motion, and Rugged Means of Grace. Videopoems have appeared in festivals/galleries. She talks about writing at Owrite: marilynonaroll.wordpress.com and the podcast Whirled Through a Poem's Eye. Her new book, from The Word Works, is a wry, irreverent writing manual/workbook called Always With the Questions: One Poet's Writing Manual. [email]

Maya Miller is a writer, potter, farmer, and filmmaker from Los Angeles, currently living in Ohio. More of Maya's writing can be found in The Commuter, The Chicago Quarterly Review, and Thin Air Magazine. [instagram] [email]

Ben Mirov is a writer from Oakland, CA.

Lucía Guzman Rodriguez is a soft viscous thing living in London, she publishes takes on love and not becoming cold and hardened by the world on tang-tang.org. Lucía hopes to publish more poetry. [email]

Martha Ryan is a writer and teacher. Alongside Cass Garison, she co-curates Threshold Poetics, based in Seattle. [email]

A long time tennis fan, David Sheskin is a writer and artist who has been published extensively over the years. Among the places his work has appeared are Puerto del Sol, Shenandoah, Chicago Quarterly Review, Quarterly West, Los Angeles Review, and Penn Review. [email]