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Aadila Munshi is a contemporary artist from Toronto, Canada. She is best known for her paintings of beautifully distressed urban surfaces and signature calligraffiti forms. A former criminologist from the University of Cape Town, she  grew up in South Africa where she learned and lived the Ubuntu way of life. With over twenty-five years of experience in painting, her work is commissioned and  held in corporate and private collections worldwide. Munshi’s work can be found on Instagram @aadila_paints.

Austin Araujo is a writer from northwest Arkansas. The recipient of a Wallace Stegner Fellowship from Stanford University, his poems have recently appeared in POETRY, TriQuarterly, and Gulf Coast. His first book, At the Park on the Edge of the Country, won the 2023 Charles B. Wheeler Poetry Prize and is forthcoming from Mad Creek Books in 2025.

Bruce Beasley is author of nine collections of poems, including most recently Prayershreds and All Soul Parts Returned and Theophobia. He has new work appearing in New American Writing, Lana Turner Journal, AGNI, and Hudson Review.

Jari Bradley (they/them) is a poet, scholar, and San Francisco native. They are the recipient of an Inprint C. Glenn Cambor Fellowship, an Inprint Donald  Barthelme Poetry Prize, and a Cave Canem fellowship. Their poems have been  published in Callaloo, Virginia Quarterly Review, Academy of American Poets’  Poem-a-Day, and elsewhere. Bradley is currently a PhD candidate in Creative  Writing and Literature at the University of Houston and a poetry editor for Gulf Coast.

Cyrus Cassells is the author of The Mud Actor, winner of the 1981 National Poetry Series competition; Soul Make a Path through Shouting, nominated for the Pulitzer Prize and winner of the William Carlos Williams Award; Beautiful Signor, winner of the Lambda Literary Award; More Than Peace and Cypresses; The Crossed-Out Swastika; and Is There Room for Another Horse on Your Horse Ranch? (Four Way Books, 2024). He has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the  Rockefeller Foundation. His other honors include the Lannan Literary Award, the Peter I.B. Lavan Younger Poet Award, and two Pushcart Prizes.

Mario Chard is the author of Land of Fire, winner of the 2019 Dorset Prize and the Georgia Author of the Year Award in Poetry. His work has appeared in The Nation, The New Yorker, and POETRY, among others, and his honors include a 92NY ’s Discovery Poetry Prize, a Civitella Ranieri Fellowship, a Walter E. Dakin  Fellowship from the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, and a Wallace Stegner  Fellowship from Stanford University. An inaugural fellow for the Ledbury Poetry  Critics, Chard lives in Atlanta, Georgia.

Aaron Coleman is a poet, translator, educator, and scholar of the African Diaspora. He is the author of Red Wilderness (Four Way Books, 2025) and the translator of Nicolás Guillén’s The Great Zoo (University of Chicago Press, 2024). Coleman’s other poetry collections include Threat Come Close, winner of the Great Lakes Colleges Association New Writers Award, and St. Trigger, selected by Adrian Matejka for the Button Poetry Chapbook Prize. He has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, Cave Canem, the  Fulbright Program, and the American Literary Translators Association. His poems, essays, and translations have appeared in publications including The New York Times, Boston Review, Callaloo, and POETRY. Coleman is an assistant professor of English and Comparative Literature in the Helen Zell Writers’ Program at the University of Michigan.

Mitchell L. H. Douglas is the author of dying in the scarecrow’s arms; \blak\ \al-fə bet\, winner of the Persea Books Lexi Rudnitsky/Editor’s Choice Award; and Cooling Board: A Long-Playing Poem, an NAACP Image Award and Hurston/Wright Legacy Award nominee. His “Poem that Begins w/a Tweet About Gwendolyn Brooks” was recently featured in This is the Honey: An Anthology of Contemporary Black Poets edited by Kwame Alexander. A 2021 National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellow, Douglas is associate professor of English at Indiana University Indianapolis, a Cave Canem alum, and cofounder of the Affrilachian Poets. His visual art has been published in The Adroit Journal and The Offing and Callaloo.

Puneet Dutt’s debut collection, The Better Monsters, was a finalist for the Trillium Book Award for Poetry and shortlisted for the Raymond Souster Award. Her chapbook, PTSD south beach, was a finalist for the Breitling Chapbook Prize. She is a founding editorial board director at Canthius. Dutt is an  immigrant/ settler and currently lives in Markham, Canada, with her partner and two kids.

Andy Eaton is the author of Sprung Nocturne. His poems appear in The Iowa  Review, Ploughshares, and The Yale Review, among other places. Recipient of the Ploughshares Emerging Writer Award in Poetry, he is Creative Writing Program Manager at the University of Virginia and divides his time between Northern Ireland and Charlottesville, Virginia.

L. A. Johnson is from California. She is the author of the chapbook Little  Climates and holds a PhD from the University of Southern California, where she  is currently a Mellon Humanities and University of the Future postdoctoral fellow. The winner of the 2022 Mississippi Review Poetry Prize, the 2022 Greensboro Review Robert Watson Poetry Prize, the 2021 Arts & Letters Rumi Poetry Prize, and the 2021 Gregory Djanikian Scholarship from The Adroit Journal, her poems appear in The Atlantic, The American Poetry Review, Best New Poets, and elsewhere.

Douglas Kearney is the author of nine books, including the poetry collections Imagine I Been Science Fiction Always (Wave Books, 2025); Optic Subwoof; Sho, a 2022 PEN/Voelcker Award, National Book Award, and Minnesota Book Award finalist; and Buck Studies, a Roethke Memorial Poetry Prize winner, a Community of Literary Magazines and Presses Firecracker awardee, and California Book Award silver medalist. In 2023, Kearney received the Pegasus Award for Poetry Criticism from the Poetry Foundation. He teaches at the University of Minnesota.

Keetje Kuipers’s newest collection of poetry, Lonely Women Make Good Lovers (forthcoming April 2025), was the recipient of the Isabella Gardner Award. Her  poetry and prose have appeared in The New York Times Magazine, The American Poetry Review, and POETRY, and have been honored by publication in The  Pushcart Prize and Best American Poetry anthologies. She has been a Stegner  Fellow, Bread Loaf Fellow, and the Margery Davis Boyden Wilderness Writing  Resident. Kuipers lives with her wife and children in Montana, where she is editor of Poetry Northwest.

Maja Lukic is a Brooklyn-based poet. She received an MFA in poetry from the Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Narrative, A Public Space, The Adroit Journal, Colorado Review,  Bennington Review, Image, Sixth Finch, Copper Nickel, Poetry Northwest, The  Slowdown podcast, and other places. Lukic is a board member at Four Way  Books and a poetry reader at The Swannanoa Review.

Jonah Mixon-Webster is a poet and educator from Flint, Michigan. He is the author of Stereo(TYPE), which received the PEN America/Joyce Osterweil Award, and Promise/Threat (Knopf, 2025). He is an alumnus of Eastern Michigan  University and obtained a PhD in creative writing from Illinois State University.  Mixon-Webster is the recipient of the Windham Campbell Prize for Poetry and  fellowships from Columbia University, Vermont Studio Center, and the Center for African American Poetry and Poetics. His poetry and hybrid works are featured in various publications including Obsidian, Harper’s, The Yale Review, The Rumpus,  Callaloo, The New Republic, Best New Poets, and Best American Experimental Writing.

Darren Morris is an artist who has lost much of his sight to retinitis pigmentosa. He is the recipient of a fellowship from the Virginia Commission for  the Arts. His poems are forthcoming in The American Poetry Review, The Yale  Review, and Connecticut River Review as the winner of the Connecticut Poetry  Society’s 2024 Experimental Poetry Contest. Morris lives in Richmond, Virginia.

Bevin O’Connor is a poet and educator from Southern California and received her MFA in poetry from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. She is the winner of the  Prairie Lights Donald Justice Poetry Contest and the Michelle Boisseau Poetry  Prize. Her work can be found or is forthcoming in Third Coast, Bear Review,  Annulet, Palette Poetry, Afternoon Visitor, Denver Quarterly, and elsewhere. She  is currently pursuing a PhD in Poetry at the University of Houston, where she is  an Inprint Nina and Michael Zilkha Fellowship recipient and winner of the Inprint  Donald Barthelme Prize in Poetry. O’Connor serves as a poetry editor for Gulf Coast.

Originally from the West Side of Chicago, Olatunde Osinaike is a Nigerian-American poet, essayist, and software developer. He is the author of Tender Headed, winner of the 2022 National Poetry Series and shortlisted for the Society of Midland Authors Award in Poetry and Nossrat Yassini Poetry Prize. His work  has appeared, or is forthcoming, in Literary Hub, The Slowdown, Poetry Daily,  Verse Daily, Best New Poets, 20.35 Africa, New Poetry from the Midwest,  Obsidian, wildness, and elsewhere.

Genevieve Payne is a writer from Maine. She earned her MFA from Syracuse University, where she was the 2019 recipient of the Leonard Brown Prize in  poetry. Her recent work has appeared or is forthcoming in The End, Nashville  Review, The Cortland Review, Bennington Review, and elsewhere. 

Catherine Pierce is the Poet Laureate of Mississippi and the author of four books of poems, most recently Danger Days. Her work has appeared in The New York  Times, The Best American Poetry, the Pushcart Prize anthology, The Nation, The  American Poetry Review, The Southern Review, and elsewhere. The recipient of  fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Academy of  American Poets, Pierce teaches at Mississippi State University.

D. A. Powell is the author of five collections of poetry, including Chronic, winner of the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award, and Repast: Tea, Lunch, and Cocktails.  Useless Landscape, or A Guide for Boys received the National Book Critics Circle  Award in Poetry. He teaches at the University of San Francisco.

Michael Robins is the author of five collections of poetry, including People You May Know and The Bright Invisible. He lives in Lake Charles, Louisiana, and is assistant professor in the MFA program at McNeese State University and editor of The McNeese Review.

Elizabeth Lindsey Rogers (she/they) is the author of two poetry collections, The Tilt Torn Away from the Seasons and Chord Box, as well as a forthcoming  nonfiction collection, Miss Southeast: Essays. Her poems have appeared in  POETRY, Guernica, Gulf Coast, Beloit Poetry Journal, Bennington Review, and  elsewhere. Her creative nonfiction can be found in Best American Nonrequired  Reading, Best American Travel Writing, The Missouri Review, Prairie Schooner,  and The Rumpus. A former Kenyon Review Fellow, she is an assistant professor  of creative writing at Oberlin College, where she also leads the Writers in the  Schools Program. Rogers lives in Oberlin with her wife and two children.

Robert Wrigley has won numerous awards for his work, including the Kingsley Tufts Award, the San Francisco Poetry Center Book Award, and a Pacific  Northwest Book Award. He lives in the woods of Idaho with his wife, the writer  Kim Barnes. Wrigley’s latest book, The True Account of Myself As a Bird, is his  twelfth collection of poems. He is also the author of a collection of personal  essays, mostly about poetry, called Nemerov’s Door.

Sarah Angileri is a New York-based writer and songwriter. She is an MFA candidate at Sarah Lawrence College, where she is studying creative nonfiction.  This is her first publication.

Jake Bartman’s stories have appeared in Story, Ninth Letter, the minnesota review, Booth, and elsewhere. He lives in New Mexico. 

John Fulton’s short fiction has been awarded a 2024 National Endowment for the Arts fellowship and a Pushcart Prize. He is the author of four books of fiction, most recently The Flounder and Other Stories, and has published in numerous  journals, including Zoetrope, Ploughshares, The Missouri Review, Oxford  American, and The Southern Review. Fulton currently lives with his family in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts,