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Gemma Gené is a visual artist from Barcelona, Spain, based in Los Angeles. Her work explores storytelling through daily objects, spanning oil painting, sculpture, and large-scale murals. Her paintings have been exhibited at prestigious venues such as Sotheby’s, Voltz Clarke Gallery, the Accessible Art Fair at the National Arts Club, SCOPE, the Oculus, and the New York Stock Exchange, as well as internationally at Swab and the Palo Alto Foundation in Barcelona. In addition to her studio practice, Gené is is the author of the books Living with Mochi and Pugpyhood and the award-winning creator of the popular online comic 157ofgemma, where she humorously chronicles life with her inseparable pug, Mochi.

Allison Adair is author of The Clearing, winner of the Max Ritvo Poetry Prize from Milkweed Editions. Her poems appear in The Best American Poetry, The Threepenny Review, The Kenyon Review, The Georgia Review, and ZYZZYVA, and have received the Pushcart Prize, The Florida Review Editors’ Poetry Award, and the Orlando Poetry Prize. Originally from central Pennsylvania, Adair now lives and works in Boston.

Jada Renée Allen is a writer, educator, and culture worker from South Side Chicago. She is the recipient of support from Tin House, The Kenyon Review  Writers Workshop, Community of Writers, The Frost Place, and Voices of Our  Nations Arts Foundation. Her writing appears or is forthcoming in Academy of  American Poets’ Poem-a-Day, Callaloo, Chicago Reader, Gulf Coast, Hayden’s  Ferry Review, Virginia Quarterly Review, and elsewhere. She is the founding  executive director of The Frances Thompson Arts Foundation and editor-in-chief  of Bodemé. Allen lives in Phoenix, Arizona, on U.S.-occupied Yavapai, O’odham,  and Hohokam territorial bodies.

Gabrielle Bates’s poems have appeared in The New Yorker, The Sewanee Review, and Ploughshares, and her debut collection, Judas Goat, was named a Best Book of 2023 by NPR and Electric Literature. Originally from Birmingham, Alabama, she currently lives in Seattle, where she works for Open Books: A Poem Emporium, teaches occasionally through the University of Washington, and co-hosts the podcast The Poet Salon.

Katie Berta’s debut poetry collection, retribution forthcoming, won the Hollis Summers Prize and was published by Ohio University Press in 2024. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Ploughshares, The Kenyon Review, The Cincinnati Review, The Yale Review, The Iowa Review, Colorado Review, Denver Quarterly, Southeast Review, and Sixth Finch, among other magazines. She has received residencies from Millay Arts, Ragdale, and The Hambidge Center;  fellowships from the Vermont Studio Center and the Virginia G. Piper Center for Creative Writing; and an Iowa Review Award. She is a visiting assistant professor at Oberlin College.

Tommye Blount is the author of the chapbook What Are We Not For and the full-length collection Fantasia for the Man in Blue—which was finalist for the National Book Award, the Kate Tufts Discovery Award, the Lambda Literary Award in Gay Poetry, the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award, and others. He is the recipient of  commendations, fellowships, and grants from the Whiting Foundation, Cave Canem, Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, Kresge Arts in Detroit, and the  Aninstantia Foundation. Born and raised in Detroit, Blount lives in nearby Novi,  Michigan. 

John Bonanni’s poems have appeared recently in Gulf Coast, Foglifter, North American Review, The Florida Review, Cream City Review, Black Warrior Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, and Prairie Schooner, and his book reviews have  regularly appeared in DIAGRAM, Rain Taxi, Tupelo Quarterly, and The Kenyon  Review.

Lauren Camp serves as New Mexico Poet Laureate. She is the author of eight books of poetry, most recently In Old Sky. A former Astronomer-in-Residence at  Grand Canyon National Park, Camp has received the Dorset Prize and fellowships from the Academy of American Poets and Black Earth Institute. She has been a  finalist for the Arab American Book Award, New Mexico-Arizona Book Award, Big  Other Book Award, and Adrienne Rich Award. Her poems have appeared in New  Ohio Review, Academy of American Poets’ Poem-a-Day, The Kenyon Review, and elsewhere.

Kai Carlson-Wee is the author of RAIL. He received his MFA from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and was a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University. He is the winner of a Pushcart Prize, the Lynda Hull Memorial Prize from Crazyhorse, and the Editor’s Prize from The Missouri Review. He has received fellowships from the MacDowell Colony, the Bread Loaf Writer’s Conference, the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, and his work has appeared in journals such as The Kenyon Review, Tin House, Ploughshares, AGNI, and The Southern Review. Carlson-Wee lives in  San Francisco and is a lecturer at Stanford University.

Adam Clay’s latest book is Circle Back (Milkweed Editions, 2024). He directs the MFA program at Louisiana State University.

Saddiq Dzukogi is a Nigerian poet based in the United States, where he is an assistant professor of English at Mississippi State University. He is the author of Your Crib, My Qibla, selected by Carolyn Forché as the winner of the Derek  Walcott Prize for Poetry. His new book is the epic poem, Bakandamiya: An Elegy  (University of Nebraska Press, 2025). Dzukogi’s writing has been supported by  the Nebraska Arts Council, Mississippi Arts Commission, and PEN America. His  poems have appeared in POETRY, Ploughshares, The Georgia Review, Guernica,  The Kenyon Review, and Narrative Magazine. He is a fellow of the Obsidian  Foundation, as well as Cave Canem.

Jalen Eutsey is a writer from Miami, Florida, and a recipient of the Wallace Stegner Fellowship from Stanford University. His poems have appeared in Best  New Poets, The Yale Review, Poetry Northwest, and The Hopkins Review. Eutsey’s chapbook, Bubble Gum Stadium, is forthcoming from Button Poetry.

t’ai freedom ford is the author of two poetry collections, how to get over from Red Hen Press and & more black from Augury Books, winner of the 2020 Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Poetry. ford lives and loves in Brooklyn where she is an editor at No, Dear magazine.

Christopher Kondrich is the author of three books of poetry, including Tread Upon (forthcoming from Copper Canyon Press) and Valuing, a winner of the National Poetry Series. His poems have been published in The New York Review  of Books, The Paris Review, Ploughshares, and The Yale Review, and have been  supported by fellowships from MacDowell and Yaddo. He teaches for the MFA  Program in Creative & Environmental Writing at Eastern Oregon University.

Diana Keren Lee is the winner of a Poetry Society of America Chapbook Fellowship. A National Poetry Series finalist, her work has appeared in Boston  Review, The Common, Denver Quarterly, The New Republic, Pleiades, and  elsewhere. Born and raised in Austin, she lives in Colorado.

Alejandro Lucero’s chapbook, Sapello Son (Bull City Press, 2024), was named the Editors’ Selection for the Frost Place Competition. His latest work appears in Best New Poets, The Cincinnati Review, Gulf Coast, The Southern Review, and  Waxwing. Lucero lives in Baltimore, where he is an MFA candidate in the Writing  Seminars at Johns Hopkins and a managing editor for The Hopkins Review.

Oksana Maksymchuk is a bilingual Ukrainian-American poet, scholar, and literary translator. Her debut English-language poetry collection, Still City, is the  2024 Pitt Poetry Series selection from University of Pittsburgh Press (U.S.) and  Carcanet Press (U.K.). Her poems appeared in AGNI, The Guardian, The Irish  Times, The Paris Review, The Poetry Review, and many other journals. She co- edited an anthology, Words for War: New Poems from Ukraine, and co-translated  several poetry collections. She is a recipient of the National Endowments for the  Arts Translation Fellowship, the Scaglione Prize for Literary Translation from the  Modern Language Association, the American Association for Ukrainian Studies Translation Prize, and other honors. Maksymchuk holds a PhD in philosophy from  Northwestern University. She currently lives in Lviv, Ukraine.

James Davis May is the author of two poetry collections, most recently Unusually Grand Ideas. He has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the  Arts and the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference. Originally from Pittsburgh, he now lives in Macon, Georgia.

Kathryn Savage is the author of Groundglass: An Essay. Her work has appeared  in Ecotone, Guernica, Poets.org, and Virginia Quarterly Review, and she is a frequent book review contributor to World Literature Today.

Karen Solie was born in Moose Jaw and grew up on the family farm in southwest Saskatchewan. Her sixth collection of poems, Wellwater, is published in the U.K. by Picador, in Canada by Anansi, and is forthcoming in the U.S. with Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Her previous collection, The Caiplie Caves, was shortlisted for the T.S Eliot Prize and Derek Walcott Prize. A 2023 Guggenheim Fellow, Solie teaches half-time for the University of St Andrews in Scotland.

Sappho Stanley (They/She) is a trans Appalachian poet. They are a poetry candidate in The Ohio State University’s Creative Writing MFA and serve as  poetry editor and production editor at The Journal. You can find their work in or  forthcoming from AGNI, Waxwing, and Mississippi Review, among others. You  can find them on any social media: @sapphostanley.

Alison Thumel’s debut poetry collection, Architect, won the 2024 Miller Williams Poetry Prize and was a finalist for the 2025 Kate Tufts Discovery Award. She is  the recipient of a Wallace Stegner Fellowship in poetry at Stanford University, a  grant from the Elizabeth George Foundation, and the Martha Meier Renk  Distinguished Graduate Fellowship in Poetry from the University of Wisconsin–Madison, where she completed her MFA. Her poems have appeared widely,  including in POETRY, Ploughshares, and New England Review. Thumel lives and  writes in Wisconsin.

Ajibola Tolase is a Nigerian poet and essayist. He is the author of 2000 Blacks, winner of the 2024 Cave Canem Poetry Prize and 2024 Florida Book Award Gold Medal in poetry. He is a former Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University,  Olive B. O’Connor Fellow in Poetry at Colgate University, and has received a  creative writing grant from the Elizabeth George Foundation. Tolase lives in  Florida.

Randall James Tyrone holds an MFA from the University of Wyoming. His poems are forthcoming or have appeared in Electric Literature’s Okey-Panky, Gulf Coast, Indiana Review, and Bodies Built for A Game Anthology by Prairie  Schooner. His forthcoming collection City of Dis will be released in fall 2025 by  Texas Review Press. Currently, Tyrone leads Writers Who Aren’t Writing, a collective where Houston-area writers and artists gather to workshop their  writing, exchange ideas, and find community support. He’s very excited for you.

Michael Waters has published fourteen books of poetry, most recently Sinnerman, Caw, and The Dean of Discipline. Pagan Sky: New & Selected Poems  2000-2025 is forthcoming from BOA Editions in 2026. The Bicycle and the Soul:  Prose on Poetry appeared from Tiger Bark Press in 2024. He has co-edited  several anthologies, including Fruits of the Earth: Harvest Poems (Knopf, 2025),  Border Lines: Poems of Migration, Reel Verse: Poems About the Movies,  Contemporary American Poetry, and Perfect in Their Art: Poems on Boxing from  Homer to Ali. His poems have appeared in POETRY, The American Poetry Review, The Best American Poetry, The Paris Review, The Yale Review, The Kenyon  Review, and Rolling Stone. Waters is the recipient of five Pushcart Prizes and  fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts,  Fulbright Foundation, and New Jersey State Council on the Arts. He lives without a cell phone in Ocean, New Jersey. 

Stella Wong is the author of Stem, forthcoming from Princeton University Press; Spooks, winner of the Saturnalia Books Editors Prize; and American Zero,  selected for the Two Sylvias Press Chapbook Prize by Danez Smith. Her poems  have appeared in POETRY, Colorado Review, Lana Turner, Bennington Review,  American Poetry Review, Prairie Schooner, and more. A graduate of Harvard, the  Iowa Writers’ Workshop, and Columbia, Wong is currently an Electrical and  Computer Engineering PhD student at the University of Rochester’s Audio  Information Retrieval Lab.

Latifa Ayad is a MacDowell Fellow and winner of both the Indiana Review 1/2K Prize and The Master’s Review/PEN America Flash Fiction prize. Her work has  been published or is forthcoming in The Georgia Review, swamp pink, The  Kenyon Review, North American Review, and others.

Rebecca Bernard is the author of the story collection Our Sister Who Will Not Die. Her fiction has most recently appeared or is forthcoming in Oxford American, Alaska Quarterly Review, The Cincinnati Review, and South Carolina Review. She is an assistant professor of English at East Carolina University, and serves as a  fiction editor for The Boiler and North Carolina Literary Review.

Alex Carolan, a graduate of the MFA program in fiction at the University of New
Hampshire, has work published and forthcoming in The Pinch and Cimarron Review.

Vincent Czyz is the author of a fiction collection, two novels, a novella, and an essay collection. His fiction has appeared in publications such as Shenandoah,  AGNI, The Massachusetts Review, Quiddity, Tampa Review, Tin House, Louisiana Literature, and Georgetown Review.

David Petruzelli has had stories and poems in Cloudbank, Crazyhorse, Hunger Mountain, The New Yorker, Pleiades, The Southern Review, Virginia Quarterly  Review, and elsewhere. A poetry collection, Everyone Coming Toward You, won  the Tupelo Press Judge’s Prize. He lives in New York City. 

Janine DeBaise’s creative nonfiction has been published in Orion Magazine, Southwest Review, Prairie Schooner, and numerous other literary journals. Her  full-length poetry collection, Body Language, and her poetry chapbook, Of a  Feather, were published by independent presses. She teaches writing and  literature at SUNY Environmental Science and Forestry in Syracuse, New York.

Andrea Gregory’s fiction has appeared in The Sun, The Masters Review, and elsewhere. Her essays have been published by Arrowsmith Press and  Salamander. She holds an MFA from the University of Massachusetts Boston.  Gregory is currently working on her first novel.