Colette Cosner is a Seattle-based poet originally from the east coast. Her work can be found in The Normal School, Poetry Northwest, Pacifica Literary Review, Atlas and Alice, Peatsmoke Journal, and Aurora: The Allegory Ridge Poetry Anthology amongst other places. She holds a Masters in Communication in Digital Media from the University of Washington.

L. Annette Binder was born in Germany and immigrated to the US as a child. Her poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in The Examined Life, Ariadne, Stone Poetry Quarterly, and elsewhere, and her short fiction has appeared in the Pushcart Prize Anthology and the O. Henry Prize Stories. Her debut story collection -- Rise (Sarabande, 2012) -- received the Mary McCarthy Prize in Short Fiction, and her novel The Vanishing Sky (Bloomsbury) was published in 2020. She lives in New Hampshire with her family.

Partridge Boswell’s poems appear in the Grolier Prize-winning collection Some Far Country and in Poetry, The Gettysburg Review, Salmagundi, The American Poetry Review, Poetry Ireland Review, Prairie Schooner, The Moth, &c. Co-founder of Bookstock Literary Festival, he teaches at the Vallum Society for Education in Arts & Letters in Montreal and troubadours widely with the poetry/music group Los Lorcas, whose debut release Last Night in America is available on Thunder Ridge Records.

Zoe Canner's writing has appeared in Angel City Review, Rising Phoenix Review, The Laurel Review, Arcturus of the Chicago Review of Books, Storm Cellar, Maudlin House, Occulum, Pouch, Nailed Magazine, High Shelf Press, Swimming with Elephants, SUSAN / The Journal, and elsewhere. Zoe was nominated for the Pushcart Prize by Matter: A Journal of Political Poetry and Commentary. She lives in Los Angeles where they indulge in hilly walks at dusk when the night-blooming jasmine is at its peak fragrance. zoecanner.com

Jim Daniels' latest book of poems, Gun/Shy, was published by Wayne State University Press in 2021. He has authored numerous collections of poetry and fiction, and four produced screenplays. He has also edited or coedited many anthologies, including RESPECT: The Poetry of Detroit Music, Michigan State University Press, 2020. He is a recipient of two fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and two from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts. His books have won four Michigan Notable Book Awards, the Brittingham Prize for Poetry, the Blue Lynx Prize for Poetry, the Tillie Olsen Creative Writing Award, the Milton Kessler Award, and three Gold Medals in the Independent Publisher Book Awards, among others, and his films have won awards in film festivals around the world. His work has been published in The Best American Poetry and Pushcart Prize volumes. During his career, he has warmed up for singer-songwriter Lucinda Williams at the Three Rivers Arts Festival, had his poem "Factory Love" displayed on a race car, and is sending poetry to the moon in 2022 as part of the Moon Arts Project. A native of Detroit, he currently lives in Pittsburgh and teaches in the Alma College low-residency MFA program.

Cole Depuy is the winner of the Academy of American Poets University Prize (Binghamton University) & the Negative Capability Press Spring 2020 Poetry Contest. His poetry has appeared, or is forthcoming, in the minnesota review, The Summerset Review, I-70 Review, The Tipton Poetry Journal, The Offing & other fine journals. He's Poetry Co-Editor for Harpur Palate & Binghamton Poetry Project Co-Director.

Tyler Friend is a poet and designer grown and still growing in Tennessee. They are the author of Him or Her or Whatever (Alternating Current Press, 2022) and the chapbook BUNKER, which is available in Third Man's "Literarium" book vending machine.

Natalie Hampton is a junior at the Kinder High School for the Performing and Visual Arts in the Creative Writing Department. She is a 2022 YoungArts Finalist in Creative Nonfiction and a Scholastic Gold Medalist. Beyond writing, she enjoys playing soccer, working in activism, and volunteering with individuals with disabilities. Her work is heavily inspired by her brother with a disability and his passing in 2019. She is also the founder of Special Siblings Connect, a nonprofit designed to support siblings of those with disabilities.

Alexis Ivy is a 2018 recipient of the Massachusetts Cultural Council Fellowship in Poetry and the author of Romance with Small-Time Crooks (BlazeVOX [books], 2013), and Taking the Homeless Census (Saturnalia Books, 2020) which won the 2018 Saturnalia Editors Prize. Her poems have recently appeared in Saranac Review, Poet Lore and Sugar House Review. She is an advocate for the homeless in her hometown, Boston and teaches in the PoemWorks community.

Cassandra Mainiero‘s poetry has been published in Sigma Tau Delta Journal, Mind Murals, The New Jersey Journal of Poets, West Branch Wired, and more. She holds a bachelor’s in English from Lycoming College and an MFA in Writing from Vermont College of Fine Arts. Currently, she works at Tuttle Publishing in Vermont.

Suphil Lee Park (수필 리 박 / 秀筆 李 朴) is the author of the poetry collection, Present Tense Complex, winner of the Marystina Santiestevan Prize (Conduit Books & Ephemera 2021), and a forthcoming poetry chapbook, Still Life, selected by Ilya Kaminsky as the winner of the Tomaž Šalamun Prize. Her recent poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in Greensboro Review, the New Republic, and Poetry, among others. You can find more about her at: https://suphil-lee-park.com/

M. Avery Robinson is a Black Genderqueer poet from the South. They attend Florida State University as a senior where they intern at Southeast Review. Their work can be found at Interim Magazine, museum of americana, and Saw Palm.

Heather Truett is an MFA candidate at the University of Memphis and an #actuallyautistic author. Her debut novel, KISS AND REPEAT, was recently released from Macmillan. She's had work in Hawaii Pacific Review, Constellations, Rust+Moth, and others. Heather is represented by Hilary Harwell at KT Literary and serves on staff for The Pinch. Find out more at heathertruett.com or visit her on Twitter (@mmerubies).