Asa Drake is a Filipina American writer and public services librarian in Central Florida. She holds an M.F.A. in poetry from the New School and is the recipient of fellowships from Tin House and Idyllwild Arts. Her most recent work is published or forthcoming in Copper Nickel, Epiphany, and Tupelo Quarterly.

Luther Hughes is from Seattle, author of the chapbook Touched, founder of Shade Literary Arts, and executive editor for The Offing. Along with Gabrielle Bates and Dujie Tahat, he cohosts the podcast The Poet Salon. He has been featured in Poetry, Forbes, and The Rumpus, among others. Luther received his M.F.A. from Washington University in Saint Louis.

Ana Portnoy Brimmer is a Puerto Rican poet-performer, writer, and organizer. She is an alumna of Rutgers University–Newark, where she received an M.F.A. in creative writing. Her chapbook To Love an Island was the winner of the YesYes Books 2019 Vinyl 45 Chapbook Contest; her debut full-length collection is forthcoming with YesYes Books in spring 2021. Her work has been published or is forthcoming in Winter Tangerine, Gulf Coast, The BreakBeat Poets Vol. 4: LatinNEXT, and Aftershocks of Disaster: Puerto Rico Before and After the Storm.

Daniella Toosie-Watson is a poet, visual artist, and educator from New York. She has received fellowships and awards from the Callaloo Creative Writing Workshop, the InsideOut Detroit Literary Arts Project, The Watering Hole, and the University of Michigan Hopwood Program. Her poetry has appeared in Callaloo, Virginia Quarterly Review, SLICE, and The BreakBeat Poets Volume 4: LatiNext. Daniella received her M.F.A. from the University of Michigan Helen Zell Writers’ Program.

Kenzie Allen is a poet and multimodal artist and a descendant of the Oneida Nation of Wisconsin. She holds a PhD in English & Creative Writing from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and an MFA in Poetry from the Helen Zell Writers’ Program at the University of Michigan. Her poems can be found in Boston Review, Narrative Magazine and The Adroit Journal. She is the recipient of fellowships from Vermont Studio Center and the Aspen Writers’ Foundation. Born in West Texas, she currently lives and teaches in Toronto.

Ina Cariño holds an MFA in creative writing from North Carolina State University. Their poetry appears in Apogee, Wildness, Waxwing, New England Review and Tupelo Quarterly. They are a Kundiman fellow, a recipient of a fellowship from the Vermont Studio Center and the winner of the 2021 Alice James Award for their manuscript, Feast, which is forthcoming from Alice James Books in 2023.

Mag Gabbert holds a PhD from Texas Tech University and an MFA from The University of California at Riverside. Her essays and poems can be found in 32 Poems, Pleiades, The Massachusetts Review, Waxwing and The Pinch. She is the author of Minml Poems, a chapbook of visual poetry and nonfiction. She’s received poetry fellowships from Idyllwild Arts and Poetry at Round Top. She teaches creative writing at Southern Methodist University and serves as the Interviews editor for Underblong Journal.

Alexandra Zukerman is a poet and photographer. Originally from New York, she has spent time in many places meaningful to her. She studied at Harvard and completed an MFA at NYU this spring, where she also taught undergraduate courses. She is currently at work on her first manuscript of poems.