Kirstin Allio’s novels are Buddhism for Western Children (University of Iowa) and Garner (Coffee House Press), and her story collection is Clothed, Female Figure (Dzanc). Recent work is out or forthcoming in AGNI, American Short Fiction, Bennington Review, Changes Review, Conjunctions, Fence, Guesthouse, The Hopkins Review, Interim, New England Review, Plume, The Southern Review, and elsewhere. She has received fellowships from Brown University’s Howard Foundation and MacDowell. She lives in Providence, Rhode Island.

Kimberly Alidio is the author of four books of poetry, including Teeter, which will be published this August. Their video, sound, and visual poetry appear in FIVES, Bæst, Juf, and Anamorphoseis. Their writing has been awarded the Nightboat Poetry Prize and the Bill Waller Award in Creative Nonfiction. They live on Munsee-Mohican lands along the Mahicannituck River, otherwise known as New York’s Upper Hudson Valley.

Elaine Bleakney lives in Asheville, North Carolina. After a long season of not eating banana, she is eating banana again. She would like to be a better cook but is willing to settle for a few memorable soups. She finds winters both enjoyable and rough. She is working on a new book of poems.

Emily Brandt is the author of the poetry collection Falsehood, as well as three chapbooks. She's a co-founding editor of No, Dear, curator of the LINEAGE reading series at Wendy’s Subway, and a member of the video art collective Temp.Files. She’s of Sicilian, Polish, and Ukrainian descent, and lives in Brooklyn.

Alex Braslavsky is a scholar, translator, and poet. She writes scholarship on Russian, Polish, and Czech poetry through a comparative poetics lens. She was an American Literary Translators’ Association Mentee in 2021 and a recipient of the Jurzykowski Polish Grant as well as the Poland Translation Programme Grant in 2022. Her translated volume of Zuzanna Ginczanka’s poetry is available from World Poetry Books.

Adam Clay's latest book is To Make Room for the Sea (Milkweed Editions, 2020). He edits Mississippi Review and directs the Center for Writers at the University of Southern Mississippi.

Linda Ganjian is a New York–based artist who works in a variety of materials, from clay to cement to paper. Her work has been exhibited in the U.S. and abroad, with recent highlights including Atamian Hovsepian, Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning, and Time Equities’ Art in Buildings in New York; Islip Art Museum on Long Island; and Depo Art Center in Istanbul, Turkey. She completed public art commissions for New York’s MTA in 2016 and the city’s School Construction Authority in 2014. In 2019, she was a QCA ArtPort resident at LaGuardia Airport, and she recently completed permanent illustrations printed on ceramic tile for JFK Airport Terminal 8 through RCGA Architects. She lives in Jackson Heights, Queens, with her husband and son, where she organizes the art talk series JH Art Talks.

Alan Gilbert is the author of three books of poetry, The Everyday Life of Design (Studio, 2020), The Treatment of Monuments (SplitLevel Texts, 2012), and Late in the Antenna Fields (Futurepoem, 2011), as well as a collection of essays, articles, and reviews entitled Another Future: Poetry and Art in a Postmodern Twilight (Wesleyan University Press, 2006).

Zuzanna Ginczanka was a Polish-Ukrainian-Jewish poet of the interwar period. Born in Kiev, Ginczanka began writing seriously as a child in Równe, Poland (now Rivne, Ukraine). She was nationally recognized for her poetry at sixteen, and in 1935 she moved to Warsaw, where she became associated with the Skamander group and the satirical magazine Szpilki. Her 1936 collection, On Centaurs, was widely lauded on its release. She moved east at the start of World War II, and in 1942, after the German takeover of Ukraine, she escaped arrest and fled to Kraków on false papers to join her husband. She was arrested in 1944 and shot by the Gestapo a few days before Kraków was liberated by the Soviets. After the war, her last known poem, “Non omnis moriar…,” was used in court to testify against her denouncers.

Sylvia Gindick is a writer from Southern California based in New York. Her debut poetry collection is forthcoming from Finishing Line Press.

Amanda Goldblatt is the author of the novel Hard Mouth.

Eileen G’Sell is a poet and critic with recent or forthcoming contributions to Fence, The Baffler, Oversound, DIAGRAM, Current Affairs, Hyperallergic, and The Hopkins Review, among other publications. She teaches at Washington University in St. Louis.

Wayne Koestenbaum—poet, critic, fiction writer, artist, filmmaker, performer—has published 22 books, including Ultramarine, The Cheerful Scapegoat, Figure It Out, Camp Marmalade, My 1980s & Other Essays, The Anatomy of Harpo Marx, Humiliation, Hotel Theory, Circus, Andy Warhol, Jackie Under My Skin, and The Queen’s Throat (nominated for a National Book Critics Circle Award). In 2020 he received an American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Literature, and his first feature-length film, The Collective, premiered in 2021. He is a distinguished professor of English, French, and comparative literature at the City University of New York Graduate Center.

Jennifer Kronovet is the author of two poetry collections: The Wug Test (Ecco) and Awayward (BOA). She co-translated Empty Chairs (Graywolf), by Chinese poet Liu Xia, and The Acrobat (Tebot Bach), by Yiddish writer Celia Dropkin. She edits Circumference Books, a press for poetry in translation.

Kelly Krumrie is the author of Math Class (Calamari Archive, 2022). She holds a PhD in English and Literary Arts from the University of Denver and lives in Denver. More information and work can be found at kellykrumrie.net.

Justin Marks is the author of If This Should Reach You in Time (Barrelhouse Books, 2022), The Comedown (Publishing Genius Press, 2021), You’re Going to Miss Me When You’re Bored (Barrelhouse Books, 2014), and A Million in Prizes (New Issues, 2009). He is a co-founder of Birds, LLC, an independent poetry press, and lives in New York City with his family.

Mike Newton is a visual artist, writer, and software developer based in Brooklyn. He is one of the editors of Harp & Altar.

Katherine Wolkoff’s work has been exhibited in solo and group exhibitions nationally and internationally, including Aperture Gallery in New York; Palais de Tokyo in Paris; and QPN Festival in Nantes. Her photographs are included in the public collections of the Addison Gallery of Art, the Cleveland Clinic, the Norton Museum of Art, and the Yale University Library, and they have been featured in publications including Aperture, Frieze, The New Yorker, and The New York Times Magazine. She is represented by Benrubi Gallery in New York and is an assistant professor of photography at Parsons, The New School, in New York.

Jenny Wu is a fiction writer and critic. Her work has appeared in Artforum, BOMB, The Brooklyn Rail, The New York Times Magazine, and elsewhere.

Matvei Yankelevich is a poet, translator, and editor whose publications include Some Worlds for Dr. Vogt (Black Square), Today I Wrote Nothing: The Selected Writings of Daniil Kharms (Overlook), and, most recently, the chapbook Dead Winter (Fonograf).