Madeleine Braun, born and raised in Winnipeg, MB, is a poet now living in Brooklyn, NY. Her work has appeared in The Stockholm Review, Matrix, Elderly Magazine, and BOMB, among other places. With Parker Menzimer she is the author of TrueBlock (2017).

Jules Lattimer‘s prose and poetry can be found in Salamander, Hobart, S/Word, and elsewhere. They’re from Richmond VA, hold an MFA from UMass Boston, and now they live in Texas. More work at juleslattimer.com.

is the author of _Ordinary Dissonance_, which was published in 2019 by Midwestern Press. Other poems and prose can be found here found variously online and IRL. Currently, he lives with his partner and three cats in Cincinnati, OH, where he makes a living doing home renovation and building projects.

Emma Claire Foley‘s work has appeared in Tarpaulin Sky, Cosmonauts Avenue, N/A, and elsewhere. She lives in New York.

Emma Ruth Wilson lives in the Midwest. Her poetry can be found or is forthcoming in Critics’ Union, Echoverse, and Berkeley Poetry Review, among others.

Day Heisinger-Nixon is a nonbinary & disabled poet, essayist, interpreter, and translator. Raised in an ASL-English bilingual home in Fresno, California, Day holds an MA in Deaf Studies from Gallaudet University, and is a current MFA candidate in Creative Writing at New England College. Their work has been published or is forthcoming in Boston Review, Apogee, Booth, and elsewhere. They live in Los Angeles, and can be found online at dayheisingernixon.com and @__day_lily__.

Benjamin Bush Anderson is a poet born in Mi’kma’ki/Nova Scotia. He currently resides in Tiohtià:ke/Montréal, where he writes and pursues a living. In 2019, he won the Gabriel Safdie Award for Poetry. His poems have featured most recently in Concordia Magazine, and he has work upcoming in various publications.

Frances Whorrall-Campbell is an artist, writer, and archivist. Their writing has appeared in Art Monthly, Art-Agenda, A Queer Anthology of Wilderness (Pilot Press), and Datableed. They are the curator of Conversations Across Place, a writers’ and artists’ residency promoting queer and decolonial approaches to landscape. Their broadside, The Book of Babel, was published by Manchester-based press Death of Workers Whilst Building Skyscrapers in 2021.

Josh Kalscheur is the author of Tidal (Four Way Books). A former Halls Emerging Artist Fellow at the Wisconsin Institute of Creative Writing, his work has appeared in The Nation, Boston Review, Fence, Slate, and The Iowa Review, among others. He currently teaches writing at UW-Madison.

Nazli Koca is a writer and poet from the Mediterranean coast of Turkey. She currently lives in New York, where she’s working on her first novel. She can be found online at nazlikoca.com.

Kelly Clare is a writer and multimedia artist currently pursuing an MFA in Sculpture at the University of Iowa. Her visual and literary work appears and is forthcoming in Tagvverk, APARTMENT, Pulpmouth, and Hobart.

Justine Henry is an interdisciplinary artist and poet based in Portland, Maine. Guided by an interest in archival material, her collage work is realized through tactile processes: touching, tearing, cutting, and gluing; fragments of discarded books and magazines rendered meticulously, manipulated, and re-contextualized to create reflections and distortions of possible worlds. Her vested interest lies in the exploration of liminal spaces, interiority, mythology, and the uncanny. She is currently working on the completion of her BFA at The University of Southern Maine.

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