Alana Solin is a writer from New Jersey. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Touch the Donkey, Afternoon Visitor, Dusie, Annulet, Second Factory, and elsewhere. You can find more at alanasol.in.
Grace McCarron is an artist from Iowa.
Henry Goldkamp is an interdisciplinary poet who enjoys clowning boundaries between language, visual art, and sensory performance. He lives in New Orleans, where he hosts the poetry reading Splice, acts as intermedia editor for Tilted House, teaches experimental poetics and clown studies at Louisiana State University, and serves as communications director of the New Orleans Poetry Festival. Two books are forthcoming in 2025: Joy Buzzer (Ricochet Editions) and NOT MY CIRCUS (Ursus Americanus Press). Recent art, criticism, and performance appear in Chicago Review, DIAGRAM, Annulet, Volt, Blue Bag Press, Poetry Northwest, Accelerants: An Action Books Poetry Film Series, Triquarterly, and NOIR SAUNA, among others. More at henrygoldkamp.com.
Ian U Lockaby is a poet, translator, and editor, living in New Orleans. He’s the author of Defensible Space/if a crow—, out now from Omnidawn, and A Seam of Electricity, forthcoming from Ghost Proposal. Poems have been or will be published in Fence, Denver Quarterly, Poetry Northwest, Ecotone, Kenyon Review, Poetry Daily, and elsewhere. His translations of Latin American poetry have appeared in journals such as Black Warrior Review, Circumference, and Washington Square Review. In 2021, Cardboard House Press published his translation of Chilean poet Carlos Cociña’s Gardens, and soon, Carrion Bloom Books will publish his translation of a sequence by Mexican poet Diana Garza Islas. He edits mercury firs, an online journal of poetry and translation, is a contributing editor at Tilted House, and with fahima ife, co-edits the forthcoming chapbook press LUCIUS. For many years, he was a farmworker in and around Olympia, WA, and forever thinks inside vegetables.
Jessie Kraemer is an essayist and visual artist. She holds an MFA in Nonfiction from the University of Iowa. She won the 2024 Mississippi Review Prize in Nonfiction, and her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Chicago Quarterly Review, Brink, Speculative Nonfiction, Essay Daily, and elsewhere. Her essay "The Wright Brother" was listed as Notable in Best American Essays 2021. She is pursuing an MFA in Book Arts at the Iowa Center for the Book. She is currently working on a manuscript about the flawed logics Effective Altruism and love.
Katie Berta’s poetry collection, retribution forthcoming, won the Hollis Summers Prize and was published by Ohio University Press in March. Her poems have appeared 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.
Marlene Effiwatt is from Tucson, Arizona. She holds an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, where she was a Provost Fellow, followed by a Pflughaupt Fellowship in Poetry. Her debut chapbook Future You was released November 1st, 2021 from Black Sunflowers Poetry Press.
Pearl Ganderson is from Chicago, where she lives and works. She is a nurse, writes essays and fiction, and paints. She is working on an essay collection and a novel.
Steven Duong is the author of At The End of the World There is a Pond (W. W. Norton, 2025). His poems and short stories have appeared in publications including The American Poetry Review, The Drift, and the Yale Review, as well as The Best American Short Stories 2024, selected by Lauren Groff. The recipient of fellowships from the Academy of American Poets, Kundiman, and the University of Iowa, he is currently a creative writing fellow at Emory University. He lives in Atlanta, Georgia.
Toby Altman is the author of Jewel Box (Essay Press, 2025), Discipline Park (Wendy’s Subway, 2023), and Arcadia, Indiana (Plays Inverse, 2017). He has held fellowships from the Graham Foundation for Advanced Study in the Fine Arts, MacDowell, and the National Endowment for the Arts, where he was a 2021 Poetry Fellow. He teaches at Michigan State University, where he is Assistant Professor in the Residential College in the Arts and Humanities (RCAH) and Director of the RCAH Center for Poetry.