Sean Cho A. is a assistant professor living in the southern united states.

Hiwot Adilow is an Ethiopian American poet from Southwest Philadelphia. She is co-winner of the 2018 Brunel International African Poetry Prize and author of the chapbooks In the House of My Father (Two Sylvias Press, 2018) and Prodigal Daughter (Akashic Books & African Poetry Book Fund, 2019). Her work appears in Callaloo, The Offing, Reconstructed Magazine, and elsewhere.

Elisa Luna Ady is a writer from Southern California. Her poetry and fiction appear or are forthcoming in The Adroit Journal, Passages North, Witness Magazine, and elsewhere. She’s a recent graduate of Northwestern University’s Litowitz MFA+MA Program, where she was awarded the 2025 English Department Prize for best MFA thesis.

courtney alyce is a poet and essayist based in the Bay area. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from San Jose State University. In her free time she enjoys flying dual-line kites and blowing glass with her partner.

Seth Amos is the winner of the Catalina Páez & Seumas MacManus Award from The Academy of American Poets. He was a Fine Arts Work Center finalist and a fellow at Vermont Studio Center. His work has appeared in Tin House, Poets.org, Zócalo Public Square, Barnstorm Journal, The Phare, and elsewhere. He was a Thomas Hunter Fellow at Hunter College, where he received his MFA.

Jack B. Bedell is Professor of English and Coordinator of Creative Writing at Southeastern Louisiana University where he also edits Louisiana Literature and directs the Louisiana Literature Press. Jack’s work has appeared in HAD, Heavy Feather, Pidgeonholes, The Shore, Moist, Psaltery & Lyre, EcoTheo, and other journals. His work has been selected for inclusion in Best Microfiction and Best Spiritual Literature. His latest collection is Ghost Forest (Mercer University Press, 2024). He served as Louisiana Poet Laureate 2017-2019.

Shlagha Borah is from Assam, India. Her work appears or is forthcoming in POETRY, Quarterly West, Poetry Northwest, and elsewhere. She received an MFA in Poetry from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville and is a 2024 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowship finalist. Her work has been supported by Tin House, Brooklyn Poets, The Hambidge Center, VCCA, among others. Her work is available at www.shlaghaborah.com.

Apollo Chastain (he/they/she) is either crying in the club or crying in the archive. Their work has been supported by Tin House and the Smithsonian Institution and appears or is forthcoming in journals including Poets.org, The American Poetry Review, Prairie Schooner, Meridian, and Foglifter, among others. Visit them at apollopoet.wordpress.com, or on Instagram @apollo.chastain.

Lyn Li Che is from Malaysia. Her poems have been published or are forthcoming in Michigan Quarterly Review, Poetry Northwest, Copper Nickel, Passages North, The Missouri Review‘s Poem of the Week, Sixth Finch, Waxwing, and others. She lives in New York City.

Chen Chen is the author of two books of poetry, most recently Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced an Emergency (BOA Editions, 2022). His honors include three Pushcart Prizes and fellowships from the NEA and United States Artists. He teaches for the MFA program at New England College.

Stephanie Choi’s poems appear in Beloit Poetry Journal, Blackbird, Copper Nickel, Electric Literature, New Ohio Review, and elsewhere. Her debut collection, The Lengest Neoi, was selected by Brenda Shaughnessy for the 2023 Iowa Poetry Prize and published in 2024. She was the 2023-24 Poet-in-Residence at Sewanee: The University of the South and one of Poets and Writers Magazine’s Debut Poets of 2024. She is an Assistant Professor at Oklahoma State University, where she teaches creative writing at the undergraduate and graduate levels.

Lindsay D’Andrea writes and publishes across all genres. New poems can be found in The Baltimore Review, Ploughshares, Iron Horse Literary Review, Harpur Palate, North American Review, and On the Seawall, among others. She holds an MFA from Iowa State University and currently lives in the Philadelphia area with her family.

Loisa Fenichell’s work has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize, Best of the Net, and Best New Poets and has been featured or is forthcoming in Poetry Northwest, The Iowa Review, and elsewhere. Her debut collection, Wandering in all directions of this earth (Ghost Peach Press 2023), was the winner of Ghost Peach Press Prize, selected by Eduardo C. Corral.

Cheyenne C. Fletcher is a poet, auntie, educator, and citizen of the Cherokee Nation. She’s an MFA candidate at the University of San Francisco.

Reuben Gelley Newman (he/they) is a writer, musician, and librarian based in Brooklyn. His book Dear Dear, winner of the Louise Bogan Award, will be published by Trio House Press in 2026. They also wrote a chapbook, Feedback Harmonies (Seven Kitchens Press, 2024). His poems have appeared in Denver Quarterly, Fairy Tale Review, and ONLY POEMS.

Carlos Andrés Gómez is a Colombian American poet from New York City. Gómez is the International Book Award-winning author of several books, including the poetry collection Fractures, selected by 19th U.S. Poet Laureate Natasha Trethewey as the winner of the Felix Pollak Prize, and the memoir Man Up: Reimagining Modern Manhood, released by Penguin Random House.

Iain Grinbergs (he/they) is an English professor and the author of Vanity Twist, a chapbook (Bottlecap Press). He earned his Ph.D. in English from Florida State University. His work appears in or is forthcoming from South Florida Poetry Journal, Meridian, Rogue Agent, and other journals.

Shira Leah Haus (she/her) is a queer, Jewish writer from Michigan. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in POETRY, Passages North, Poetry Northwest, and wildness, among others. She has received support from the Napa Valley Writers’ Conference and placed third in the 2024 Pinch Literary Awards for poetry.

Sarah Jordan received the 2023 Bernice Slote Award from Prairie Schooner. She earned her MFA from NYU, where she is an adjunct professor.

Joan Naviyuk Kane’s books include The Cormorant Hunter’s Wife, Hyperboreal, Milk Black Carbon, Dark Traffic, and with snow pouring southward past the window (forthcoming). Her honors include United States Artists, Guggenheim, Radcliffe and Native Arts and Cultures Foundation Fellowship. She raises her children in Portland and teaches at Reed College.

Aiman Tahir Khan is a writer from Lahore, Pakistan. She was selected as the inaugural Pakistan Youth Poet Laureate in 2024. Her work has appeared in Nimrod International Journal, Nashville Review, Diode Poetry Journal, and Muzzle Magazine, among others. She is a 2025 Brooklyn Poets Fellow and serves as the Associate Poetry Editor at Sontag Mag.

Sophie Klahr is the author of Two Open Doors in a Field (University of Nebraska Press), Meet Me Here at Dawn (YesYes Books), and co-author of There Is Only One Ghost in the World (Fiction Collective Two), which won the 2022 Ronald Sukenick Innovative Fiction Contest. Her work appears in The New Yorker and elsewhere. She lives in Los Angeles. She offers editing services, submission management and more at sophieklahr.com.

Whitney Koo is the author of Any Gesture (Black Lawrence Press, 2026) and Founder/Editor of Gasher Press. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in journals such as POETRY, Hayden’s Ferry Review, the Los Angeles Review, Colorado Review, and others. She holds a PhD in English from Oklahoma State University and an MFA from the University of Colorado Boulder.

Giljoon Lee is a poet. Born in South Korea, he now lives in California and edits MEARI, a poetry magazine showcasing the process of drafting poems. His work appears or is forthcoming in Liberties, phoebe, The Shore, and elsewhere. Find him online at giljoon.com.

A one-time US citizen, Elizabeth Loudon now lives near her birthplace in southwest England. Her debut novel A Stranger In Baghdad was published by AUC’s Hoopoe press in 2023, and her poetry has appeared in numerous journals in the US and Europe. “Renunciation” has been chosen for Best New Poets 2025.

Betsy Mitchell Martinez holds an MFA from the University of Michigan. Her recent poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Beloit Poetry Journal, Rattle, New Letters, Shenandoah, Washington Square Review, Southeast Review, Redivider, EPOCH, and elsewhere.

Rebecca Morton is a queer poet based in Chicago. Her debut chapbook Afterbirth (Small Harbor Press, 2024) explores her family’s involvement in the foster care system. Her poems appear in Smartish Pace, The Offing, Sugar House Review, Cream City Review, RHINO, TriQuarterly, Poetry Northwest, and elsewhere, and have been featured on Verse Daily. A recent Tin House Summer Workshop participant, she holds an MFA from Eastern Washington University. 

Lisa Mottolo is a poet living in Austin, TX. She is the author of the poetry collection How to Monetize Despair (Unsolicited Press, 2023) and she is the Founding Editor at Lit Fox Books. Her work has appeared in Penn Review, The Laurel Review, DIAGRAM, Santa Clara Review, Stonecoast Review, and others.

James O’Leary’s work has appeared in such journals as Booth, Foglifter, The Kenyon Review, Poet Lore, Protean, & more. James holds an MFA from Sarah Lawrence College, and serves as Assistant Poetry Editor for ANMLY. For a time, James tried the name Willow James Claire.

Mollie O’Leary is a poet from Massachusetts. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Washington. Mollie’s chapbook The Forgetting Curve was published in 2023 through Poetry Online’s chapbook contest and is currently in its fifth printing. Her work has appeared in McNeese Review, Chestnut Review, wildness, and elsewhere. Find more of her work at mollieoleary.com.

william o’neal ii is a writer from the American South. Their work has been published by The Journal, The WB Yeats Society of NY, ONLY POEMS, & elsewhere. william is a poetry research fellow at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop.

Konstantinos Patrinos is a Greek-German writer. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in RHINO, Indianapolis Review, Hunger Mountain Review, McNeese Review, New Orleans Review, Grub Street, and elsewhere. He lives in Berlin and teaches high school political science and philosophy.

Ngoc Pham is a Vietnamese poet. Their poems have been featured in The Adroit Journal, Couplet Poetry, The Penn Review, the Academy of American Poet’s website, and the anthology Dear Human at the Edge of Time. They currently write and teach in Ithaca, New York.

Jessica Nirvana Ram is an Indo-Guyanese poet. She is the author of the poetry collection Earthly Gods (Game Over Books, 2024) and the chapbook in the aftermath (Fifth Wheel Press, 2025). Her work has appeared in Poet Lore, Prairie Schooner, Honey Literary, and elsewhere.

Jemma Leigh Roe is a poet, visual artist, and the author of Running with the Hare, winner of the 2024 Slapering Hol Press Chapbook Competition.

Adrie Rose lives beside an orchard in western MA and is the editor of Nine Syllables Press at Smith College. Her chapbook I Will Write a Love Poem was published in 2023 by Porkbelly Press, and her chapbook Rupture was published in 2024 by Gold Line Press and longlisted for the MA Book Award. She holds a Poetry MFA from Warren Wilson College. Her work has previously appeared in Beloit Poetry Journal, The Massachusetts Review, The Baltimore Review, Ploughshares blog, & she has won the Radar Coniston Prize, among others.

Rukan Saif is a poet and essayist from Los Angeles. Her work has appeared in The Rumpus, Hayden’s Ferry Review, Faultline, The Penn Review, ONE ART, and elsewhere. She has been nominated for Best of the Net and has received generous support from Brooklyn Poets and The Seventh Wave. She splits her time between Baltimore and Boston.

A former bar owner in Brooklyn, NY, SM Stubbs was born & raised in south Florida. His first book, Learning to Drown (Gunpowder Press), was released in January 2025. He has been on scholarship and a staff scholar at Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference. Nominated for the Pushcart, Best of the Net and Best American. More information can be found on his website, smstubbs.com.

Virgil Suárez is the author of most recently RED FACED POEMS, a chapbook.  He lives in fucked up Florida.

Will Summay (he/him) is a poet and psychotherapist based in Louisville, KY. In his writing he explores themes of queerness, spirituality, ecology and the affective possibilities of eroticism and death. He has work forthcoming and published in the Michigan Quarterly Review, Columbia Journal, & Change, Queerlings, among others.

Tiezst “Tie” Taylor (they/them) is a radical educator, artist-activist, poet, and storyteller. Their work explores their experiences in surviving: Disability and severe mental illness; intergenerational trauma and poverty; and intersecting forms of oppression. Tie’s work appears or is upcoming in Midway Journal, Torch Literary Magazine, and ANMLY.

Tianyi is a poet based in New York, from Hong Kong. His creative and critical work can be found in Poetry Daily, New England Review, The Los Angeles Review of Books, and elsewhere. He is an MFA candidate in Poetry at Columbia University where he is a Max Ritvo Poetry Fellow.

Reed Turchi is a poet and musician from Swannanoa, North Carolina, now living in Brooklyn. His poems have appeared in POETRY, The American Poetry Review, and Narrative Magazine, among others, and he has won a GRAMMY Award and received an Emmy Nomination for his music. Turchi is also the co-editor of the Swannanoa Review.

Margaret Wack is the author of the chapbook The Body Problem, winner of the 2021 Orison Chapbook Prize. Her work has appeared in Hayden’s Ferry Review, ONLY POEMS, EcoTheo Review, Ruminate, Passages North, Grist, Arion, Strange Horizons, and elsewhere. She holds an MA from St. John’s College and an MFA in Poetry from North Carolina State University. She is a PhD student in Literature & Creative Writing at the University of Utah.

Joey Wańczyk is a poet from Indianapolis, Indiana. He currently lives in Eugene, Oregon where he is an MFA candidate at the University of Oregon. His writing has appeared in Pacifica Literary Review, & Change, The Shore, and Frozen Sea, among others.

Gwenyth Wheat (she/her), nominee for Best New Poets 2024, is currently earning her MFA and MA at McNeese State University. Her work has been nominated for multiple Pushcart Prizes in Poetry and has appeared in Great Lakes Review, The Poet’s Touchstone, Voicemail Poems, ZAUM, and elsewhere. She is a writing instructor and the Poetry Editor for The McNeese Review.

Ross White is the author of Charm Offensive, winner of the Sexton Prize for Poetry, and three chapbooks: How We Came Upon the Colony, The Polite Society, and Valley of Want. His poems have appeared in American Poetry Review, POETRY, Ploughshares, Poetry Daily, and The Southern Review, among others. He lives in Durham, NC and directs Bull City Press.

Yan Zhang is a student currently residing in Hangzhou, China. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in wildness, The Shore, and Shō Poetry Journal, among others. She enjoys matcha lattes, taking long strolls in her neighborhood, observing the changing colors of leaves, and thinking.

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Sikuyva Dawavendewa is a contemporary Hopi artist focusing his work in 2D mediums, including drawing, printmaking, and painting. His work revolves around Hopi symbolism and iconography and various ties with Popular Culture media.