Meagan Arthur is a cross-genre writer from the Seattle area. Her work has recently appeared or is forthcoming in Alaska Quarterly Review, Puerto Del Sol, Quarter After Eight, Cream City Review, and elsewhere. She holds an MFA in Prose from the University of Washington, where she won the Grace Milliman Pollock Award, and she is currently pursuing a PhD in Creative Writing at the University of Utah, where she has been awarded the Vice Presidential Fellowship. She serves as the Senior Prose Editor of Quarterly West. 

Tara Ballard is a PhD student in the Midwest. Her work has been published in Poetry Northwest, Michigan Quarterly Review, North American Review, New York Quarterly, and elsewhere. She is an assistant poetry editor for Prairie Schooner and an affiliate editor for Alaska Quarterly Review.

Craig Beaven is the author of four collections of poetry, most recently In Arcadia (Rane Arroyo Chapbook Series, Seven Kitchens Press) and Teaching the Baby to Say I Love You (Anhinga Press Poetry Prize). His work appears in Hollins Critic, Beloit Poetry Journal, Western Humanities Review, Prairie Schooner, and many others.

Allison Field Bell is a PhD candidate in Creative Writing at the University of Utah, and she has an MFA in Fiction from New Mexico State University. She is the author of the poetry chapbook, Without Woman or Body, forthcoming 2025 from Finishing Line Press and the creative nonfiction chapbook, Edge of the Sea, forthcoming 2025 from CutBank Books. Allison’s prose appears or is forthcoming in SmokeLong Quarterly, DIAGRAM, The Gettysburg Review, CRAFT, The Adroit Journal, Alaska Quarterly Review, West Branch, and elsewhere. Her poems appear or are forthcoming in The Cincinnati Review, Passages North, Palette Poetry, RHINO Poetry, The Greensboro Review, THRUSH Poetry Journal and elsewhere. Find her at allisonfieldbell.com. 

Jennifer Case is the author of We Are Animals: On the Nature and Politics of Motherhood (Trinity University Press, 2024) and Sawbill: A Search for Place (University of New Mexico Press, 2018). Her essays have appeared widely in journals such as The Rumpus, Orion, Ecotone, Literary Mama, and North American Review, among others. She teaches at the University of Central Arkansas and serves as an assistant nonfiction editor at Terrain.org. You can find her at www.jenniferlcase.com. 

Rob Macaisa Colgate (he/she/they) is a disabled baklapoet and playwright. A 2024 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Fellow, he is the author of the poetry collection Hardly Creatures (Tin House, 2025) and the verse drama My Love is Water (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2025). His work appears in Best New Poets, American Poetry Review, Poetry Daily, and Poets.org, among others, and has received support from MacDowell, Fulbright, Lambda Literary, Sewanee, and Kenyon Review. He serves as a reader for POETRY Magazine and managing poetry editor for Foglifter Journal. The inaugural poet-in-residence at Tangled Art + Disability, he received an MFA in poetry and critical disability studies from the New Writers Project at UT Austin. 

Kelly Dasta is a writer living in Brooklyn, New York. Her fiction has been published in Rollick Magazine, Pigeon Review, and The Blotter Magazine. She is an MFA candidate at The Writer’s Foundry at St. Joseph’s University. In her free time, she enjoys going to indie punk shows, getting lost in museums, and watching ducks at the park.  

Kami Enzie (he/him), a Vienna-born, New Orleans–raised queer Black writer, is a recent Iowa MFA grad and 2024 winner of the poetry contest for the Tennessee Williams & New Orleans Literary Festival. Work appears in Chicago Review, Common Place, The Poetry Review, and Quarter Notes. (IG/X: @yungwerther)

Benjamin Faro is the green-thumbed editor of Equatorial Literary Magazine. His poetry appears in About Place Journal, American Literary Review, Cream City Review, Nimrod International Journal, Portland Review, San Pedro River Review, Saranac Review, TIMBER Journal, West Trade Review, and elsewhere. Find him @may_your_problems_end

Jessica Hudson (she/her) received her Creative Writing MFA from Northern Michigan University. Her work has been published in DIAGRAM, New Delta Review, Quarterly West, Drunk Monkeys, and elsewhere. Jessica lives in Albuquerque. www.jessicarwhudson.wixsite.com/poet 

Celia Lawren is the author of the poetry chapbook, Among Dead Things, a chronicle of tragedy and resilience, published by Finishing Line Press. She is the winner of the 2021 Poetry Prize awarded by the Knoxville Writers Guild. Her poems have been published in Caesura, Tule Review, She Speaks: An Anthology of Women of Appalachia, 2021-22, and Colossus: Freedom: An Anthology of Voices Across the Carceral Wasteland 2022. Lawren resides in Knoxville, Tennessee after living many years in the San Francisco Bay Area. 

Molly Lay is a working artist with a Masters of Fine Art specializing in sculpture from the University of Alabama. Molly received her Bachelor of Arts in studio art from Samford University, in Birmingham, Alabama. She had the opportunity to study abroad for four months in spring 2019 at the Burren College of Art in Ballyvaughan, Ireland. Molly has held an internship at the Birmingham Museum of Art in Education and Community Engagement. She also worked as a curator for the Great Explorations Children’s Museum in Saint Petersburg, Florida. During the summer of 2018, she was the solo art program coordinator at Brookwood Baptist Church. As a freelance artist, she has created illustrations for advertisements like Michael Kelly Guitars and done large scale paintings such as a mural in Kathmandu, Nepal, in 2018.

Ravi Mangla‘s most recent novel is The Observant (Spuyten Duyvil, 2022). His stories have appeared in The Cincinnati Review, Brooklyn Rail, American Short Fiction, Barrelhouse, and Wigleaf. He lives in Philadelphia, PA. 

Josiah Nelson holds an MFA from the University of Saskatchewan, where he teaches creative writing. His poetry has appeared (or is forthcoming) in Contemporary Verse 2, Grain, and Palette Poetry, among others. He lives in Saskatoon, Canada. 

william o’neal ii is a playwright/poet born and raised in the American South. Drawing from a well of biblical language, allegory, and Southern tradition, their poems reclaim sacred symbols, using spiritual doctrine to re-frame and challenge views of desire, shame, and human divinity.

They are developing a collection of poems titled The New American Gospel, and hold a BA in Playwriting from Emory University. They currently reside in Brooklyn, NY.

JeFF Stumpo is a survivor of psychosis and PTSD, husband to a PhD chemist, father to an amazing trans child, author of five chapbooks of poetry and a spoken word album, and his work has recently won or been shortlisted for prizes from Subnivean, Cutthroat, and The Plaza Prizes. These selections come from a manuscript of prose poems representing actual dreams and nightmares he’s had, as well as the hopes and fears of people he cares about rendered into dreamscapes.

Serrina Zou is a fourth-year undergraduate at Columbia University. She has been recognized by the National YoungArts Foundation, the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards, the U.S. Presidential Scholars Program, the Poetry Society of the U.K., Frontier Poetry, and the Alpine Fellowship, among others. Her work appears or is forthcoming in The Rumpus, wildness, AAWW: The Margins, and elsewhere.