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Ignacio Carvajal (he/they) is a scholar, poet, and translator. Ignacio is the author of two chapbooks, with poetry and translations in journals, zines, and the anthologies No Tender Frences: An Anthology of Immigrant & First-Generation American Poetry and The Wandering Song: Central American Writing in the United States. Ignacio is an assistant professor in the Department of Literature at UCSD.

Timmy Straw is from Oregon. Their first book, The Thomas Salto, was published last fall by Fonograf Editions, and their poems appear in The Paris Review, Harper's, Annulet, and Yale Review. With Ainsley Morse, they're working on translations of the Russian poet Grigori Dashevsky.

Danielle Vogel is a poet and interdisciplinary artist working at the intersections of queer and feminist ecologies, somatics, and ceremony. She is the author of the hybrid poetry collections A Library of Light (2024), Edges & Fray, The Way a Line Hallucinates Its Own Linearity, and Between Grammars. Her installations and site-responsive works have been displayed at RISD Museum, and adaptations of her work have been performed at such places as Carnegie Hall. Vogel is an associate professor at Wesleyan University and runs a private practice as an herbalist and flower essence practitioner.

Renee Gladman is a writer and artist preoccupied with crossings, thresholds, and geographies as they play out at the intersections of writing, drawing, and architecture. She is the author of fifteen published works, including a cycle of novels about the city-state Ravicka and its inhabitants, as well as three collections of drawings, Prose Architectures (2017), One Long Black Sentence (2020), and Plans for Sentences (2022). Since 2017, Gladman has exhibited her works on paper in galleries in the U.S. and across Europe. Her newest work is My Lesbian Novel (2024), a work of fiction and autobiography.

Corina Copp is a New York-based writer working at the intersections of performance, film, and contemporary feminist poetics. She is the author of The Green Ray (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2015); several chapbooks; and the play, The Whole Tragedy of the Inability to Love, fragments of which have been presented at Artists Space, NYC Prelude Festival, and Dixon Place. A video essay titled "Goodnight, Chantal" was recently presented at After Chantal: An International Conference. Other critical writing and poetry can be found in the Los Angeles Review of Books, BOMB, Cabinet, and elsewhere. She teaches at CalArts and UCSD.

Hoa Nguyen was born in the Mekong Delta and is a dual citizen of the U.S. and Canada. Hoa is the author of several books including As Long As Trees Last, Red Juice: Poems 1998-2008, and Violet Energy Ingots, which received a 2017 Griffin Prize nomination. Her sixth book of poems, A Thousand Times You Lose Your Treasure was named a finalist for a National Book Award. Her writing appears in amazing venues, such as Granta, Harper's Magazine, PEN American Center, Poetry, The Walrus, and Pleiades. She currently teaches poetry and creative writing at Toronto Metropolitan University.

Arecelis Girmay is a poet who makes works across genres. She is the author of the poetry collections: the black maria (BOA, 2016), Kingdom Animalia (BOA, 2011), and Teeth (Curbstone, 2007). Her books have also been named finalists for the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award, and she has received fellowships from the Whiting Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Cave Canem Foundations, and others. Recent work includes a picture book collaboration with her sister entitled What Do You Know? and the forthcoming picture book collaboration with artist Diana Ejaita entitled Kamau and Zuzu Find A Way, both with Enchanted Lion Books. Girmay is the editor of How to Carry Water: Selected Poems of Lucille Clifton (BOA, 2020) and So We Can Know: Writers of Color on Pregnancy, Loss, Abortion, and Birth (Haymarket Books, 2023).