Richard Siken is a poet and painter. His book Crush won the 2004 Yale Series of Younger Poets prize, selected by Louise Glück, a Lambda Literary Award, a Thom Gunn Award, and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. His other books are War of the Foxes (Copper Canyon Press, 2015) and I Do Know Some Things (Copper Canyon Press, 2025). Siken is a recipient of fellowships from Lannan Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. He lives in Tucson, Arizona.

Regina Avendaño is a Mexican writer, artist, and activist, based in South East London. Working through collaborative practices, Regina explores themes of intimacy, capital realities, and the absurd. She is also the co-founder of the political-artstic collective The Elegists. Regina would like you to read her poems and join your local trade union.

Nur Turkmani is a writer from Beirut. Her work has appeared in Poetry, New England Review, Copper Nickel, The Rumpus, and elsewhere. Her debut poetry collection is forthcoming from Hajar Press in spring 2026. She is at work on a short story collection and was awarded the Anthony Veasna So Scholarship for fiction by The Adroit Journal. Nur studied creative writing at the University of Oxford, and politics at the London School of Economics and the American University of Beirut.

Kim Addonizio has authored a dozen books of poetry and prose, most recently the poetry collection Exit Opera (W.W. Norton). Her collection Tell Me was a National Book Award finalist. Her honors include NEA and Guggenheim Fellowships, and her work has been widely translated and anthologized.

Michael Robins is the author of five collections of poetry, most recently The Bright Invisible (Saturnalia Books, 2022). He lives in Lake Charles, Louisiana, where he teaches in the MFA program at McNeese State University and serves as Editor of The McNeese Review.

Kelly Grace Thomas, poet, writer, and coach, is the author of Future Tense (forthcoming from Alice James Books, 2026) and Boat Burned (YesYes Books, 2020). She is the winner of the Jane Underwood Poetry Prize and the Neil Postman Award for Metaphor. Kelly’s poems have appeared or are forthcoming in: The Sun, The Adroit Journal, 32 Poems, Los Angeles Review, Sixth Finch, and elsewhere. Kelly helps poets create intentional habits, rapidly improve craft, and finally write the poems only they can write through her Substack, The Poetry Coach. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Randolph College.

Aidan Chafe is the author of the poetry collections Gospel Drunk (University of Alberta Press) and Short Histories of Light (McGill-Queen's University Press), that was longlisted for the 2019 Gerald Lampert Memorial Award. He has also published two chapbooks Right Hand Hymns (Frog Hollow Press) and Sharpest Tooth (Anstruther Press). His work has appeared in journals and literary magazines in Canada, United States, England and Australia. He lives and works on the unceded territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh peoples (Vancouver, BC).

Natasha Oladokun is a Black, queer poet and essayist from Virginia. They hold fellowships from Cave Canem, The National Endowment for the Arts, The Elizabeth George Foundation, and the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where they were the inaugural First Wave Poetry fellow. She is writing her first poetry collection.

Isabella “Isa” Borgeson (she/they) is a queer, mixed race, filipino american poet and community organizer from Oakland. Their poetry is influenced by their years organizing in the aftermath of super typhoon Haiyan/Yolanda. Isa aims to use their storytelling to visibilize the impact of climate change on their home(land)s, from Oakland to Tanauan.

Jenny Qi is the author of Focal Point, winner of the 2020 Steel Toe Books Poetry Award. Her work appears in The New York Times, The Atlantic, High Country News, and elsewhere. She is working on a hybrid collection and a memoir in conversation with her late mother’s writings. She holds a Ph.D. in Cancer Biology from UCSF.

jason b. crawford (They/He) born in Washington DC and raised in Lansing, MI, is the author of Year of the Unicorn Kidz. Their second collection, YEET! is the winner of the Omnidawn 1st/2nd Book Prize and will be published Fall 2025.

Rebecca Faulkner is a London-born poet based in Brooklyn. She is the author of “Permit Me to Write My Own Ending,” (Write Bloody Publishing, 2023), a finalist for the 2024 Sheila Margaret Motton Book Prize. Her work appears in New York Quarterly,The Maine Review, The Poetry Society of New York, and elsewhere. She was a 2023 poetry recipient of the Barbara Deming Memorial Fund for Women, the winner of Black Fox Literary Magazine’s 2023 Writing Contest, and the 2022 winner of Sand Hills Literary Magazine’s National Poetry Contest. Her upcoming collection, Daughters of the Minotaur (Regal House Publishing 2027), engages with the life and work of five mid-century women artists.

Chris Banks is an award-winning, Pushcart-nominated Canadian poet and author of seven collections of poems, most recently Alternator with Nightwood Editions (Fall 2023). His first full-length collection, Bonfires, was awarded the Jack Chalmers Award for poetry by the Canadian Authors’ Association in 2004. Chris was an associate editor with The New Quarterly, and is Editor in Chief of The Woodlot – A Canadian Poetry Reviews & Essays website. He lives and writes in Kitchener, Ontario.

Ishion Hutchinson was born in Port Antonio, Jamaica. He is the author of the poetry collections Far District, winner of the PEN/Joyce Osterweil Award for Poetry, House of Lords and Commons, which received the National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry and School of Instructions: a Poem, a finalist for the T.S. Eliot Prize for Poetry and the Griffin Poetry Prize. A recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Joseph Brodsky Rome Prize in Literature, the Whiting Award, and a Donald Windham–Sandy M. Campbell Literature Prize, Hutchinson is the W.E.B. Du Bois Professor in the Humanities at Cornell University.

Sarah Mills’s poems have appeared in RHINO, trampset, Jet Fuel Review, HAD, Up the Staircase, ​The Shore, Pithead Chapel, Beaver Mag, and elsewhere. Her work has been nominated for Best of the Net and the Pushcart Prize. Find her on Bluesky @sarahmillswrites.

Kevin Chesser lives in the Allegheny Mountains of West Virginia. His writing can be found in places like Hobart, elsewhere, drDOCTOR, Pithead Chapel, Press Pause, Empty House Press, and others. He is the author of one full length collection of poetry - Relief of My Symptoms (Ghost Palace Press, 2023), plus numerous handmade chapbooks and zines. He earned his MFA from West Virginia Wesleyan University, and occasionally records music under the name Wizard Clipp. Send him a hi hello how are you anytime at www.kchesser.com or @sweat_michaels on Instagram.

Elise Powers is a poet whose work explores the complexities of womanhood, relationships, and the quiet intersections of joy and sorrow. Her debut collection, The Size of Your Joy, is forthcoming next spring. She lives in Seattle with her husband and daughter where she writes, collects sea glass, and savors life’s tender joys.

Maya Salameh is the author of Mermaid Theory (Haymarket Books, 2026) and How to Make an Algorithm in the Microwave (University of Arkansas Press, 2022), winner of the Etel Adnan Poetry Prize. Her work has appeared in The Offing, Poetry, The Rumpus, AGNI, and Mizna, among others. She can be found @mayaslmh.

Jeremy Radin is a writer and actor. His poems have appeared (or are forthcoming) in Poem-a-Day,Ploughshares, The Colorado Review, Crazyhorse, The Sun, and elsewhere. He is the author of three collections of poetry: Belly God (Orison Books, forthcoming 2026, selected by Ellen Bass), Dear Sal (Not A Cult, 2022), and Slow Dance with Sasquatch (Write Bloody Publishing, 2012). He has worked as an actor in film, television, and theater. He is the founder and operator of Lanternist Creative Consulting, through which he coaches writers and performers. He likes to point at birds and try to remember their names. Follow him @germyradin.

Anastasia K. Gates is a writer, editor, and artist from the Great Appalachian Valley of Pennsylvania. She was awarded the shortlist for the inaugural Oxford Poetry Prize and her work has been published in Tupelo Quarterly, Oxford Poetry, Some Kind of Opening, Counterclock Journal and elsewhere. She earned her Master of Fine Arts in Poetry from Columbia University in the City of New York.

Nina C. Peláez is a poet, educator, and cultural producer based in Maui, Hawaiʻi whose work explores themes of adoption, dislocation, diasporic identity, mythology, and ecology. A Best New Poets nominee, her work has recently appeared or is forthcoming in Prairie Schooner, Narrative, Electric Literature, Rattle, Willow Springs, Pleiades and swamp pink, among others. She was awarded the Coniston Prize by Radar Poetry and has been supported by Tin House, Yaddo, AWP’s Writer to Writer Program, and the Key West Literary Seminars. She holds an MFA from Bennington College and is a mentor for The Adroit Journal. Follow her on Instagram @ninacpelaez.

Merilyn Chang is a writer and journalist based between New York and Berlin. Her poetry and fiction have been featured in InkFish, Literary Shanghai, Eunoia Review, Singapore Unbound, and more. She studied comparative literature and creative writing at NYU and has since been working on her first novel.

Bobby Elliott's debut collection of poems, The Same Man, was selected by Nate Marshall as the winner of the 2025 Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize and will be published by the University of Pittsburgh Press on September 9, 2025. Raised in New York City, he earned his BA from Sarah Lawrence College and his MFA from the University of Virginia, where he was a Poe/Faulkner Fellow and won the Kahn Prize for Teaching. Recent work has appeared in or is forthcoming from The Cortland Review, Diode, North American Review, Poet Lore, Poetry Northwest and elsewhere. You can follow him on Instagram at @bobbyelliottpoet and pre-order The Same Man here.

Tarn Wilson is the author of the memoir The Slow Farm, the memoir-in-essays In Praise of Inadequate Gifts (winner of the Wandering Aengus Book Award), and a craft book 5-Minute Daily Writing Prompts. She is currently taking a break from her long-term relationship with prose and has been shamelessly flirting with poetry.

Narisma is a multimodal creator from the Philippines who is fascinated with cultural memory, queer erotics, and spiritual restitution. His work has appeared or is forthcoming from Tinderbox Poetry Journal, The Margins, Gordon Square Review, and Pollux Journal, among others. He flits from Manila to New York to everywhere in between.

Arumandhira is a Blasian queer writer born and raised in Indonesia (now surviving in Los Angeles). She has received support from Kundiman and Storyknife Writers Retreat as a poetry fellow. Her works have appeared in Honey Literary, The Boiler, The Offing, Asian American's Writer's Workshop, Split This Rock, BRUISER Mag, and SWWIM.

Elizabeth Torres is a poet and essayist in southern Minnesota with work in AGNI, Ecotone, Ninth Letter, Tin House, and elsewhere. Her writing has been supported by the Loft Literary Center, the Minnesota State Arts Board, the Prairie Lakes Regional Arts Council, and elsewhere.

Gray Davidson Carroll is a white, transfemme writer, dancer, singer, cold water plunger and (self-proclaimed) hot chocolate alchemist hailing from Brooklyn by way of western Massachusetts and other strange and forgotten places. They are the author of the poetry chapbook Waterfall of Thanks (Bottlecap Press, 2023), and their work has further appeared or is forthcoming in Rattle, The Common, Frontiers in Medicine, and elsewhere. They have received fellowships from Brooklyn Poets, and Columbia University, and are currently pursuing an MFA in poetry at NYU.

Brionne Janae is a poet living in Brooklyn with their two dogs. They’ve published three books of poetry, Because You Were Mine (2023), Blessed are the Peacemakers (2021) which won the 2020 Cave Canem Northwestern University Press Poetry Prize, and After Jubilee (2017). Off the page they go by Breezy.

Sheila Dong (they/them) is a writer and movement artist living in the desert. They are the author of two chapbooks, Swan as a Verb (dancing girl press, 2023) and Moon Crumbs (Bottlecap Press, 2019), as well as a micro-chap, The Clarissa Blueprints (Ghost City Press, 2023).

Seth Peterson is an emerging writer, researcher, and physical therapist in Tucson, Arizona. His poems are in Cincinnati Review, New Ohio Review, Ninth Letter, RHINO, and elsewhere. He was recently a finalist for the Ploughshares Emerging Writer Contest, among others, and his work has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize.

Shivani Mehta’s second poetry collection, The Required Assembly, is forthcoming from Press53 in March 2025. She is also the author of Useful Information for the Soon-to-be Beheaded. A former attorney, Shivani lives in Los Angeles with her husband and two children where she co-owns and manages a business.

Maria Giesbrecht is a Canadian poet whose writings explore her Mexican and Mennonite roots. Her work has previously been published in Queen's Quarterly, Contemporary Verse 2, Talon Review, and is forthcoming in Canadian Literature. She is the runner-up for the 2022 Eden Mills Poetry Contest, a Best of Net nominee, and a graduate of the Creative Writing program at Humber College. Maria is the founder and host of the writing table, Gather, and spends her days nurturing creative folks to write urgently and unafraid.

Richard Garcia's poetry books include The Other Odyssey, Dream Horse Press, 2014, The Chair, BOA 2015, and Porridge, Press 53, 2016. He has received a Pushcart Prize, and been in Best American Poetry.

Jarrett Moseley is a bisexual poet living in Miami. He is the author of the chapbook Gratitude List (Bull City Press, 2024). His poetry has earned recognitions from the Academy of American Poets, the Baltimore Review, Miami Book Fair, and the Poetry Society UK. His poems are featured or forthcoming in Ploughshares, POETRYMagazine, AGNI, Poets.org, Waxwing, Baltimore Review, and elsewhere.

Kimiko Hahn has cast a wide net for subject matter over her ten collections. In the forthcoming The Ghost Forest: new and selected poems, she plays with given forms while creating new ones, and, in doing so, honors past writers. Reflecting her interest in Japanese poetics, her essay on the zuihitsu was published in the American Poetry Review. Hahn is the 2023 recipient of the Ruth Lilly Prize for Lifetime Achievement from The Poetry Foundation. She teaches in the MFA Program for Creative Writing and Literary Translation at Queens College, City University of New York.

James Richardson is most recently the author of For Now (Copper Canyon, 2020).  His other collections of poems, aphorisms and ten-second essays include During, By the Numbers (a finalist for the National Book Award), Interglacial, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, and Vectors.

Dean Rader has authored or co-authored twelve books, including Self-Portrait as Wikipedia Entry, Landscape Portrait Figure Form, named a Barnes & Noble Best Book, and Works & Days, which won the T. S. Eliot Prize. Before the Borderless: Dialogues with the Art of Cy Twombly, appeared in 2023. He is a professor at the University of San Francisco and a 2019 Guggenheim Fellow in Poetry.

Fran Lock is the author of numerous chapbooks and fourteen poetry collections. Her most recent collections are Hyena! (Poetry Bus Press, 2023), shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize 2023 and the PEN Heaney Prize 2024, and 'a disgusting lie': further adventures through the neoliberal hell-mouth (Pamenar Press, 2023). Her most recent pamphlet is The New Herbal (Blueprint Press, 2024). Vulgar Errors/ Feral Subjects, a collection of essays exploring feral subjectivity through the medieval bestiary, was published by Out-Spoken Press last year. Fran is a Commissioning Editor at radical arts and culture cooperative Culture Matters. She lives in Kent with her sassy American bully, Luna.

Luisa Muradyan is originally from Odesa, Ukraine and is the author of I Make Jokes When I'm Devastated (Bridwell Press, 2025) When the World Stopped Touching (YesYes Books, 2027), and American Radiance (University of Nebraska Press, 2018). She is the winner of the 2017 Raz/ ShumakerPrairie Schooner Book Prize and a member of the Cheburashka Collective. Additional work can be found at Best American Poetry, the Threepenny Review, Ploughshares, and the Georgia Review among others.

Tara Mesalik MacMahon is the winner of the 2024 James Hearst Poetry Prize (North AmericanReview). Her debut collection, Barefoot Up the Mountain, won the Open Country Press Chapbook Contest. Her poems also appear in Nimrod, Poet Lore, Jabberwock Review, Red Hen Press’s New Moons and elsewhere. Tara calls an island in the Salish Sea home, where she lives with her husband and their rescue dog.

Lisabelle Tay is a Singaporean writer and poet. Her poetry appears in Anthropocene, Bad Lilies, and elsewhere; her debut pamphlet was Pilgrim (The Emma Press, 2021). Her fiction appears in Sine Theta Magazine and elsewhere. She was part of the 2023 Black List Feature Lab with her screenplay MOMO, which is currently in development.

Tom Snarsky is the author of Light-Up Swan and Reclaimed Water, both from Ornithopter Press. His book A Letter From The Mountain & Other Poems is forthcoming from Animal Heart Press in 2025. He lives with his wife Kristi and their cats in the mountains of northwestern Virginia.

Suzanne Richardson earned her M.F.A. in Albuquerque, New Mexico at the University of New Mexico. She currently lives in Binghamton, New York where she's a Ph.D. student in creative writing at SUNY Binghamton. She is working on a memoir, Throw it Up, and a full poetry collection, The Want Monster which was recently named a finalist for the 2024 Saturnalia Press Book Awards. She is the current nonfiction editor for Harpur Palate. Her nonfiction has appeared in New Ohio Review, New Haven Review, Rejection Lit, and No Contact Magazine. Her poetry has appeared in Bomb Magazine, Gulf Coast, Poet Lore, and DIALOGIST. Her fiction has appeared in Southern Humanities Review, Front Porch, and High Desert Journal.

Emily Jungmin Yoon is the author of Find Me as the Creature I Am (Alfred A. Knopf, 2024). She has also published A Cruelty Special to Our Species (Ecco, 2018), a finalist for the 2020 Kate Tufts Discovery Award, and a chapbook, Ordinary Misfortunes (Tupelo Press, 2017).

ethan s. evans (they/them) is a writer and photographer based in central virginia. their work has appeared or is forthcoming in The Kenyon Review, minnesota review, and poets.org. am i allowed to tell people to join their labor unions in a third person bio? join your labor union. they can be found on twitter and instagram @ethanevanssucks

Asa Drake is a Filipina/white poet in Central Florida. She is the author of Beauty Talk, winner of the 2024 Noemi Press Book Award, forthcoming from Noemi Press in spring 2026. Her chapbook, One Way to Listen (Gold Line Press), is the winner of a 2023 Florida Book Award. A National Poetry Series finalist, she is the recipient of fellowships and awards from the 92Y Discovery Poetry Contest, Sundress Publications, Tin House and Idyllwild Arts. Her most recent poems are published or forthcoming in Poet Lore, The American Poetry Review and VOLT.

Bethany Jarmul is an Appalachian writer and poet. She’s the author of two chapbooks, and her debut poetry collection Lightning Is a Mother is forthcoming with ELJ Editions in 2025. Her work has been published in many magazines including Rattle, Brevity, Salamander, and One Art. Her writing was selected for Best Spiritual Literature 2023 and Best Small Fictions 2024 and nominated for the Pushcart Prize and The Best of the Net. Bethany can be found on twitter or instagram: @bethanyjarmul

Seth Leeper is a queer poet. His work has appeared in The Journal, Poet Lore, Prairie Schooner, River Styx, Salamander, and Sycamore Review. He holds an M.S. in Special Education from Pace University and B.A. in Creative Writing and Fashion Journalism from San Francisco State University. He is a candidate in the Low Residency MFA in Creative Writing Program at Randolph College. His work has been nominated for Best New Poets, Best of the Net, and Pushcart awards. He teaches drop in and virtual workshops for Brooklyn Poets. Leeper can be found on Twitter and Instagram: @sethwleeper

Kit Eginton is a trans writer, editor, and organizer in NYC. She writes for Strange Horizons and edits for Hypocrite Reader. You can read her past work and her newsletter, on communist politics and trans aesthetics, here. There is only one solution – intifada revolution!

Shane McCrae’s most recent book of poetry is The Many Hundreds of the Scent. His memoir, Pulling the Chariot of the Sun, was published in 2023. His awards and fellowships include a Lannan Literary Award, a Whiting Writer's Award, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. He lives in New York City. McCrae can be found Twitter and Instagram: @akasomeguy

Matthew Zapruder lives in Northern California. He is editor at large at Wave Books, and teaches in the MFA at Saint Mary’s College of California. His forthcoming collection of poetry, I Love Hearing Your Dreams, will be published by Scribner in Fall, 2024.

Maria Gray is a poet unconditionally supportive of Palestinian resistance and liberation. Originally from Portland, Oregon, her work is published by ONLY POEMS, Best New Poets, SPACE Gallery in Portland, Maine, and others. She is the recipient of the John Tagliabue Prize for Creative Writing from Bates College and a Departmental Poetry Fellowship from New York University’s Creative Writing Program, and was named as a semifinalist for The Adroit Journal’s Djanikian Scholars Program in 2024. The Managing Editor of COUNTERCLOCK Journal, she lives in Brooklyn, New York.

Sydney Mayes is a poet from Denver, Colorado. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in The Atlantic, Gulf Coast Journal, Denver Quarterly, Poets.org and Prairie Schooner, among other publications. Executive Editor of Nashville Review and a finalist for the 2024 Furious Flower Prize, Mayes can be found on Instagram: @sydney_gabrielle_mayes

xochi quetzali cartland is a queer & latina poet, seamstress, & transformative justice practitioner living in Washington, DC. Her work has appeared in Common Ground Review, Muzzle Magazine, Little Patuxent Review & elsewhere, as well as supported with fellowships from National Arts Strategies & Brooklyn Poets.

Nome Emeka Patrick is a Nigerian, and Cave Canem fellow. His works have been published or are forthcoming in POETRY, AGNI, The Journal, Narrative, TriQuarterly, Waxwing, Hayden's Ferry Review, Poet Lore, Black Warrior Review, and elsewhere. A Best of the Net, Best New Poets, and Pushcart prize nominee, he emerged third place in the Frontier Poetry Award for New Poets, 2020. His manuscript 'We Need New Moses. Or New Luther King' was a finalist for the 2019 Sillerman First Book Prize for African Poets. His chapbook, Voyaging, was selected for New Generation African Poet—African Poetry Book Fund (2024) by Kwame Dawes and Chris Abani. He has an MFA from Brown University and is currently a PhD student at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. He is the poetry editor at Agbowo.

Dick Westheimer lives in rural southwest Ohio with his wife and writing companion, Debbie. He is winner of the 2023 Joy Harjo Poetry Prize and a Rattle Poetry Prize finalist. His poems have appeared in Whale Road Review, Rattle, Abandon Journal, Sugar House Review and Minyan. His chapbook, A Sword in Both Hands, Poems Responding to Russia’s War on Ukraine, is published by SheilaNaGig.

Maya C. Popa is the author of Wound is the Origin of Wonder (Norton) and American Faith (Sarabande). Her newsletter, Poetry Today, is one of Substack’s bestselling literature publications. The poetry reviews editor at Publishers Weekly, she teaches at NYU and runs Conscious Writers Collective, a year-round online literary platform and community for dedicated writers.

sterling-elizabeth arcadia (she/they) is a Best of the Net winning trans writer and lover of birds, cats, her friends, and going to the movies, living in Philadelphia. Her work has also been nominated for Best Small Fictions and the Pushcart Prize, and has appeared in venues including HAD, poetry.onl, New Delta Review, and the lickety~split. Their chapbook, Heaven, Ekphrasis, is available now from Kith Books.

Kinsale Drake (Diné) is a winner of the 2023 National Poetry Series for her debut poetry collection THE SKY WAS ONCE A DARK BLANKET (University of Georgia Press, 2024). Her work has appeared in Poetry, Poets.org, Best New Poets, Black Warrior Review, Nylon, Teen Vogue, and elsewhere. She is the director of NDN Girls Book Club, a literary nonprofit for Indigenous peoples.

Amorak Huey is author of four books of poems including Dad Jokes from Late in the Patriarchy (Sundress, 2021). Co-founder with Han VanderHart of River River Books, Huey teaches at Bowling Green State University in Ohio. He also is co-author with W. Todd Kaneko of the textbook Poetry: A Writer’s Guide and Anthology (Bloomsbury, 2024).

Aimee Wai is an Austin-based writer who once forgot she liked to write and then remembered. She grew up in the Rocky Mountains and studied Geological Engineering at the Colorado School of Mines. She works in consulting by day, and at night likes to watercolor, read Frank O'Hara, and eat Chinese broccoli. She is busy at work on her first collection of poetry.

Mikko Harvey is the author of Let the World Have You (House of Anansi, 2022) and Unstable Neighbourhood Rabbit (House of Anansi, 2018). He lives in Northampton, Massachusetts.

Kelli Russell Agodon is a bi/queer poet and editor from the Pacific Northwest. Her latest book, Dialogues with Rising Tides (Copper Canyon Press), was a Finalist in the Washington State Book Awards and shortlisted for the Eric Hoffer Book Award Grand Prize in Poetry. She cofounded Two Sylvias Press and teaches at Pacific Lutheran University's low-res MFA program. She also co-hosts the poetry series "Poems You Need" with Melissa Studdard.

Kathryn Hargett-Hsu is the author of Good Listener (2024), winner of the Frontier Poetry Breakthrough Chapbook Contest. She is Senior Poetry Fellow at Washington University in St. Louis. Find her in Best New Poets, Poetry Daily, Pleiades, The Hopkins Review, Sixth Finch, swamp pink, The Margins, and elsewhere.

Molly Zhu is a Chinese-American poet and attorney. She writes about alter egos, chasms, dreams, tears, rage, translation and the women in her life. She was twice nominated for Pushcart prizes and her work appears in Hobart Pulp, the Ghost City Press, and Bodega Magazine, among others. The poetry editor of Passengers Journal, she is the winner of the 2021 Gwendolyn Brooks Poetry Prize for her debut chapbook, Asian American Translations (Cordella Press).

David Kirby’s latest books are a poetry collection, Help Me, Information and a textbook modestly entitled The Knowledge: Where Poems Come From and How to Write Them. David teaches at Florida State University and is currently on the editorial board of Alice James Books.

Nicole Tallman is the author of three collections: Something Kindred, Poems for the People, and FERSACE. She serves as Miami’s official Poetry Ambassador, Editor of Redacted Books, and Poetry Editor for The Miami Native,South Florida Poetry Journal, and The Blue Mountain Review. Find her on social media @natallman.

Timi Sanni is a writer, editor and multidisciplinary artist from Nigeria. He is the winner of the 2022 Kreative Diadem Writing Contest, the 2021 Anita McAndrews Award Poetry Contest, and the 2020 SprinNG Poetry Contest. His works have appeared in Black Warrior Review, New Delta Review, Cincinnati Review, Poet Lore, Plumwood Mountain Journal, Palette Poetry, Frontier Poetry, Lolwe, and elsewhere. Find him on Twitter and on Instagram.

Dorsey Craft is the author of Plunder (Bauhan Publishing 2020), and the winner of the May Sarton NH Poetry Prize. Her recent work has appeared or is forthcoming in Blackbird, Copper Nickel, Narrative, Mississippi Review, Pleiades, Ploughshares, and elsewhere. She currently teaches at the University of North Florida and serves as Assistant Poetry Editor at Agni.

Chen Chen is the author of two books of poetry, Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced an Emergency and When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities, both published by BOA Editions. He teaches for the low-residency MFA programs at New England College, Stonecoast, and Antioch.

Philip Schaefer’s collection Bad Summon (University of Utah Press, 2017) won the Agha Shahid Ali Poetry Prize, while individual poems have won contests from The Puritan, Meridian, & Passages North. His work has been featured on Poem-A-Day, Poetry Daily, Verse Daily, and in The Poetry Society of America. He runs a modern Mexican restaurant called The Camino in Missoula, MT.

Andrea Jurjević is the author of In Another Country (2022 Saturnalia Prize), Small Crimes (2015 Philip Levine Prize) and Nightcall. Her translations from Croatian include Olja Savičević’s Mamasafari and Marko Pogačar’s Dead Letter Office, which was shortlisted for the 2021 National Translation Award in Poetry. She’s a native of Croatia.

Micaela Camacho-Tenreiro is a Venezuelan-American poet, dancer, and translator. Her work appears in the American Poetry Review and has been featured by Brooklyn Poets. She received a 2023 Finalist award from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts and holds a B.A. in Hispanic Studies from Brown University.

Zachary Forrest y Salazar is a software engineer, amateur photographer, and American poet. You can find him on Instagram @zdfs.poet and his photography @zd.fs. He grew up in the Midwest, where he studied poetry at Missouri State University under Marcus Cafagña and the late Michael Burns. He calls Santa Barbara, California, home.

Andrea Cohen is the author of eight books of poetry, including The Sorrow Apartments (Four Way Books, 2024). Other collections include Everything, Nightshade, Unfathoming, Furs Not Mine, Kentucky Derby, Long Division, and The Cartographer's Vacation. Her poems  have appeared in The New Yorker, Poetry, The Threepenny Review, The New York Review of Books, The Atlantic Monthly, Poetry, and elsewhere. Awards include a Guggenheim Fellowship and several fellowships at MacDowell. She directs the Blacksmith House Poetry Series in Cambridge, MA, and is currently teaching at Boston University.

Kaylee Young-Eun Jeong is from Oregon and lives in New York. Her work appears in Shenandoah, The Columbia Review, and Diode Poetry Journal, among others. She loves her parents, her brother, Anne Carson, and her platform shoes.

Francis de Lima is a Finnish-Brazilian poet and translator, currently living in the UK. They are completing their undergrad at Royal Holloway, focusing on the intersections between class, ecology, and poetry. They’ve collaborated extensively, mainly with Finnish underground artists, on projects like art books, albums, and performances at venues ranging from concert halls to backyards.

Leigh Sugar is a Michigan-based artist. Poetry and other work appears in POETRY, Split This Rock, jubilat, and more. A disabled and chronically ill writer, Leigh holds an MFA in poetry from NYU and an MPA in Criminal Justice Policy from John Jay College, and has taught writing at CUNY's Institute for Justice and Opportunity, NYU, various prisons in Michigan, and other settings. Leigh edited the anthology That's a Pretty Thing to Call It: Prose and poetry by artists teaching in carceral institutions (New Village Press, 2023), and her debut poetry collection, FREELAND, is forthcoming (Alice James Books, 2025).

Todd Dillard's work has appeared in American Poetry Review, Guernica, Fairy Tale Review, The Adroit Journal, Best New Poets, Waxwing, and elsewhere. His debut collection Ways We Vanish (Okay Donkey Press) was a finalist for the 2021 Balcones Poetry Award. His chapbook Ragnarök at the Father-Daughter Dance is forthcoming from Variant Literature. He is a Poetry Editor for The Boiler Journal. He lives in Philadelphia with his wife, two kids, and works as an editor and writer for a hospital.

Carey Salerno is the executive director and publisher of Alice James Books. She is the author of Shelter (2009) and Tributary (2021). Her third collection of poems, The Hungriest Stars, is forthcoming with Persea Books. She serves as the co-chair for LitNet: The Literary Network and occasionally teaches poetry and publishing arts at the University of Maine at Farmington. In 2021, she received the Golden Colophon Award for Independent Paradigm Publishing from CLMP for the leadership and contributions of Alice James Books.

Halee Kirkwood is a 2023-2025 Jerome Hill Artist Fellow, a Tin House Summer Workshop alumni, and an Indigenous Nations Poets (IN-NA-PO) fellow. They were awarded the 2022 James Welch Poetry Prize, published with Poetry Northwest. Kirkwood’s work can be found in Poetry Magazine,  Ecotone, Gulf Coast, and others. Kirkwood is a direct descendant of the Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Ojibwe.

Paul Hostovsky's poems have won a Pushcart Prize, two Best of the Net Awards, the FutureCycle Poetry Book Prize, the Muriel Craft Bailey Award, and have been featured on Poetry Daily, Verse Daily, The Writer's Almanac, and the Best American Poetry blog. His thirteenth book of poems, Pitching for the Apostates, is just out from Kelsay Books. He makes his living in Boston as a sign language interpreter.

Myriam Klatt (she/her), born 1984, has published two novels with Aufbau Verlag as well as multiple fictional and non-fictional pieces in literary magazines. She only recently switched from her native German to English, focusing on poetry and creative nonfiction. She lives in Berlin, Germany.

Jose Hernandez Diaz is a 2017 NEA Poetry Fellow. He is the author of The Fire Eater (Texas Review Press, 2020) Bad Mexican, Bad American (Acre Books, 2024) and The Parachutist (Sundress Publications, 2025). He has been published in The Yale Review, Poetry, Poetry Wales, The Southern Review, The London Magazine, The Iowa Review, The Journal, Colorado Review, TriQuarterly, Epoch Magazine and in The Best American Nonrequired Reading. He teaches generative workshops for Hugo House, Lighthouse Writers Workshops, The Writer's Center, and elsewhere. Additionally, he serves as a Poetry Mentor in The Adroit Journal Summer Mentorship Program.

Denise Duhamel’s most recent books of poetry are Second Story (Pittsburgh, 2021) and Scald (2017). Blowout (2013) was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. She also served as a guest editor for The Best American Poetry 2013. A recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts, she is a distinguished university professor in the MFA program at Florida International University in Miami.

Bob Hicok is the author of Water Look Away (Copper Canyon Press, 2023). He has received a Guggenheim, two NEA Fellowships, the Bobbitt Prize from the Library of Congress, nine Pushcart Prizes, and was twice a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. His poems have appeared in nine volumes of the Best American Poetry.

Tim Seibles was the Poet Laureate of Virginia from 2016 to 2018. He is a former NEA fellow and Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center fellow. His seven books of poetry include Fast Animal, a finalist for the 2012 National Book Award and winner of the Theodore Roethke Memorial Poetry Prize. This was followed by One Turn Around The Sun in 2017.  His latest collection, Voodoo Libretto: New & Selected Poems was released by Etruscan Press in 2022.

Hillary Smith-Maddern is a proud cat mom and collector of dilapidated plants. Her favorite things include cats, coffee, cobblestone streets, and the crisp, blank pages of a writing notebook. She resides in Greenfield, MA and enjoys exploring the world. When she’s not writing, you can find her coaching, hiking a mountain, or yelling about the patriarchy.

Reuben Gelley Newman is the author of Feedback Harmonies (Seven Kitchens Press), a chapbook on Arthur Russell. His poems are available or forthcoming in Salamander, The Fairy Tale Review, South Dakota Review, Ninth Letter, and elsewhere. A Co-Editor at Couplet Poetry, you can find him on social media @joustingsnail and in real life in New York City.

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Robert Okaji holds a BA in history, and was recently diagnosed with stage four metastatic lung cancer. He thanks the editors of the following presses/journals for supporting his work in recent years: Threepenny Review, Evergreen Review, Slipstream, Shō Poetry Journal, Vox Populi, One Art, and Panoply.

Rae Armantrout is a winner of the Pulitzer Prize and The National Book Critics Circle Award (for Versed, Wesleyan 2010). Her most recent book is Finalists (Wesleyan 2022). Her 2018 book, Wobble, was a finalist for the National Book Award. Her other books with Wesleyan include Partly: New and Selected Poems, Just Saying, and Money Shot. A new book, Go Figure, and a chapbook, Notice, are forthcoming in 2024.

Chiwenite Onyekwelu’s debut poetry chapbook, EXILED, will be published in 2024 by Red Bird Chapbooks. His poems appear in Adroit Journal, Frontier, Cincinnati Review, Palette, Hudson Review, Lolwe, Chestnut Review, Mizna, and elsewhere. He won the Hudson Review Inaugural Frederick Morgan Poetry Prize, 2020 Jack Grapes Poetry Prize, and was shortlisted for the Alpine Fellowship Prize 2023.

Rosebud Ben-Oni is the author of several collections of poetry, including If This Is the Age We End Discovery (March 2021), which won the Alice James Award and was a Finalist for the National Jewish Book Award.  She has received fellowships and grants from the New York Foundation for the Arts and others. Her work appears in POETRY, The American Poetry Review, Academy of American Poets, Tin House, Guernica, Electric Literature, among others.

Leigh Chadwick is the author of numerous poetry collections, including Your Favorite Poet (Malarkey Books, 2022) and Sophomore Slump (Malarkey Books, 2023). Her poetry has appeared in The Massachusetts Review, Salamander, Passages North, Identity Theory, and Pithead Chapel, among others. She is currently at work on a YA romance novel set around the Donner Party.

M. Cynthia Cheung is a physician whose poems can be found in The Baltimore Review, Four Way Review, Pleiades, RHINO, swamp pink, Tupelo Quarterly and others, and she is a prior Idyllwild Arts Writers Week fellow. She reads for Bear Review and serves as a judge for Baylor College of Medicine’s annual Michael E. DeBakey Medical Student Poetry Awards.

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Matthew Nienow is the author of two collections with Alice James Books: House of Water (2016) and If Nothing (Forthcoming, 2025). His work has appeared in Gulf Coast, New England Review, Ploughshares, and POETRY, and has been recognized with fellowships from the Poetry Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. He is currently pursuing a degree in Mental Health Counseling.

Amit Majmudar’s new books in 2023 published in the United States are Black Avatar and Other Essays (Acre Books) and Twin A: A Memoir (Slant Books). The same year, Penguin India will publish The Book of Vows, the first of three volumes in a Mahabharata retelling, as well as an original mythological story cycle, The Later Adventures of Hanuman.

Arah Ko is a writer from Hawai'i. Her work is published or forthcoming in American Poetry Review, Frontier Poetry, Ninth Letter, Threepenny Review, Quarterly West, and elsewhere. She received her MFA in creative writing from the Ohio State University where she edited for The Journal. Arah is a current Poetry Editor at Surging Tide Magazine.