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.