Will Cordeiro’s work appears in 32 Poems, AGNI, Pleiades, and The Threepenny Review. Will is the author of Trap Street (Able Muse, 2021) and Whispering Gallery (DUMBO Press, 2024), and coauthor of Experimental Writing: A Writer’s Guide and Anthology (Bloomsbury, 2024). Will coedits Eggtooth Editions and lives in Guadalajara, Mexico.

Pagie Webb is an interdisciplinary poet-scholar and an assistant professor in Kansas City. You can find their poetry and hybrid work in Anomaly, Blackbird, Colorado Review, Denver Quarterly, DIAGRAM, Indiana Review, The Kenyon Review, Poets.org, Poetry Northwest, Quarterly West, Vinyl, VOLT, West Branch, and their chapbook Tussle (dgp).

Wang Jiaxin is a Chinese poet, essayist, and translator and has published more than forty books. His collection of poems in English is Darkening Mirror (Tebot Bach, 2017), translated by Diana Shi and George O’Connell, with a foreword by former US Poet Laureate Robert Hass. His poems have been published in The American Poetry Review, American Poets, The Kenyon Review, Washington Square Review and The Hopkins Review. He has been a poet-in-residence at the Dutch Literary Foundation (Amsterdam, 2022) and at the International Writing Program at the University of Iowa (2013).

Drew Johnson was raised in Mississippi and lived for many years in rural New England before moving to Tallahassee. His short stories have appeared in The Kenyon Review, Harper’s, VQR, New England Review, and elsewhere. His long essay on the uses and abuses of history was recently published at Longreads. Other nonfiction has appeared at LARB, Guernica, and Lit Hub, among others. He received his MFA from the University of Virginia and is at work on a novel.

Marie Ungar is a writer from Charlottesville, Virginia. She lives in NYC. Her poetry appears or is forthcoming in DIALOGIST, Poetry Northwest, Lake Effect, Mass Poetry, Four Way Review, and elsewhere. Her criticism appears in ASAP Review and the Oxonian Review. Her writing has received awards and recognition from Harvard University, Hollins University, and the Fralin Museum of Art and has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and the Best of the Net Awards. You can read more at marieungar.com.

Cynthia Atkins (She, Her), originally from Chicago, IL is the author of Psyche’s Weathers, In the Event of Full Disclosure, Still-Life With God, and Duets, a collaborative chapbook from Harbor Editions. Her work has appeared in many journals, including Alaska Quarterly Review, BOMB, Cider Press Review, Diode, Cimarron Review, Indianapolis Review, Florida Review, Los Angeles Review, North American Review, Permafrost, Plume, Seneca Review, and Verse Daily, and Vox Populi. Her new Ms, “The Honeymoon of Sorrows,” was a finalist in the 2015 TRIO HOUSE PRESS, Louise Bogan Award. She earned her MFA from Columbia University. Atkins has earned fellowships and prizes from Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, SWWIM Residency @TheBetsyHotel Writer’s Room, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, The Writer’s Voice, and Writers@Work. Atkins lives on the Maury River of Rockbridge County, VA.

Smile Ximai Jiang is a writer from Shenzhen, China. She is a sophomore at Yale University, where she studies English and serves as Managing Editor of The Yale Literary Magazine. Her poems and essays appear or are forthcoming in wildness, Poetry Northwest, Palette Poetry, diode poetry journal, and elsewhere. Smile is thinking about sumo oranges.

David Ehmcke lives in Brooklyn. His recent work has appeared or is forthcoming in The Drift, The Hopkins Review, Notre Dame Review, The Missouri Review, Volume Poetry, swamp pink, Image, Sixth Finch, Columbia Journal, EPOCH, and bethh mag. David is the author of History of Lyric (Quarterly West, 2026).

Evan Kerr is writer from Baytown, Texas. When not writing he can be found reading and struggling to write. Sometimes he plays guitar. In the fall, he will begin a PhD in English literature at the University of Virginia.

Liliana Greyf tends to live and write in Providence, RI. Read more of their work in DIALOGIST and HAD Magazine. For now, they are 21.

Eesha Rao is a senior at Barnard College of Columbia University, studying English with a concentration in Creative Writing. She currently interns at Restless Books and serves as the Editor-in-Chief of Meliora: A Journal of Barnard English Theses. She is the recent recipient of the Amy Loveman Memorial Fund Prize for the best poem written by a Barnard undergraduate. 

Florence Ashley (they/them/that bitch) is a transfeminine professor of law and bioethics at the University of Alberta. A prolific transdisciplinary researcher, Florence is the author of Gender/Fucking: The Pleasures and Politics of Living in a Gendered Body (CLASH Books, 2024).

Sheila E. Murphy’s most recent book publication is Escritoire (Lavender Ink, 2025). She is the recipient of the Gertrude Stein Poetry Award for Letters to Unfinished J. (Green Integer Press, 2003) and won the Hay(ha)ku Book Prize for Reporting Live From You Know Where (Meritage Press, 2018). She lives in Phoenix, Arizona.

An author with disabilities, Phill Provance has produced numerous published literary and industry works, including the forthcoming poetry collection The Man Who Sculpted Angels (Fernwood Press 2027), the collection A Plan in Case of Morning (Vine Leaves Press 2020) and the chapbook The Day the Sun Rolled Out of the Sky (Cy Gist Press 2011). A graduate of the University of Illinois, Chicago's Program for Writers, he also holds an MFA in poetry and fiction from WV Weslyan and teaches at Lamar University.

Douglas A. Martin is the author of books of poetry and prose, most recently Wolf, an anti-true crime novel. As a critic, they have published on Kathy Acker and begun a theory of translating the poetry of Elfriede Jelinek. Writing and conversations can be found at douglasamartin.com

Adeeb Chowdhury is a writer from Bangladesh. Recognitions he has received for his writing include the James Augustus Wilson Writing Award, the Skopp Award on the Holocaust, the Feinberg Undergraduate Research Prize, and North Star's Best Nonfiction Award, as well as short fiction awards from The Olive Branch Review and Empyrean Literary Magazine. He currently lives in Binghamton, New York, where he works in wealth management.

Elena Bowman is a Literature teacher and writer from CA. She has recently been named a finalist for the DeBiase Poetry Prize and The Florida Review Editor's Choice Award; she was also longlisted for the Exeter Short Story Award. Other publications have included the Comstock Review, Anthrow Circus, William & Mary, Cleaver, and Cosmo.

Miranda Argyros is a writer from New York. She is a graduate student at the University of Connecticut in the Department of English, where she researches American literature and teaches first-year writing

T.S. Bender is a writer and teacher who grew up outside of Philadelphia and now lives in Maryland. In summer 2023, he took part in the Kenyon Review Writing Workshop for Teachers, and in 2024 he was a member of the One Story Writing Circle. Last winter, he completed the Kenyon Review Online Writers Workshop. His fiction has previously appeared in Shenandoah and Cleaver Magazine.

Netanel Schwartz is a recent graduate from Yale, where he studied English literature and Hebrew language. He lives in Brooklyn and is Chief of Staff at Sefaria, a nonprofit digital library of Jewish texts and translations. He has been described (once) as “breathing autofiction.” 

Olga is from Belarus and grew up on the West Coast. She is the author of the children's book Becoming Kaxan. Her poems and essays appear in Pacifica Literary Review, The Monarch Review, and Peripheries Journal. She’s a graduate of the Michener Center for Writers. Her more meandering thoughts can be found in her Substack, Late Night Olga.

Eleanor Polak is a Senior Editor at the literary magazine Conjunctions, and an undergraduate student at Bard College where she is studying in the Written Arts program. She is also a research assistant for the novelist Bradford Morrow. This is her first professionally published story.

Rose Gowen is an American writer living in Montreal with her family. She has a BA from Simon's Rock College of Bard and an MFA in Printmaking and Book Arts from the University of the Arts. She works as a freelance editor and literary odd-jobs woman (www.rosegowenediting.com). Her writing has appeared in The American Poetry Review, McSweeney's Internet Tendency, and American Short Fiction (online), among other places. She attended Bread Loaf in 2018 and again, with a scholarship, in 2024. In 2019, she taught an 8-week course on very short fiction at the Quebec Writers' Federation. In 2020, she went to Banff for a writing retreat.

Oliver Preston is a writer living in Brooklyn. He holds an MFA from Brooklyn College.