ALYSSA PERRY is the author of Oily Doily (Bench Editions, 2024). Writing also appears with Annulet, Coma, Fence, Mercury Firs, River Styx, the Experimental Sound Studio, and other venues. Perry is an editor at Rescue Press and poetry editor at the Cleveland Review of Books. She teaches at the Cleveland Institute of Art.
ELIZABETH ROBINSON is the author, most recently, of Excursive (Roof Books, a finalist for the Big Other Award in Poetry), Thirst & Surfeit (Threadsuns), and, with Susanne Dyckman, Rendered Paradise (Apogee). New books are forthcoming in 2025: Being Modernists Together (Solid Objects) and Vulnerability Index (Northwestern University Press).
EMILY BRANDT, a poet guided by ritual and somatic practices, is the author of Falsehood, as well as three chapbooks. She’s a co-founding editor of No, Dear, curator of the LINEAGE reading series at Wendy’s Subway, and member of the video art cooperative Temp.Files. She’s of Sicilian, Polish & Ukrainian descent, and lives between Brooklyn and Speonk.
ELISE THI TRAN is a writer and poet. She is the 2022 First Pages Prize winner and a fiction judge for NYC Midnight. Her work appears or is forthcoming in Apogee, Blackbird, Diode, Copper Nickel, The Kenyon Review, Salt Hill, and elsewhere. Find Elise on Instagram @elise.tran and selections of her work at linktr.ee/elisethi.
HENRY GOLDKAMP (he/they) is an interdisciplinary poet who enjoys clowning boundaries between language, visual art, and sensory performance. He lives in New Orleans, where he co-runs The Splice Poetry Series, acts as intermedia editor for Tilted House, and teaches experimental rhetoric, poetics, and clown studies at Louisiana State University. Recent art, criticism, and performance appear or are forthcoming in Chicago Review, Annulet, VOLT, Poetry Northwest, Accelerants: An Action Books Poetry Film Series, Triquarterly, NOIR SAUNA, and Sonora Review, among others.
VARUN RAVINDRAN was born in India and lives in Pittsburgh. His work has appeared in mercury firs, GUESTHOUSE, Denver Quarterly, and elsewhere. A chapbook, Intermezzi, is available via Almost Perfect Press, and a full-length collection, Betweenness, is forthcoming in September 2025 via Baobab Press.