LI HONGQI (b. 1976, Zouping, Shandong) is a poet, novelist, artist, and filmmaker from China. In his own words, he was interested in illustration since an early age; attempted to make music in 1995; focused on poetry and novels between 1998–2004; and since 2004, he mainly works in film and other audiovisual creative projects.
CECILY CHEN is a writer and translator from Beijing, China. She is currently completing her PhD in English at the University of Chicago, where she works on experimental Asian American literature, aesthetic theory, and racial form. She is also the poetry editor at Chicago Review.
BRIAN OROZCO is a poet and artist who works in the still and moving image. He holds an MFA in Photography from the Yale School of Art and an MFA in Poetry from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. His poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in Paper Bag, Bennington Review, The Yale Review, and elsewhere. He is currently a Visiting Assistant Professor of English at the University of Iowa, and is participating in the Scholar’s Program at the Western New England Institute for Psychoanalysis.
STEPHEN IRA is the author of Chasers (2023, New Michigan Press). His poems have appeared in places like DIAGRAM, Fence, and Poetry (Chicago). He is the director of youth services at Poets House in Manhattan, where he teaches writing to children and teens.
AJ WRIGHT is a writer from Appalachia whose work appears or is forthcoming in SWING, Table Review, The Inflectionist Review, and elsewhere. Her first poetry collection will be published by Pulley Press in 2026. She holds an MFA from Bowling Green State University and currently resides in West Virginia. You can find her on Instagram at @ajwright304.
CÉCILE MAINARDI (she/her) is a French poet, performer, and visual artist, living between Nice and Paris. She has been a resident and a performer at major European institutions, such as the Villa Medici and the Emily Harvey Foundation in Venice. She has published a dozen books of poetry, including La blondeur (Les petits matins, 2006), Rose activité mortelle (2012), and Idéogrammes acryliques (Flammarion, 2019). Throughout her career, she has explored the limits of the book and the slippage between poetry and conceptual art. Her latest book is Roman d’exposition (Art&Fiction, 2023), a genre-bending investigation of Duchamp, conceptualism, and autotheory.
CJ NIZARD (they/she) is a French scholar, performance-maker, and translator based in the USA. They have published poems in Transat’ and dance reviews in Chicago Review and ASAP/J. Recent performance credits include choreographing summer games for The Lawn (2024, Chicago, IL) and dancing in works by Shir Ende, Erin Kilmurray, and Yuval Sharon.
LÉON PRADEAU (he/him) is the founding editor of Transat’, a journal of poetry and poetics in French and English. He writes books composed in these two languages, most recently vaisseau instantané/instant shipping (Les murmurations, 2024). His translation of Anne Portugal’s My Domestic Robots is forthcoming (The Year, 2026).
OCEAN CHAMBERLAIN is a writer from Belize City, Belize interested in ecology and language. Ocean hopes that poetry can save the world a little, maybe.