Sophie Appel is a historical map archivist based in Los Angeles. She hosts Spit in the Ocean on Lower Grand Radio. She is the author of The World’s Largest Cherry Pie (Dream Boy Book Club, 2024) and Mud Swallow (Bottlecap Press, 2026)

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Fani Avramopoulou is a writer based in Athens and Philadelphia.

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Sam Bickford is from North Carolina and lives in New Orleans.

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Finnegan Bly is a queer, Korean-American writer from the Sacramento Valley. They are a Tin
House workshop alum and a MFA candidate in poetry at Louisiana State University.

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Isabel Boutiette is a poet, editor, and occasional video artist. Her chapbook PARADISE HD was published with Spiral Editions in 2024. She is the editor at Changes, a poetry publisher based in NYC. 

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J. Arthur Boyle is the editor at Amenia Free Review, and has work in or coming from nice places like Annulet, Chicago Review, COMA, Discount Guillotine, Fence, and GROTTO.

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Marie Buck is the author of several poetry collections, including Spoilers, a collaboration with Matthew Walker (Golias Books, 2024), Unsolved Mysteries (Roof Books, 2020), and Portrait of Doom (Krupskaya, 2015). Her poetry, fiction, and scholarly writing have appeared in Post45, the Brooklyn Rail, the Poetry Project Newsletter, Peatsmoke, Bruiser, and the Hythe, among others. She grew up in upstate South Carolina and received an MFA in poetry writing at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. She currently works as the managing editor of the scholarly journal Social Text and teaches writing at New York University as part-time faculty in the Liberal Studies program.

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Clara Burghelea is the author of two poetry collections: The Flavor of The Other (Dos Madres Press 2020) and Praise the Unburied (Chaffinch Press 2021). Her first poetry collection in translation, The Clear Sky, was published in 2025 (Dos Madres Press).

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Courtney Bush is a poet and filmmaker from the Mississippi Gulf Coast. She is the author of A Movie, The Lamb with the Talking Scroll, and I Love Information.

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Michael Cavuto’s latest book is Pyre (Spiral Editions, 2025), with drawings by Astrid Terrazas. A sequence of new poems is appearing soon in the Mexico City journal DiSonare, with Spanish translations by Hamish Ballantyne. He lives in Queens, NY, where he is a publisher of Slow Poetry in America and auric press.

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Jack Chelgren is a writer from Seattle. His translations of Gilberto Owen have been  published in Asymptote and New Mundo Press’s online magazine, La Lancha. Jack’s  poetry has appeared in Hot Pink Mag, Bedfellows, Tyger Quarterly, Blush Lit, Pider, and  SPAM. Critical and scholarly writing has appeared in Chicago Review, where he edits the  nonfiction section, as well as La Mariposa Mundial, Tripwire, the Los Angeles Review of  Books, and Poetry Northwest. 

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Milo Christie (b.2000 Berkeley, CA) lives and works in Chicago. He co-directs Weatherproof, an artist-run space.

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Adam Clay teaches at Louisiana State University and edits Autocorrect.

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Claire DeVoogd is a poet. Her first book is Via (Winter Editions, 2023). Her chapbook Apocalypses 1-12 was published with Belladonna in 2021. She co-edits Terrific Books, a fly-by-night chapbook press. Writing can be found in Antiphony, Little Mirror, The Atlantic, the New York Review of Books, Pfeil Magazine, Tammy, and Prelude.

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Claudina Domingo (Mexico City, 1982) is a poet and storyteller whose work centers on three axes: memory (which is why she often writes autobiographical texts), Mexico City, and oneiric life. Her narrative works are published by Sexto Piso and to date include three books: Las enemigas (2017), La noche en el espejo (2020), and Dominio (2023). Her poetry collection Tránsito (Conaculta, 2011), earned the Premio Iberoamericano para Obra Publicada Carlos Pellicer in 2012. She has also won the Gilberto Owen National Poetry Prize in 2016 for Ya sabes que no veo de noche, the Enriqueta Ochoa National Poetry Prize in 2022 for Material hospitalario, and the Clemencia Isaura Poetry Prize in 2024 for Reconquista del Reino de Kaan (UNAL, 2025). Transit/Tránsito (translated by Ryan Greene) was published in 2024 by Eulalia Books in the United States and was named a finalist for the 2025 National Translation Award in Poetry. Domingo is a member of the Sistema Nacional de Creadores de Arte. Her most recent novel, Poeta urbana, is forthcoming with Sexto Piso.

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Katherine Duckworth is a poet from Tennessee. She is the author of Slow Violence (Beautiful Days 2023).

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José Felipe Ozuna is a previously undocumented poet living in Minneapolis, MN. He was a 2022 Undocupoets Fellow and a 2023-24 Mentor Series Fellow. His poems are published in Poetry Daily, Best New Poets, Afternoon Visitor, and elsewhere. He edits the literary journal [light study]. You can find him at josefelipeozuna.wordpress.com

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Sallie Fullerton is a poet living in Hudson, NY. Their work has appeared or is forthcoming in Yale Review, Bennington Review, Prairie Schooner, Broadcast (Pioneer Works Magazine), among other places. Their first book, Baby Face/Face de bébé, is out May 2026.

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A graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, Sara Gilmore is the author of The Green Lives (Fonograf Editions, October 2025) and Immediately ocean over and over (forthcoming Ugly Duckling Presse, spring 2029). Her poems and translations have appeared in The Paris Review, Ugly Duckling Presse’s Second Factory and 6x6, The Iowa Review, and elsewhere. She lives in Iowa City with her young son.

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Ryan Greene writes, translates, makes, and caretakes books in "Phoenix, Arizona," the city where he grew up. His most recent translations include projects with Carolina Dávila, Elena Salamanca, Claudina Domingo, Ana Belén López, Yaxkin Melchy, and Giancarlo Huapaya. He's learning.

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Evan Grayis a poet born and raised in the mountains of North Carolina. He is the author of Thickets Swamped in Fence-Coated Briars and three chapbooks. His individual work has been featured in Denver Quarterly, Yalobusha Review, Joyland, Afternoon Visitor, Annulet, Tarpaulin Sky Magazine and more. Currently, he is an Assistant Teaching Professor at Appalachian State University. Reach him at www.evan-gray.com

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Eliza Guerra is the author of the chapbook Feral Ecology (Bottlecap Press 2024). Her first full-length poetry book, Holograms in the Field (2026), won the inaugural Gasher Book Award. Her collages are featured in Afternoon Visitor, Capgras, and The Spectacle. 

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Chris Holdaway (1989–) is a poet, publisher, and translator from Aotearoa, New Zealand. He is the author of Gorse Poems (Titus Books, 2022) and directs the literary arts publisher Compound Press. He studied poetry and translation at the University of Notre Dame, and translates poetry into English from French, German, and Spanish.

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Gilad Jaffe’s poems have appeared in Bennington Review, Harvard Review, The Iowa Review, POETRY, and The Yale Review, among others. He teaches at LaGuardia Community College in Queens, and serves as a senior editor at Conjunctions.

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C Langford is an artist who works with writing, performance and games. They live in Berlin, Germany and are a part of an experimental video game collective called Fantasia Malware.

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c. melín lara a.k.a Car Lara, is a Queens, NYC (Lenapehoking) born multidisciplinary artist and experimental writer of Mexican and Honduran heritage. A recipient of the 2024–25 Emerge–Surface–Be Fellowship at the Poetry Project and winner of the 2025 Palette Poetry Prize, their bilingual work explores transculturality and mythic-domestic entanglements by way of translation play, verses shaped by typographic symbols and asemic transliterations. Believing in a poetry-art intersection, they also integrate the mediums of ceramics, collage, illustration, and occasionally, sonic performance into their practice. Their work has appeared in Fine Print Press, Noir Sauna, the Poetry Project Newsletter, and is forthcoming in ANMLY, petrichor and SUDS.

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Morgan Levine is a poet from Houston, Texas. They live and work in Brooklyn.

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Joe Milazzo is the author of Crepuscule W/ Nellie, The Habiliments, Of All Places In This Place Of All Places and, in collaboration with Eric Lindley and Miwa Matreyek, Words In Danger Of Falling Out Of The Vocabulary. His writings have appeared or will soon appear in Black Warrior Review, BOMB, Denver Quarterly, Fence, Puerto del Sol, and elsewhere. He is also the Founder/Editor-in-Chief of Surveyor Books. Joe lives and works in Dallas, TX, where he was born and raised.

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Romanian author of seven novels and five poetry collections, Ioana Nicolae has been nominated for important awards such as PEN and the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize. Her work was translated into German, Swedish, Bulgarian, and Serbian, included in various anthologies. Her latest collection is the sky from the pregnant belly (Editura Paralela 45, 2025).

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Gilberto Owen (1904–1952) was born in El Rosario, a small town in Sinaloa, and died in  Philadelphia. Associated with the Contemporáneos, a group of avant-garde writers in 1920s  Mexico City, he wrote poetry, fiction, and essays. He also translated Emily Dickinson,  Agnes Smedley, and Paul Valéry into Spanish. In 1928, he moved to New York City to  work at the Mexican Embassy and spent most of the rest of his life abroad, living in Quito,  Lima, Bogotá, and finally Philadelphia. His books include the short novels La llama fría (1925) and Novela como nube (1928), and the poetry collections Línea (1930) and Perseo  vencido (1948). 

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Laura Paul is a writer and artist. Her book, Film Elegy, was released in October 2024 from PRROBLEM Press. Her book, Total Art, was released in November 2025 from Lavender Ink.

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Jennifer Pilch’s writing has appeared in Asphalte, American Letters and Commentary, Berkeley Poetry Review, Denver Quarterly, Fence, Iowa Review, Phoebe, Western Humanities Review, Dream House (a collaborative zine published on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of Womanhouse), Interim, and Sprung Formal, and many others. Her first full-length is Deus Ex Machina (Kelsey Street Press, 2015). Other chapbooks/projects include Decay of Timber (Gravel Projects, 2018), Sequoia Graffiti (projective industries, 2016), Profil Perdu (Greying Ghost, 2014). From 2012-2022, she created, edited, and curated www.lavaguejournal.com.

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AM Ringwalt is a writer and musician whose work appears in Jacket2, Music & Literature, and Black Warrior Review. Called "rich with emotion" by Pitchfork, Summer Angel is her first album with Dear Life Records (2022). What Floods and Strange Power! are out now as a joint release from Inside the Castle and Dear Life Records, with recognition from the Poetry Foundation.

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Wolfdietrich Schnurre (1920–1989) was a post-war German writer, known as a member of Gruppe 47 (Group 47). He was drafted into the German army during the Second World War and was later imprisoned for attempted desertion. After the war he wrote criticism, short stories, poems, and novels. His book of poems Kassiber (Prison Slips; Suhrkamp Verlag) was first published in 1957. He is known also for the hybrid autobiographical novels Als Vaters Bart noch rot war (When Father’s Beard was still red; Verlag Die Arche, 1958), and Der Schattenfotograf (The Shadow Photographer; Paul List Verlag, 1978). He received the Georg Büchner Prize in 1983.

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Jordan Stempleman’s latest collection, Spilt, received the 2025 Wishing Jewel Prize for poetic innovation from Green Linden Press. He is an associate professor in the Liberal Arts Department and the Creative Writing Program at the Kansas City Art Institute.

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Andrew Judson Stoughton is the founding editor of New Mundo, a small press based in New York and Buenos Aires devoted to hemispheric American literature. His first book, Like a Hand Carved from a Shell, is forthcoming from Beautiful Days Press in 2027. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Afternoon Visitor, Works & Days, Coma, bethh, Ritual Dagger, Colby Review, and elsewhere. 

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Mathias Svalina is the author of nine books, most recently the short story collection Comedy, published by Trident Press & he runs a dream delivery service. 

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Andrew Judson Stoughton is the founding editor of New Mundo, a small press based in New York and Buenos Aires devoted to hemispheric American literature. His first book, Like a Hand Carved from a Shell, is forthcoming from Beautiful Days Press in 2027. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Afternoon Visitor, Works & Days, Coma, bethh, Ritual Dagger, Colby Review, and elsewhere. 

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Joan Tate is a poet and mystic from Virginia. Currently she lives in Great Falls, Massachusetts where she runs the cover based reading series Memory Silo at Unnamable Books. Her work has been published or is forthcoming in Prairie Schooner, b l u s h, Imposter Review, Rhino, antiphony, and Stone of Madness among others. She's a hostess at a gay bar and a clerk at a farm store. She's probably down by the canal. Probably looking for swans.

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Ken Taylor is the author of eight published works and three plays. His most recent book is 57 wyomings from Black Square Editions. Ken lives in Chicago and is the founding editor and publisher of selva oscura press.

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Berona Teomitzi (1986) was born in San Cristóbal, Chiapas in Mexico. She holds a BA in Hispanic American Language and Literature from the Universidad Autónoma de Chiapas and a Masters in Social and Cultural Studies from Colegio de la Frontera Sur. She has published the following poetry collections: Germinando Versos (2007), (online edition, UNICACH), Cantos líquidos (2013), (Public Pervert), and Las nomeolvides a punto de brotar (2018), (Editorial Casa de Poesía, Costa Rica). She received a PECDA award (2020) for the poetry collection Tiempo de libélulas. She is a founding member of “La Ausencia del Durazno” poetry collective and editor of “La Jardinería Guarrior” zine.

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Adriana Toledano Kolteniuk (1991) is a writer from Mexico City who spent her formative years in the US and has been a bilingual, bi-cultural bridge-builder since. She obtained her degree in English Literature from UNAM and then spent 8 years in Chiapas, where she (re)discovered her passion for wild nature, community building, and social justice. She considers herself an ecofeminist thinker who creates verbal-affective ecosystems from a queer, neurodivergent, anti-colonial lens. Adriana is a recipient of the Fulbright-García Robles Grant for Mexican citizens to pursue postgraduate studies in the US.

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Mia van de Bos is a writer based in Tarntanya/Adelaide, Australia. Her work spans poetry, criticism, and research on art and labour. Her writing has appeared in or is forthcoming with ritual dagger, CURRENT MATTER, HumDrumPress, and fine print Magazine, as well as in publications by the Institute of Network Cultures and CASCO Art Institute. She is on the Editorial Committee of un Magazine.

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Barrett White lives and works in Brooklyn. He edited Tagvverk (2014-2024). He curates literary events at Sunview Acropolis, including the Regulars poetry series. Frantic Gesture, a publication project of fits and starts, is forthcoming.

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