Jordan DeLawder

Jordan DeLawder (they/them) is a mixed-race poet, photographer, and printmaker. Their art relates to ecology, devotional practices, and queer futurity. They live in Portland, OR and work on a vegetable farm just outside of the city.

Michelle Wirth

Michelle Wirth (they/them) is a nonbinary and genderqueer writer in Madison, WI who explores trans identity, anger, trauma, and gender envy in their work. Michelle was long-listed for the 2021 Penrose Poetry Prize. They are currently working on a hybrid art/poetry chapbook with Detroit-based artist Austin Brady. In addition to poetry, Michelle has published TV analysis in The Fandomentals, plus a number of peer-reviewed articles from their past life as a neuroscientist. Michelle’s recent day jobs include being an underpaid nonprofit researcher, an exploited corporate data analyst, and unemployed / relieved / healing.

Noor Khashe Brody

Noor Khashe Brody lives in Oakland CA. They are a graduate of June Jordan’s Poetry for the People, and their crosswords have been published in Emocean and Dispatches Magazine. Send noor fanmail at noooo.org

Monique Ferrell

Monique Ferrell is a writer of both poetry and fiction. Her work was featured on The Slowdown with American Poet Laureate Tracy K. Smith and has appeared in noted creative writing publications: Bellevue Literary Review, Inflectionist Review, Reed Magazine, American Poetry Review, Antioch Review, North American Review, Alaska Quarterly Review, Quarterly West, Valley Voices, New York Quarterly Review, Token Entry, Out of The Rough, Rabbit Ears, and Walt Whitman: The Measure of His Song, among others. She has penned three poetry collections, including the award-winning Attraversiamo (NYQ Books). Her fourth poetry collection, bone (NYQ Books), is forthcoming.

Jessica Mehta

Jessica (Tyner) Mehta is a multi-award-winning Aniyunwiyam Two-Spirit, queer interdisciplinary author and artist. Born and raised in so-called Oregon and a citizen of the Cherokee Nation, space, place, and ancestry inform her work. She is currently preparing for her Fulbright U.S. Scholar award in Bangalore, India and completing her PhD at the University of Exeter. Learn more at www.thischerokeerose.com.

Jocelyne Flores

Jocelyne Flores is a non-binary lesbian poet/performer residing in the City Of Montebello. They have been a featured performer at the Stella Adler Theater for their Sum Poetry Series. Their work has been featured in Polemical Zine and Chasing Shadows Magazine. Their IG and Twitter handles are @jocemite. Pronouns: they/them/theirs

A.J. Beaber

Apollo "A.J." Beaber (he/they) is a poet and student working toward a Bachelor of Arts degree in Portland, Oregon. They have been writing poetry since childhood and studied writing for seven years at Denver School of the Arts in the Creative Writing program. Beaber uses poetry as a way to explore gender, selfhood, and the vast, unknowable, terrifying beauty of the world around us. He has previously been published in Calling Upon Calliope and Gargoyle Magazine.

Noland Blain

Noland Blain is a queer poet originally from Jacksonville, Florida. As a youth, they participated nationally in the Brave New Voices slam poetry competition. Now they are working toward a BA in Creative Writing from Florida State University, where they continue to write in the middle of a pandemic. More of their work can be found in Élan, East by Northeast, and the Kudzu Review.

Bunny Morris

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Bunny Morris is a queer / trans artist from Louisville, Kentucky and poet of A Performance of My Ecstasy (Gap Riot Press). They graduated from the University of Louisville with a bachelor’s degree in English and minors in Creative Writing and LGBTQ+ studies. His work revolves around their experiences as a trans sex worker and focuses on sexuality, gender, and the interaction between trauma and pleasure. His recent work can be found in SELFFUCK Magazine, Lavender Lime Literary, and Anti-Heroin Chic.

Yueying Guo

Yueying Guo is an English Major and Creative Writing Minor from New York City. She loves watching movies, especially sad ones and mysteries. She won the Penguin House Creative Writing Competition in 2018 for first place in Poetry. Ever since then she’s been reading books with the intention of working on a novel herself.

Iona Roisin

Iona Roisin is a British artist based in Helsinki. Working across moving image and text, their practice is interested in difficulty, intimacy, failure and the insufficiency of language. Roisin’s video works have been screened internationally and their writing is published or forthcoming in Fourteen Poems (UK), Tuli&Savu (FI), Astra (FI), Zelda Mag (FI). A poetry zine is forthcoming with Fetiche Press (FI/FR) in 2022.

Walter Hill

Walter Hill is a software developer by day and a constant student of the world. His work has been published in APIARY Magazine and Pinnacle: a poetry anthology, and he resides in Austin, TX where he finds inspiration in the art of traveling distances long and short.

Kim Roberts

Kim Roberts is the editor of the anthology By Broad Potomac’s Shore: Great Poems from the Early Days of our Nation’s Capital (University of Virginia Press, 2020), selected by the East Coast Centers for the Book for the 2021 Route 1 Reads program as the book that “best illuminates important aspects” of the culture of Washington, DC. She is the author of A Literary Guide to Washington, DC: Walking in the Footsteps of American Writers from Francis Scott Key to Zora Neale Hurston (University of Virginia Press, 2018), and five books of poems, most recently The Scientific Method (WordTech Editions, 2017). http://www.kimroberts.org

Kelsey Day

Kelsey Day is a queer poet from southern Appalachia. Their work is urgent, timely, and relentlessly vulnerable, and has been published in literary journals such as Reservoir Road Literary Review, Storm Cellar Literary Magazine, Brave Voices Magazine, and Our Shared Memory Collective. Their work explores the intersections of place, identity, and colonial violence.