Contributors

Alex Bortell is a Chicago-based poet. He is a Best of the Net and Pushcart Prize nominee. His work appears or is forthcoming in Foglifter, the Mississippi Review, RHINO, Split Lip Magazine, Sundog Lit, and elsewhere.   

Jackson Burgess is the author of Atrophy (Write Bloody Publishing, 2018) and the chapbook Pocket Full of Glass (Tebot Bach, 2017). The first-ever poetry/fiction dual-admit to the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, he’s placed poems, stories, and criticism in Fugue, The Millions, The Adroit Journal, The Cincinnati Review, Colorado Review, and elsewhere.

Bryan Chávez Castor is a writer and poet born and raised in El Salvador’s rural east. He is now local to Northern California. He was a Theresa Hak Kyung Cha Fellow at UC Berkeley, where he studied comparative literature. His poetry has appeared in Huiache, Acentos Review, and Tierra Narrative’s Title Card #1. 

Derek Coulombe lives in Toronto, where he writes about pictures, bodies, and history. His work has appeared in Fence, Hazlitt, Ballast, Posit, and other publications. His books include BODYBUILDER (Hildegard Press, 2024) and The Principle of Glittering (Glove Box Press, 2025). In the summer of 2022, he held a short-term fellowship at the Warburg Institute (University of London), where he wrote an experimental work about Herakles. From 2022 to 2023, he was the Chester Dale Interdisciplinary Fellow at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York).

Clara Davis is an artist and writer. She holds a BFA and a BA from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts and Tufts University, where she edited the student publication Currents.

Laura Cesarco Eglin  is a poet and translator from Uruguay. She is the author of three collections of poetry and five chapbooks, including Break a Part (Finishing Line Press, 2026) and Between Gone and Leaving—Home (dancing girl press, 2023). Cesarco Eglin translates from the Spanish, Portuguese, Portuñol, and Galician. From the Galician, Cesarco Eglin translated Sardine by Miriam Reyes (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2026) and claus and the scorpion by Lara Dopazo Ruibal (co•im•press, 2022), longlisted for both the 2023 PEN Award for Poetry in Translation and the 2023 National Translation Award in Poetry. Cesarco Eglin is also the translator of Of Death. Minimal Odes by the Brazilian author Hilda Hilst (co•im•press), winner of the 2019 Best Translated Book Award in Poetry. She is the co-founding editor and publisher of Veliz Books and teaches creative writing at the University of Houston-Downtown.

Hanja S. Guo

Zoē Hopkins is a poet and art critic based between Philadelphia and New York. She is a PhD student in English at the University of Pennsylvania, where she studies experimental poetry of the black diaspora. Her writing has been published in the New Yorker, Frieze Magazine, and the Brooklyn Rail, among several other publications. Her poetry focuses on the play between unspeakability and the will to voice, silence and the excess of language, and between the word and the body. In particular, her poetry is interested in how Blackness is made and unmade through language and its exclusion from linguistic power.

Peach Kander is a queer poet and dioramist. They hold an MFA from NYU and were the poetry editor at Pigeon Pages and Washington Square Review. They were a recipient of a City Artist Corps Grant from New York Foundation for the Arts and a residency from Art Farm Nebraska. They are currently in an ongoing collaboration, writing libretto for Opera Lab Berlin. Their chapbook MAGIC BOX is out now from Ursus Americanus Press. Their writing has appeared in We Want It All: An Anthology of Radical Trans Poetics(Nightboat Books), bæst, Sporklet, Peach Mag, Landfill Journal, Fugue, No, Dear, Dream Pop, In The Mood Magazine, Bombay Gin, and American Chordata. Other creative property can be found in the Sephora archives.

Julia Kiernan is a Brooklyn-based poet and editor. Her work has appeared in Vat, The Bridge, and Poetry Nightly. She holds a BA in Written Arts from Bard College.

Ginger Ko is a multimedia artist, creative writing professor, and Editor of the Texas Review. Her fourth book of poetry, Letters to Anyone, is forthcoming from Antiphony. Her poetry and essays can be found in The Atlantic, American Poetry Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, The Cincinnati Review, and elsewhere. You can find links to her film poems, film essays, and other multimedia projects at www.gingerko.com

William Lessard is the author of /face (KERNPUNKT Press, 2026). His writing has appeared in American Poetry Review, McSweeney’s, The Seneca Review, Best American Experimental Writing, and JACKET2. He is the Poetry & Hybrids editor at Heavy Feather Review. More about him: www.williamlessardwrites.net.

Heller Levinson’s most recent books are QUERY CABOODLE, SHIFT GRISTLE (Black Widow Press, 2023), THE ABYSSAL RECITATIONS (Concrete Mist Press, 2024), VALVULAR ASH (BWP, 2024), QUERY CABOODLE 2 (Sulfur Editions, 2024), CROSSFALL chapbook (Sandy Press, 2024), with CROSSFALL (BWP, 2025) & FROM A REDUCED PHILANTHROPY (The Bodily Press, 2025). Anticipated for a summer 2026 release is FLUTTERRUDDERBUTTERFLY (BWP). His book, LURE (Black Widow Press, 2022), won the 2022 Big Other Poetry Book Award.

Benjamin Paul is a writer and teacher based in Boston, where he is currently a PhD candidate at Boston College. His writing has appeared in Annulet, Los Angeles Review of Books, Harvard Review, and The Brooklyn Rail.

Oli Peters writing appears in Annulet, DIAGRAM, MQR Mixtape, and Pleiades, among others. Her collaborative dance piece Body Glyph State has been performed in Berlin, Des Moines, and Minneapolis. Her manuscript, Spell drive an elegy, was a finalist for the Noemi Press Book Award. She has received support from the Sewanee Writers' Conference and the Kenyon Review Writers Workshop. She has an MFA from the University of Notre Dame. She lives in Minneapolis, where she edits for Spout Press.

Douglas Piccinnini is the author of Beautiful, Safe & Free (New Books), Blood Oboe (Omnidawn), and Story Book: a novella (The Cultural Society). House of Bad Melodies is forthcoming from Greying Ghost chapbook series. His work has been supported by United States Artists, the New Jersey State Council on the Arts, The Mastheads, Art Farm Nebraska, and the Elizabeth Bishop Society of Nova Scotia, among others.

Briana Pickins

Randy Prunty works as a bus driver in the Bay Area.His work can be seen online in: Posit, the tiny, Concision: Journal of the Short Poem, Poemeleon, and elsewhere.  Some of his more recent work in print is in New American Writing, Volt, and Fence. BlazeVox published a collection of his poetry in 2022 called Test Camp. He has several chapbooks, including Gravity Catches All Things, published last year by Three Count Pour as part of their Bay Area Suite.

Katie Jean Shinkle’s books and chapbooks include The Only Way Out is Through (YesYes Books, 2026), Transference (Gasher Press, 2025), and Tannery Bay (coauthored with Steven Dunn, FC2, 2024). Other work has appeared in Another Last Call: Poems on Addiction and Deliverance, FLAUNT Magazine, The Nation, American Poetry Review, Hunger Mountain, Aquifer: The Florida Review Online, and elsewhere. She has received support from Lambda Literary and Ragdale, and serves as co-poetry editor of DIAGRAM.

Matt Turner is the author of 6AMING, four other collections of poetry, several chapbooks, is the translator of Lu Xun's 1927 book of prose poems, Weeds, and has co-translated, with his partner Haiying Weng, around a dozen other books from Chinese, focusing on China's contemporary avant-garde. He has also written essays and reviews for Cha, Hyperallergic Weekend, Bookforum, and a number of other journals. And he has led and participated in workshops and panels at Accent Sisters Gallery, notably on Guy Debord's Society of the Spectacle. He works as a commercial translator and copy editor, and teaches writing and research at Westchester Community College.