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Khadijah Queen, PhD, is the author of six books, including I’m So Fine: A List of Famous Men & What I Had On (YesYes Books 2017), praised in O Magazine,  The New Yorker,  Rain Taxi,  Los Angeles Review, and elsewhere as “quietly devastating,” and “a portrait of defiance that turns the male gaze inside out.“

Earlier poetry collections include Conduit (Akashic / Black Goat 2008), Black Peculiar (Noemi Press 2011) and Fearful Beloved (Argos Books 2015). Her verse play Non-Sequitur  (Litmus Press 2015) won the Leslie Scalapino Award for Innovative Women’s Performance Writing. The prize included a full staged production of the play at Theaterlab NYC from December 10 – 20, 2015 by Fiona Templeton’s The Relationship theater company.

Photo by Michael Teak 2018

Described by the poet James Schuyler as “the most stimulating poet of his generation,” Charles North  has received two National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowships, a Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grants to Artists award (2008), four Fund for Poetry awards, and a Poets Foundation award. His New & Selected What It is Like headed NPR’s Best Poetry Books of the Year (2011), and his most recent collection, Everything and Other Poems, was named a N.Y. Times New and Noteworthy Book.

Eugene Richie is the author of Moiré, Island Light, Only Here, Between, and, with Rosanne Wasserman, Place du Carousel and Psyche and Amor. He has translated poems by Jaime Manrique and Isaac Goldemberg, a play by Yolanda Dorado, stories by Matilde Daviu, and, with Martha Driver, Medieval Encounters: Magical Stories of the East. His poems and translations have been set to music by Anton Rovner, Nathan Jones, and Tom Cipullo. He is Director of Creative Writing in the Pace University English Department in New York City.

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Chris Campanioni was born in Manhattan in 1985 and grew up in a very Nineties New Jersey. He is the recipient of the Academy of American Poets College Prize and the International Latino Book Award. His poem “This body’s long (& I’m still loading)” was adapted as an official selection of the Canadian International Film Festival, his multimedia work has been exhibited at the New York Academy of Art, and his essays, poetry, and fiction have been translated into Spanish and Portuguese. His latest book is A and B and Also Nothing (Otis Books | Seismicity Editions, 2020). Find more at chriscampanioni.com

Mag Gabbert holds a PhD in creative writing from Texas Tech University and an MFA from The University of California at Riverside. She is the author of the chapbook Minml Poems (Cooper Dillon Books, 2020), and her work can also be found in 32 Poems, Pleiades, The Paris Review Daily, The Massachusetts Review, Waxwing, and many other journals. She’s received poetry fellowships from Idyllwild Arts and Poetry at Round Top, and in 2021 she was awarded a 92Y Discovery Award. She teaches creative writing at Southern Methodist University and serves as the interviews editor for Underblong Journal.

Paul Cunningham is the author of The House of the Tree of Sores (Schism Press, 2020). His most recent chapbook of poems is The Inmost (Carrion Bloom Books in 2020). From the Swedish, he is the translator of Helena Österlund’s Words (OOMPH! Press, 2019). He has also translated two chapbooks by Sara Tuss Efrik: Automanias: Selected Poems (Goodmorning Menagerie, 2016) and The Night’s Belly (Toad Press, 2016). He is a Managing Editor of Action Books, a PhD candidate at the University of Georgia, and he holds an MFA from the University of Notre Dame.

Carlie Hoffman is the author of This Alaska (Four Way Books, 2021). Her second book is forthcoming with Four Way Books in 2023. A poet and translator, her honors include a 92Y Boston Review / Discovery Prize and an Amy Award from Poets & Writers, and her work has been published in Kenyon Review, Los Angeles Review of Books Quarterly, Boston Review, Jewish Currents, New England Review and elsewhere. Carlie is an Instructor of Creative Writing at Purchase College, SUNY and on the faculty at Pace University. Carlie is also the founder and editor-in-chief of Small Orange Journal. For more, visit www.carliehoffman.com.

Originally from North Carolina, Eric Janken lives in Brooklyn, New York. His work is featured: Honest Ulsterman, Birmingham Poetry Review, Crab Creek Review, Cold Mountain Review, Atlanta Review, Tar River Poetry, & Shenandoah. He is a graduate of the Hunter College MFA Program and teaches at Pace University.

Jake Bauer is the author of Tracey Emin’s Tent (42 Miles Press, 2022), the chapbook Big Pool, Oh (Factory Hollow Press), and co-author of the chapbook Idaho Falls (SurVision Books). He is also the Marketing Director for Saturnalia Books.

Erica Miriam Fabri is the author of Dialect of a Skirt, which was a finalist for the Paterson Poetry Prize and included on the lists: the About.com “Best Books” List, the Small Press Distribution bestseller list, and the Poetry Foundation’s bestseller list. She currently teaches Performance Poetry and Literature at Pace University, the New York City Charter School of the Arts, and Prep for Prep; as well as Writing for Magazines for the Columbia University Scholastic Press and Essay Writing for Urban Word NYC. She has worked as a freelance writer for Nickelodeon Television and been published in a variety of literary journals and anthologies. She is also a freelance photographer, a New Yorker, and a Mama.

SM Gray is the author of seven poetry collections, including Lambda Literary Award finalist, Shorthand and Electric Language Stars (Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs, 2015) and chapbooks Words Are What You Get/You Do It For Real and Go Under the Surface (above/ground press, 2019 & 2018); and A Country Road Going Back in Your Direction (Argos Books, 2015). Gray’s experimental films have screened internationally and work is the anthology How Lovely the Ruins: Inspirational Poems and Words for Difficult Times (Random House, 2017).