Emily Rose Cole holds an MFA in poetry from Southern Illinois University Carbondale and is currently a PhD student at the University of Cincinnati, where she studies disability poetics and teaches composition, creative writing, and pedagogy.

Jess Silfa is an MFA candidate and Truman Capote Fellow at Brooklyn College in New York. They are an Afro-Latinx disability and LGBTQ rights advocate. They are working on their first novel.

Cade Leebron is a writer and activist. She holds an MFA from Ohio State. Her work has appeared in Brevity, Rattle, Electric Literature, and elsewhere.

Avery M. Guess is the recipient of an NEA Fellowship in Poetry. A PhD student at the University of South Dakota, her poetry chapbook, The Patient Admits, is available from dancing girl press. The Truth Is, a full-length collection of poetry, is forthcoming.

Jillian Weise is the author of The Amputee's Guide to Sex, The Colony, and The Book of Goodbyes. Recent work appears in Boston Review, Poetry, and The New York Times. She teaches at Clemson University.