Robert Carr, deputy director for the Bureau of Infectious Disease and Laboratory Sciences of the Massachusetts Department of Public Health, is the author of two poetry collections, Amaranth and The Unbuttoned Eye. robertcarr.org

C. Russell Price is an Appalachian, genderqueer, punk poet. Their chapbook Tonight, We Fuck The Trailer Park Out of Each Other explores class, race, sexuality, and gender in the South. They currently live and perform in Chicago where they teach creative writing at Northwestern University.

Madelyn Garner is the author of Hum of Our Blood, finalist for the Colorado Book Award and the Julie Suk Award, and co-editor of the anthology Collecting Life: Poets on Objects Known and Imagined. She is the recipient of the Colorado Governor's Award for Excellence in the Arts and Humanities.

Julene Tripp Weaver has three collections of poetry: Truth Be Bold—Serenading Life & Death in the Age of AIDS, No Father Can Save Her, and a chapbook, Case Walking: An AIDS Case Manager Wails Her Blues. Truth Be Bold as a Lambda Literary Award finalist and won the Bisexual Book Award for poetry.

Jason Schneiderman is the author of four poetry collections, most recently Hold Me Tight and Primary Source. He is the editor of the anthology Queer. He is associate professor of English at the Borough of Manhattan Community College, CUNY.