Cameron Awkward-Rich is the author of two poetry collections: Sympathetic Little Monster and Dispatch. A Cave Canem fellow and poetry editor for Muzzle magazine, he teaches in Women, Gender, Sexuality Studies at UMass Amherst.

Samuel Ace, poet and sound artist, is the author of Our Weather Our Sea and Meet Me There. He is a recipient of an Astraea Lesbian Writer's Award and a two-time finalist for a Lambda Literary Award in poetry. He teaches writing at Mount Holyoke College.

Oliver Baez Bendorf is the author of Advantages of Being Evergreen and The Spectral Wilderness, with poems in APR, Bomb, and Poetry. A recipient of fellowships from CantoMundo, Lambda, Vermont Studio Center, and Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing, he teaches poetry at Kalamazoo College.

Paige Lewis is the author of Space Struck. Their poems have appeared in Poetry, American Poetry Review, Ploughshares, The Georgia Review, Best New Poets, and elsewhere.

T Fleischmann is the author of Time Is the Thing a Body Moves Through, Syzygy, Beauty, and the pamphlet Gonorrhea, SESTA, Institutions. They are a nonfiction editor at DIAGRAM and a contributing editor at Essay Daily.