KC Trommer is the author of the debut poetry collection We Call Them Beautiful and the chapbook The Hasp Tongue. She is the founder of the audio project QUEENSBOUND and is the assistant director of communications at NYU Gallatin.

Jared Harél is the author of Go Because I Love You and The Body Double. He’s been awarded the Stanley Kunitz Memorial Prize from American Poetry Review and the William Matthews Poetry Prize from Asheville Poetry Review.

Safia Jama is a Cave Canem fellow and a Harvard graduate. Formerly the nonfiction editor of Apogee Journal, she has published poetry in Ploughshares, Rhino, Cagibi, Spoken Black Girl, and No Dear. Her poetry has also been featured on WNYC’s Morning Edition and CUNY TV’s Shades of U.S. series.

Joseph O. Legaspi is the author of the collections Threshold and Imago, and the chapbooks Postcards, Aviary, Bestiary, and Subways. Recent works appeared in Poetry, New England Review, World Literature Today, and Best of the Net. A former Fulbright fellow, he cofounded Kundiman.

Abeer Y. Hoque is a Nigerian-born Bangladeshi American writer and photographer. She has published a monograph of travel photographs and poems (The Long Way Home), a book of linked stories, poems, and photographs (The Lovers and the Leavers), and a memoir (Olive Witch).