Michael Autrey is a poet and critic. The Cultural Society published Our Fear, his first book of poems, in 2013. Recent work has appeared in Asymptote, literarymatters.org, Literary Imagination and Raritan.

Delaney Marie Eubanks is a student, artist, and educator based in Chicago. Eubanks gained their AA from Bard College at Simons Rock in 2015. After taking two years to work at Politics & Prose bookstore in DC - Eubanks is now currently a candidate for A Bachelors Degree in Creative Writing and Art History from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. They also work as a bookseller at Women & Children First Feminist Bookstore in the Andersonville neighborhood of Chicago. This is their first published work.

Norman Finkelstein is a poet and literary critic. He is the author of eleven books of poetry, including The Ratio of Reason to Magic: New & Selected Poems (Dos Madres Press, 2016) and From the Files of the Immanent Foundation (Dos Madres Press, 2018). Widely published in the fields of modern American poetry and Jewish American literature, he is the author of six books of literary criticism, including, most recently Like a Dark Rabbi: Modern Poetry and the Jewish Literary Imagination (Hebrew Union College Press, 2019) He is a Professor of English at Xavier University, where he has taught since 1980.

Lizzy Fox holds her MFA in Writing from the Vermont College of Fine Arts, where she now works as Associate Director for the MFA in Writing & Publishing program. Her poems have appeared in 'The Greensboro Review,' 'Hunger Mountain,' 'Santa Ana River Review,' 'Small Orange,' and elsewhere. Lizzy teaches at Norwich University, offers creative writing workshops across the northeast, and lives in Montpelier, Vermont. www.lizzyfoxpoetry.com.

Tirzah Goldenberg was raised among sycamore trees and rabbinic laws in Bala Cynwyd, PA. She’s the author of Aleph (Verge Books 2017), a forthcoming chapbook for (Oxeye Press 2019), and a forthcoming full-length collection with an unpronounceable paleo-Hebrew title (Verge Books 2020). She lives in a rustic tiny house in Colorado.

Roberto Harrison's most recent book is Yaviza (Atelos, 2017). Forthcoming in 2020 from Nion Editions is one quantum zero and in 2021 Omnidawn will publish Tropical Lung: exi(s)t(s). He was Milwaukee Poet Laureate 2017-2019 and is also a visual artist.

Nathanael Lee Jones is an Afro-Caribbean Canadian currently based in Chicago. He holds degrees from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design (Fine Arts), and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (Writing).

Jennifer Karmin’s multidisciplinary work has transpired at festivals, artist-run spaces, and on city streets across the U.S., Cuba, Japan, Kenya, and Europe. Her books include the text-sound epic Aaaaaaaaaaalice and The Sexual Organs of the IRS, a collaboration with Bernadette Mayer. She teaches creative writing to immigrants at Truman College and has been a Visiting Writer at Naropa University, Oberlin College, California Institute of the Arts, plus a myriad of sites. Since 2005, she has curated the Red Rover Series in Chicago and often led ensembles of poets improvising together.

Dong Li was born and raised in P.R. China. He has poems in Cincinnati Review, Conjunctions, Fence, Kenyon Review, Poetry Daily and many others. His works have been translated into German and have appeared in manuskripte (Austria) and Neue Rundschau (Germany).

Emily Martin is a writer and teacher from Brooklyn. She is the author of Gets up, Sticks whole hand into jam jar (Greying Ghost, forthcoming), The Testimony of the Skaters and the Transcript on the Rink (Gauss PDF), No Not Even Like (Reading Group), and Palisades (Dancing Girl Press).

Thomas Meyer's most recent title is Modern Love: Songs from VERGE BOOKS, 1324 N. Wicker Park Ave., Chicago, Illinois, 60622.

Rusty Morrison’s poems have appeared in Colorado Review, Fence, Iowa Review. Her creative nonfiction/fiction & poetry at Entropy, her nonfiction at Harriet. A poem of hers recently appeared on the Poetry Foundation website, and in their podcast series Poetry Now. Her critical essays appeared at Kenyon Review, Pleiades. Her five books include After Urgency (winner of Tupelo’s Dorset Prize) & the true keeps calm biding its story (winner of Ahsahta’s Sawtooth Prize, Academy of American Poet’s James Laughlin Award, Northern California Book Award, & DiCastagnola Award from PSA). Her recent book: Beyond the Chainlink (Ahsahta; finalist for the NCIB Award & NCB Award in Poetry). She is a recipient of fellowships from Civitella Ranieri, Djerassi, and other artist residencies. She is co-founder and has been co-publisher of Omnidawn (www.omnidawn.com) since 2001. She has taught in MFA programs, been a visiting poet at colleges, and teaches workshops through Omnidawn and elsewhere. She offers private consultations. For more info, see her website: www.rustymorrison.com

Poet Jennifer Moxley’s most recent collection is Druthers (Flood 2018). She is Professor of Poetry and Poetics at the University of Maine. For more information, visit jennifermoxley.com.

Sara Mumolo is the author of Mortar and Day Counter. She serves as the Associate Director of the MFA in Creative Writing program at Saint Mary’s College of CA and lives in Oakland.

Gabriel Ojeda-Sague is a gay, Latino Leo living in Chicago. He is the author of Losing Miami (Civil Coping Mechanisms, 2019), Jazzercise is a Language (The Operating System, 2018), and Oil and Candle (Timeless, Infinite Light, 2016). He is also the author of chapbooks on gay sex, Cher, the Legend of Zelda, and anxious bilingualism. He is currently a PhD candidate at the University of Chicago.

Tamas Panitz is the author of Blue Sun (Inpatient Press); Uncreated Mirror (LCC); Upper Earth (Oread Press); Invisible Marches (LCC); and several chapbooks at metambesen.org, including Numbers, a recent collaboration with the artist Louise Smith, and most recently a longish poem called Arc. He is a coeditor of The Doris magazine and lives in Catskill, N.Y.

Ed Roberson is the author of ten books of poetry including the chapbook Closest Pronunciation (Northwestern University Press, 2013). His most recent full-length collection, To See the Earth before the End of the World (Wesleyan University Press, 2010), was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Award and one of two runners-up for the Kingsley-Tufts Award. An earlier work, Atmosphere Condition (Sun and Moon, 2000), was selected for the National Poetry Series and nominated for the Academy of American Poets’ Lenore Marshall Award.

His newest collection, Asked What Has Changed, is projected for release from Wesleyan University Press in 2020.

Roberson is the recipient of the Academy of American Poets Fellowship, a Guggenheim Fellowship, the PEN/Voelcker Award for Poetry, and the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize. Other honors include the African American Literature and Culture Association’s Stephen Henderson Critics Award, the Poetry Society of America’s Shelley Memorial Award, and the Lila Wallace-Reader’s Digest Writers’ Award.

Retired from Rutgers University, Roberson lives in Chicago, where he has taught classes and workshops at the University of Chicago, Columbia College, and Northwestern University. From 2009 to 2014, he was an artist in residence teaching in Northwestern’s English and creative writing departments. He is currently an emeritus professor in Northwestern’s MFA creative writing program. Roberson has served as an instructor at the Cave Canem Retreat for Black Writers and as the Holloway Visiting Professor at the University of California, Berkeley.

While earning his undergraduate degree at the University of Pittsburgh, Roberson was a research assistant in limnology and traveled on expeditions through Canada, Alaska, the Kodiak and Afognak Islands, and Bermuda. As an expedition member of the Explorers Club of Pittsburgh, he climbed mountains in the Peruvian and Ecuadorian Andes. Roberson has worked as a diver-tankman in the Pittsburgh AquaZoo, in steel mills, and in advertising graphics. He has motorcycled across the United States and has traveled in West Africa, Mexico, and the Caribbean.

Elizabeth Robinson is the author, most recently, of Rumor, from Parlor Press. With Jennifer Phelps, she co-edited Quo Anima: innovation and spirituality in contemporary women’s poetry, published in 2019 by University of Akron Press. She has been a winner of the National Poetry Series and the Fence Modern Poets Prize.

Elias Sepulveda was delivered in Los Angeles, California and promptly expedited back home to Atotonilco El Bajo, Jalisco Mexico. He would later return to the states and receive an M.A from the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee. An upcoming chapbook La Botanica is in the works for 2020.

Keith Waldrop is the author of Selected Poems (Omnidawn), Transcendental Studies (U of California Press, National Book Award 2009), and more than a dozen other books of poems. He has also published a novel, Light While There Is Light (Dalkey Archive), a book of collages, Several Gravities (Siglio,) and translated Baudelaire's Flowers of Evil and Paris Spleen as well as contemporary French authors Anne-Marie Albiach, Claude Royet-Journoud, Paol Keineg, Jean Grosjean etc. He is retired from teaching at Brown University.

Rosmarie Waldrop’s recent books are Gap Gardening: Selected Poems (LA Times Book Prize in Poetry, 2017), Driven to Abstraction, Curves to the Apple, Blindsight (all New Directions), and Love, Like Pronouns (Omnidawn). Her collected essays, Dissonance (if you are interested) was published by University of Alabama Press. Her novel, The Hanky of Pippin's Daughter is newly reprinted by Dorothy a Publishing Project. She has translated 14 volumes by Edmond Jabès (her memoir, Lavish Absence: Recalling and Rereading Edmond Jabès, is out from Wesleyan UP) as well as Emmanuel Hocquard, Jacques Roubaud, and, from the German, Elke Erb, Friederike Mayröcker, Gerhard Rühm, Ulf Stolterfoht, and Peter Waterhouse.

Together, Keith and Rosmarie have published Well Well Reality (Litmus Press), and Rosmarie & Keith Waldrop, Keeping/ the Window Open: Interviews, statements, alarms, excursions, ed. Ben Lerner (Wave Books, 2019). They live in Providence where they co-edited the small press, Burning Deck.

Yarrow Yes Woods is a maid and copywriter in Chicago. They also front the band Harrowing. Some of her is available in Dream Pop, E•ratio, DREGINALD, The Wanderer, others and Thin Noon. Her microchap The Dick The Bitch and The Baby was featured in Really Serious Literature's Disappearing Chapbook Series in July.

Sharon Zetter is a writer living in Santa Fe, New Mexico. With the poet LM Rivera, she co-edits Called Back Books. She serves as a poetry editor and book designer for Omnidawn Publishing.