Joshua Barnes lives in Philadelphia with his husband.  His poetry has previously appeared or is forthcoming in Olney Magazine, Impossible Archetype, Philadelphia Stories, Kairos Literary Magazine, and The Bloom. When not writing, he can be found reading poetry, horror fiction, and comic books, and perfecting his handstands.

Dale Booton (he/him) is a queer poet from Birmingham. His poetry has been published in various places, such as Verve, Young Poets Network, Queerlings, The North, Muswell Press, and Magma. His debut pamphlet Walking Contagions is out with Polari Press. Find Dale on Twitter @BootsPoetry.

Charles K. Carter (they/he) is a queer poet who currently lives in Oregon. Their poems have appeared in numerous literary journals. He is the author of If the World Were a Quilt (Kelsay Books) and Read My Lips (David Robert Books) as well as several chapbooks. 

Michael Colbert is a queer writer based in Maine, where he’s at work on a novel. He holds an MFA from UNC Wilmington, and his writing appears or is forthcoming in Esquire, The New York Times, One Story, and The Florida Review, among others.

Alexander Duringer is from Buffalo, NY and earned his MFA in Poetry from North Carolina State University. He is a winner of the Academy of American Poets Prize. He was a finalist for The Sewanee Review’s annual poetry contest and received an Honorable Mention for the Dorianne Laux Prize for Poetry. His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in The South Dakota Review, Plainsongs, Cola Literary Review, The Shore, and Poets.org among others. 

Maurice Kenny (1929-2016) was a pivotal figure in Native American literature. Born and raised in northern New York near the St. Lawrence River and the foot-hills of the Adirondacks, Kenny is the author of more than thirty collections of poetry and prose. He was twice nominated for the Pulitzer Prize and won the prestigious American Book Award in 1984 for his collection The Mama Poems. Kenny was also co-editor of the literary review magazine Contact/II as well as the editor and publisher of Strawberry Press. In his work, Kenny portrays the unique experience of Native New York and tells its history with poetic figures who live and breathe in the present.

Will Russo is the author of the chapbooks Dreamsoak (Querencia Press, 2023) and Glass Manifesto, winner of the 2023 Rick Campbell Chapbook Award from Anhinga Press. He received his MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and serves as poetry editor at Great Lakes Review. Recent work has appeared in Guesthouse, FEED, and Bear Review.

Ashish Kumar Singh (he/him) is a queer Indian poet whose work has appeared in Passages North, Chestnut Review, Fourteen Poems, Foglifter, Banshee and elsewhere. Currently, he serves as an editorial assistant at Visual Verse and a poetry reader at ANMLY.

Chris Tse is New Zealand’s Poet Laureate for 2022-24. He is the author of three poetry collections published by Auckland University Press: How to be Dead in a Year of Snakes, HE’S SO MASC, and Super Model Minority (a 2023 Lambda Literary Award finalist for Gay Poetry). He and Emma Barnes edited Out Here: An Anthology of Takatāpui and LGBTQIA+ Writers from Aotearoa.

Alex Vigue is a queer writer from Vancouver, WA. He has a bachelor’s degree in creative writing from Western Washington University and has been recently published in Moss, Foglifter, and Rust + Moth. His debut chapbook The Myth of Man was published by Floating Bridge Press. Alex is the founding editor of Day Job Journal.