THE POETS
Grant Chemidlin is a queer poet living in Los Angeles. He is the author of the chapbook New in Town (Bottlecap Press, 2022), the illustrated collection He Felt Unwell (So He Wrote This), and the full-length collection What We Lost in the Swamp (Central Avenue Publishing, 2023). Recent work has appeared in Quarterly West, Iron Horse Literary Review, Tupelo Quarterly, and Atlanta Review, among others.
Paul Goudarzi Fry received his MFA from the Rainier Writing Workshop, and his poetry has appeared in Ghost City Review, Breakwater Review, and Beyond Queer Words, among others. He lives in New Hampshire.
Alex Gildzen is a poet/artist who lives in Palm Springs. For more than six decades his poems have been appearing in print, both in small press (Mouth of the Dragon and Hanging Loose) and mainstream (After Dark and In Touch for Men). His books are in the collections of One Archives and Stonewall National Museum.
Alec Hershman (he/him) is the queer author of For a Second, In the Dark (MWC Press, 2023), Permanent and Wonderful Storage (Seven Kitchens, 2019) and The Egg Goes Under (Seven Kitchens, 2017). He has received awards from The Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, The St. Louis Regional Arts Council, The Jentel Foundation, and The Institute for Sustainable Living, Art, and Natural Design. You can find links to his work online at www.alechershmanpoetry.com. He lives in Michigan.
Bill Hollands’ work has appeared in such journals as The Greensboro Review, The Adroit Journal, Poetry Northwest, Rattle, DIAGRAM, North American Review, and Boulevard. He was recently named a finalist for New Ohio Review’s NORward Prize and Smartish Pace’s Erskine J. Poetry Prize. He lives in Seattle with his husband and their son.
Tyler Jones has previously been published in Fourteen Poems. He is based in Los Angeles.
Jak Merriman (he/him) is a working-class queer. He's Welsh but is currently studying for his undergrad at Queen Mary University of London. He writes on queer cultures/queer desire/digital-age faggotry/queers of history/working class faggotry/grief. His work can be found in minor literature(s), among other places. There's always music in the background.
David Mohan is a poet based in Dublin. His poetry has been published in The Cincinnati Review, Spoon River Poetry Review, Lake Effect, Measure, Superstition Review, New World Writing and PANK. His poetry has been nominated for The Pushcart Prize and won the Christopher Hewitt Award. His first pamphlet, Wildfire, was published by the UK-based Against the Grain Press in 2023.
Mark Ward is the author of the full-length collection Nightlight (Salmon Poetry, 2023) and four chapbooks: Circumference (Finishing Line Press, 2018), Carcass (Seven Kitchens Press, 2020), HIKE (Bear Creek Press, 2022), and the interactive branching sonnet Faultlines (voidspace, 2024). He is the founding editor of Impossible Archetype, an international journal of LGBTQ+ poetry, now in its seventh year.
Tobias Wray’s No Doubt I Will Return a Different Man won the Lighthouse Poetry Series Competition. His work has found homes in Blackbird, Poem-a-Day, Poetry Daily, Impossible Archetype, and The Georgia Review. Poems also appear in Queer Nature: A Poetry Anthology (Autumn House Press) and Poetry Is Bread (Nirala Press). Most recently, he was awarded a National Endowment of the Arts fellowship. He currently serves as director of the Creative Writing programs at the University of Central Oklahoma.