Troy Cabida is the author of Symmetric of Bone (fourteen poems, 2024) and War Dove (Bad Betty Press, 2020). His work appears in State of Play, Bi+ Lines, 100 Queer Poems, Seaford Review, and Tiffany & Co. His debut collection, Neon Manila, is forthcoming with Nine Arches Press in 2025.
Michael Conboy was raised in Michigan and lives in Los Angeles. His writing has appeared in the quarterly Three Fold, the Supergay Detroit blog, the literary journal Southland Alibi, and the Detroit queer zine Chromatic Aberrations. He recently completed his first novel, HOMO DIPSO MANIA.
Luís Costa is the author of two dying lovers holding a cat (fourteen publishing, 2023). His poems have been published in the And Other Poems, the Indianapolis Review, Queerlings, Stone of Madness, Roi Fainéant, Anthropocene, Fahmidan, the anthology He/She/They/Us (Macmillan, 2024), and elsewhere. Luís is one of the founding editors of the poetry magazine Seaford Review. He lives in Warsaw, but you can find him on social media @luisinwarsaw.
Samuel Ernest lives in New Haven, CT. He is a doctoral student in theology at Yale and the publisher of Homodoxy. His prose may be found in Annulet and Longreads. With David Trinidad, he is editing a collection of Tim Dlugos's prose.
Hunter Hodkinson is an Ohio-born poet, teacher, & editor, building community in Brooklyn & beyond. They teach with Brooklyn Poets, Idiot Machine, & are the founder of Dead End Zine, a quarterly publication and press showcasing art, poetry, & interviews. Their work appears in Diode, december, Dream Boy Book Club, Abobo Zine & beyond, with work forthcoming from Blue Bag Press. They are the author of Mean Gays (Tiny Cutlery, 2024), & A Body For Someone's Rich Son To Ruin (Bottlecap Press, 2025).
Hongwei Bao is a queer Chinese poet and translator based in Nottingham, UK. He is the author of The Passion of the Rabbit God and Dream of the Orchid Pavilion. His translations have appeared in Litter Magazine, Modern Chinese Literature and Culture, Positions Politics, and Words Without Borders.
Jason Lingard is a writer and designer from Wellington, New Zealand. He has had work published with Poetry New Zealand Yearbook, Circular Journal, Bad Apple, Overcom, Rat World Magazine, Tarot Journal, and Troublemaker Firestarter.
antmen pimentel mendoza (he, she) is the author of the chapbook MY BOYFRIEND APOCALYPSE (Nomadic Press, 2023; reprinted by Black Lawrence Press). antmen is a student at the Rainier Writing Workshop at Pacific Lutheran University and lives in Oakland. antmen is online at antmenpm.com.
Mu Cao is a queer, working-class Chinese poet. Celebrated as a ‘folk poet’ and ‘a voice from the bottom of Chinese society’, his poems depict queer desire and migrant worker experience. In 2024, Mu Cao received a Prince Claus Impact Award for promoting ‘queer expression through bold, dark, and expressive poetry.’
Miguel Murphy is the author of Shoreditch (Barrow Street Press, 2021), Detainee (Barrow Street Press, 2016), and A book called rats (Lynx House Press, 2003). He lives in Southern California where he teaches at Santa Monica College and UCLA.
James J. Siegel is a Pushcart-nominated poet and author of the poetry collections The God of San Francisco (Sibling Rivalry Press, 2020) and How Ghosts Travel (Spuyten Duyvil, 2016) which was a finalist for an Ohioana Library Award. He is also the host and curator of the monthly Literary Speakeasy show at Martuni’s piano bar in San Francisco, which celebrate 10 years in 2025. His poems have been featured in several journals and anthologies, including the Cortland Review, Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review, HIV Here & Now, Foglifter, Divining Divas: 100 Gay Men On Their Muses, and more.