Michelle Acker is a poet, editor, and narrative designer living in Roanoke, Virginia. Her work has been published in the Florida Review, Scoundrel Time, FreezeRay, and elsewhere. Her website is michelleackerwriter.com.
Alex Burchfield grew up in western Montana. His writing has appeared in West Branch, Electric Literature, The Great River Review, and The Washington City Paper. He is the recipient of a Felipe P. De Alba Fellowship from Columbia University, where he currently teaches in the Undergraduate Writing Program.
Jennifer S. Cheng is a poet, essayist, and author of award-winning books, including MOON: Letters, Maps, Poems (Tarpaulin Sky, 2018) and House A (Omnidawn, 2016).
Claire Denson’s work appears in the Cincinnati Review, the Missouri Review, the Massachusetts Review, and Literary Hub, among others. She has received support from Brooklyn Poets, the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, and the University of Michigan.
Kate Gaskin is the author of Forever War (YesYes Books 2020), winner of the Pamet River Prize. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in the American Poetry Review, the Southern Review, RHINO, and Ploughshares among others.
Jennifer Genest grew up playing in the woods of Sanford, Maine. Her writing has appeared in Colorado Review, Kenyon Review Online, and elsewhere, and has been noted in Best American Mystery Stories and Best American Essays.
Eliza Gilbert is an undergraduate at Vassar College. Her poetry can be found or is forthcoming in the Threepenny Review, Frontier Poetry, and others. She was born and raised in New York City.
Rochelle Goldstein Bay is a writer, editor, and teacher living in New York City. Her work has appeared in Nimrod, Columbia Journal, Podium, and Self, among other publications. She was a semi-finalist for the Pablo Neruda Poetry Prize.
Rae Gouirand is the author of eight titles of poetry and nonfiction, including the forthcoming book-length poem The Velvet Book (Cornerstone Press, 2024). She lectures in the Department of English at UC-Davis.
Janice N. Harrington’s latest books of poetry are Primitive: The Art and Life of Horace H. Pippin and, for children, Hurry, Kate, or You’ll Be Late! She teaches at the University of Illinois.
John Hodgen is Writer-in-Residence at Assumption University and Advisory Editor for New Letters. Hodgen won the AWP Donald Hall Prize in Poetry for Grace. His book What We May Be is newly out from Lynx House/Washington State University Press.
Tom Howard lives in Arlington, Virginia. His short story collection, Fierce Pretty Things, from Indiana University Press, was the winner of the Blue Light Books Prize in Fiction. He received his MFA from Vermont College of Fine Arts.
Shannon Huffman Polson is the author of The Grit Factor, the memoir North of Hope, and a book of essays, The Way the Wild Gets Inside. She writes about women, war, and the natural world.
Brynne Jones is a writer from east Tennessee. She lives in Austin, where she earned her MFA from the Michener Center for Writers.
Born in Venezuela, Richard Haney-Jardine León grew up speaking and writing in Spanish, English, and French. He graduated from Harvard, where he studied with Carlos Fuentes, Helen Vendler, and Seamus Heaney. He subsequently scotched a graduate degree from the Sorbonne. He graduated from Emerson College’s MFA program, winning several awards.
Robert Wood Lynn’s debut collection Mothman Apologia won the Yale Younger Poets Prize and the Kate Tufts Discovery Award. His work has appeared in American Poetry Review, Poetry Magazine, Poetry Daily, and elsewhere.
Matthew Minicucci is an award-winning author of four collections of poetry, including his most recent, DUAL, from Acre Books. He is an Assistant Professor in the Blount Scholars Program at the University of Alabama.
Carlos Maldonado is an Iowa City-based artist specializing in plein air painting using acrylic and gouache. Since 2019, he has pursued painting full time. His work captures dynamic landscapes and aims to evoke a deep connection and appreciation for the environment through vibrant colors, high contrast, and light interplay.
Geri Modell was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York, and now lives in New Jersey, earning her keep as a web content editor. She earned an MFA from Bennington’s Writing Seminars program. Her work has been published in Narrative Magazine, the Audacity, and Four Way Review.
Gracie Newman is a writer from Buffalo, New York. She is currently a fellow in fiction at the Michener Center for Writers in Austin. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Joyland, Nimrod, the Adroit Journal, Fugue, and elsewhere.
John A. Nieves has poems forthcoming or recently published in journals such as North American Review, Copper Nickel, American Poetry Review, 32 Poems, and Southern Review. He won the Indiana Review Poetry Contest and his first book, Curio, won the Elixir Press Annual Poetry Award Judge’s Prize.
Sai Pradhan is an Indian American writer and artist who lives in Hong Kong.
Amanda Smeltz is the author of Imperial Bender, her debut poetry collection. She lives in New York City, where she works in the wine industry.
Lucas Southworth’s work has recently appeared in the Pushcart Prize Anthology, the Southern Review, Conjunctions, AGNI, and Copper Nickel. His collection of short stories, Everyone Here Has a Gun, won the Grace Paley Prize.
Chelsea Tokuno-Lynk is a Japanese American writer, fundraiser, and foodie who grew up in Kāneʻohe, Hawai’i. She is the daughter and descendant of poets, artists, orchard farmers, and beach dwellers. A 2015 and 2018 VONA/Voices alumna and Kundiman Fellow, she lives in Milwaukee, Wisconsin with her husband and two children.
Ryan Van Meter is the author of If You Knew Then What I Know Now. His work has been selected for anthologies including Best American Essays and Touchstone Anthology of Contemporary Creative Nonfiction: 1970 to Present.
Stella Wong is the author of Spooks, winner of the Saturnalia Books Editors Prize, and American Zero, winner of the Two Sylvias Press Chapbook Prize. A graduate of Harvard and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, Wong’s poems have appeared in POETRY, Colorado Review, Lana Turner, Denver Quarterly, Prairie Schooner, and more.
