Rachelle Toarmino is a poet from Niagara Falls, New York. She is the author of the poetry collections Hell Yeah (Third Man Books, 2025) and That Ex (Big Lucks Books, 2020), as well as several chapbooks, most recently My Science, winner of the 2024 Sixth Finch Chapbook Contest. She is also the founding editor in chief of the literary publishing project Peach Mag and the creator and lead instructor of Beauty School, an independent poetry school. She lives in Buffalo.

Colin Drohan is a writer from Chicago. His book It's Late won the Betsy Joiner Flanagan Award from Interim and will be published by the University of Nevada Press in December 2026. He earned an MFA from the University of Massachusetts Amherst, where he received the Karen Skolfield and Dennis Goeckel Award in Poetry, and he was previously Director of Writing Programs at Catapult. He lives in Brooklyn.

Gabriel Ojeda-Sagué is a poet and writer living in Chicago. He is most recently the author of Losing Miami (The Accomplices, 2019) and Madness (Nightboat Books, 2022), which was a finalist for the Publishing Triangle's Thom Gunn Award in Gay Poetry and the TS Eliot Foundation’s Four Quartets Prize. He is also co-editor of An Excess of Quiet: Selected Sketches by Gustavo Ojeda, 1979-1989. He is currently a Humanities Teaching Fellow at the University of Chicago.

Lucy Xiang-fu Wainger is a poet from New York City. Her debut chapbook In Life There Are Many Things came out from Black Lawrence Press in 2023, and her micro chapbook How to Write an Essay is forthcoming from Palette Poetry. She's currently pursuing a master's in elementary education and working as a fifth grade assistant teacher.

Born in California, Scout Turkel is a poet and writer. Scout's first book, Solitude & Society, is forthcoming from Nightboat Books. It was written in western Massachusetts.