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Steven D. Schroeder’s third book is Wikipedia Apocalyptica. His second book, The Royal Nonesuch, won the Devil’s Kitchen Reading Award from Southern Illinois University. His poetry is available from New England Review, Crazyhorse, Michigan Quarterly Review, The Cincinnati Review, Copper Nickel, Pleiades, Diagram, Diode, Vinyl, and Verse Daily. Poems have also appeared by invitation in city parks, public transportation, and business waiting rooms. He previously founded and edited the online poetry journal Anti-. He works as a creative content manager for a financial marketing agency in St. Louis.

Alexandra Burack is a Pushcart Prize-nominated poet, editor, and author of On the Verge (Plinth Books). Her recent work has appeared or is forthcoming in The Sewanee Review, The Blue Mountain Review, and Broad River Review, Spillway Magazine, Sky Island Journal, Lumina Journal, Heavy Feather Review, and Emerge Literary Journal. She currently serves as Adjunct Professor of Creative Writing at Chandler-Gilbert Community College (AZ), a volunteer poetry editor for Iron Oak Editions, and a volunteer poetry reader for The Los Angeles Review.

Mackenzie Carignan (she/her/hers) is a poet, mother, and learning and leadership strategist. Her full-length book of poems, a house without a roof is open to the stars, is available from Black Radish Books, and her numerous chapbooks include her most recent, someone somewhere is running, from Dancing Girl Press. She has a Ph.D. in Creative Writing from University of Illinois at Chicago, and her poems have appeared in journals including Hayden’s Ferry Review, Another Chicago Magazine, The Columbia Review, Ping Pong, Newfound, moria, and others.

Allison Cundiff is an English teacher and beekeeper. Her publications include the forthcoming novel Hey, Pickpocket (Jackleg Press, 2024) and three books of poetry: Just to See How It Feels (Word Press, 2018), Otherings (Golden Antelope Press, 2016), and In Short, A Memory of the Other on a Good Day (Golden Antelope Press, 2014), co-authored with Steven Schreiner. She lives in St. Louis.

Julio Cesar Diaz, a Texas-born Centroamericano, teaches at UMass Amherst, where they’ve completed an MFA in poetry. As a gay bilingual poet, they delve into self/translation and archival work. Diaz was the recipient of the 2022 Daniel and Merrily Glosband MFA Fellowship in Poetry, a finalist for the 2022 James Hearst Poetry Prize, and an honorable mention for the 2018 Andrew Julius Gutow Academy of American Poets Prize. Diaz has received scholarships from the Bread Loaf Conferences (both as translator and writer), Palm Beach Festival, and Juniper Institute. Their work can be found in Pleiades, North American Review, Southword, and elsewhere.

Suzanne Frischkorn is the author of four poetry books, most recently Whipsaw (Anhinga Press, 2024) and Fixed Star (JackLeg Press), selected a 2022 Foreword INDIES finalist, as well as five chapbooks. She is the recipient of the Writer’s Center Emerging Writers Fellowship for her book Lit Windowpane, the Aldrich Poetry Award for her chapbook Spring Tide, selected by Mary Oliver, a Connecticut Individual Artist Fellowship, and a SWWIM Residency Award at The Betsy. Her writing has recently appeared or is forthcoming in Denver Quarterly, North American Review, Salamander, South Dakota Review, and Latino Poetry: A Library of America Anthology. She is an assistant poetry editor for Terrain.org.

Madison Lazenby is a Pushcart Prize-nominated poet and recent graduate of Hamilton College, where she studied Creative Writing and Women’s & Gender Studies. She has been the recipient of fellowships from Brooklyn Poets and the Kettle Pond Writers’ Residency. She is also a graduate of the UVA Young Writers Workshop and has been recognized by the Academy of American Poets. She is the author of the limited print-run chapbook Control & Other Erotic Desires, published by Hamilton College as the winner of the William Rosenfeld Chapbook Prize.

Sheryl Luna’s collections include Magnificent Errors, recipient of the Ernest Sandeen Poetry Prize, Seven, finalist for the Colorado Book Awards, and Pity the Drowned Horses, recipient of the Andres Montoya Poetry Prize. Work has appeared in Poetry, Huizache and Puerto del Sol. She has received fellowships from Yaddo, the Anderson Center, Ragdale, and Canto Mundo.

Jude Marr (he/they) is a Pushcart-nominated trans poet. Jude has published a full-length collection, We Know Each Other By Our Wounds (Animal Heart Press, 2020), and a chapbook, Breakfast for the Birds (Finishing Line Press, 2017). Their work has appeared in many journals, including Kissing Dynamite, Cherry Tree, Harbor Review, and SWWIM. A native Scot, Jude recently returned to live in the UK after 10 years of teaching, writing, and learning in the US.

Kenneth J. Pruitt is a teacher at heart who works as a diversity professional in healthcare. Recent publications can be found in Rain Taxi, Nine Mile, The Rumpus, and december. He lives in South St. Louis City with his wife and son.

Carson Sandell (they/them) is a trans poet from San Jose, California, who spent formative years performing at open mics and spoken word events. They are a fourth year creative writing undergraduate, with a concentration in poetry, at the University of California, Riverside. Their work has been featured in The Fahmidan Journal, Dissonance Magazine, Drunk Monkey Magazine, Windows Facing Windows, and more. Carson is also a poetry reader for Split Lip Magazine.