Alexis Almeida is the author of I Have Never Been Able to Sing (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2018) and the co-translator of Carlos Soto Román's 11, which is forthcoming from UDP in 2022. Recent work has appeared or is forthcoming in BOMB, The Poetry Project, Oversound, Rainbow Agate, NECK, and elsewhere. She teaches at the Bard Microcollege at the Brooklyn Public Library and edits 18 Owls Press.
Jackie Clark is the author of Aphoria (Brooklyn Arts Press, 2013) and most recently Depression Parts (dancing girl press, 2018). Her writing has appeared in The Tiny, Fence, and The Brooklyn Rail, among others. She is currently the series editor of Endless Playlist for Wendy's Subway.
Mira Dayal is an artist, critic, and editor based in New York. Her studio work often involves laborious, critical uses of language, material, and site. Her writing has been published in Artforum, The Brooklyn Rail, and many other magazines, as well as in several exhibition catalogues. She is currently editing a book about solidarity and feminism in art criticism, to be published with Paper Monument.
Claire Donato is the author of Burial (Tarpaulin Sky Press, 2013), a not-novel, and The Second Body (Poor Claudia, 2016), a full-length collection of poems, as well as several chapbooks. She also wrote the foreword to The One on Earth: Selected Works of Mark Baumer (Fence Books, 2021). She teaches psychoanalytically inflected poetics courses and advises BFA and MFA theses at Pratt Institute, where she received the 2020 Distinguished Teacher Award. In addition to writing books, she takes 35mm photographs, is an illustrator, practices Zen meditation, and records songs. She lives alone in Brooklyn.
Stephen Hilger is a photographer whose work traces historical memory. He was born in Los Angeles and lives in Brooklyn, where he is an associate professor of photography at Pratt Institute. His solo exhibition Going Home was on view at Benrubi Gallery in 2021. His monograph Back of Town (SPQR Editions, 2016) chronicles the disappearance of a neighborhood in New Orleans. BLVD (ROMAN NVMERALS, 2017), a limited-edition publication, presents visual motifs at the intersection of public and private spaces throughout Los Angeles. His photographs are in the collections of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the New Orleans Museum of Art.
Roberta Iannamico was born in 1972 and for the past twenty years has lived in Villa Ventana, Argentina. She has published various books of poetry, including El zorro gris, El zorro blanco, El zorro colorado, Mamuskhas, El collar de fideos, Tendal, Many Poems, Nomeolvides, and Que lindo, and has also written the children’s books Nariz de higo, Ris Ras, La camisa fantasma, Bajo las estrellas, Retrato de un zorro cachorro, Saltar soga en la noche, Bien viento y varias adaptaciones de cuentos clásicos y de relatos de pueblos originarios. She was on the jury for the 2019 Young Artists of Buenos Aires Biennial Poetry Prize and ran the workshop for residents at the International Poetry Festival in Rosario. She runs poetry workshops for people of all ages and also writes and performs music, most recently as part of the duo Las Kostureras. She co-directs Maravilla Press and for the past 18 years has worked actively on cultural programming for the Macedonio Fernandez Public Library in Villa Ventana. Her poems have been translated into English and Portuguese.
Kahlil Robert Irving is a multimedia artist based in St. Louis, Missouri, who creates dense assemblages of images and sculptural replicas of everyday objects. His exhibition Projects: Kahlil Robert Irving is currently on display at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, in partnership with the Studio Museum in Harlem, and his work is in the collections of the Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, the Rhode Island School of Design Museum, the Carnegie Museum of Art, and the Whitney Museum of American Art.
Karla Kelsey is the author of five books, most recently Blood Feather (Tupelo, 2020). With Aaron McCollough she co-publishes SplitLevel Texts.
Karen An-hwei Lee is the author of Rose is a Verb: Neo-Georgics (Slant, 2021) and The Maze of Transparencies (Ellipsis, 2019), among other books. Currently, she serves at Wheaton College.
Jennifer Nelson is the author of Aim at the Centaur Stealing Your Wife (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2015); Civilization Makes Me Lonely (Ahsahta, 2017), winner of the Sawtooth Prize; and Harm Eden (UDP, 2021). Her work has appeared in Panda’s Friend, A Perfect Vacuum, Social Text, The Baffler, The Brooklyn Rail, and elsewhere. She was the Offen Poet at the University of Chicago in 2020. She is also assistant professor in the department of art history at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the author of Disharmony of the Spheres: The Europe of Holbein’s Ambassadors (Penn State University Press, 2019).
Mike Newton is a visual artist, writer, and software developer based in Brooklyn. He is one of the editors of Harp & Altar.
Daniel Owen's recent publications are Celingak-Celinguk (Tan Kinira, 2021), Up in the Empty Ferries (Third Floor Apartment Press, 2021), and Points of Amperture (DoubleCross Press, 2021), dos-à-dos chapbook with Jennifer Soong's When I Ask My Friend. His translations from Indonesian include Afrizal Malna’s Document Shredding Museum (Reading Sideways Press, 2019) and poems by Malna and Farhanah published in various journals and magazines. Recent writing and translations have appeared in Circumference, Asphalte, Columbia Journal, and The Poetry Project Newsletter. He edits and designs books and participates in many processes of the Ugly Duckling Presse editorial collective.
Cate Peebles is the author of the collection Thicket (Lost Roads Press, 2018) and several chapbooks, including The Woodlands (Sixth Finch Books, 2016) and James (dancing girl press, 2014). Her work has recently appeared in American Poetry Review, Poetry Northwest, Pine Hills Review, and Bear Review, among others. She is an archivist at Tulane University and lives in New Orleans.
Stephanie Ellis Schlaifer is a poet and installation artist in St. Louis. She is the author of the poetry collections Well Waiting Room (Fordham University Press, 2021) and Cleavemark (BOAAT Press, 2016) and the children's book The Cloud Lasso (Penny Candy Books, 2019). Her poems and art have appeared in Bomb, Bennington Review, Georgia Review, Harvard Review, Iowa Review, AGNI, Washington Square, At Length, The Offing, Denver Quarterly, LIT, and Colorado Review, as well as on PoetryNow and the Poetry Foundation website, among others. She frequently collaborates with other artists, most recently with Cheryl Wassenaar on the installation The Cabinet of Ordinary Affairs at the Des Lee Gallery. Her work can be viewed at stephanieschlaifer.com.
Prageeta Sharma's recent poetry collection is Grief Sequence (Wave Books, 2019). She is the founder of Thinking Its Presence, an interdisciplinary conference on race, creative writing, and artistic and aesthetic practices. Her recent poems have appeared in The New Republic, Los Angeles Review of Books, and The Yale Review. A recipient of the 2010 Howard Foundation Award and a finalist for the 2020 Four Quartets Prize, she taught at the University of Montana and now teaches at Pomona College.
Stacy Szymaszek is the author of six books of poetry, most recently A YEAR FROM TODAY (2018) and FAMOUS HERMITS (2021). In 2019, her work was honored with a grant in poetry from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts. Recent work has been published in Castle Grayskull, The Tiny, The Canary, and House Party.
Bronwen Tate is the author of The Silk the Moths Ignore (Inlandia Institute, 2021). She teaches poetry, creative nonfiction, and creative writing pedagogy in the School of Creative Writing at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver. Her monthly newsletter Ok, But How? features nitty-gritty process-nerd notes on writing, reading, teaching, and cooking.
Rodrigo Toscano is a poet and essayist based in New Orleans. He is the author of ten books of poetry, most recently The Charm & The Dread (Fence Books, 2021). His Collapsible Poetics Theater (Fence Books, 2008) was a National Poetry Series selection and his poetry has appeared in over 20 anthologies, including Best American Poetry and Best American Experimental Poetry (BAX). He has received a New York State Fellowship in Poetry and he won the Edwin Markham prize for poetry in 2019. Find him at rodrigotoscano.com.
Amish Trivedi is a poet whose latest book is FuturePanic (Co•Im•Press, 2021). He has an MFA from Brown's Program in Literary Arts, a PhD from Illinois State, and is a Post Doctoral Researcher at the University of Delaware.
Paul Winner's work has appeared in Tin House, A Public Space, and The Paris Review.
Jenny Wu is an art historian and fiction writer. Her work has appeared in Asymptote, BOMB, LA Review of Books, and Denver Quarterly. A recipient of the 2021–23 Tulsa Artist Fellowship, she lives in Tulsa, Okla.