KAI IHNS is a poet and filmmaker finishing up her PhD at the University of Chicago, where she studies film and contemporary experimental poetics. She also works as an editor, and as half of the video collective dunt project. She lives in Chicago.


JACQUELINE FELDMAN lives in Massachusetts. “On Your Feet,” her translation of Nathalie Quintane’s story “Stand up,” is forthcoming in The White Review. On Your Feet, a novel in translations from which “Casting Off” is taken, will be published next year by dispersed holdings.


BRANDON SHIMODA's last book was The Grave on the Wall (City Lights, 2019). His next book is Hydra Medusa (Nightboat Books, 2023). His first book, that he can remember, was a collection of scratch-and-sniff stickers which he arranged in a blank photo album.


JULIAN MITHRA hovers between genders and genres, border-mongering and -mongreling. An experimental archive, Unearthingly (KERNPUNKT) excavates forgotten spaces. If the Color Is Fugitive (Nomadic Press) historically intervenes in frontiers. KALEIDOSCOPE (Ethel Press) flexes transembodiment against alphabetic constraints. They’re cobbling together a record of trans*masculinity in a speculative Philadelphia, 1829, where natural scientists rival evangelical millenarianists for insight into the sublunary and sublime.


BRANDAN GRIFFIN is the author of Impastoral (Omnidawn, 2022) and a forthcoming chapbook, Four Concretures (Theaphora Editions). He's published poems in Tagvverk, Chicago Review, and Word For/Word, and also has work forthcoming in Cloak. He lives in Kansas City, MO.


CHRIS BEAUSANG is a writer and critic based in Dublin. He has had fiction and criticism published in Rupture, Liberated Texts and The Belfield Literary Review. His first novel, Tunnel of Toads, is forthcoming from Marrowbone Books.


VI KHI NAO is the author of six poetry collections: Fish Carcass (Black Sun Lit, 2022), A Bell Curve Is A Pregnant Straight Line (11:11 Press, 2021), Human Tetris (11:11 Press, 2019), Sheep Machine (Black Sun Lit, 2018), Umbilical Hospital (Press 1913, 2017), and The Old Philosopher (winner of the Nightboat Prize for 2014), and of the shortstory collections The Vegas Dilemma (11:11 Press, 2021) and A Brief Alphabet of Torture (winner of the 2016 FC2's Ronald Sukenick Innovative Fiction Prize), and also the novel Fish in Exile (Coffee House Press, 2016). Her work includes poetry, fiction, film and cross-genre collaboration. She was the Fall 2019 fellow at the Black Mountain Institute: vikhinao.com


CARY STOUGH is a poet, critic, and library worker in Massachusetts. Recent or forthcoming work can be found in The Cleveland Review of Books, Annulet, The American Poetry Review, and elsewhere. "Acquired Target" is a chapter in the manuscript Aim Down Sight.


MEGAN JEANNE GETTE writes from Far West Texas, lately.


XIAO YUE SHAN is a poet. How Often I Have Chosen Love was published in 2019. Then Telling Be the Antidote will be published in 2023. shellyshan.com