THE POETS
William Ward Butler is a writer and educator from Northern California. He is the author of the chapbook Life History from Ghost City Press. His poems have appeared in Assaracus, Hobart, Tinderbox Poetry, and other journals. He has received support from the Catamaran Writing Conference, the Napa Valley Writers’ Conference, and the Community of Writers. His website can be found at www.williamwardbutler.com.
Doug Paul Case’s debut collection, Americanitis, was released in 2023 by Ghost City Press. His recent work has appeared in Voicemail Poems, HAD, No Contact, and Juked. He lives in Bloomington and teaches at Indiana University.
Chen Chen is the author of two books of poetry, Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced an Emergency (BOA Editions, 2022) and When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities (BOA Editions, 2017), which was longlisted for the National Book Award and won the Thom Gunn Award, among other honors. A 2022 United States Artists Fellow, he teaches for the low-residency MFA programs at New England College and Stonecoast.
Joshua Garcia’s poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in The Cincinnati Review, The Georgia Review, Ninth Letter, North American Review, and elsewhere. He holds an MFA from the College of Charleston and was a 2021-22 Stadler Fellow at Bucknell University. He lives and writes in Brooklyn, New York.
Andrew Hahn received his MFA from Vermont College of Fine Arts and is the author of the poetry chapbook God’s Boy from Sibling Rivalry Press. His work is forthcoming or featured in Tampa Review, Barren Magazine, Ghost City Review, and Aquifer: The Florida Review Online among others.
Gabriel Ojeda-Sagué is a poet and writer living in Chicago. He is most recently the author of Madness (Nightboat Books, 2022) and Losing Miami (The Accomplices, 2019), which was nominated for the Lambda Literary Award in Gay Poetry. He is also co-editor of An Excess of Quiet: Selected Sketches by Gustavo Ojeda, 1979-1989. He is currently a PhD student in English at the University of Chicago where he works in the study of sexuality.
D. A. Powell's latest collection Low Hanging Fruit was published in September 2022 by Foundlings Press as part of their "Strays" series. He teaches at the University of San Francisco and paints dicks.
Jacques J. Rancourt is the author of two poetry collections, Brocken Spectre (Alice James Books, 2021) and Novena (winner of the Lena-Miles Wever Todd prize, Pleiades Press, 2017), as well as a chapbook, In the Time of PrEP (Chad Walsh Series, Beloit Poetry Journal, 2018). A recipient of a Wallace Stegner Fellowship from Stanford University and a Halls Emerging Artist Fellowship from the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing, his poems have appeared in AGNI, Boston Review, Kenyon Review, New England Review, and Virginia Quarterly Review, among others. Raised in Maine, he lives in San Francisco.
Aaron Smith is the author of four books of poetry published by the Pitt Poetry Series: Blue on Blue Ground, winner of the Agnes Lynch Starrett Prize; Appetite, Primer, and The Book of Daniel. His new book, Stop Lying: Poems, is forthcoming in Spring 2023.
Sam Herschel Wein (he/they) is a lollygagging plum of a poet who specializes in perpetual frolicking. A 2022 Pushcart Prize winner, their third chapbook, Butt Stuff Flower Bush, is faggotly forthcoming from Porkbelly Press. He co-founded and edits Underblong. Recent work can be found in Muzzle Magazine, Waxwing Mag, and Shenandoah, among others.