Aldrin Badiola (he/him) is the author of the poetry collection PATRILINEAL (ink & ivy lit, 2025). His works are published in The Hopkins Review and elsewhere. He is the editor-in-chief of Artists from Maryland. He can be found at aldrinbadiola.carrd.co.
John Bonanni's poems have appeared in Gulf Coast, Foglifter, North American Review, Cream City Review, Black Warrior Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, and Prairie Schooner, and his book reviews have appeared in DIAGRAM, Tupelo Quarterly, and Kenyon Review. He serves as founding editor of the Cape Cod Review and his chapbook, a rotary phone that dings when you move it (Cape Cod Editions, 2024) was funded by an NEA grant before the NEA was gutted by neofascism. More at johnbonanni.com.
Julián Delacruz (he/him) is a medium who writes poems at the border of seance and madness. He received his MFA from Arizona State University and lives and teaches in Los Angeles, where he is working on his first collection, Corpse Flowers. His poems have appeared in The Lambda Literary Review and The Bennington Review.
Foster Gareau is a queer Montreal-based, French-Canadian poet, bibliophile and recovering alcoholic with a degree in Cinema Studies from the University of Toronto. He was shortlisted for the 2025 Vallum Chapbook Award and his work has most recently appeared or is forthcoming in PRISM international, LBRNTH, and Soliloquies Anthology. He writes every day. @feigns_.
Joseph Hamilton (he/him) is a poet, editor, and student from London, UK. His poems are concerned with/by private property, public space, and (most often) the weird work of queer Marxist thinking and telling. He has previously been published in Stones of Madness, and acts as editor-in-chief of the online zine Boundby.
Ed Madden is the author of six books of poetry, most recently A pooka in Arkansas (Word Works, 2023). He served as poet laureate for the City of Columbia, SC, 2015-2022. He received a Poet Laureate Fellowship from the Academy of American Poets, and residencies at Instituto Sacatar in Brazil and the Tyrone Guthrie Centre in Ireland. His hybrid chapbook, Arkansas Luggage, was published in the Chaps Poetry series in 2025.
Simon Maddrell is a Manx poet living in Brighton, UK. His work appears in Gutter, Magma, Poetry Wales, SAND, Southword, Stone of Madness, The Gay & Lesbian Review, and many others. His chapbooks include Throatbone (UnCollected Press, 2020), Queerfella (The Rialto, 2020), The Whole Island (Valley Press, 2023), Isle of Sin (Polari Press, 2023), a finger in derek jarman's mouth (Polari Press, 2024), and Patient L1 (Polar Press, 2025). Out-Spoken Press will publish Simon's debut collection, lamping wild rabbits, in February 2026.
Neal Allen Shipley (he/him) is a behavior analyst living in Colorado with a modest collection of pets and an unhinged collection of plants. His writing can be found in Creation Magazine, The Talon Review, and SCAB Magazine, among others. Despite the horrors, he loves a fancy hot dog. Find him on Instagram @nealio9.
Tim Stobierski writes about relationships. Recent poems are published or forthcoming in Chestnut Review, Gay & Lesbian Review, Baltimore Review, Chicago Quarterly Review, Midwest Quarterly, EOAGH, and elsewhere. His first book of poems, Dancehall, was published by Antrim House Books in July 2023. For more, follow him on Instagram (@timstobierski) or his website (www.timstobierski.com).
Aled Turner is a Welsh poet based in Manchester. He is a graduate of Kingston University's MFA Creative Writing program & was shortlisted for the Desperate Literature Short Fiction Prize 2024. His work has appeared in Abridged, Prototype, and Maudlin House amongst other publications. Earsplitting, a debut pamphlet, was published by Broken Sleep Books in 2025.