Loch Baillie, originally from Massachusetts, is a writer and editor now based in Quebec. He is the author of the poetry collection River Running(Goose Lane Editions, 2026), as well as the chapbooks ice, dove, parachute (Cactus Press, 2024) and Citronella (Anstruther Press, 2024). He is associate poetry editor at Plenitude Magazine and a board director for the Quebec Writers’ Federation. Find him everywhere @lochbaillie.
Bryan Borland is the founding publisher of Sibling Rivalry Press and founding editor of Assaracus: A Journal of Gay and Queer Poetry. He is the author of multiple poetry collections, most recently Brotherful (Sibling Rivalry Press, 2025), a finalist for the Thom Gunn Award for Gay Poetry.
James Daniello Jr. is an artist and writer based in Palm Springs, California, where he lives with his husband. He is at work on a novel.
Blue Fay is a writer from Southern California. He is a graduate of the writing programs at the University of California, Irvine, where he served as the poetry editor of Faultline and taught creative writing through the LIFTED prison teaching program. You can find his work in The San Francisco Standard, The Berkeley Poetry Review, and Ploughshares.
Luke Janicki lives in Seattle, Washington. He has published poetry in Trampset, Funicular Magazine, Ghost City Review, The Milk House, Blood+Honey, JMWW, and other publications. He was nominated for Best of the Net 2025. He holds a B.A. from Gonzaga University and an M.Ed. from the University of Notre Dame.
Jaymz Lea (he/they) is a queer human, playing with words for the annoyingly joyful jostle. They are a mental health professional, lecturer, published academic and poet, who has adopted Manchester UK as home. He is an excitable nature geek, sharing much of their adult life with a great love, his ferocious cat, Effie. Their pieces have been published in Passionfruit Journal, The Poetry Lighthouse, and he featured in the Poetry Wales Spring 2025 issue as one of the top 60 Welsh poets to keep an eye on. Find Jaymz on Instagram @hiraeth_tara.
Andrés López is an undergraduate writer studying English and Women & Gender Studies in Lincoln, NE. Andrés’s work covers queerness and Latinidad in America. His work has appeared in Tough Poets Review, Dreamboybookclub, and Nude Bruce Review. His forthcoming work will be seen in Litbreak and J Journal, among others.
Randall Mann is the author of six collections of poetry, most recently Deal: New and Selected Poems (Copper Canyon Press, 2023). A new collection, Memory Puzzle, is forthcoming from Copper Canyon in 2027.
Kyle Okeke is a writer from Sugar Land, Texas, who has appeared in POETRY, Narrative Magazine, and The Sewanee Review, among other literary journals. He was awarded the Evaristo Prize in African Poetry and the Poetry Society of America Chapbook fellowship. He obtained an MFA in creative writing at UT Austin's New Writers Project. You can contact him on Instagram, @kyleohpoetry.
Tom White is a co-founder of Fruit, a queer literary journal now in its sixth year. He is also a PhD student, researching queer poetics in relation to the strategies queer people employ to find sustenance in a culture which offers too little. He lives in Manchester, UK. His poems have appeared in Impossible Archetype and Blackbox Manifold.