T.W. Alexander is a final year MFA student at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, VA. There, he works in both poetry and fiction, and is currently drafting his thesis. In his downtime, Alexander likes hiking, swimming, and kayaking. But he also loves a good couch binge.
Kenneth W. Ashley is a poet from Virginia. His work has appeared in The Physical Media Advocate and The Virginia Poets Database’s Poetry Spotlight. Find him on Instagram @kenashleypoet.
Onyedikachi Chinedu is a Nigerian poet and a recipient of the Gregory Pardlo scholarship at The Frost Place. They are the author of the poetry chapbook, Glistening Green (Ghost City Press, 2021). Their poem “Snail-Picking” was selected by Diane Seuss for the Academy of American Poets’ Poem-a-Day. Chinedu’s poems have been published or forthcoming in The Cortland Review, Guesthouse Lit, Banyan Review, Anomaly, and elsewhere. They have been named winner of multiple poetry prizes and fellowships, including the HUES Foundation Scholar, the Kreative Diadem Prize in Poetry, and a finalist for the Counterclock Arts Collective and the 2024 Kofi Awoonor Poetry Prize.
Cody Draco is a gay poet living in Central Florida. His honors include the 2025 Chaffin/Kash Prize, Literary Titan Gold Book Award, and the Voyages of Verses Book Award. His chapbook, Sub Bottom for Sincerity, is forthcoming from Arcana Poetry Press in 2027.
Aerik Francis is a Queer Black Latinx poet & teaching artist based in Denver, Colorado, USA. Francis is currently serving as poet laureate of Adams County, Colorado (2025-2027). Francis is the author of the poetry chapbooks BODYPOLITIC (Abode Press, 2026) and MISEDUCATION (New Delta Review, 2023). Francis has poetry published widely, links of which may be found at their website phaentompoet.com or social media @phaentompoet.
Dan Grover is a poet from Maine. His poems have appeared in Poet Lore, Assaracus, and elsewhere. He divides his time between teaching and writing poems, and writing the spam emails cluttering up your inbox. He lives in Portland with his husband and their very enthusiastic dog, Piper.
Ron Mohring is the author of several chapbooks and two full-length collections, Survivable World (2003) and The Boy Who Reads in the Trees (2024), both from The Word Works. He lives with his husband in Cincinnati, where he manages Seven Kitchens Press.
igor dos santos mota is a queer Brazilian teacher-poet-translator and PhD candidate based in Derby, UK. He was one of the winners of the 2026 Bula Poetry Prize, the 2025 Lisbon Poetry Festival Prize, the 2024 Noite da Poesia Prize, and the 2024 Yoshio Takemoto Literary Prize. He was also shortlisted for the 2025/26 Derby Poetry Festival Prize and longlisted for the 2025 New Writers UK Poetry Competition.
Ryan Skrabalak wrote Goes on now except) (Beautiful Days Press, 2026) and National Lube (speCt!, 2024), along with some other chapbooks. He lives in the upper "Hudson Valley" of New York where he edits Spiral Editions, a poetry press and occasional tape label.
Sam Herschel Wein is a lollygagging plum of a poet who specializes in perpetual frolicking. Residing in the best city in the world, CHICAGO, Sam has an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Tennessee and was the recipient of a 2022 Pushcart Prize. They have published four chapbooks, most recently Love that For Us (& Change, 2026), a collaboration with Chen Chen. He co-founded and edits Underblong. Sam has recent work in Electric Literature, Third Coast, and Puerto del Sol, among others. They can be found in the cheese aisle of most stores, in the middle of a hug, or editing poems at your local coffee shop.