Topher Allen is a Jamaican poet whose work explores themes of grief, mental health, religion and Jamaica’s cultural and historical experiences. He is an Obsidian Foundation Fellow whose work appears in Ambit, Magma, adda, Poetry London, Barzakh,  Reverie and elsewhere. He won the Poet Laureate of Jamaica: Louise Bennett-Coverley Prize for Poetry in 2019 and was a finalist in the Grouse Grind Lit Prize and the Markus D. Manley Award in 2024.

Ann-Marie Brown (@annmariebrown.art) completed studies in Europe and a Cultural Studies degree in Canada, after which she  began an artistic practice that led her to encaustic & oil painting. Her paintings have been exhibited internationally and are included in private, public, and corporate collections. She had the opportunity to work in studios around the globe, most recently through an extended residency in Helsinki awarded by the Artists’ Association of Finland.  Home is a studio in coastal British Columbia on Canada’s Sunshine Coast.

Jason R. Chun is a Chinese American writer whose fiction has appeared in The Cincinnati Review and The Offing. He holds an MFA in fiction from The New School. He is currently working on a story collection that explores the continuity between the past and the future. He can be found on Bluesky: @searchlightsoul.bsky.social

Rose Cobb is a poet and painter based in Colorado, USA, where she works as a vegetable and cut flower farmer. Rose’s work has appeared in Anodyne Magazine, Lyceum Magazine, and HIKA. She is a graduate of Kenyon College, where she studied English Literature and Studio Art. Her work seeks to blend the terrain of literal and interpersonal landscapes, revealing points of aligned texture and meaning.

Rebecca Duras is a Croatian-American writer based between Zagreb, Croatia, and Niš, Serbia. her original writing has been featured in The Counter, Women Write the Balkans, Catapult, and Barzakh. She writes about generational cycles, the memory of Yugoslavia and home (wherever that may be).

Emma Erlbacher is a first year poet at the University of Michigan’s Helen
Zell Writers’ Program.

Ira Goga is a trans poet whose work has been published by The Adroit Journal, Best New Poets 2023, Blackbird, and The Academy of American Poets. They  live in Austin, Texas, where they are pursuing their MFA.

Chris Hoshnic is a Navajo poet, playwright, and filmmaker. He was recently the 2024-2025 Playwrights Realm Native American Artist Lab Fellow. Hoshnic has also received fellowships from the Native American Media Alliance’s Writers Seminar, UC-Berkeley’s Arts Research Center, and the Diné Artisan and Authors Capacity Building Institute. His language work has been supported by Indigenous Nations Poets, CoLang, Tin House, and others. He is currently pursuing an MFA in Poetry at the Institute of American Indian Arts.

Hana Inbar is an Israeli translator and the daughter of noted Israeli writer Yossel Birstein. Robert Manaster is a writer whose work has appeared in publications like International Poetry Review, Maine Review, and Spillway. He has also published book reviews in Colorado Review, The Rumpus, and Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review. Together, Inbar and Manaster have published two books of translations with White Pine Press and Dryad Press. They’ve published numerous co-translations of Israeli poet Ortsion Bartana in publications like the Massachusetts Review, Off the Coast, Columbia Journal, and Poet Lore.

Frank G. Karioris (he/they/him/them) is a writer and educator based in Philadelphia whose writing addresses issues of friendship, gender, and class. Their work has appeared or is forthcoming in Pittsburgh Poetry Journal, Collective Unrest, Riverstone, Sooth Swarm Journal, and in the collection Eco-Justice For All amongst others. They were a W.S. Merwin Fellow at the 2023 Community of Writers Poetry Program.

Aiman Tahir Khan is a writer from Lahore, Pakistan. Winner of the inaugural Pakistan National Youth Poet Laureate title in English, her work is featured in or forthcoming from Nimrod International Journal, Harpur Palate, the Penn Review, Wildness, and elsewhere. She is an Adroit Journal translation reader and a summer poetry mentor for Lakeer Magazine

Ruby Hansen Murray is an award-winning columnist for the Osage News, winner of The Iowa Review and Montana Nonfiction Prizes, and a MacDowell, Indigenous Nations Poetry, and Hedgebrook fellow. Her poetry appears or is forthcoming in Poetry, Michigan Quarterly Review, The Hopkins Review, Ecotone, Moss, Beloit Poetry Journal, Prism, South Florida Poetry Journal, and River Mouth Review. Her work is included in Cascadia: A Field Guide (Tupelo Press), Allotment Stories (Univ of Minnesota Press), and Shapes of Native Nonfiction (Univ of Washington Press). She’s a citizen of the Osage and Cherokee Nations with Afro-Caribbean roots living in the lower Columbia River estuary.

Jennifer Murvin is the author of She Says (Small Harbor Publishing), False Alarm (forthcoming 2025 GreenTower Press), and Real California Living (forthcoming 2025 Braddock Avenue Books). Her essays, stories, and graphic narratives have appeared in literary journals such as Hayden’s Ferry Review, River Styx, The Southampton Review, The Pinch, december magazine, DIAGRAM, The Florida Review, Catamaran Literary Reader, Indiana Review, CutBank, Post Road, American Short Fiction, Phoebe, The Sun, Mid-American Review, and Cincinnati Review. Jen is an Assistant Professor of English at Missouri State University, a faculty member at the Solstice Low-Residency MFA in Creative Writing at Lasell University, and a faculty leader for the nonprofit community writing workshop River Pretty Writers Retreat. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Pacific University. Jen is also the owner of the indie bookstore Pagination Bookshop in Springfield, MO. Find more at https://www.jennifermurvin.com/.

Laura Romeyn is the author of Wild Conditions, winner of a Poetry Society of America Chapbook Fellowship. A former Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University, her poems have appeared in AGNI, Harvard Review, The Missouri Review, and The Yale Review, among other journals. Born and raised in Wisconsin’s Driftless Region, Laura currently lives and teaches in Madison, Wisconsin.

Maja Solar is a poet, editor, and translator who is from Zagreb, Croatia, and is currently based in Novi Sad, Serbia. She has published three collections of poetry and authored over 40 texts on social theory. Solar has a PhD in philosophy, and her research interests include Marxism, theories of labor and luxury, and the history of socialism. Solar is the host of a podcast called “Mouthful of Poetry” and serves as an editor for Stvar, a philosophical magazine.

Ronny Someck is an Iraqi-born Israeli who has published over 15 volumes of poetry. His work has been translated into over 40 languages. Someck is the recipient of numerous literary accolades and recognitions, including the Hans Berghuis Prize for Poetry and the French Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters.

Conan Tan is a Singaporean Chinese poet. He is the recipient of the 2024 Martin Starkie Prize, highly commended in the 2024 Oxford Poetry Prize, and the winner of Singapore’s 2022 National Poetry Competition. His poems have featured or are forthcoming in The Cincinnati Review, Passages North, Salt Hill, Verse Daily, Rattle, and elsewhere. He is a 2025 Barbican Young Poet and an undergraduate in Philosophy, Politics and Economics at the University of Oxford. He can be found at conantan.com.