Anemone Beaulier’s poetry and essays have been published by The Los Angeles Review, North American Review, Pinch, Poet Lore, Prairie Schooner, Rattle, The Southern Review, and others. Originally from Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, she lives in Laramie, Wyoming, with her husband and children.
Garnet Juniper Bennet is a genderqueer poet & writer corrupted in the American high desert who now attempts redemption practicing their craft in the Pacific Northwest. Garnet’s work has appeared in publications such as Rattle, Muzzle Magazine, Lunch Ticket, Salamander, Poet Lore, Waxwing, Ninth Letter, & Salt Hill. Recent honors include 1st place in the 2024 OxMag Crystal Ox Poetry Contest, and 2nd runner-up in Palette Poetry’s Previously Published Poem Contest of 2025.
Ashwini Bhasi is a biomedical researcher and interdisciplinary artist from Kerala, India. Her hybrid work merges scientific data, poetry and visual art to explore the lived experience of chronic illness, trauma and disability. Ashwini has over 18 years of professional experience analyzing large-scale human genome datasets to identify genetic markers and mutations in hereditary disorders and cancers. She is the first-author of multiple peer-reviewed research articles on bioinformatics workflows and software design for scientific discovery. A Tin House Summer Workshop Scholar, Ashwini is the recipient of the Shaw Memorial Poetry Prize from Dunes Review, a Good Hart Artist Residency, a Voices of Color Fellowship from Martha’s Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing and a Room Project Fellowship. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in The Iowa Review, Black Warrior Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, DIAGRAM, Redivider, RHINO and elsewhere. MUSTH, the winner of the 2020 CutBank chapbook contest, is her first poetry collection.
Shlagha Borah is from Assam, India. She is a 2026-2027 Jay C. and Ruth Halls Poetry Fellow at the Wisconsin Institute of Creative Writing. Her work appears or is forthcoming in POETRY, AGNI, Shenandoah, Epoch, Poetry Northwest, and elsewhere, and has received support from Tin House, Brooklyn Poets, The Hambidge Center, The Peter Bullough Foundation, VCCA, among others. You can read more of her work here: www.shlaghaborah.com.
Prosper Ifeanyi is a writer from Lagos, Nigeria. His forthcoming chapbook, Prelude to Sea (2026, Akashic Books) was selected by Kwame Dawes and Chris Abani for the New Generation of African Poets. His work is forthcoming or has appeared in Prairie Schooner, Transition, Waxwing, Poetry London, Shenandoah, Epoch, Muzzle Magazine, RHINO, among others. He has been nominated for Best New Poets and is an MFA candidate at UA’s creative writing program.
Maggie Queeney is the author of In Kind, winner of the Iowa Poetry Prize, and settler (Tupelo Press). She is the recipient of the Stanley Kunitz Memorial Prize, the Ruth Stone Scholarship, and two IAP Grants from the City of Chicago. Her poems, stories, and hybrid works have been published widely.
Lana Reeves is a poet and composer from O’ahu, Hawai’i. Her debut poetry collection is forthcoming from Penguin in June 2027. Winner of the 49th Parallel Award in Poetry, her work is published or forthcoming in The Atlantic, Beloit Poetry Journal, Gulf Coast Journal, Meridian, Prairie Schooner, Southern Humanities Review, and elsewhere. She is a Kundiman Fellow and an alum of the Kenyon Review Writers Workshop and the Sewanee Writers’ Conference. She received her B.A. with Honors from Harvard University and studied at the Berklee College of Music, and she is currently a Harold Stirling Vanderbilt Fellow at Vanderbilt University, where she teaches undergraduate poetry
Elizabeth J. Wenger (wengerwrites.com) is a queer writer from Oklahoma. Her work has appeared/is forthcoming in Los Angeles, Baltimore Review, and elsewhere. Wenger holds an MFA from Iowa State University. She is a PhD student at the University of Utah and editor-in-chief of the literary journal, Okie Modern.