Alida Dean (2025)

Alida Dean (2025)

Alida Dean‘s poems and short stories have recently appeared in Chicago Quarterly Review, The Forge, Ninth Letter, and SmokeLong Quarterly, among other venues. She earned her PhD in Creative Writing at the University of Cincinnati and teaches online fiction workshops...
Julian Guy (2025)

Julian Guy (2025)

Julian Guy is a trans and queer poet and essayist currently finalizing his first book of poetry, In The House Where I Love You, which was longlisted at YesYes Books and named a finalist for the Raz-Shumaker Prairie Schooner Book Prize. Julian’s poems have appeared in...
Obi Taswell (2025)

Obi Taswell (2025)

Obi Taswell (they/them) is a queer and trans poet, abolitionist, and educator based in New York City. Their work draws on their own experiences and the power of language and storytelling to imagine the existence of disabled, trans bodies beyond systems of oppression....
Timothy Ree (2025)

Timothy Ree (2025)

Timothy Ree is the author of BEASTING (2022), a debut collection of poetry conceived during the pandemic, both surreal and grounded in the particularities of Korean American experience, exploring race, politics, & family dynamics at the height of the plague where...
Jessica Cuello (2015, 2025)

Jessica Cuello (2015, 2025)

Jessica Cuello’s Liar was selected by Dorianne Laux for the 2020 Barrow Street Book Prize and her manuscript Feral is forthcoming from JackLeg Press in 2027. Cuello is also the author of Yours, Creature (JackLeg, 2023), Hunt (The Word Works, 2017) and Pricking (Tiger...