Stacy Nathaniel Jackson was born in Los Angeles and attended Ramona Convent College Preparatory School for Girls in a former incarnation of his life. He is a Cave Canem fellow and received an individual artist’s grant from the San Francisco Arts Commission in 2011. Author of the chapbook Camouflage (MaCaHu Press, 2010), he has published poems, plays, and visual art in Black Arts Quarterly, Lodestar Quarterly, Enizagam, Poets 11 Anthology, New American Writing 25, and elsewhere.

Wayne Koestenbaum—poet, essayist, artist, performer—has published twenty books, including, most recently, Figure It Out (Soft Skull, 2020) and Camp Marmalade (Nightboat Books, 2020). His next book, a collection of short fiction, The Cheerful Scapegoat, will be published by Semiotext(e) in April 2021.

Alejandro Pérez is a student at Columbia University in New York. He is a 2019 Pushcart Prize nominee whose poems have appeared or are forthcoming in the Missouri Review, Boulevard, Passages North, DIAGRAM, and Spanish-language magazines in Venezuela, Chile, and Spain.

Bino A. Realuyo’s The Gods We Worship Live Next Door (University of Utah Press, 2006) was the winner of the Agha Shahid Ali Prize for Poetry. He has published poems in The Nation, the Kenyon Review, The Literary Review, Mānoa: A Pacific Journal of International Writing, and recent issues of ZYZZYVA, North American Review, The Common, Another Chicago Magazine, Salamander, and New American Writing. His poems in this issue are from his completed manuscript “#TheRebelSonnets.” In December 2019, the band U2 featured his poem in its Joshua Tree Anniversary Concert Tour in Manila. He lives in New York City, where he is an adult educator and immigrant rights activist and the co-founder of the Asian American Writers’ Workshop.

Adrienne Su’s fifth collection of poems, Peach State, is forthcoming from the University of Pittsburgh Press in spring 2021. Her previous books include Living Quarters (2015), Having None of It (2009), and Sanctuary (2006), all from Manic D Press, and Middle Kingdom (1997), with Alice James Books. Recent poems appear in 32 Poems, Bennington Review, the Cincinnati Review, The New Yorker, and Poem-a-Day. A recipient of grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Money for Women/ Barbara Deming Fund, she is professor of creative writing and Poet-in-Residence at Dickinson College in Pennsylvania.

Anthony Madrid lives in Victoria, Texas. His poems have appeared in Best American Poetry, Boston Review, Fence, Harvard Review, Lana Turner, LIT, and Poetry. He is the author of Try Never (2017) and I Am Your Slave Now Do What I Say (2012), both from Canarium Books, as well as a “children’s book for adults” called There Was an Old Man with a Springbok (Prelude Books, 2019).

Charles Baxter is the author of twelve books of fiction and a book of poetry, Imaginary Paintings (Paris Review Editions, 1989). His new novel, The Sun Collective, will be published by Pantheon in the fall of 2020. He recently retired from the University of Minnesota’s MFA program in writing. He lives in Minneapolis.

Yona Harvey’s poetry collections include You Don’t Have to Go to Mars for Love (Four Way Books, 2020) and Hemming the Water (Four Way Books, 2013), winner of the Kate Tufts Discovery Award. She contributed to Marvel Comics’ World of Wakanda series and co-authored with Ta-Nehisi Coates Black Panther and the Crew. She has worked with teenagers writing about mental health issues in collaboration with Creative Nonfiction magazine.