Fatima Malik is a Pakistani-American poet with work published or forthcoming from Chestnut Review, diode poetry journal, The Margins, Waxwing, and others. She is working on her first full-length collection of poems, an excavation of grief after her father’s sudden death. She holds a BA in English literature and creative writing from Dartmouth College and a joint MA in journalism and Near Eastern Studies from New York University. While she currently lives in New York City, her heart is forever in Lahore. 

Vladimir Korvin-Piotrovsky (1891–1966) was a Ukrainian-born Russian-language poet who spent most of his life in emigration. After serving in the Imperial Army during the First World War and in the White Army during the Civil War, he fled Soviet Russia in 1920 and wound up in Berlin, where he married and had a son. At the start of the Second World War, the family left for Paris, where the poet took active part in the French Resistance and was arrested and jailed for several months in 1944. The family immigrated to the United States in 1961, settling in Los Angeles, where Korvin-Piotrovsky passed away five years later.

Boris Dralyuk is the editor-in-chief of the Los Angeles Review of Books. He is co-editor (with Robert Chandler and Irina Mashinski) of The Penguin Book of Russian Poetry (Penguin Classics, 2015), editor of 1917: Stories and Poems from the Russian Revolution (Pushkin Press, 2016), and translator of Isaac Babel, Andrey Kurkov, Maxim Osipov, Leo Tolstoy, Mikhail Zoshchenko, and other authors. His poems have appeared in The New York Review of Books, The New Criterion, The Yale Review, The Hopkins Review, and elsewhere, and his collection My Hollywood and Other Poems will appear with Paul Dry Books in 2022.

Tafisha A. Edwards is the author of two chapbooks: In the Belly of the Mirror (Telemagenta Press, 2021) and The Bloodlet (Phantom Books, 2016). She is poetry editor at Gigantic Sequins and has published work in Poetry Northwest, Washington Square Review, Apogee, Sundress Publications’ Lyric Essentials series, The Volta, and elsewhere.