Matthew Otremba lives in St. Paul, Minnesota. He received his MFA in poetry from the University of Houston, and his poems have recently appeared or are forthcoming in The American Poetry Review and the Los Angeles Review.

Paul Otremba published three collections of poetry: Levee (2019), Pax Americana (2015), and The Currency (2009), all from Four Way Books. He taught at Rice University and in the Warren Wilson low-residency MFA program. On June 24, 2019, he died from cancer in Houston, Texas.

Ari Banias is the author of A Symmetry (2021) and Anybody (2016), both published by W. W. Norton. His work has been supported by Headlands Center for the Arts, MacDowell, the New York Foundation for the Arts, the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing, and Stanford University’s Wallace Stegner program. He lives and teaches in the Bay Area.

Alice Friman’s poetry collections include Blood Weather (LSU Press, 2019), The View from Saturn (LSU Press, 2014), Vinculum (LSU Press, 2011), The Book of the Rotten Daughter (BkMk Press, 2006), Zoo (1999), Inverted Fire (1997), and Reporting from Corinth (1984). A recipient of many honors, including two Pushcart Prizes and inclusion in Best American Poetry, she has been published in Poetry, Ploughshares, The Georgia Review, Gettysburg Review, Plume, Crazyhorse, and others. She lives in Milledgeville, Georgia, where she was Poet-in-Residence at Georgia College. 

Stephanie Rogers is the author of Plucking the Stinger (2016) and Fat Girl Forms (2021), both published by Saturnalia Books. She grew up in Middletown, Ohio, and was educated at Ohio State University and the University of Cincinnati; her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Ploughshares, Tin House, Poetry Northwest, Shenandoah, New Ohio Review, and elsewhere. She lives outside of Nashville in Lebanon, Tennessee. 

Jeffrey Yang is the author of three collections of poetry: Hey, Marfa (2018), Vanishing-Line (2011), and An Aquarium (2008), all from Graywolf Press. His new book, Line and Light, will also be published by Graywolf in the spring of 2022.

Alyse Knorr is an associate professor of English at Regis University and, since 2017, has co-edited Switchback Books. Her most recent collection of poems, Mega-City Redux, won the 2016 Green Mountains Review Poetry Prize. She is also the author of the poetry collections Copper Mother (Switchback Books, 2016) and Annotated Glass (Furniture Press Books, 2013); the nonfiction book Super Mario Bros. 3 (Boss Fight Books, 2016); and four poetry chapbooks. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in The New Republic, Poetry, Alaska Quarterly Review, and Denver Quarterly, among others.

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.