Honora Ankong is a queer Cameroonian American poet and writer. She is a third year poet at Virginia Tech's MFA in Creative Writing program. Her works exist to complicate and expand narratives of Blackness, immigration, gender, queer identity, &. Her words can be found at Lolwe, Mineral Lit, Glass, The Maine Review, storySouth, and elsewhere. She is a 2020 Pushcart prize nominee and has been featured by Poetry Daily. You can find her at her website honoraankong.com

Nicole Arocho Hernández was born and raised in Cabo Rojo, Puerto Rico. Her poems have been featured in Variant Literature Journal, The Acentos Review, The Academy of American Poets, and elsewhere. Her first chapbook (I Have No Ocean, 2021) was published by Sundress Publications. She is the recipient of the 2021 Katherine C. Turner Prize. She is a Tin House Summer Workshop alum, Translations Editor at the Hayden’s Ferry Review, and an MFA candidate at Arizona State University. You can find her on social media: @nimaarhe.

Robin Gow is a trans poet and young adult author from rural Pennsylvania. They are the author of Our Lady of Perpetual Degeneracy (Tolsun Books 2020) and the chapbook Honeysuckle (Finishing Line Press 2019). Their first young adult novel, A Million Quiet Revolutions is forthcoming March 2022 with FSG Books for Young Readers. Gow’s poetry has recently been published in POETRY, Southampton Review, and Yemassee. Gow received their MFA from Adelphi University where they were also an adjunct instructor. Gow is a managing editor at The Nasiona and the assistant editor at large at Doubleback Books. They live in Allentown Pennsylvania with their queer family and two pug dogs and work at Bradbury-Sullivan LGBT Community Center.

Hannah Cohen resides in Virginia with her two cats. She’s a graduate of the Queens University of Charlotte MFA program. She is the author of the poetry chapbook Bad Anatomy (Glass Poetry Press, 2018). Hannah co-edits the online literary journal Cotton Xenomorph. Publications include Pigeonholes, Qu Lit Mag, The Offing, The Rumpus, Cherry Tree, Entropy, Glass: A Journal of Poetry and has spoken on several literary panels and roundtables. She was a Best of the Net 2018 finalist and a Pushcart Prize nominee.

Stephanie Tom is a student at Cornell University studying literature, communication, information science, media studies, and psychology. A Pushcart Prize nominee, her poetry has previously appeared in Glass: A Journal of Poetry, Sine Theta Magazine, Hobart, and Honey Literary, among other places. She is a 2019 winner of the Poets & Writers Amy Award, and the author of Travel Log at the End of the World (Ghost City Press, 2019). When she’s not writing she dabbles in dance and graphic design.