Abdu Mongo Ali is a musician, writer, cultural organizer, and multidisciplinary artist who works in sound, collaboration, video, and performance art. Ali sees their work as poetic inquiries of identity and often interrogates binary ideas of race, gender, and sexuality. Ali has exhibited performances and work at MoMa PS1, the Carnegie Museum of Art, The Baltimore Museum of Art, The Andy Warhol Museum, and The Kennedy Center. They have residencies with Red Bull Music, Pioneer Works, Surf Point Foundation, and was a visiting artist at the Brown Arts Institute. Ali was featured in Cultured Magazine's Young Artists 2019 list and is a 2023 USA Fellow. Ali is a Literary Arts / Cross-Disciplinary MFA Candidate at Brown University.

Imani Nikelle is a poet and award-winning filmmaker from Dallas, Texas. Her poetry can be found in Lucky Jefferson, Sweet Tree Review, Changing Wxman Collective, and Wax Nine Journal. Her written work explores the sacred, the daily, and the many landscapes of the self. Imani holds a Bachelor of Arts in Dramatic Writing & Film Production from Eugene Lang College of Liberal Arts at the New School. She is currently earning an MFA in Literary Arts from Brown University.

Lindsey Pannor is a poet and essayist whose work can be found in Annulet, bæst: a journal of queer forms & affects, DIAGRAM, Fence Digital, Tagvverk and elsewhere. Their latest, titled “A Land of Easy Collective,” is out now with Belladonna* Collaborative. They are an MFA Candidate in Literary Arts at Brown.

Perry Levitch’s poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Best New Poets 2024, the New England Review, the Southeast Review, and others. They received an MFA from NYU. Currently they are an English PhD student at Brown, where they study transpoetics.

Riley Ratcliff is a poet from San Antonio, TX, currently living in Providence. Their poems can be found in journals like Bat City Review, Denver Quarterly, and Fence, and and they have a chapbook forthcoming from auric press.