Ally Ang
Ally Ang (they/them) is a gaysian poet living in Seattle, WA. Their work has been published in The Journal, AAWW’s The Margins, Muzzle Magazine, Nepantla: An Anthology Dedicated to Queer Poets of Color, and elsewhere. They have been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and Bettering American Poetry, and they are the author of the chapbook Monstrosity (Damaged Goods Press 2016). They are currently an MFA candidate at the University of Washington. Find them at allysonang.com.
Cassandra de Alba
Cassandra de Alba is a poet living in Massachusetts. Her chapbooks habitats (Horse Less Press, 2016) and ORB (Reality Hands, 2018) are about deer and the moon, respectively, and Ugly/Sad was released by Glass Poetry Press in 2020.
Artist photo courtesy of GennaRose Nethercott.
ilyus evander
ilyus evander is a non-binary transfem poet, educator, and mental health worker based in Providence, RI. They have represented the Providence Poetry Slam at Brave New Voices, The National Poetry Slam, and the Women of the World Poetry Slam. They are a two time finalist at the Capturing Fire Queer Poetry Summit and a 2018 FEMSlam Champion. Their work can be found from Broken Head, Slam!Find, Burrowing Artists, and elsewhere. They are the author of the chapbook, Heavier Than Wait (2020) from Game Over Books.
Summer Farah
Summer Farah is a Palestinian American poet, editor, and critic based in California. She is the author of the chapbook I could die today and live again (Game Over Books, 2024). A fan of the CW series Supernatural, she is in the top .01% of Mitski listeners on Spotify.
Dena Igusti
Dena Igusti (she/they) is a queer Indonesian Muslim poet, playwright, and producer born and raised in Queens, New York. She is the author of CUT WOMAN (Game Over Books). She is the co-founder of Asian multidisciplinary arts collective UNCOMMON;YOU and literary press Short Line Review. She is a 2018 NYC Youth Poet Laureate Ambassador and 2017 Urban Word Federal Hall Fellow. She is a 2019 Player’s Theatre Resident Playwright for her co-written Off-Broadway production SHARUM. She is a 2020 Ars Nova Emerging Leaders Fellow and part of Spotify Sound Up’s 2020 cohort. Her work has been featured in BOAAT Press, Peregrine Journal, and several other publications. She has performed at The Brooklyn Museum, The Apollo Theater, the 2018 Teen Vogue Summit, and several venues across the nation.
Artist photo courtesy of Esther Lee.
Esther Lee
Esther Lee (ESTHERFROMNEWYORK) is a queer Korean American photographer born and raised in Queens, New York. She focuses on editorial-inspired portrait work, aiming to center individuals from marginalized groups. She has worked with artists and creatives featured in Teen Vogue, Refinery29, Parade, and more. She is the creative director of Off-Broadway SHARUM and co-founder of UNCOMMON;YOU.
Artist photo courtesy of Tori Mumtaz.
Adrienne Novy
Adrienne Novy is a Jewish and disabled artist, Bettering American Poetry and Pushcart Prize nominee, and graduate from Hamline University’s Creative Writing program. She is the author of Crowd Surfing With God (Half Mystic Press, 2018) and We Have Each Other's Flowers (zines + things, 2020). Her most recent work can be found in Vagabond City Lit, Ghost City Review, Crab Fat Magazine, and elsewhere. She currently lives in Saint Paul, MN and has a cat named Laurie.
Lily Oliver
Lily Oliver, ‘Ollie’, born and raised in coastal Maine, works primarily in photography, creative writing, and bookmaking. Continually inspired by the private spaces we carve out for ourselves and navigating the body as site, her work often presents severity and softness in equal measure. In her free time, Oliver likes swimming, driving with friends, and walking her dog, Maisie. Find more at lmarieoliver.wixsite.com/portfolio
Aly Pierce
Aly Pierce lives in Beverly, MA where she drinks coffee & mails you records from Deathwish Inc. Her debut collection The Visible Planets is available now from Game Over Books.
E.J. Schoenborn
E.J. Schoenborn (they/them) is a white queer & nonbinary trans writer and puzzle designer from rural Wisconsin, though they currently live in Minneapolis, MN. They have represented Macalester College, Minneapolis, and Minnesota at the College Unions Poetry Slam Invitational, Rustbelt Regional Poetry Slam, and the National Poetry Slam. Their poetry has been published by Button Poetry, Defunkt Magazine, Coffee People Zine, Voicemail Poems, Freezeray Poetry, the anthology from Moon Tide Press "Dark Ink: A Poetry Anthology Inspired By Horror," and more. Their poetry has also won the Wendy Parrish Poetry Award, the Harry Scherman Poetry Award, and was nominated for the Best of the Net Poetry Anthology. They have a love for florals, opossums, and horror movies, and they'd love to play an escape room with you.
JADE VINE
JADE VINE (it/its) is a queer, transgender/agender anarchist, poet, essayist, and teaching artist from Chandigarh, India. It is the author of Heaven is Only a Part of Our Body Where All the Sickness Resides (Ghost City Press, 2018) and The End Is Not Apocalypse But Another Morning Where Everyone Tells Me I’m Dead (Yavanika Press, 2021). Its work has appeared in Glass: A Journal of Poetry, Rust + Moth, Minola Review, Polyphony H.S, and elsewhere. They are deeply inspired by the transformative justice movements and the politics of indispensability.
Catherine Weiss
Catherine Weiss is a poet and artist from Maine. Their poetry has been published in Tinderbox, Up the Staircase Quarterly, petrichor, Counterclock, Noble/Gas Quarterly, The Mantle, The Shore, and elsewhere. Catherine's manuscript “unlove” was selected as a finalist in the 2019 Button Poetry Chapbook Contest. More at catherineweiss.com.