Will Cordeiro’s work appears in 32 Poems, AGNI, Pleiades, and The Threepenny Review. Will is the author of Trap Street (Able Muse, 2021) and Whispering Gallery (DUMBO Press, 2024), and coauthor of Experimental Writing: A Writer’s Guide and Anthology (Bloomsbury, 2024). Will coedits Eggtooth Editions and lives in Guadalajara, Mexico.

Marie Ungar is a writer from Charlottesville, Virginia. She lives in NYC. Her poetry appears or is forthcoming in DIALOGIST, Poetry Northwest, Lake Effect, Mass Poetry, Four Way Review, and elsewhere. Her criticism appears in ASAP Review and the Oxonian Review. Her writing has received awards and recognition from Harvard University, Hollins University, and the Fralin Museum of Art and has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and the Best of the Net Awards. You can read more at marieungar.com.

Eesha Rao is a senior at Barnard College of Columbia University, studying English with a concentration in Creative Writing. She currently interns at Restless Books and serves as the Editor-in-Chief of Meliora: A Journal of Barnard English Theses. She is the recent recipient of the Amy Loveman Memorial Fund Prize for the best poem written by a Barnard undergraduate. 

Liliana Greyf tends to live and write in Providence, RI. Read more of their work in DIALOGIST and HAD Magazine. For now, they are 21.

Sheila E. Murphy’s most recent book publication is Escritoire (Lavender Ink, 2025). She is the recipient of the Gertrude Stein Poetry Award for Letters to Unfinished J. (Green Integer Press, 2003) and won the Hay(ha)ku Book Prize for Reporting Live From You Know Where (Meritage Press, 2018). She lives in Phoenix, Arizona.

T.S. Bender is a writer and teacher who grew up outside of Philadelphia and now lives in Maryland. In summer 2023, he took part in the Kenyon Review Writing Workshop for Teachers, and in 2024 he was a member of the One Story Writing Circle. Last winter, he completed the Kenyon Review Online Writers Workshop. His fiction has previously appeared in Shenandoah and Cleaver Magazine.

Miranda Argyros is a writer from New York. She is a graduate student at the University of Connecticut in the Department of English, where she researches American literature and teaches first-year writing

Netanel Schwartz is a recent graduate from Yale, where he studied English literature and Hebrew language. He lives in Brooklyn and is Chief of Staff at Sefaria, a nonprofit digital library of Jewish texts and translations. He has been described (once) as “breathing autofiction.” 

Douglas A. Martin is the author of books of poetry and prose, most recently Wolf, an anti-true crime novel. As a critic, they have published on Kathy Acker and begun a theory of translating the poetry of Elfriede Jelinek. Writing and conversations can be found at douglasamartin.com

Olga is from Belarus and grew up on the West Coast. She is the author of the children's book Becoming Kaxan. Her poems and essays appear in Pacifica Literary Review, The Monarch Review, and Peripheries Journal. She’s a graduate of the Michener Center for Writers. Her more meandering thoughts can be found in her Substack, Late Night Olga.

Eleanor Polak is a Senior Editor at the literary magazine Conjunctions, and an undergraduate student at Bard College where she is studying in the Written Arts program. She is also a research assistant for the novelist Bradford Morrow. This is her first professionally published story.

Rose Gowen is an American writer living in Montreal with her family. She has a BA from Simon's Rock College of Bard and an MFA in Printmaking and Book Arts from the University of the Arts. She works as a freelance editor and literary odd-jobs woman (www.rosegowenediting.com). Her writing has appeared in The American Poetry Review, McSweeney's Internet Tendency, and American Short Fiction (online), among other places. She attended Bread Loaf in 2018 and again, with a scholarship, in 2024. In 2019, she taught an 8-week course on very short fiction at the Quebec Writers' Federation. In 2020, she went to Banff for a writing retreat.

Oliver Preston is a writer living in Brooklyn. He holds an MFA from Brooklyn College.