GEOFFREY BABBITT is author of A Grain of Sand in Lambeth, winner of the 2023 Betsy Joiner Flanagan Award in poetry (U of Nevada Press 2025), and of Appendices Pulled from a Study on Light (Spuyten Duyvil 2018). His poems and essays have appeared in North American Review, Pleiades, Colorado Review, DIAGRAM, Ben Jonson Journal, Notre Dame Review, Washington Square, Cincinnati Review, and elsewhere. Babbitt holds a PhD from the University of Utah and is an Associate Professor of English and Creative Writing, as well as Writing and Rhetoric, at Hobart and William Smith Colleges. He serves as Editor-in-Chief of Seneca Review and SR Books, living with his partner and their three children in the Finger Lakes region of New York State.

KATHRYN COWLES’s The Strange Wondrous Works of Eleanor Eleanor won Fence’s Modern Poets Prize and the Poetry Society of America’s di Castagnola Work-in-Progress Prize. Her other books are Maps and Transcripts of the Ordinary World (Milkweed) and Eleanor, Eleanor, not your real name (Bearstar). Recent poems/collages in Best American Experimental Writing, Boston Review, Diagram, Free Verse, Georgia Review, New American Writing, Verse, and elsewhere. She earned her doctorate in poetry from the U of Utah and teaches English and Creative Writing at Hobart and William Smith Colleges, where she directs the Trias Writer’s Residency (rotating) and co-edits the multi-modal Beyond Category section of Seneca Review. kathryncowles.com

SARA DUDO is an adjunct professor of writing at three universities, associate editor for Palette Poetry, and a recent MFA graduate from University of Nevada Las Vegas. She has received nominations for the Pushcart Prize, Best of the Net, Best New Poets, and was awarded the International Merit Award in the Atlanta Review 2024 International Poetry Competition. Additionally, Sara was a finalist in the 2024 Iowa Review Award in Poetry and runner-up in the Big Sky Small Prose Flash Contest by Cutbank Literary Journal. Her work has recently been published in The Iowa Review, The Minnesota Review, The Atlanta Review, The Cincinnati Review, The Notre Dame Review, The Idaho Review, The Portland Review, and The Oakland Review. She currently lives in New Jersey with her husband Ray and dog Layla. 

LIORA ELFASSY is a lawyer and film photographer from Paris, France. 

BENJAMIN FAVERO is an Ogden, Utah-raised poet with two splendid daughters. His poems can be found in Sonora Review, Gulfstream Literary Magazine, and soon in Action and Spectacle. A recent MFA grad from UNLV, he’s box trucking it around town delivering furniture and appliances as he stews over lines.

NORMAN FINKELSTEIN is a poet, critic, editor, and Emeritus Professor of English at Xavier University. His most recent full-length volume of poetry is Further Adventures (Dos Madres, 2023); he has also recently published two chapbooks, Four Episodes (The Bodily Press, 2024) and On Love (OLAH, 2025). To Go Into the Words, his selected essays, appeared in the Poets on Poetry series from the University of Michigan Press in 2023. He edits the poetry review blog Restless Messengers (www.poetryinreview.com).

ANNE GERARD lives in St. Louis, Missouri where she is pursuing a PhD in Comparative Literature.

KHUSHAL GUJADHUR is a poet from California. He recently graduated from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. He lives and teaches in Iowa City. 

NATHAN HAUKE is the author of Indian Summer Recycling (The Magnificent Field, 2019), Every Living One (Horse Less Press, 2015), In the Marble of Your Animal Eyes (Publication Studio, 2013), and four chapbooks. His poems have been anthologized in Hick Poetics (Lost Roads Press, 2015) and The Arcadia Project: North American Postmodern Pastoral (Ahsahta Press, 2012).

BRENDA HILLMAN is author of eleven collections of poetry from Wesleyan University Press, most recently In a Few Minutes Before Later (2022), and of one book of prose, Three Talks, from University of Virginia Press (Wesleyan University Press, 2022), a finalist for the 2023 Four Quartets Prize. She’s also published three chapbooks: The Firecage (A+Bend Press, 2000); Autumn Sojourn (Em Press, 1995); and Coffee, 3 A.M. (The Penumbra Press, 1982). She’s received awards and fellowships from organizations such as the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Poetry Society of America. A former Chancellor at the Academy of American Poets and a recent recipient of the Morton Dauwen Zabel Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters for innovation in literature, she is Professor Emerita at Saint Mary’s College of California and lives in the Bay Area with her husband, Robert Hass.

RONALD EDWARD HUMMEL IV is a web developer and designer. His work includes web design, automation, and building digital tools to support small businesses in establishing a presence online.

SETH KLEINSCHMIDT is a Midwestern writer from the banks of Wisconsin’s Rock River. After spending many years in the radio industry, he is now an MFA candidate in poetry at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.

ALICE LETOWT likes azaleas. 

ANDREW S. NICHOLSON is the author of A Lamp Brighter than Foxfire. He is the Associate Editor of Interim: A Journal of Poetry & Poetics and directs the Creative Writing Program at the University of Nevada, Las Vega where he is an Associate Professor-in-Residence. His work has appeared in such places as Colorado Review, Western Humanities Review, The Literary Review, and Tampa Review.

OSCAR OSWALD teaches at New Mexico Highlands University. His first book Irredenta (Nightboat Books 2021) explored the visionary polemics of the pastoral mode. His poems have been published in Antioch Review, New England Review, Seneca Review, Fence, New American Writing, Colorado Review, Denver Quarterly, Blackbox Manifold, Annulet, and VOLT, among other outlets.

ASHLEY MARTIN PRIDEAUX is an interdisciplinary artist from Indiana, primarily working with photography. Ashley received a BFA in photography from California College of the Arts in 2022, and is a current MFA candidate at Ohio State University. During undergrad, she lived and made work in San Francisco, where she co-ran a DIY gallery in the city and taught at the Harvey Milk Photography Center. Ashley’s pieces have been shown in galleries such as Martin Lawrence, Wave Collective Space, Someday Gallery, SOMArts, the Harvey Milk Photo Center, and student galleries at California College of the Arts and San Francisco Art Institute. Her photographs have been published in Lucky Star Magazine, Find Rangers, Float Magazine, and Rewind, Review, Respond.

DONALD REVELL is the author of fifteen collections of poetry, most recently of White Campion (2021) and The English Boat (2018), both from Alice James Books. Revell has also published six volumes of translations from the French, including Apollinaire’s Alcools, Rimbaud’s A Season in Hell, Laforgue’s Last Verses, and Verlaine’s Songs without Words. His critical writings have been collected as: Essay: A Critical Memoir; The Art of Attention; and Invisible Green: Selected Prose. Winner of the PEN USA Translation Award and two-time winner of the PEN USA Award for Poetry, he has also won the Academy of American Poets’ Lenore Marshall Prize and is a former Fellow of the Ingram Merrill and Guggenheim Foundations. Additionally, he has twice been awarded Fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts.  

MADINA TUHBATULLINA is a poet from Turkmenistan, whose work has been published or is forthcoming in New American Writing, Spoon River Poetry Review, Tar River Poetry and elsewhere. Her poetry collection Tender Knots was named a finalist for the Black Lawrence Press Immigrant Writing Series.

AREL WIEDERHOLT KASSAR’s novel, The Desert Spring Movement, is forthcoming from Bench Editions in 2026. He lives in San Francisco.