Sean Cho A. is the author of American Home (Autumn House Press, 2021), winner of the Autumn House Press chapbook contest. His work can be future–found or ignored in Black Warrior Review, Copper Nickel, Prairie Schooner, and the Massachusetts Review, among others. Sean is a graduate of the MFA program at the University of California Irvine and a PhD student at the University of Cincinnati. He is the editor in chief of the Account.
Isabelle Appleton is a writer and editor from St. Louis. She is currently an MFA candidate in fiction at NYU, where she received the Goldwater Writing Workshop Fellowship. She is a web editor at the Washington Square Review and a former editor at the Bias Magazine, a project of the Institute for Christian Socialism. Her work also appears in Protean. She lives in Brooklyn.
Jack Brisson is a writer from Vermont. He currently teaches creative writing at Virginia Commonwealth University and has received support from Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference and Bread Loaf Translators’ Conference. He is at work on a novel.
Christine Byrne is a writer from Connecticut. She is currently an MFA candidate at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, where she won the John Logan Poetry Prize and was selected to read for the Mission Creek Literary Festival. Her most recent work appears in Barnstorm, Pacifica, and elsewhere.
Mary Helen Callier’s poems have appeared in Colorado Review, Bennington Review, Washington Square, and elsewhere. Her first book, When the Horses, is forthcoming from Alice James Books in 2025. She is a doctoral student in literary arts at the University of Denver, where she serves as one of the poetry editors of Denver Quarterly.
Emily Crossen’s short fiction has appeared in Ecotone and Zoetrope: All–Story, where she received first prize in the 2022 Short Fiction Competition. She holds a PhD in English from Rutgers. She lives with her family in California, and she is working on a novel.
Mansi Dahal is a writer from Biratnagar, Nepal, earning her MFA at Columbia University. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in POETRY, Colorado Review, Copper Nickel, Tupelo Press, Palette Poetry, and elsewhere. Her poem was a finalist for Palette Poetry’s 2022 Sappho Prize. She was also awarded the Waletzky Fellowship from the School of the Arts, Columbia University, as a distinction in the writing program. She graduated from Kalamazoo College with a BA in English and a concentration in media and film studies. She is the editor in chief of Some Kind of Opening (SKOO) and lives in New York.
Gillian Esquivia-Cohen is a writer, translator, and educator who received her MFA from the Institute of American Indian Arts. Her writing in English has appeared in Guernica, Kenyon Review Online, Latin American Literature Today, and in Spanish in Polis Poesía, where she is contributing editor. A dual citizen of the US and Colombia, she lives between Bogotá and Alabama.
C. Francis Fisher is a writer and translator. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in the Raleigh Review, Beloit Poetry Journal, and the Los Angeles Review of Books, among others. Her poem “Self–Portrait at 25” was selected as the winner of the 2021 Academy of American Poets Prize for Columbia University. A book of her translations, In the Glittering Maw: Selected Poems of Joyce Mansour, is forthcoming from World Poetry Books in 2024.
Shayla Frandsen, a Best of the Net nominee, earned her MFA in fiction in Utah. She previously earned an MA in English at The City College of New York. Her writing can be found in Iron Horse Literary Review, Under the Sun, Blood Orange Review, Literary Mama, Irreantum, and others. She was awarded first place in both the 2023 Plentitudes Prize in Fiction and the Blue Earth Review Dog Daze Flash Fiction contest. She also received an honorable mention in the Exposition Review’s April 2023 Flash Fiction 405 competition and was shortlisted for the Master’s Review Novel Excerpt Contest.
Ren Cedar Fuller works as a parent group facilitator with TransFamilies, an online hub for families with gender-diverse children. She taught public school in California, Oregon, and Washington before founding a nonprofit early learning center in the Seattle area, where she continues to teach parent education. Ren won Under the Sun’s 2022 Summer Writing Contest. She was a finalist in the 2022 Terry Tempest Williams Prize for Creative Nonfiction and runner–up for HerStry’s 2002 Eunice Williams Nonfiction Prize. Her essays have appeared in Hippocampus, North American Review, and Under the Sun.
Jeff Gibbons is an artist currently based in upstate New York and a 2023–2024 resident fellow at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Massachusetts. His work has been shown at the Nasher Sculpture Center, the Power Station, and the Goss-Michael Foundation, with international exhibitions in México, Japan, Switzerland, Germany, and France. He has held fellowships at Cerámica Suro in Guadalajara, México, Achterhaus in Hamburg, Germany, and Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, among others. In 2018, he spoke about ice at the National Academy of Sciences in Washington, DC.
Deborah Golub is a cultural traumatologist and art therapist. In addition to her numerous scholarly publications, Deborah’s poems and memoir have appeared in Salmagundi, the Massachusetts Review, jubilat, Poetry Daily, Bellevue Literary Review, Notre Dame Review, American Scholar, Commentary, and others, and her visual art in group, solo, and museum exhibitions.
Shin Hae-uk is the author of the translated poetry collections Precise Arrangement, Biologicity, syzygy, and Caeciliendless; the essay collections Lives of the Unadults and Book for Just One; the novel The Oneiroelectrical Shop; and Looking Out the Window, a hybrid work of essay and fiction. She holds a doctorate in Korean literature from Korea University and currently teaches creative writing in Seoul, where she resides.
Daniel Abiva Hunt holds an MFA from the University of Houston. His writing has appeared in the Masters Review, CRAFT, Maine Review, Portland Review, and elsewhere. He is currently a PhD student at the University of Cincinnati.
Spencer Lee-Lenfield’s translations from Korean and other languages have appeared in Guernica, Colorado Review, the Dial, Asymptote, and chogwa. Their translation of Shin Hae–uk’s Biologicity, in which these poems appear, is forthcoming from Black Ocean.
Joyce Mansour (1928–1986), one of the most important female Surrealist writers, was born in England to Sephardic Jewish parents. Soon after her birth, she moved to Cairo and then settled in Paris in 1953, where she continued writing. Mansour published sixteen books of poetry in her lifetime as well as prose and theater pieces. She died of cancer in Paris in 1986.
Will Morningstar is a book editor and translator from Boston whose translation work has appeared in ANMLY, Two Lines, Latin American Literature Today, Strange Horizons, and the Massachusetts Review, as well as in museums and cultural institutions throughout Spain.
Alexandra Munck lives in Chicagoland. Her fiction has appeared in Kenyon Review Online, Boulevard, and the Southampton Review, and is forthcoming in the Cincinnati Review and Clarkesworld. She is currently at work on a children’s novel.
Okwudili Nebeolisa is the author of Terminal Maladies, forthcoming from Autumn House Press in 2024 and winner of the 2023 Center for African American Poetry and Poetics Prize. He graduated from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, where he was a Provost Fellow and won the Prairie Lights John Leggett Prize for Fiction. His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in the Cincinnati Review, Image, POETRY, Sewanee Review, Southern Review, and Threepenny Review. His nonfiction has appeared in Catapult and Commonwealth Writers. He is an MFA student in fiction at the University of Minnesota and has received support from the Elizabeth George Foundation and the Granum Foundation.
Caleb Nichols is a queer poet and musician from California. His poems and prose have been published widely in places like Poetry Wales, 14 Poems, Redivider, 45th Parallel, Talkhouse, and Truthout. His Bottlecap Press chapbook, Chan Says & Other Songs, was called “marvelously queer” by Eduardo Corral, and his pamphlet of prose, Don’t Panic, was published by Broken Sleep in 2022. His chapbook Soft Animal / O Anima was published by Gasher Books in 2023, and his poetry pamphlet One for Sorrow, Two for Joy will be published by Broken Sleep in 2024. A Best of the Net nominee and a recipient of an Academy of American Poets University prize, he is a PhD candidate in creative writing at Bangor University in North Wales.
Cindy Juyoung Ok is the author of Ward Toward, forthcoming from Yale University Press in 2024, selected by Rae Armantrout for the Yale Series of Younger Poets. A MacDowell Fellow, she teaches creative writing at Kenyon College, edits poetry at Guernica magazine, and translates from Korean.
Martha Riva Palacio Obón is a Mexican sound artist and author of novels, poetry, and stories for children and adults. She won the 2014 Premio Hispanoamericano de Poesía para Niños for her illustrated poetry book Lunática, as well as the 2011 Premio Barco de Vapor for her middle–grade novel Las sirenas sueñan con trilobites, published in English as Secrets We Tell the Sea (Bloomsbury, 2023). Her short prose has been published in English in ANMLY and Strange Horizons, and she is currently at work on a collection of personal essays. She is a member of the Sistema Nacional de Creadores de Arte.
Gerardo Pacheco Matus is a Mayan Native. Pacheco was awarded the Joseph Henry Jackson Award and has also received fellowships from Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, CantoMundo, The Frost Place, and Macondo. Pacheco’s poems, essays, and short fiction have appeared and are forthcoming from the Grantmakers in the Arts, Apricity Press, Haight Ashbury Literary Journal, the Packinghouse Review, Tinderbox Poetry Journal, West Branch Wired, Four Way Review, the Cortland Review, Nashville Review, Pilgrimage Magazine, Memorious, Tin House, Play on Words, Anomaly Press, Peripheries Journal, and Apogee, among others. Pacheco is currently a tenured professor at Cañada College.
A. J. Rodriguez is a Chicano writer born and raised in Albuquerque, New Mexico. He is a graduate of the University of Oregon’s MFA program and the recipient of fellowships from MacDowell and Yaddo. His stories have won CRAFT ’s Flash Fiction Contest, the Crazyhorse Fiction Prize, second place in Salamander’s Fiction Contest, and the Kinder/Crump Award for Short Fiction from Pleiades, judged by Jonathan Escoffery. His fiction also appears in Passages North, New Ohio Review, Fractured Lit, and the Common.
Angie Romines is a writer, teacher, and Dolly Parton enthusiast living in Columbus, Ohio, with her husband, two sons, and emotionally needy rescue pup. She received her MFA from Ohio State University, where she now teaches in the English department. A recipient of the Ohio Arts Council’s Individual Excellence Award, Angie has published her prose in the Rumpus, Image (Good Letters), the Columbia Review, and elsewhere. She is currently working on a collection of essays that explores the dark histories of Kentucky women in her family tree.
Trenna Sharpe is from South Pittsburg, Tennessee. She lives and works in London, England. She has an MFA from the Program for Poets and Writers at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in the North American Review, Sinister Wisdom, the Tangerine, and others.
Subraj Singh is a writer from Guyana. He is currently studying for his MFA in creative writing at the University of Maryland. He is a Tin House Scholar, a Lambda Literary Fellow, an International Writing Program Fellow, and a Clarion West alumnus. His fiction has been published in AGNI and Columbia Journal. He is active on Twitter: @subrajsingh1.
Nida Sophasarun earned degrees from Wellesley College and the Johns Hopkins Writing Seminars. Her work has appeared in Prairie Schooner, Carolina Quarterly, and Porter House Review. Her first book, Novice, will be published in the Sewanee Poetry series at LSU in spring 2025.
Alison Thumel’s poems have appeared in POETRY, Ninth Letter, the Adroit Journal, and elsewhere. She is the recipient of a Wallace Stegner Fellowship in poetry at Stanford University, a grant from the Elizabeth George Foundation, and the Martha Meier Renk Fellowship from the University of Wisconsin–Madison, where she completed her MFA. Her first book, ARCHITECT, won the 2024 Miller Williams Poetry Prize and will be published in spring 2024.
Dāshaun Washington is a poet living in San Francisco and a 2023–2025 Wallace Stegner Fellow in poetry at Stanford University. His work has received support from Yaddo, Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, Lighthouse Works, Ucross Foundation, The Watering Hole, and beyond. His poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in Best New Poets, POETRY, the Nation, Poem–a–Day, American Poetry Review, and elsewhere.
Annie Wenstrup lives in Fairbanks, Alaska. Her poems have recently appeared or are forthcoming in Alaska Quarterly Review, Ecotone, Nimrod, Palette, and POETRY. She is an Indigenous Nations Poets Fellow and an Inuit Art Quarterly Art Writing Fellow. She has also received fellowships from the Virginia Center for Creative Arts, the Smithsonian Arctic Studies Center, and Storyknife.