Anna Vitale is the author of Detroit Detroit (Roof Books), Different Worlds (Troll Thread), and several chapbooks including Unknown Pleasures (Perfect Lovers). Recent writing has appeared or is forthcoming in BathHouse Journal, Columbia Poetry Review, Jacket2, and Supplement. She lives in Brooklyn and hosts the Tenderness Junction on WFMU.
Diana Arterian is the author of Playing Monster :: Seiche (1913 Press, 2017), the chapbooks With Lightness & Darkness and Other Brief Pieces (Essay Press, 2017), Death Centos (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2013), and co-editor of Among Margins: Critical & Lyrical Writing on Aesthetics (Ricochet, 2016). A Poetry Editor at Noemi Press, her creative work has been recognized with fellowships from the Banff Centre, Caldera, Vermont Studio Center, and Yaddo, and her poetry, essays, and translations have appeared in Asymptote, BOMB, Black Warrior Review, Boston Review, Denver Quarterly, and Los Angeles Review of Books, among others.
Born and raised in Arizona, she currently resides in Los Angeles where she is a doctoral candidate in Literature & Creative Writing at the University of Southern California. She holds an MFA in poetry from CalArts, where she was a Beutner Fellow.
Rachel Zolf is a cross-border transplant from Toronto to Philadelphia whose writing and other artwork tends to queerly enact how ethics founders on the shoals of the political. Her five books of poetry include Janey’s Arcadia, Neighbour Procedure and Human Resources, all from Coach House Books, and a Selected Poetry is forthcoming. Films Zolf has written and/or directed have shown internationally at such venues as White Cube Bermondsey, the International Film Festival Rotterdam, and the Wexner Center for the Arts. Her work has won the Trillium Book Award for Poetry and been a finalist for two Lambda Literary Awards, among other honors. She is nearing completion of a theoretical text called A Language No One Speaks: The Dangerous Perhaps of Monstrous Witness.
Andrea Lawlor teaches writing at Mount Holyoke College, edits fiction for Fence, and has been awarded fellowships by Lambda Literary and Radar Labs. Their writing has appeared in various literary journals including Ploughshares, Mutha, the Millions, jubilat, the Brooklyn Rail, Faggot Dinosaur, and Encyclopedia, Vol. II. Their publications include a chapbook, Position Papers (Factory Hollow Press, 2016), and a novel, Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl (Rescue Press, 2017). They live in Western Massachusetts.
Zoe Tuck was born in Texas, became a person in California, and now lives in Massachusetts. She is pursuing a PhD at Umass Amherst and co-curates the But Also house reading series. Since the publication of her book, Terror Matrix, by Timeless, Infinite Light, Zoe has been a member of the press’s editorial collective, as well as being a co-editor of HOLD: a journal. She is currently working on a new poetry manuscript and a critical work about transgender poetics.
David Buuck lives in Oakland, CA. He is the co-founder and editor of Tripwire, a journal of poetics, and founder of BARGE, the Bay Area Research Group in Enviro-aesthetics. Recent books include Noise in the Face of (Roof Books 2016), SITE CITE CITY (Futurepoem, 2015) and An Army of Lovers, co-written with Juliana Spahr (City Lights, 2013). A new chapbook, The Riotous Outside, is forthcoming from Commune Editions in 2018.
Robert Kocik is co-director and librettist for The Commons Choir. In 2008, with choreographer Daria Faïn, he initiated an experiential field of research called The Prosodic Body. Publications include: Over Coming Fitness (Autonomedia, 2000), Rhurbarb (Periplum Editions, 2007), E-V- E-R- Y- O-N- E (Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs, 2012), and Supple Science (On Contemporary Practice, 2013). mayday heyday parfait, an investigative musical theater work, premiered at BRIC Arts in 2017. Current architectural work involves the designing of homes for people with multiple chemical sensitivities.
Genya Turovskaya is a poet, translator, and psychotherapist. She was born in Kiev, Ukraine, and grew up in New York City. She is the author of the chapbooks Calendar (Ugly Duckling Presse), The Tides (Octopus Books), New Year’s Day (Octopus Books), and Dear Jenny (Supermachine). Her poetry and translations of contemporary Russian poets have appeared in Chicago Review, Conjunctions, A Public Space, Octopus, Asymptote, PEN Poetry, Fence, Sangam Poetry, Seedings, The Elephants, and other publications. She is the translator of Aleksandr Skidan’s Red Shifting (Ugly Duckling Presse). She is the co-translator of Elena Fanailova’s The Russian Version (Ugly Duckling Presse), which won the University of Rochester’s Three Percent 2010 award for Best Translated Book of Poetry. She is also a co-translator of Arkadii Dragomoshchenko’s Endarkenment: Selected Poems (Wesleyan).
Lynn Melnick is the author of the poetry collections Landscape with Sex and Violence (2017) and If I Should Say I Have Hope (2012), both with YesYes Books, and the co-editor of Please Excuse This Poem: 100 Poets for the Next Generation (Viking, 2015). Her poetry has appeared in APR, The New Republic, The New Yorker, The Paris Review, A Public Space, and elsewhere, and she has written essays and book reviews for Boston Review, LA Review of Books, and Poetry Daily, among others. A 2017-2018 fellow at the New York Public Library’s Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers, she also teaches poetry at the 92Y and serves on the Executive Board of VIDA: Women in Literary Arts. Born in Indianapolis, she grew up in Los Angeles and currently lives in Brooklyn.
Carly Dashiell is a Brooklyn-based poet and bookseller. Formerly the art book buyer at McNally Jackson Books, she currently buys books for MAST, and works as Managing Editor of Futurepoem, a non-profit publisher of experimental work. A digital chapbook, “5 4”, can be found on Gauss PDF. Other poems are forthcoming in Prelude. Dashiell is an MFA candidate in Poetry at Brooklyn College.
Rijard Bergeron is a poet. Their work has been published in The Poetry Project Newsletter, This Image Journal, The Archive for Research in Archetypal Symbolism’s online journal, and elsewhere. Rijard also makes collage and has most recently published three pieces, two in collaboration with Sara Jane Stoner, for her book Experience in the Medium of Destruction (Portable Press @ Yo Yo Labs), and one for the cover of Lonely Christopher’s novel THERE (Kristiania). They are very grateful for their friends and their friends who have and continue to be mentors. They invite you to view the photographs they post on their Instagram journal, @rijardbergeron. Rijard lives in Brooklyn where they are the events coordinator for The Felt.
Andrew Maxwell runs the Poetic Research Bureau with Joseph Mosconi in Los Angeles, where he also hosts a weekly radio show of bodega & cosmic roots music on KXLU 88.9FM, “The Dream of Harry Lime”. Recent collections include Conversion Table (Mindmade Books, 2016), featuring small remarks without propositional attitudes, Candor is the Brightest Shield (Ugly Duckling, 2015), and Peeping Mot (Apogee, 2013). A selection of his aphorisms was recently on display as an LED scroll in the installation THIS KNOWN WORLD at MOCA Los Angeles.