Gillian McCain is the author of two books of poetry, Tilt and Religion and co-author of Descent of the Dolls. With Legs McNeil she co-wrote Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk and co-edited Dear Nobody: The True Story of Mary Rose. She is the former Program Coordinator and Board President of The Poetry Project at St. Mark’s Church. She lives in New York City.

Carolyn Supinka is the author of Stray Gods (2016, Finishing Line Press) and is a visual artist and writer from Indiana, Pennsylvania, currently based in Oregon. She holds an MFA from Oregon State University and was a Fulbright Scholar in Pondicherry, India from 2013-2014. Her work was most recently published in Poet Lore, The Coachella Review, and The Citron Review, and is forthcoming in The Sonora Review.

Dan Machlin‘s books and chapbooks include Dear Body: (Ugly Duckling Presse), 6×7 (Ugly Duckling), This Side Facing You (Heart Hammer) and In Rem (@ Press). His poems have appeared in BOMB, The Brooklyn Rail, Fence, Veritas, Figuring Color (ICA Boston), and are forthcoming in SplitLevel Journal. He was a 2012-2013 LMCC Workspace writing fellow and has received awards from CLMP/Jerome Foundation and Fund for Poetry. He has also taught writing at Naropa University Summer Writing Program and The Poetry Project. He is the Founder and Executive Editor of Futurepoem books.

Chanice Hughes-Greenberg is a poet, Capricorn, & playlist enthusiast hailing from upstate New York by way of Long Island. Her work has appeared in Caketrain, Horse Less Review, Big Lucks, Studio Magazine & No, Dear Magazine. She has participated in readings with The Poetry Project, Cave Canem, Poets & Writers, & The Freya Project. She is also the creator of Who Is She, a newsletter that celebrates creative women. Chanice received a BFA in Writing from Pratt Institute & was a finalist for The Poetry Project’s 2018-19 Emerge-Surface-Be Fellowship. She resides in Bed Stuy with her cat Huxley & drinks martinis with a twist.

Gia Gonzales is a poet in New York City, where she was born. She is a former co-curator of the Segue Reading Series, and organizes an ongoing reading series with her poetry and performance collective, The Anchoress Syndicate. Her work has most recently appeared in Bomb Cyclone.

A retired American diplomat with over twenty-five years of service, Simon Schuchat worked in Beijing, Tokyo, Moscow, Hong Kong and other places. His poetry can be found in several rare books, including Svelte (published by Richard Hell when Schuchat was 16), Blue Skies (Some Of Us Press), Light and Shadow (Vehicle Editions), All Shook Up (Fido Productions), and At Baoshan (Coffee House Press), as well as the anthologies None of the Above (edited by Michael Lally) and Up Late (edited by Andrei Codrescu). A native of Washington DC, he attended the University of Chicago and published the journal Buffalo Stamps before moving to New York in 1975. Schuchat was also active in small press publishing; he edited the 432 Review and founded Caveman. In addition to the University of Chicago, he has degrees from Yale, Harvard, and the Industrial College of the Armed Forces at the National Defense University. He taught at Fudan University in Shanghai, and led workshops at The Poetry Project at St. Mark’s Church. His translation of Chinese poet Hai Zi’s lyric drama Regicide was published in Hong Kong. Ugly Duckling Presse will publish his translations of Dmitri Prigov in 2019.