Thomas Fucaloro is the winner of numerous grants from the Staten Island Council of the Arts, the NYC Department of Cultural Affairs, NYC Office for the Prevention of Hate Crimes and NYC Commission of Human Rights to name a few. Thomas Fucaloro has been on six national slam teams. He holds an MFA in creative writing from the New School and is a co-founding editor of Great Weather for Media and NYSAI press. He is an adjunct professor at Wagner College and BMCC where he teaches world lit and advanced creative writing. Thomas has released 2 full lengths: It Starts From the Belly and Blooms and Inheriting Craziness is a Soft Halo of Light by Three Rooms Press. He also has 3 chapbooks: Mistakes Disguised as Stars (Tired Hearts Press), Depression Cupcakes (Yes, Poetry) and There is Always Tomorrow (Mad Gleam Press). His new chapbook The Only Gardening I Do is When I Give Up by Finishing Line Press will be out in August.

Celina A. Gomez is a writer, performance poet, and educator who coaches performance poetry to young people. She is one of four poet-organizers for Poets Against Walls. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing and a graduate certificate in Mexican American Studies. She has performed and won performance competitions, is published in various anthologies and journals, and participated as a panelist in multiple poetry conferences and festivals. She is a native to the Rio Grande Valley.

jo reyes-boitel is a queer, mixed Latinx poet, playwright, and scholar completing their MFA at University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, where they also teach undergraduate creative writing. Publications include Michael + Josephine, a novel in verse (FlowerSong Press, 2019) and the chapbook mouth (Neon Hemlock, 2021). Their forthcoming book of poetry, the matchstick litanies, is due November 2023 from Next Page Press. For more information please visit joreyesboitel.com.

LeeAnne Carlson is a farmers market manager and a goat farmer striving daily to eke productivity from land determined to go feral. She has been published in Glass Mountain, Furtive Dalliance, and The University of Houston Magazine, as well as the anthology Odes and Elegies, Eco-Poetry from the Texas Gulf Coast. She was a juried poet for the 2018 Houston Poetry Fest and has served as Nonfiction Editor for Gulf Coast Magazine. She completed her MFA in fiction from the University of Houston in 2022.