Jaxson Spencer - Jaxson Spencer is a maker of poems from southern Indiana. He holds a BS in Biology from Purdue University. He is a C. Glenn Cambor fellow and current MFA candidate at the University of Houston. Most of his downtime is given to something musical, and he can’t find enough of either.

Isaac Chavarria - a pocho from deep south Tejas [Alton]. His work assisting non-profit organizations has produced over 20 chapbook titles for workshop participants. His poems are in Label Me Latina/o, BorderSenses, and NewBorder: Contemporary Voices from the Texas/Mexico Border. His poetry book, Poxo, from Slough Press, received the inaugural 2014 NACCS-Tejas Poetry Award. His collaboration as a member of the Coalition of Nuevo Chican@ Artists developed into a co-edited book titled Nuev@s Voces Poeticas: A Dialogue About New Chican@ Identities. He is the current Co-Editor of Interstice, the literary journal of South Texas College, and co-runs the Carnalitx mobile bookstore.

Loyce Gayo- Loyce Gayo is a Tanzanian-born creative writer, teaching artist, filmmaker and organizer based in Houston, TX. Their work interrogates race, & nation as it relates to African Diasporic identity. Gayo has been featured on Button Poetry, Write About Now, Badilisha Poetry, Fields Magazine, and PBS.

Natalie Louise Tombasco - Natalie Louise Tombasco was selected for the Best New Poets anthology 2021 by Kaveh Akbar, Copper Nickel's Editor's Prize, and as a published finalist for Cutbank Books chapbook contest with her manuscript titled COLLECTIVE INVENTIONS (2021). She is a PhD candidate at Florida State University and serves as a Poetry Editor of the Southeast Review. Recent work can be found in Gulf Coast, Black Warrior Review, Diode Poetry Journal, and The Cincinnati Review, among others. Her debut collection Milk for Gall, was a finalist for the Persea’s Lexi Rudnisky Prize, the Philip Levine Poetry Prize, The Journal’s Wheeler Prize, and the Wisconsin Poetry Series’ Brittingham & Felix Pollak Prizes.