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. 

Saba Husain is a Pakistani-born American poet. Her work appears in Arc Poetry, Bangalore Review, Barrow Street, Bellevue Review, Houston Chronicle, On the Seawall, Sequestrum, Reunion: The Dallas Review, The Aleph Review, Texas Review, Natural Bridge, Glass Poetry, Jaggery and elsewhere. She was a finalist for the 2023 Perugia Press Prize, finalist for the 2021 and 2020 X.J. Kennedy Poetry Prize, and won the 2022 Hot Poet Spring Equinox Poetry Contest. Saba serves on the board of Mutabilis Press. She holds a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Creative Writing from University of Houston. Her debut poetry collection, published by Terrapin Books in 2023, is titled Elegy for My Tongue.

César L. de León is the author of speaking with grackles by soapberry trees (FlowerSong 2020). Winner of the Texas Institute of Letters John A. Robertston Award for Best First Book of Poetry (2021) and the Philosophical Society of Texas Best Book of Poetry award (2021). Cesar is an adjunct lecturer at The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley and a poet-organizer for Poets Against Walls. He is currently working on his second collection of poems.  

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