Karen Zheng is a queer, ChineseAmerican poet and writer. Her poetry has been featured in Bellingham Review, Harbor Review, Bellevue Literary Review, and elsewhere. They have received fellowships from the Breadloaf Writers’ Conference, Roots. Wounds. Words, Chicago Storystudio, and Inprint MD Anderson Foundation. They have been a finalist for Harbor Review’s Washburn Chapbook Prize and have been nominated for the Best of the Net Awards and the Pushcart Prize. She is a lover of cats and all things related to food. Find out more about them at https://www.karenzheng.com.

Aliah Lavonne Tigh is an Iranian American author, teacher, artist, and their work studies both infrastructures of power and ecological connection. The author of Weren’t We Natural Swimmers, a chapbook with Tram Editions, their poems have appeared in the Academy of American Poets’ Poem-A-Day, Mizna, Guernica, The Texas Review, Matter Monthly, The Rupture, and others. They have work forthcoming in Split This Rock’s Poem of the Week and Gulf Coast Journal. Tigh has contributed work for a Gulf Coast Journal and Texas Contemporary ekphrastic collaboration, and their work has also been supported by the Tin House Summer Workshop, The Brooklyn Rail, and others. Tigh lives and works in Houston, Texas.  

Edward Santos Garza's writing has been published in Reflections, enculturation, and the Houston Chronicle, among other venues. He's a graduate of the University of Houston and Texas State University. Follow him on Instagram @EdwardSGarza.