TEN is an emerging literary artist from Queens, New York whose work centers blackness, queerness and spirituality. He holds a Bachelor in Philosophy from Brooklyn College and has received support from the Cave Canem Foundation, and The Center for Black Literature at Medgar Evers College. His poetry has been featured at The Guggenheim Museum and The Apollo Victoria Theatre. He is a 2026 Nuyorican Poets Cafe slam team member. His play, A Diseased Feeling, has been featured Off-Broadway w/ DUAF, and is a winner of an Audience Award. His most recent credits include a self-produced 2026 Tiny Desk Contest Submission, Dreamscape; and TEN Talks, a virtual artist salon. He categorizes his writing as ritual building and prayer. His work leans towards transfiguration and transcendence. 

Alex Mouw is the author of the poetry collection The Unbelieving Yelp of Prey (Texas Review Press 2026). His poetry and scholarship appears in The Southern Review, The Massachusetts Review, Literature and Theology, and other journals. An assistant professor of English at Samford University, he lives in Birmingham, Alabama with his wife and two children.

Juania Sueños is a queer MeXicana poet, novelist, and translator. She co-founded and is the Executive Director at Infrarrealista Review, where she builds community with other marginalized Tejanx poets and creatives. She is the literary section editor at the Caldwell Hays Examiner. Her work has appeared in Acentos Review, New York Quarterly, Sybil Journal, The Skink Beat Review, Porter House Review, Nat. Brut, and Westchester Review. She holds an MFA diploma in Creative Writing from Texas State and other boring credentials given to her by institutions. She’s the author of UnAmerican Dreams (TAVP/Plancha Press, 2022), a librito of essays and testimonios from immigrants impacted by State violence. Her hybrid poetry collection topography of a border / line bird (Mouthfeel Press, 2025) won the 2026 NACCS Tejas Foco Poetry Award. She credits el cariño de sus ancestros Carolina y Arsenio, still ablaze in her heart, for her well-being and accomplishments. She is a migratory bird from Zacatecas.

Bleah Patterson is a queer, southern poet from Texas. Much of her work explores the contention between identity and home and has been featured or is forthcoming in various journals including Electric Literature, Pinch, Grist, The Laurel Review, Phoebe Literature, The Rumpus, and Taco Bell Quarterly.