Emily Holland is a lesbian poet pursuing her MFA at American University. She has been nominated for Best of the Net and two Pushcart Prizes and has poems appearing or forthcoming in publications including Nat. Brut, bedfellows, Wussy, Screen Door Review, and FOLIO. Lineage, her debut chapbook of poems, was released August 2019 from dancing girl press. The chapbook explores queerness, familial lineage, and the South. Emily works at The Writer’s Center where she is the managing editor for Poet Lore.

M Harnam Kaisth is a computer scientist, artist, and poet based in Chicago. He is currently a Global Leadership Fellow at Waseda University. He was the 2019 UChicago New Voices in Poetry Student Reader, and runner-up in the Vermont Poetry Society’s 2020 national contest. His work has appeared in Another Chicago Magazine, the Zimmerli Museum, Mountain Troubadour, Commiserate, and more. See more at mhk.dev.

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In This Life

Anthony Aguero is a queer writer in Los Angeles, CA. His work has appeared in Ascentos Review, The Bangalore Review, The Temz Review, and elsewhere.  

Callan Foster is a lesbian poet who received their BA in English from Western Washington University. They currently work as a high school librarian, and are passionate about queer lit, education, and the color orange. They live on an island near Seattle with their cat, Ralph. 

Michelle Gurule is a queer, biracial writer from Denver, Colorado. She is a second-year MFA candidate in creative writing at the University of New Mexico, where she was Blue Mesa Review’s 2019-2020 nonfiction editor. Her nonfiction has been published or is forthcoming in Pangyrus, Alien, Stirring lit mags. Michelle is currently working on a memoir that explores sex work.

Sonya Lara served as the Associate Fiction Editor for The Madison Review at the University of Wisconsin-Madison where she received her BA in English-Creative Writing. Currently, she is the Co-Founder, Poetry Editor, and Social Media Manager for Rare Byrd Review; an Editor-at-Large for Cleaver Magazine; and an MFA poetry candidate at Virginia Tech. In 2019, she was the Managing Editor for the minnesota review. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Prairie Voices, Wisconsin’s Best Emerging Poets: An Anthology, Trestle Ties, Heavy Feather Review, and ENTROPY. For more information, visit www.sonyalara.com.  

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Hugo A.L.M Crick-Furman (they/them) is a student, clown, and amateur utopian currently living in Tempe, Arizona. Their work has been published only between the warp and weft of an occult, vaguely homoerotic tapestry in a museum in the east of Wales. Nobody knows how it got there. You can find them on twitter @hugocfofficial and on instagram @guiltgamesh.

Marissa is a Sagittarius living in Queens or Italy or something. If she hasn’t deleted instagram yet this week, u can find her paintings at @marisssastanton.

 

Daniel Edward Moore lives in Washington on Whidbey Island. His poems are forthcoming in The Cape Rock, Kestrel, RipRap, The Timberline Review, River Heron Review, Passengers Journal, Coachella Review, Ocotillo Review, Nebo Literary Journal and Main Street Rag. He is the author of the chapbook “Boys “(Duck Lake Books) and ‘Waxing the Dents,’ is full length collection is from Brick Road Poetry Press. Visit him at Danieledwardmoore.com.

Aidan Aragon is a queer poet and student at the University of Wisconsin Madison. Their work can be found at Alegrarse, Cosmonauts Avenue, and Glass Poetry among others. You can find them on twitter @aidanaragon.