Lydia Cortes, Hilary Sideris, Don Yorty, Stephen Zerance
Lydia Cortes is the author of the poetry collections Lust for Lust (Ten Pell Books, 2002) and Whose Place (Straw Gate Books, 2009). Recent poems have appeared in Gianthology and Upstreet. Her work appears in the anthologies Puerto Rican Poetry: An Anthology from Aboriginal to Contemporary Times (University of Massachusetts Press, 2006), edited by Roberto Marquez; Breaking Ground: Anthology of Puerto Rican Women Writers in New York 1980-2012 (Editorial Campana, 2012) edited by ; Resist Much, Obey Little: Inaugural Poems to the Resistance (Spuyten Duyvil, 2017), edited by ; and Poems in the Aftermath: Poems from the 2016 Presidential Transition Period (Indolent Books, 2018), edited by Michael Broder.
Hilary Sideris is the author of Most Likely to Die (Poets Wear Prada 2014) and The Inclination to Make Waves (Big Wonderful 2016). Her collection Un Amore Veloce will be published by Kelsay Books in 2019. Her work appears in the anthology Poems in the Aftermath: An Anthology from the 2016 Presidential Transition Period. (Indolent Books, 2018), edited by Michael Broder. Sideris holds a BA in English literature from Indiana University and an MFA from the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop. She lives in Brooklyn.
Don Yorty is the author of the poetry collections Few Swimmers Appear (Philadelphia Eye & Ear Press, 1980) and Poet Laundromat (Philadelphia Eye & Ear Press, 1983), as well as a novel, What Night Forgets (Herodias, 2000). His poems were was included in Out of This World: An Anthology of the St. Mark’s Poetry Project 1966-1991 (Three Rivers Press, 1991), edited by Anne Waldman with a forward by Allen Ginsberg. He holds a BA in Latin and Greek from the City University of New York, and an MA in the teaching of English as a second language.Yorty lives in New York City, where he writes sonnets, and maintains a blog at donyorty.com.
Stephen Zerance is the author of Safe Danger (Indolent Books, 2018). His poems have appeared in West Branch, Prairie Schooner, Quarterly West, Assaracus, and Knockout, among other journals. He has also been featured on the websites of Lambda Literary and Split This Rock. He received his MFA from American University, where he received the Myra Sklarew award.