Charlie Bondhus is the author of Divining Bones (Sundress, 2018) and All the Heat We Could Carry (Main Street Rag, 2013), winner of the Thom Gunn Award for Gay Poetry. He received his MFA in creative writing from Goddard College and his PhD in literature from UMASS Amherst. His work has appeared in Poetry, The Missouri Review, Columbia Journal, Hayden’s Ferry Review, Bellevue Literary Review, Nimrod, and Copper Nickel. He has received fellowships from the Virginia Center for Creative Arts, the Sundress Academy for the Arts, and the Hawthornden Castle International Retreat for Writers (UK). He is associate professor of English at Raritan Valley Community College in Branchburg, NJ.  Online at charliebondhus.com.

Tina Cane is the author of The Fifth Thought (Other Painters Press, 2008), Dear Elena: Letters for Elena Ferrante, poems with art by Esther Solondz (Skillman Avenue Press, 2016), Once More With Feeling (Veliz Books, 2017) and Body of Work (Veliz Books, 2019).er poems and translations have appeared in numerous publications, including The Literary Review, Two Serious Ladies, Tupelo Quarterly, Jubliat and The Common. Born and raised in New York City, Cane serves as the Poet Laureate of Rhode Island, where she is the founder and director of Writers-in-the-Schools, RI, and an instructor with the writing community, Frequency Providence. She also co-produces, with Atticus Allen, the podcast, Poetry Dose. Online at tinacane.ink

Janlori Goldman is the author of Bread from a Stranger’s Oven (White Pine Press, 2017), chosen by Laure-Anne Bosselaar for the White Pine Press Poetry Prize, as well as of chapbook, Akhmatova’s Egg (Toadlily Press, 2013). Her poems have appeared in Mudlark, Connotation Press, The Cortland Review, and The Mom Egg, among other journals. Goldman won the first annual Raynes Poetry Prize from Jewish Currents magazine, for her poem “At the Cubbyhole Bar,” chosen by Gerald Stern. With Cheryl Boyce Taylor and Caits Meisnner, she co-founded The Wide Shore: A Journal of Global Women’s Poetry. Goldman worked with Paris Press on the first joint publication of Virginia Woolf’s On Being Ill with her mother, Julia Stephen’s Notes from Sick Rooms.  Goldman teaches Public Health Law and Social Justice at Columbia Law School and NYU School of Law. She works with the Center for Justice at Columbia University and as a writing mentor and at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. Online at  hugeshoes.org.

Patrick S. Donnelly is the author of four books of poetry—Little-Known Operas (Four Way Books, 2019), Jesus Said (a chapbook from Orison Books, 2017),  Nocturnes of the Brothel of Ruin (Four Way Books, 2012), and The Charge (Ausable Press, 2003, since 2009 part of Copper Canyon Press), which was a 2013 finalist for the Lambda Literary Award for Gay Poetry. Donnelly is director of the Poetry Seminar at The Frost Place. His translations with Stephen D. Miller of classical Japanese poetry were awarded the 2015-2016 Japan-U.S. Friendship Commission Prize for the Translation of Japanese Literature. Donnelly’s other awards include a U.S./Japan Creative Artists Program Award, an Artist Fellowship from the Massachusetts Cultural Council, the Margaret Bridgman Fellowship in Poetry from the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, and a 2018 Amy Clampitt Residency Award. More at patrickdonnellypoetry.com.

Lynn McGee is the author of the poetry collection Tracks (Broadstone Books, 2019;  Sober Cooking (Spuyten Duyvil Press, 2016), and the chapbooks Heirloom Bulldog (Bright Hill Press, 2015)  and Bonanza (Slapering Hol Press, 1997). Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in numerous journals, including Lavender Review, Painted Bride Quarterly, Glassworks, The American Journal of Poetry, and others, as well as in anthologies including Like Light: 25 years of Poetry & Prose by Bright Hill Poets & Writers (Bright Hill Press, 2017), edited by Bertha Rogers; Rabbit Ears: TV Poems (NYQ Books, 2015), edited by Joe Allegretti, and Stonewall’s Legacy: A Poetry Anthology (Local Gems Press, 2019), edited by Rusty Rose and Marc Rosen. McGee holds an MFA in Poetry from Columbia University, and has been awarded a MacDowell fellowship and a Judith’s Room Emerging Writers Award. In addition, a NYC Literacy Center’s Recognition Award for her work in adult literacy, and Heart of the Center Award from the LGBT Community Center in New York City. Having taught creative writing in many schools, colleges, and universities, McGee is now a communications manager at the Borough of Manhattan Community College, and lives in the Bronx, New York.

Joanna C. Valente is a human who lives in Brooklyn, New York. They are the author of Sirs & Madams (Aldrich Press, 2014), The Gods Are Dead (Deadly Chaps Press, 2015), Xenos (Agape Editions, 2016), Marys of the Sea (The Operating System, 2017), Sexting Ghosts (Unknown Press, 2018), and No(body) (Madhouse Press, 2019). Valente is the editor of A Shadow Map: Writing by Survivors of Sexual Assault, (Civil Coping Mechanisms, 2017). They hold an MFA in writing from Sarah Lawrence College. Valente is the founder of Yes Poetry and the senior managing editor of Luna Luna Magazine. Their work has appeared in numerous venues, including The Rumpus, Them, Brooklyn Magazine, BUST, and others. Valente also leads workshops at Brooklyn Poets. joannavalente.com / Twitter: @joannasaid / IG: joannacvalente / FB: joannacvalente

Lee Briccetti is the author of Blue Guide (Four Way Books, 2018) and Day Mark (Four Way Books, 2005). A graduate of Sarah Lawrence College, she received an MFA from the Iowa Writer’s Workshop and is the recipient of a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship for Poetry and a poetry fellowship at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown. Briccetti has been awarded residencies at MacDowell, The Millay Colony, and the American Academy in Rome. She is the long-time Executive Director of Poets House, a national poetry library and literary center in New York City.

Suzanne Cleary is the author of the poetry collections Crude Angel (BkMk Press, 2018); Beauty Mark (BkMk Press, 2013), selected by Kevin Prufer for the John Ciardi Prize for Poetry; Trick Pear (Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2007); and Keeping Time (Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2002). Her other awards include a Pushcart Prize, the Cecil Hemley Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America, a fellowship from the New York Foundation for the Arts, and residencies at Yaddo and the MacDowell Colony. Her poems have appeared in The Atlantic, Poetry London, Georgia Review, New Ohio Review, and Poetry International, and anthologies including Best American Poetry. She is a core faculty member of the Converse College low-residency MFA program in creative writing. Her website is suzanneclearypoet.com.

Estha Weiner is the author of At the Last Minute (Salmon Poetry, 2019), In the Weather of the World (Salmon Poetry, 2013), Transfiguration Begins at Home (Tiger Bark Press, 2009), and The Mistress Manuscript (Asheville Book Works, 2009). She is co-editor of Blues for Bill: A Tribute to William Matthews (The University of Akron Press, 2005). Her poems have appeared in numerous anthologies and magazines, including  The New Republic and Barrow Street. Winner of a Paterson Prize, and a Visiting  Scholar  at the Shakespeare Institute in Stratford, England, Estha is founding director  of the Sarah Lawrence NY Alumni Writers Nights, and an Advisory Board member of Slapering Hol Press at the Hudson Valley Writers Center. She is a Professor at City College of the City University of New York, and at the Sarah Lawrence College Writing Institute.

Rachel Galvin is the author of Elevated Threat Level (Green Lantern Press, 2018), which was a finalist for the National Poetry Series, and Pulleys & Locomotion (Black Lawrence Press). She is the translator of Raymond Queneau’s Hitting the Streets (Carcanet Press), which won the Scott Moncrieff Prize for translation, and co-translator of Decals: Complete Early Poetry of Oliverio Girondo with Harris Feinsod (Open Letter Press, 2018). In 2019 her translation of Alejandro Albarrán Polanco’s Cowboy & Other Poems will be published by Ugly Duckling Presse. Her poems and translations appear in journals such as The Boston Review, Colorado Review, Drunken Boat, Fence, Gulf Coast, McSweeney’s, The Nation, The New Yorker, PN Review, and Poetry. She is an assistant professor at the University of Chicago and a co-founder of Outranspo, an international creative translation collective (www.outranspo.com).

Ben Purkert is the author of For the Love of Endings (Four Way Books, 2018), named one of the year’s best poetry books by the The Adroit Journal. His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in The New Yorker, Poetry, Ploughshares, Kenyon Review, Tin House Online, and elsewhere. He was a Harvard undergraduate and holds an MFA in creative writing (poetry) from NYU, where he was a New York Times Fellow. He serves as the editor of Back Draft for Guernica, an interview series focused on poets and revision. He teaches at Rutgers–New Brunswick and is a freelance writer. For more info, visit benpurkert.com. (Photo by Siddhartha Sinha.)

Dominika Wrozynski is the author of American Accent (Evening Street Press, 2018), winner of the Sinclair Poetry Prize. Her poems have appeared in journals such as Crab Orchard Review, Slipstream, The Spoon River Poetry Review, Rattle, Five Points, Nimrod, Birmingham Poetry Review and New Madrid. Wrozynski is an assistant professor of English at Manhattan College in New York City, where she also co-directs the Major Author Reading Series.

Jason Zuzga is the author of Heat Wake (Saturnalia Books, 2016). His poetry and nonfiction have appeared in Tin House, The Seneca Review, The Yale Review, and The Paris Review, among other journals. Zuzga was awarded residencies at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown at at the James Merrill House. An editor at FENCE, he holds an MFA in poetry and nonfiction from the University of Arizona, and a PhD in English from the University of Pennsylvania.

Laura Eve Engel is the author of Things That Go (Octopus Books, 2018). The recipient of fellowships from the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center, the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing, and the Helene Wurlitzer Foundation, her work has appeared in The Awl, Best American Poetry, Boston Review, The Nation, PEN America, and Tin House, among other journals. Along with Paul Erik Lipp, Engel is half of the multi-instrumental electronic duo, The Old Year. lauraeveengel.com.

Jason Koo is the author of three full-length collections of poetry, most recently More Than Mere Light (Prelude Books, 2018). Coeditor, with Joe Pan, of the Brooklyn Poets Anthology (Brooklyn Arts Press & Brooklyn Poets, 2017), his poetry and prose have appeared in the American Scholar, Missouri Review, Village Voice and Yale Review, among other places. He has received  fellowships for his work from the National Endowment for the Arts, Vermont Studio Center, and New York State Writers Institute. An associate teaching professor of English at Quinnipiac University, Koo is the founder and executive director of Brooklyn Poets and creator of the Bridge (poetsbridge.org). He lives in Brooklyn. jasonykoo.com.

Jason Labbe is the author of Spleen Elegy (BlazeVOX, 2017) and a handful of chapbooks. His poems, reviews, and nonfiction appear or are forthcoming in Poetry, A Public Space, Boston Review, Conjunctions, Colorado Review, DIAGRAM, American Book Review, Indiana Review, and The Brooklyn Rail. A drummer and recording engineer, he has worked with many artists in New England and New York City. He lives in Bethany, Connecticut. jasonlabbe.info