Laura Buccieri is the author of the chapbooks Songbook for a Boy Inside (Belladonna*, 2018) and On being mistaken (PANK, 2018). Her work can be found in Metatron, DUM DUM Zine, Prelude, Cosmonauts Avenue, Lambda Literary, and elsewhere. She is the Publicist at Copper Canyon Press & holds an MFA in poetry from The New School. She lives in Brooklyn and on Instagram at @lauruhboocherry.
Ru Puro is the author of the debut collection Each Tree Could Hold A Noose Or A House (New Issues Poetry & Prose, 2018), winner of the New Issues Poetry Prize. They are a member of the Belladonna* Collaborative, a social worker, and a recipient of fellowships from the MacDowell Colony, the Deming Fund, and other organizations.
Asiya Wadud is the author of the debut collection, Crosslight for Youngbird (Nightboat Books, 2018). Her forthcoming collections are Syncope (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2019) and No Knowledge Is Complete Until It Passes Through My Body (Nightboat Books, 2020). Recent work can be found in Makhzin, Chicago Review, Best American Experimental Writing, and Tupelo Quarterly. Her work has been supported by the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Dickinson House (Belgium), Mount Tremper Arts, and the New York Public Library, among other organizations. She teaches poetry at Saint Ann’s School and leads an English conversation class for new immigrants Wednesday evenings at the Brooklyn Public Library.
Stephen S. Mills is the author of the Lambda Award-winning book He Do the Gay Man in Different Voices (Sibling Rivalry Press, 2012), A History of the Unmarried (Sibling Rivalry Press, 2014); andNot Everything Thrown Starts a Revolution (Sibling Rivalry Press, 2018). He earned his MFA from Florida State University. His work has appeared in The Antioch Review, PANK, The New York Quarterly, The Los Angeles Review, Knockout, The Rumpus, and others. Mills is also the winner of the 2008 Gival Press Oscar Wilde Poetry Award and the 2014 Christopher Hewitt Award for Fiction. He lives in New York City with his partner and two schnauzers. 
Robert Siek is the author of the poetry collections Purpose and Devil Piss (Sibling Rivalry Press, 2013) and We Go Seasonal (Sibling Rivalry Press, 2018). His chapbook Clubbed Kid was published by New School University in 2002. His work has most recently appeared in visceral brooklyn, NANCY, Impossible Archetype, Bushwick Daily, Court Green, The Columbia Poetry Review, and The Good Men Project, as well as the Brooklyn Poets Anthology. (Brooklyn Arts Press / Brooklyn Poets, 2017). He lives in Brooklyn and works as a production editor at a publishing house in Manhattan.
Leah Umansky is the author of The Barbarous Century (Eyewear Publishing, 2018), among others books. She earned her MFA in Poetry at Sarah Lawrence College and is the curator and host of The COUPLET Reading Series in NYC. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in such places as Poetry, Guernica, The New York Times, Pleiades, Salamander, and the anthologies The Eloquent Poem (Persea Books) and Misrepresented Peoples (NYQ Books). More at 
Diana Goetsch is the author of several poetry collections, most recently In America (2017, Rattle) and Nameless Boy (2015, Orchises Press), and she is also a literary journalist. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, Poetry, The American Scholar, the L.A. Times and the Chicago Tribune. She is the recipient of fellowships from the NEA, the New York Foundation for the Arts, and The New School, where she was the 2017 Grace Paley Teaching Fellow.
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Sarah Van Arsdale is an award-winning author of four books of fiction, including Toward Amnesia (1996, Riverhead Books), Grand Isle (SUNY Press, 2012) and In Case of Emergency, Break Glass (QFP, 2016). Her fifth book, The Catamount, a narrative poem illustrated with her watercolors, was published in 2017 by Nomadic Press. She teaches at NYU and in the Antioch/LA low-residency MFA program, and she leads writing workshops in Mexico, with Maine Media, and with Art Workshop International. 
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 
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 
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.
Philip F. Clark is the author of The Carnival of Affection (Sibling Rivalry, 2017). His poetry and reviews have appeared in Lambda Literary, HIV Here & Now, The Conversant, The Good Men Project, and Atomic Micro Press, as well as in Poems in the Aftermath: An Anthology from the 2016 Presidential Transition (Indolent Books, 2018), edited by Michael Broder. He teaches English and poetry at City College (City University of New York), where he received his MFA in Creative Writing/Poetry in 2016.
John Deming is the author of Headline News (Indolent Books, 2018). He lives in New York City, where he is editor of Coldfront, Writing Center Director at LIM College, and co-curator of KGB Monday Night Poetry. His writing has appeared in Salon, Boston Review, A Public Space, and elsewhere.
Joanna Fuhrman is the author of five books of poetry, most recently The Year of Yellow Butterflies (Hanging Loose Press, 2015) and Pageant (Alice James Books, 2009). She’s finishing a new collection, The Bad Witness, and teaches creative writing at Rutgers University. For more, see
Christine Stoddard is a Salvadoran-American artist and writer originally from Virginia. Her work has appeared in the The Feminist Wire, the New York Transit Museum, The Huffington Post, the Queens Museum, Bustle, the Poe Museum, Pank, Annmarie Sculpture Garden, Bushwick Daily, FiveMyles Gallery, and elsewhere. She is the author of Water for the Cactus Woman (Spuyten Duyvil, 2018), among other titles, and the founder of Quail Bell Magazine. Her most recent chapbook is The Tale of the Clam Ear (AngelHouse Press, 2018).
Risa Denenberg is the author of three chapbooks and three full-length collections of poetry, including “Whirlwind @ Lesbos” (Headmistress Press, 2016) and “slight faith” (MoonPath Press, 2018). She currently lives a quiet life on the Olympic peninsula in Washington State. A member of ACTUP NY and a volunteer at the Community Health Project from 1987-1995, she worked for many years as a nurse practitioner in HIV/AIDS and end-of-life care. She is co-founder and editor at Headmistress Press, a publisher of LBT poetry. Online at 
Kay Gabriel is the author of Elegy Department Spring (BOAAT Press, 2017), finalist for the 2016 BOAAT chapbook prize selected by Richard Siken. She is one-fifth of Negative Press, a gay Marxist poetry collective, and co-edits Vetch: A Journal of Trans Poetry and Poetics. Find her recent and forthcoming writing in Lambda Literary Poetry Spotlight, Salvage, TAGVVERK, Tripwire, The Believer and elsewhere. Twitter: 
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Jee Leong Koh is the author of Steep Tea (Carcanet, 2015), named a Best Book of the Year by the Financial Times, and a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award for Gay Poetry. He has published three other books of poems and a book of zuihitsu. Originally from Singapore, he lives in New York City, where he heads the literary non-profit Singapore Unbound, dedicated to literary exchange between the two countries. Online at 
Emanuel Xavier is author of the poetry collections Radiance (Rebel Satori Press, 2016), Nefarious (QueerMojo, 2013), Americano: Growing up Gay and Latino in the USA (QueerMojo, 2013), Pier Queen (QueerMojo, 2012), If Jesus Were Gay & other poems (QueerMojo, 2010), and the novel Christ Like (QueerMojo, 2009). He also edited Mariposas: A Modern Anthology of Queer Latino Poetry (Floricanto Press, 2008), Me No Habla with Acento: Contemporary Latino Poetry (Rebel Satori Press, 2011), and Bullets & Butterflies: Queer Spoken Word Poetry (Suspect Thoughts Press, 2005).Named an Equality Forum LGBT Icon and recipient of a New York City Council Citation and a World Pride Award, he has been a finalist for Lambda Literary Awards and International Latino Book Awards. Online at 
Dorothea Lasky is the author the poetry collections Milk (Wave Books, 2018), ROME (W.W. Norton/Liveright, 2014), Thunderbird (Wave Books, 2012), Black Life (Wave Books, 2010), and AWE (Wave Books, 2007).She is the co-editor of Open the Door: How to Excite Young People About Poetry (McSweeney’s, 2013) and several chapbooks, including Poetry is Not a Project (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2010). Currently, she is an Assistant Professor of Poetry at Columbia University and lives in New York City.
Carly Joy Miller is the author of Ceremonial (Orison Books, 2018), selected by Carl Phillips as the winner of the 2017 Orison Poetry Prize, and the chapbook Like a Beast (Anhinga Press, 2017), winner of the 2016 Rick Campbell Chapbook Prize. Her work has appeared in The Adroit Journal, Blackbird, Boston Review, Gulf Coast, West Branch and elsewhere. She is a contributing editor for Poetry International and a founding editor of Locked Horn Press.
Elizabeth Metzger is the author of The Spirit Papers (University of Massachusetts Press, 2017), winner of the 2016 Juniper Prize, and The Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death (Horsethief Books, 2017). Her poems have appeared in The New Yorker, Poetry Magazine, BOMB, and The Academy of American Poets Poem-a-Day. Her essays and interviews have appeared in PN Review, The Rumpus, and Boston Review. Elizabeth is the Poetry Editor of the Los Angeles Review of Books Quarterly Journal.
Leah Umansky is the author of The Barbarous Century (Eyewear 2018) and other poetry collections. She earned her MFA in Poetry at Sarah Lawrence College and is the curator and host of The COUPLET Reading Series in NYC. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in POETRY, Guernica, The New York Times, Pleiades, Salamander, and other journals, as well as in the anthologies The Eloquent Poem (forthcoming from Persea Books) and Misrepresented People: Poetic Responses to Trump’s America (NYQ Books, 2018). She is #teamkhaleesi & #teammaeve.