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.