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they / themanemptytextllineRae White is the author of Milk Teeth, Exactly As I Am, and All the Colours of the Rainbow. Winner of the Thomas Shapcott Poetry Prize, they have been shortlisted for many major Australian literary awards. Rae is Creative Director of Uplift Poetry, and Founding Editor of #EnbyLife Journal. - they / themanemptytextllineK Angel is a hedonist with a delayed gratification kink. Their words have appeared in PANK, the Tin House Open Bar, manywor(l)ds, new words {press}, and elsewhere. Their debut collection, Another double text, is forthcoming from kith books.
- they / themanemptytextllinebasil payne is a queer poet-artist that can be found climbing in Logan, Utah's trees. Their work can be found in Sugar House Review, Oyster River Pages, Thin Air Magazine, Dunes Review, and occasionally Utah State University's Projects Gallery.
- he / himanemptytextllineJamez Terry is a queer and trans poet, novelist, zinester, parent, chaplain, and rabblerouser. His poetry has been spit from stages across North America. His debut novel, See You in the Mail, is forthcoming from Generous Press. He lives in Alaska with his partner, two kids, and many fishes.
- they / themanemptytextllineJoshua Zeitler is a queer, nonbinary writer based in rural Michigan. Their compulsion to cover surrounding surfaces with piles of unread books has been diagnosed, but remains unaddressed.
- she / heranemptytextllineIsabel Grey received an MFA in Genre Fiction and Poetry from Western Colorado University. She is an editor at Terrain.org and Morrow Point. Her work has been nominated for the Puchcast Prize and Best New Poets Award and supported by the McCormack Writing Center (formerly Tin House).
- they / themanemptytextllineBailey Dunn is a queer biracial poet and writer from Central New York, currently living in Austria. Their work can be found in Shoegaze Literary, Full House Literary, Zeniada, and elsewhere. When they aren’t writing they are devouring books, studying foreign languages, belting show tunes, and binge-watching Doctor Who.
- he / himanemptytextllineCatch Bradstreet is a wannabe writer and failed fraudster based in Kansas, where things are, to tell the truth, not too great at the moment. He invites you to watch the birds together.
- they / themanemptytextllineJC Alfier’s most recent book of poetry is The Shadow Field. Journal credits include Copper Nickel, Faultline, Fugue, Notre Dame Review, Penn Review, River Styx, and Vassar Review. They are also a collage artist after the styles of Francesca Woodman, Deborah Turbeville, and Katrien De Blauwer.
- he / sheanemptytextllineSahar Choudhury writes from Leesburg, Virginia (if not found there, check Dhaka, Bangladesh). They are the winner of the 2025 LCPL Poetry Contest and an MFA candidate at George Mason University. They've never had a proper profile picture taken, which is presumably why they look so glum in their selfie.
- she / heranemptytextllineLinlang Zhao is a writer still pondering the qpr. She enjoys staring at birds and watching rivers. Her work can be found at Midway Journal, Sierra Nevada Review, Tar River Poetry, and others.
- they / themanemptytextllineDes Fox is an author, musician and artist from Albuquerque, New Mexico. Their work has been featured in Horizon Review, Weekly Alibi, and Fiction Vortex. They have also self-published comic books, folk albums and have been known to pontificate on dreams and queer spirituality via their YouTube channel, "amdrag.”
- they / themanemptytextllineJo Christian is a writer, baker, and PhD student in Rhetoric and Composition at Southern Illinois University Carbondale. They are the author of two poetry chapbooks: Unerased: Trans Lives in Southern Illinois (Alien Buddha Press, 2025) and Post-Eclipse: A Queer Home (Bottlecap Press, 2023).
- she / heranemptytextllineCybèle Diniz is a Swiss-based Afro-Brazilian trans woman, writer of stray poetry & speculative fiction, aspiring visual artist, and trans community organiser. Her adorations include body, becoming, faith, time, and care.
- she / heranemptytextllineToni Artuso, a trans female writer from Salem, Massachusetts, has been published in "The Christian Science Monitor," "VIA: Voices in Italian Americana," "Channel," "The Ekphrastic Review," "Eclectica," "samfiftyfour," "Nixes Mate Review," "Molecule," and "Honeyguide Literary Magazine," which nominated her verse for a Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net.
- they / themanemptytextllineTash Walker is a writer, audio producer and community organiser. Their poetry has been broadcast on BBC and they were long listed for The Aurora Prize for Writing 2025. They are the co-author of The Log Books: Voices of Queer Britain and the Helpline that Listened (Faber, Jan 2026).
- they / themanemptytextllineAle is a student at Columbia University studying Creative Writing and Ethnicity & Race Studies. He has been published in The Columbia Review, Prudence Dispatch, IŌ Literary Journal, Oddball Magazine, Indelible, Levitate and Roots.
- she / theyanemptytextllineBritt Bustos is a poet, writer, and editor from Bay City, TX. They serve as an associate poetry editor for West Trade Review and hold an MFA and MA from Sam Houston State University. Her works have appeared in Heavy Feather Review, table//FEAST Literary Magazine, McNeese Review, and others.
- they / themanemptytextllineJay Aelick is a nonbinary writer and critic who makes up 1/2 of the SBU English Club Podcast, where real critique partners at a fake university workshop the internet's most infamous books. They hold an MFA from North Carolina State University and are a former Fulbright Austria Teaching Assistant.
- they / themanemptytextllinechriss locker is an author and experimental poet whose work can be found in issues 3, 4, and 5 of new words from new words {press}, Not Ghosts, But Spirits Volume 5 from Querencia Press, and milk: on consumption, capitalism, and taste from Carrion Press, among others.
- he / himanemptytextllineRion Levy is a writer from Toronto. He holds an HBA from the University of Toronto and teaches structured literacy. He is most concerned with the stories we’ve already told and just what that says about us.
- he / theyanemptytextllineVesper is a disabled trans, neuroqueer poet and visual artist from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He is a MSc Creative Writing, Poetry student at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland.
- she / theyanemptytextllineAnastasia Jill is a queer writer living in Central Florida. They have been nominated for Best American Short Stories, The Pushcart Prize, and several other honors. Their work has been featured or is upcoming with Poets.org, Sundog Lit, Flash Fiction Online, Contemporary Verse 2, Channel Magazine, and more.
- they / themanemptytextllineRen Wilding is the author of Trans Artifacts: Bones Between My Teeth (Porkbelly Press, 2026) and Trans Archeology (Lily Poetry Review, 2027). Their work appears in The Comstock Review, Palette Poetry, and elsewhere. They are a two-time Pushcart nominee and co-curator of the Words Like Blades reading series.
- she / heranemptytextllineGwenyth Galloway is a poet and writer native to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Her work explores topics including environmentalism, interpersonal relationships, and the rise of contemporary American fascism.
- he / him / they / themanemptytextllineClifton Gachagua is the author of Madman at Kilifi and the chapbook Cartographer of Water. He has been published in Obsidian, +doc, ANMLY, Prism, Glassworks, the87press, Africa39, Manchester Review, Saraba, Jalada, Harvard Divinity Journal, Poetry Foundation, The Gonjon Pin and Other Stories, AfroSF.
- he / himanemptytextllineAbraham Aondoana is a writer and poet. He is a fellow of Idembeka Creative Writing Workshop 2026. He was selected for The Inaugural Class of The Jésùyẹmí Poetry Program 2026. His poem was shortlisted for Interwoven Anthology 2025 (Renard Press). His work has appeared in Oyez Review.
- she / heranemptytextllineElle J. Snyder is a transgender woman, poet, and goblin queen from Staten Island. She's probably hungry, throw her a stromboli. She is also aggressively seeking sponsorship from Moravian Cemetery.
- she / theyanemptytextllineNina DalleyHood is a Black writer originally from Queens, New York. They are currently pursuing an MFA in Creative Writing. For now, they work at a bakery.
- she / theyanemptytextllineJade Zora Dean is pursuing her M.F.A. at S.F.S.U. She is Lead Poetry Editor for Fourteen Hills: The San Francisco State Review. Her poetry has appeared in The Ana and The University of Colorado Boulder Honor’s Journal. Her poem “Not Hiding, Unseen” was nominated for the 2024 pushcart prize.
- she / theyanemptytextllineSavannah Massey is a poet originally from Mississippi studying Software Engineering and Applied Mathematics at Kenyon College. She is a 2025 YoungArts winner with distinction in Poetry and a Scholastic Gold Medalist, as well as an honorable mention for the 2025 Only Poems Poet of the Year Prize.
- they / themanemptytextllineCézanne Doyon is a nonbinary, autistic writer and interdisciplinary artist from California, now based in Canada. Their poetry concerns what accumulates in a body, what the natural world holds that language cannot, and what remains when performance falls away.
- she / theyanemptytextllineBeth Rose is a Scottish poet and occasional prose writer. She can often be found in audiences making Big Poetry Appreciation Noises. If you want to learn more about the uncontrollable chaos, she can be found on Instagram @simplythebethpoetry, which may be the best pun she'll ever write.
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