VI KHI NAO is the author of four poetry collections: Human Tetris (11:11 Press, 2019), Sheep Machine (Black Sun Lit, 2018), Umbilical Hospital (Press 1913, 2017), The Old Philosopher (winner of the Nightboat Prize for 2014), & of the short stories collection, A Brief Alphabet of Torture (winner of the 2016 FC2's Ronald Sukenick Innovative Fiction Prize), the novel, Fish in Exile (Coffee House Press, 2016). Her work includes poetry, fiction, film, and cross-genre collaboration.


CARY STOUGH is a poet from the Missouri Ozarks and a Children's Librarian in Massachusetts. Recent work has been published in X-R-A-Y, Bennington Review, and Apartment Poetry. Talk to him about Deleuze and Guattari on Twitter @gros_pipi


SARA DENIZ AKANT is a Turkish-American poet, educator, and performer. Her first collection, Babette (Rescue Press 2015), won the Black Box Award in Poetry, and her chapbook, Parades (Omnidawn 2014), won the Omnidawn Chapbook Prize. She holds an MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop, and has taught writing at Baruch, Medgar Evers, John Jay, and Hunter College. Sara is currently a PhD candidate in English at the CUNY Graduate Center, where she researches 20th century poetics at the intersections of language, gender, and empire. She lives in Brooklyn.


STEVEN ALVAREZ is the author of The Codex Mojaodicus, winner of the Fence Modern Poets Prize. He has also authored the novels in verse The Pocho Codex and The Xicano Genome, both published by Editorial Paroxismo, and the chapbooks, Tonalamatl, El Segundo's Dream Notes (Letter [r] Press), Un/documented, Kentucky (winner of the Rusty Toque Chapbook Prize), and Six Poems from the Codex Mojaodicus (winner of the Seven Kitchens Press Rane Arroyo Poetry Prize). His work has appeared in the Best Experimental Writing, Anomaly, Asymptote, Berkeley Poetry Review, Fence, MAKE, The Offing, and Waxwing. Follow Steven on Instagram
@stevenpaulalvarez and on Twitter @chastitellez


MEGAN JEANNE GETTE is a poet and anthropologist currently based in Texas.


KELLY KRUMRIE's writing appears in Tarpaulin Sky Magazine, DIAGRAM, Entropy, La Vague, and elsewhere. She is a PhD candidate in Creative Writing at the University of Denver where she serves as the Prose Editor for Denver Quarterly.


SHOME DASGUPTA lives in Lafayette, LA. He is the author of i am here And You Are Gone (Winner Of The 2010 OW Press Fiction Chapbook Contest), The Seagull And The Urn (HarperCollins India, 2013) which has been republished in the UK by Accent Press as The Sea Singer (2016), Anklet And Other Stories (Golden Antelope Press, 2017), Pretend I Am Someone You Like (Livingston Press, 2018), and Mute (Tolsun Books, 2018). He can be found at www.shomedome.com and on Twitter @laughingyeti


MIKE CORRAO is the author of two novels, Man, Oh Man (Orson's Publishing) and Gut Text (11:11 Press); one book of poetry, Two Novels (Orson's Publishing); two plays, Smut-Maker (Inside the Castle) and Andromedusa (Forthcoming - Plays Inverse); and two chapbooks, Avian Funeral March (Self-Fuck) and Spelunker (Schism - Neuronics). Along with earning multiple Best of the Net nominations, Mike’s work has been featured in publications such as 3:AM, The Collagist, Always Crashing, and The Portland Review. He lives in Minneapolis.