BRANDON SHIMODA is the author of seven books of poetry and/or prose, most recently The Grave on the Wall (City Lights, 2019), which received the PEN Open Book Award, and The Desert (The Song Cave, 2018). His book on the afterlife of Japanese American incarceration received a Creative Nonfiction grant from the Whiting Foundation, and is forthcoming from City Lights. He has lived, for most of the last decade, in Tucson, Arizona.


K-MING CHANG is the author of Bestiary (One World, 2020) and the forthcoming short story collection Gods of Want (One World, June 2022). More of her work can be found at kmingchang.com


EVAN ISOLINE is a writer and artist living on the Oregon coast. He is the author of Philosophy of The Sky and the founder/editor of a literary project called SELFFUCK. Find him @evan_isoline or else: evanisoline.com


CHRISTA ROMANOSKY's recent fiction and poetry appears in Glimmer Train, The Cincinnati Review, The Missouri Review, Alaska Quarterly Review, and elsewhere. She has held fellowships at the Fine Arts Work Center, James Merrill House, and Tulsa Artist Fellowship. Her writing focuses on rural spaces, extraction, and trauma. She currently works for the Virginia Department of Health in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.


GABRIEL PALACIOS is a poet from Tucson, Arizona. His work has been published most recently in Changes Review, Annulet: A Journal of Poetics, Denver Quarterly, and Poetry Northwest. He serves on the editorial staffs of Diagram and The Volta.


ALLISON HUMMEL is based in Los Angeles. Her poems have recently appeared in Dream Pop, Wax Nine, QA Poetry, and Flag + Void. Work is forthcoming in Landlocked and Figure 1.


MIKE CORRAO is the author of three novels, Man, Oh Man (Orson's Publishing); Gut Text (11:11 Press); and Rituals Performed In The Absence Of Ganymede (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 three chapbooks, Avian Funeral March (Self-Fuck); Material Catalogue (Alienist); 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 Denver Quartery. He lives in Minneapolis.


VI KHI NAO's work includes poetry, fiction, film, play, and cross-genre collaboration. She is the author of the novel, Fish in Exile, the short stories collection, A Brief Alphabet of Torture (winner of the 2016 FC2's Ronald Sukenick Innovative Fiction Prize), and of four poetry collections: Human Tetris (11:11 Press, 2019), Sheep Machine (Black Sun Lit, 2018), Umbilical Hospital (Press 1913, 2017), and The Old Philosopher (winner of the Nightboat Prize for 2014). Her poetry collection, A Bell Curve Is A Pregnant Straight Line, and her short story collection The Vegas Dilemma, are forthcoming from 11:11 Press in Summer and Fall 2021 respectively. She was the fall 2019 fellow at the Black Mountain Institute. vikhinao.com


GRANT MAIERHOFER is the author of Drain Songs, Peripatet, Works, and the forthcoming Shame (FC2/University of Alabama Press), and also another Inside the Castle project whose title, longer than the current Guinness Record Holder, is available here: insidethecastle.org/title. He lives in Moscow, Idaho.