Lindsey D. Alexander lives in East Tennessee, where she produces Story of My Life, a podcast that asks interesting guests over 70 how they came to be who they are and where they are. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in The Southern Review, Waxwing, and Arts & Letters, among other magazines. For more, visit www.ldalexander.com.

Bryan Owens has been a teacher of English for 9 years in the Houston public school system. He holds an M.F.A. in creative writing from the University of Houston. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in various publications including New Ohio Review, San Pedro River Review, Poetry Quarterly, Boston Poetry Magazine, Inscape, Primitive, The Centrifugal Eye & elsewhere.

Charles O’Hay is the author of two collections—Far from Luck and Smoking in Elevators—both from Lucky Bat Books. His poems have appeared in over 125 literary journals, including The New York Quarterly, Cortland Review, Gargoyle, and West Branch.

Alyssa Jewell studies poetry at Western Michigan University where she served as assistant editor for New Issues Poetry and Prose and is currently an assistant poetry editor for Third Coast. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Blue Earth Review, Fifth Wednesday, The Columbia Review, and Cactus Heart. She lives and teaches in Grand Rapids.

Chaun Ballard was raised in both Missouri and California. For six years now, he and his wife have been teaching in the Middle East and West Africa. He is currently a graduate student in the University of Alaska, Anchorage’s MFA Program. His poems have recently been published in or accepted by The Caribbean Writer, Orbis: Quarterly International Literary Journal, the Best New African Poets 2015 anthology, and other literary magazines.

Nicole Oquendo is a writer, educator, and editor interested in multimodal compositions and translations of nonfiction and poetry. She is a member of the Sundress Publications Board of Directors, an Assistant Editor for Flaming Giblet Press, the Managing Editor of The Florida Review, and the Nonfiction Editor of the annual Best of the Net Anthology. She is the author of the chapbooks some prophets (2015, Finishing Line Press) and self is wolf (2015, dancing girl press), and the hybrid memoir Telomeres (2015, Zoetic Press).

Mike Shier holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Florida Atlantic University and is currently in Illinois State University’s PhD program for the same. Other poems from Folie à Deux, a collaborative poetry chapbook manuscript written with Nicole Oquendo, have appeared in Menacing Hedge.

Brianna Noll is a Ph.D. candidate in the Program for Writers at the University of Illinois at Chicago, and she is Poetry Editor of The Account: A Journal of Poetry, Prose, and Thought. Her work has appeared, or is forthcoming, in 32 Poems, The Kenyon Review Online, The Missouri Review, Hayden’s Ferry Review, Salt Hill, and elsewhere.

Joseph Mulholland is from Albuquerque, New Mexico. His poems have recently appeared or are forthcoming in The Journal, Bayou, Beecher’s, Whisky Island, The Carolina Quarterly, and Notre Dame Review. He currently lives in San Juan and is a graduate student at the University of Puerto Rico.

Alex Greenberg is a 15-year-old poet whose work can be found or is forthcoming in The Florida Review, The Cortland Review, Kweli, and Spinning Jenny, among others. He was the recipient of the 2014 46er Prize for the Adirondack Review and the Critical Pass Review Junior Poets Prize.

Ashley-Elizabeth Best is from Cobourg, ON, Canada. She was on the poetry shortlist for the 2011 and 2013 Matrix Litpop Awards and Prism’s Poetry Prize 2012. Her work can be seen in Fjords, Tampa Review, CV2, The Columbia Review, Berfrois, The Rusty Toque, The Battersea Review, The Puritan, Zouch Magazine, Grist, and Branch Magazine, among other publications. She placed first for poetry in This Magazine’s Great Canadian Literary Hunt 2012, and was the poetry runner-up for subTerrain Magazine’s Lush Triumphant Literary Awards 2012. She has a chapbook published with Cactus Press called Slow States of Collapse. She lives and writes in Kingston, Ontario.

Ross White is the director of Bull City Press, an independent publisher of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction. The author of two chapbooks, How We Came Upon the Colony (Unicorn Press, 2014) and The Polite Society (Unicorn Press, 2017), he teaches creative writing at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His poems have appeared in American Poetry Review, New England Review, Poetry Daily, Tin House, and The Southern Review, among others. He is the poetry editor of Four Way Review. Follow him on Twitter: @rosswhite.

Logo and spouse live in the upper Midwest with their puckish quadruped. He has worked with patients, students and those enduring homelessness. Logo writes (and bakes and bikes) as solacing means of existence. Logo’s poetry has appeared or will appear in The Notre Dame Review, Pedestal Magazine, Parhelion, AZURE, and others.