Contributors
eae Benioff is a trans poet, socialist, and service worker. eae lives in Brooklyn.
Jiordan Castle is the author of the 2020 chapbook All His Breakable Things. A Pushcart-nominated essayist and poet, her work has appeared in Hobart, New Ohio Review, Third Point Press, Verdad, Vinyl, and elsewhere online and in print. She is a resident poet and essayist for the LA-based quarterly food and culture magazine Compound Butter, as well as writer and curator of the Pigeon Pages quarantine-inspired series The Long Pause… Jiordan has an MFA in Poetry from Hunter College and currently lives in New York City with her fiancé and their dog.
Iris Cushing is a poet, scholar, educator and founding editor for Argos Books, an independent poetry press. She is the author, most recently, of Into the Long Long Time: How Mary Korte Saved the Trees (Ink Cap Press, 2019) and The First Books of David Henderson and Mary Norbert Korte: A Research (Ugly Duckling Presse, forthcoming 2020). She lives in the Western Catskill mountains.
Alex Dimitrov is the author of three books of poems, Love and Other Poems, which will be published by Copper Canyon Press in February of 2021, Together and by Ourselves, and Begging for It. His poems have been published in The New Yorker, the New York Times, The Paris Review, and Poetry. In addition to NYU, he has taught writing at Princeton University, Columbia University, and Barnard College. Previously, he was the Senior Content Editor at the Academy of American Poets, where he edited the popular series Poem-a-Day and American Poets magazine. With Dorothea Lasky he is the co-author of Astro Poets: Your Guides to the Zodiac. He lives in New York.
Hannah Matheson is an MFA candidate in Poetry at New York University, where she is a reader and assistant social media editor for the Washington Square Review. Previously awarded scholarships to attend The Frost Place Conference on Poetry, Hannah’s work has been published or is forthcoming in The Dartmouth, Four Way Review, and Pigeon Pages.
A finalist for the Thom Gunn Award, Sam Ross's first book Company was selected by Carl Phillips for the Four Way Books Levis Prize in Poetry.
Bruce Smith is the author of six books of poems. The Other Lover was a finalist for the Pulitzer and the National Book Award. Devotions, the winner of the William Carlos Williams Prize and finalist for National Book Award, National Book Critics Circle Award, and LA Times Book Award precedes his latest book, Spill. He teaches in the MFA program at Syracuse University.
Lena Walker lives and writes in Maryland.