Anselm Berrigan is the poetry editor for the Brooklyn Rail, and author of a number of books of poems, most recently Pregrets, from Black Square Editions.

Phong H. Bui is an artist, writer, independent curator, and Co-Founder and Publisher/Artistic Director of the Brooklyn Rail, Rail Editions, River Rail and Rail Curatorial Projects.

Chia-Lun Chang is the author of Prescribee (2022), winner of the Nightboat Poetry Prize, and two chapbooks, An Alien Well-Tamed and One Day We Become Whites. She has received support from Jerome Foundation, Vermont Studio Center, Tofte Lake Center, Poets House, and Lower Manhattan Cultural Council among others. Chia-Lun teaches contemporary Taiwanese poetry and fiction at the Brooklyn Public Library. Born and raised in New Taipei City, Taiwan, she lives in Brooklyn.

Born in Jounieh, Lebanon, Rachelle Rahmé is a Lebanese-American poet and independent scholar. She is the author of Count Thereof Upon the Other’s Limbs (72 Press, 2019) and two chapbooks, most recently Bataille’s Eggs (blush, 2021). Her translations of Georges Bataille were published as 27 Poems on Death by o•blēk editions in 2021. Her poems have appeared in The Brooklyn Rail and 3fold, among others. She is a 2021-2022 ESB Fellow at the Poetry Project. Her work in sound has been presented by Issue Project Room, PS1, and others. Rahmé holds a Masters in Philosophy from the New School for Social Research. She is a co-editor at blush, and lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.

Raised in Kenya and Greece, Kristopher Hull and attended the architecture school at Rice University, which he left early to attempt a career as a self-taught concert pianist. Finding pianos wherever he could, practicing up to ten hours a day. In 2008, inspired by his hero Don Quixote, he loaded an upright piano into the back of a pickup truck and drove from Miami to Denver committing pianist errantry, performing and bringing Chopin to those in need. He practiced like a madman throughout the pandemic, convinced it would be time to ride once again when the world opened back up.

Poet David Zaza is a partner at McCall Associates, a design company specializing in museum and gallery publications. His poetry has been published in various magazines since 1992. Recent multidisciplinary projects include "The Goldberg Variations," an audio work which presents his recited poetry with piano accompaniment; "Before and After, or At The Same Time," a poem illustrated with three charcoal drawings; and [unreliable], a poetry/drawing collaboration with visual artist Mark Fox.