Stephanie Heit (she/her) is a queer disabled poet, dancer, teacher, and codirector of Turtle Disco, a somatic writing space on Anishinaabe territory in Ypsilanti, Michigan. Her practices explore the seams of movement, language, and mental health difference often within site-specific inquiries involving water. She is a mad activist, a shock/psych system survivor, and a member of the Olimpias, an international disability performance collective. Her poetry collections are the award-winning book of hybrid memoir poems PSYCH MURDERS (Wayne State University Press, 2022) and The Color She Gave Gravity (Operating System, 2017). 

Petra Kuppers is a German disability culture activist and a community performance artist who uses somatics, performance, media, and speculative poetry to engage audiences toward more socially just and enjoyable futures. Her third performance poetry collection, Gut Botany, won the 2022 Creative Book Award by the Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment. Her Diver Beneath the Street (2024) investigates true crime and ecopoetry at the level of the soil. A Guggenheim Fellow, she leads the Olimpias international disability culture collective and co-directs Turtle Disco. Her current work focuses on Planting Disabled Futures, a virtual reality/community performance project, as part of a Just Tech Fellowship.

Cynthia Ling Lee is a Taiwanese American interdisciplinary artist who creates embodied art rooted in crip, queer, and feminist of color praxis. Created through intimate collaborative processes, her artwork translates choreographic and chronically ill knowledge into poetry, sound, film, visual art, and beyond. Cynthia's work has been presented internationally at venues including Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art (New York), REDCAT (Los Angeles), Kuandu Arts Festival (Taipei), and Chandra-Mandapa: Spaces (Chennai). Current projects include Scores for Chronically Ill Bodies, a set of movement scores developed with and for chronically ill bodyminds, and Call and Response, a crip dance-poetry project with Krista Miranda.

Cole Swensen is the author of twenty volumes of poetry, most recently And And And (Shearsman Books, 2023), which was long-listed for the Griffin Poetry Prize, and a collection of critical essays, Noise That Stays Noise. A book of hybrid poem-essays, Art in Time, was published by Nightboat in 2021. A former Guggenheim Fellow, she has been a finalist for the National Book Award and the LA Times Book Award and has been awarded the Iowa Poetry Prize, the SF State Poetry Center Book Award, and the National Poetry Series. She has also translated over twenty volumes of poetry, prose, and art criticism from French and won the 2024 ALTA National Translation Award and the 2025 Stephen Mitchell Translation Award.