Bennet Bergman is a poet, educator, and publisher. He earned a BA from Yale University and an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. His poems have appeared in The Threepenny Review, Gulf Coast, and Electric Literature. He is the founder and editor of Changes, a nonprofit press dedicated to publishing exceptional poetry by emerging writers in the United States. He lives in New York City.

Writer and poet Cedar Sigo was raised on the Suquamish Reservation in the Pacific Northwest. He studied at The Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at the Naropa Institute. Sigo is the author of Royals (Wave Books, 2017), Language Arts (Wave Books, 2014), and Stranger in Town (City Lights, 2010). Of his work, Ron Silliman writes, “Cedar Sigo is a Frank O’Hara for the 21st century: witty, erudite, serious, with a terrific ear and eye for the minutest details, at home in the world of the arts.” He has taught at St. Mary’s College and Naropa University. He lives in Lofall, Washington.

The author of The Sudden Country, The Dream Detective and the chapbook After Mistic. He has received fellowships from the New York Foundation for the Arts, Breadloaf and Arts Link. His poems have appeared in Ploughshares, Brooklyn Rail, Jubilat and Hanging Loose Press to name a few. He lived in Langston Hughes’ landmark Harlem home for three years. The Juilliard School of Drama commissioned and produced Mr. Mills’ play The Serpent and the Dove. He has also recorded his poetry on ESPN and RCA Records.

Poet Michael Cavuto is currently living in Durham, NC, having lived in New York City for the past six years. His first book, Country Poems, was published by Knife Fork Book (Toronto) in 2020, and he is a founding editor of the Slow Poetry in America Newsletter and auric press.

Paul Legault is the author of, most recently, The Tower (Coach House Books, 2020). His previous books include The Madeleine Poems (Omnidawn, 2010), The Other Poems (Fence, 2011), The Emily Dickinson Reader: An English-to-English Translation of the Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson (McSweeney’s, 2012), Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror 2 (Fence, 2016), and Lunch Poems 2 (Spork, 2018). He also co-edited The Sonnets: Translating and Rewriting Shakespeare (Nightboat, 2012).

Sarah Wang is a writer in New York. She has written for BOMB, The New Republic, n+1, PEN America, The Los Angeles Review of Books, and American Short Fiction, among other publications. She is a Tin House Scholar, a Kundiman Mentorship Lab Fellow, the winner of a Nelson Algren prize for fiction, and was a fellow at the Center for Fiction and the Asian American Writers’ Workshop’s Witness Program. She has received support from PEN America, Poets & Writers, Author’s League, and the Foundation for Contemporary Arts.

Shelley Marlow wrote Two Augusts In a Row In a Row, a novel (Publication Studio, Portland, 2015) plus art editions (Hudson and London, 2017); and the new manuscript The Wind Blew Through Like a Chorus of Ghosts. Marlow is a recipient of an Acker Award in writing. Multigenerational communities gathered to celebrate and perform scenes from Two Augusts In a Row In a Row at the London Centre for Book Arts and NYC’s Bureau of General Services Queer Division. Marlow served as prose editor of The Henry Miller Library’s literary journal. Marlow’s writing and art appear in Resist Much/Obey Little, Inaugural Poems to the Resistance; Evergreen Review; Hyperallergic; KGB Bar Lit Mag; the Rail; Altar-ed Bodies, Clarity Haynes; Rilking; LTTR (Lesbians To The Rescue); alLuPiNiT; St. Petersburg Review.