Chris Martin is a neurodivergent poet and educator whose fourth book of poetry, Things to Do in Hell, is fresh from Coffee House Press. His first book of essays, May Tomorrow Be Awake: On Poetry, Autism, and Our Neurodiverse Future is out from HarperOne. He is the co-founder and executive director of Unrestricted Interest, an organization dedicated to helping neurodivergent learners transform their lives through writing. He lives in Minneapolis, where he also teaches at Hamline University and Carleton College.

Hannah Emerson is a non-speaking autistic poet from Lafayette, NY, on the historical land of the Onondaga Nation. Her writing has been featured in BOMB Magazine, The Brooklyn Rail, Nine Mile, and Unearthed. Her first chapbook of poems, ‘You Are Helping this Great Universe Explode’, was published by Unrestricted Editions in 2020.

Adam Wolfond is a 17-year old non-speaking autistic/neurodiverse artist, poet, and university lecturer. His chapbook In Way of Music Water Answers Toward Questions Other Than What Is Autism is forthcoming from Unrestricted Interest. He attends high school and is the co-founder of The A Collective in Toronto, where he works in visual art and poetry and collaborates on the PhD dissertation Neurodiversity in Relation: an artistic intraethnography with Estée Klar at York University in Toronto, Canada, where he lives.

Lauren Russell is the author of Descent (Tarpaulin Sky Press, 2020), winner of the Poetry Society of America’s Anna Rabinowitz Award, and What’s Hanging on the Hush (Ahsahta Press, 2017). Her next book, A Window That Can Neither Open nor Close: Poems, Plots, Chance, is forthcoming from Milkweed Editions in 2024. Russell has received several fellowships, including from the NEA and Cave Canem, and residencies from Millay, Ucross, Yaddo, and MacDowell, among others. Her work has appeared in The Brooklyn Rail, The New York Times Magazine, and the Academy of American Poets’ Poem-a-Day. She teaches at Michigan State University, where she also directs the Center for Poetry. Later this year, she will join the faculty of the Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins.

Poet Farid Matuk is the author of This Isa Nice Neighborhood (Letter Machine Editions) and The Real Horse (Univ. of Arizona Press). Redolent, his book-arts collaboration with Colombian artist Nancy Friedemann-Sánchez, is now available for pre-order from Singing Saw Press. Matuk is the co-editor and co-translator of a new edition of Juan Felipe Herrera’s seminal poetry collection Akrílica, forthcoming from Noemi Press in 2022.