Sean Shearer is a Poe-Faulkner fellow at the MFA Program at the University of Virginia, where he teaches poetry. His poems have appeared in or are forthcoming from Beloit Poetry Journal, Boulevard, and New England Review. Sean’s currently working on his first collection of poems.

Website: www.iamseanshearer.com

Catherine Bresner is the author of the chapbook The Merriam Webster Series and the artist book Everyday Eros (Mount Analogue 2017). Her poetry has appeared in The Offing, Heavy Feather Review, Gulf Coast, Poetry Northwest, Passages North, The Pinch and elsewhere. Her hybrid collection of poems and poetry comics, the empty season, won the Diode Edition Book Prize in 2017. You can view more of her work at catherinebresner.com or contact her at catherine@boaatpress.com.

New Jersey native Ysabel Y. Gonzalez, is also known for her performance poetry under the alias Ancestral Poetisa. She received her BA from Rutgers University, an MFA in Poetry from Drew University and currently works for the Poetry Program at the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation. Ysabel has received invitations to attend VONA, Tin House and Ashbery Home School writing workshops. She’s been published in phati’tude Literary Magazine,Huizache, Acentos Review, Waxwing Literary Journal, The Wide Shoreand forthcoming in It Was Written: Poetry Inspired by Hip-Hop. You may find more of her poems and recorded performances atwww.ysabelgonzalez.com. 

Laura Theobald is the author of the best thing ever (Boost House), eraser poems (H_NGM_N), and edna poems (forthcoming, Lame House). She's an MFA candidate at LSU, where she serves as current Editor of New Delta Review. She's also Assistant Editor of Spooky Girlfriend Press. lauratheobald.net. @lidleida

sam sax is the author of Madness (Penguin, 2017) winner of The National Poetry Series selected by Terrance Hayes. His second book ‘Bury It’ will be out on Wesleyan University Press in 2018. He’s received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, Lambda Literary, & The Michener Center where he served as the Editor-in-chief of Bat City Review. He’s the two-time Bay Area Grand Slam Champion & author of four chapbooks. Winner of the 2016 Iowa Review Award his poems are forthcoming in American Poetry Review, Gulf Coast, Ploughshares, Poetry Magazine, + other journals.

Kayleb Rae Candrilli is author of What Runs Over, forthcoming with YesYes Books and winner of the Pamet River Prize. They are published or forthcoming in The Sonora Review, Puerto del Sol, Booth, Rattle, Muzzle, Vinyl, and others. They hold an MFA from the University of Alabama and now live in Philadelphia with their partner. You can read more of their work here.

Diannely Antigua is a Dominican-American poet and educator, born and raised in Massachusetts. She received her BA in English from the University of Massachusetts-Lowell where she won the Jack Kerouac Creative Writing Scholarship. She is currently an MFA candidate at New York University. Her work appears in BOAAT, Rust + Moth, Potluck Mag, Tinderbox Poetry Journal, Drunk in a Midnight Choir, and Big Bell. She lives in Brooklyn with three poet roommates. www.diannelyantigua.wordpress.com

Kendra Langdon Juskus is a freelance writer and editor whose poetry and/or nonfiction has been published in Ruminate, Fifth Wednesday Journal, Books & Culture, and City Creatures: Animal Encounters in the Chicago Wilderness (UChicago Press 2015). Her writing has received awards from Ruminate, Prairie Light Review, and the Humane Society of the United States. Originally from New York's Hudson River Valley, she lives in Durham, North Carolina, with her husband and two sons.

B.B.P. Hosmillo is the author of Breed Me: a sentence without a subject / Phối giống tôi: một câu không chủ đề (AJAR Press, 2016) with Vietnamese translation by Hanoi-based poets Nhã Thuyên & Hải Yến. A Pushcart Prize & four-time Best of the Net nominee, his writing is anthologized in Bettering American Poetry (2016) and has appeared in Apogee Journal, Cha: An Asian Literary Journal, Connotation Press, SAND: Berlin’s English Literary Journal, The Collapsar, The Nottingham Review (UK), & Transnational Literature (Australia), among many others. His interviews can be read in Misfits Magazine & VIDA: Women in Literary Arts. He is the founding co-editor of Queer Southeast Asia: A Literary Journal of Transgressive Art (www.queersoutheastasia.com).

Jackson Holbert was born and raised in eastern Washington. His poetry has appeared in Columbia Poetry Review, Muzzle, and Best New Poets 2016.

meg willing is a poet, editor, artist, and book designer. Her work has appeared in DIAGRAM, Hayden's Ferry Review, Colorado Review, The Collagist, and elsewhere. The former Managing Editor for Alice James Books, she currently serves as Chapbook Editor and PDF Chapbook Designer for BOAAT Press; Art and Design Editor for Gigantic Sequins; and Associate Director for CSArt Maine, Maine's first community-supported art share program. She resides in the foothills of Maine. www.megwilling.com

Ruth Antoinette Rodriguez is a poet who works with typewritten words, ink, images and textures. A recipient of fellowships from Factory Hollow Press and the Community of Writers at Squaw Valley, Rodriguez holds a BA in English from the University of Houston. She lives in Vermont where she co-owns an independent book space and spends her time practicing yoga in the Iyengar tradition and working on her first collection of poems.