is a writer, researcher, and visual artist living and longing in San Diego, CA. Their poems have been featured on Poets.org, The Slowdown, beestung, rivulet, The Hennepin Review, Peach Mag, The Best of the Net Anthology 2022, Apogee Journal, and The BreakBeat Poets Volume 4: LatiNext. Aceves Garcia has received fellowships from Jack Jones Literary Arts, Catapult, and the Tin House Summer Workshop. They are currently working on a hybrid poetry manuscript that braids family archival materials with linocut prints and poems about bratty boyhood, trans temporality, and desire.

was born and raised in New Orleans. He tries at poems, catches elbows on the court, and rides his bike around Bloomington, IN, because IU funds his present period of studying with others. Previously the Editor of Indiana Review, he now serves as Assistant Editor and Poetry Editor for Obsidian: Literature & Arts in the African Diaspora. Though he’s published in a bunch of literary journals no one in his family has ever heard of, they remain proud of him, especially when they are featured in the poems. His first full-length poetry collection is forthcoming from Lookout Books of UNC-Wilmington. He's infatuated with Ed Roberson's question, "Can you O.D. on life?” Awarded the 2021 Puerto del Sol Poetry Prize, the 2023 Third Coast Poetry Prize, and the Academy of American Poet's Vera Strube Poetry Prize, he has words in The Nation, Crazyhorse, Black Warrior Review, Guernica, Cincinnati Review, Southern Review, Ecotone, and elsewhere.

is a poet, popular educator and community organizer from San Diego, living in Bristol, Vermont. His writing has appeared in Bettering American Poetry, Poem-a-Day, fourteen poems, West Branch, Pleiades, Poets Reading the News, Fugue Journal and elsewhere. His chapbook, Flower Wars, won the Anzaldúa Poetry Prize and was published by Newfound Press. As a graduate of Bennington College's MFA program and someone who previously helped to coordinate the ACLU's work on racial justice and prosecutorial reform in Bennington County, he's delighted to continue his relationship to this part of the state through this fellowship and to help create more spaces to support queer, trans and BIPOC writers in Vermont.

is a writer from the Pacific Northwest. She has published work in Nowruz Journal, Rogue Agent Journal, Nymphs, Agapanthus Collective, and others. Her poetry chapbook, What Gets Left Over, was published with Bottlecap Press in 2022. She is a submissions reader and editor for Longleaf Review, The Jupiter Review, and Wrong Publishing.

is a Brazilian writer and literary translator based in St. Louis. Her work has appeared in, among other spaces, The New Yorker, Guernica, A Public Space, The Common, Bookforum, Vogue, BOMB, The Kenyon Review, and The Brooklyn Rail. Her literary translations include Caio Fernando Abreu's seminal story collections Moldy Strawberries (Archipelago Books, longlisted for the 2023 PEN Translation Prize) and No Dragons in Paradise (Archipelago Books), Stênio Gardel’s novel The Words that Remain (New Vessel Press), Jeferson Tenório’s novel The Dark Side of Skin (Charco Press), Giovana Madalosso's novel Tokyo Suite (Europa Editions), and Amara Moira’s memoir And What If I’m a Puta? (Feminist Press). She regularly teaches at Catapult, serves on the Board of Directors of the American Literary Translators Association, and works as a freelance editor and translator.