Lauren Levin is a poet and mixed-genre writer, author of The Braid (Krupskaya, 2016), which won the SFSU Poetry Center Book Award, and Justice Piece // Transmission (Timeless, Infinite Light, 2018). With Eric Sneathen, they are co-editing Camille Roy's Selected Prose, forthcoming with Nightboat Books. Recent work appears in Social Text, Amerarcana, and A Perfect Vacuum. Their gender identity is some mix of belated queer, Jewish great-aunt, and aspirational Frank O'Hara. They are still figuring it out. They live in Richmond, CA, are from New Orleans, LA, and are committed to queer art, intersectional feminism, being a parent, and anxiety.

Tanea Lunsford Lynx is a fourth-generation Black San Franciscan on both sides. Tanea is a proud alum of Voices of Our Nation (VONA) and the Lambda Literary Retreat. In 2018 she co-curated 'Still Here VI: Existence as Resistance,' a performance featuring queer Black San Franciscans as a part of the National Queer Arts Festival. Tanea has been awarded an individual artist grant from the San Francisco Arts Commission as well as residencies at Mesa Refuge, the Vermont Studio Center, Ox-Bow, Squaw Valley, and Under the Volcano. She has more than 10 years of experience as a performing artist, curator, activist, and educator in San Francisco. You can find her work online at tanealunsfordlynx.com.

Self-proclaimed imaginary jazz musician Jevohn Tyler Newsome writes poetry, illustrates, and designs while working full-time as the soul-proprietor of Supermarket Poet Press (an independent press operation in-progress). With jazz and other artifacts of the black imagination as his main motif, Jevohn creates work that seeks to counteract any psychological attack against the public imagination (whether it be bad news media or neofascism itself, and more). Inspired by writers who hijack & rewire anti-black narratives like Ishmael Reed and speculative time travelers like Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Jevohn walks in the tradition of bridging poetic and political imagination both on and off the page.

D'mani Thomas (he/him/they) is a writer, horror film enthusiast, and dance lover. A graduate of UC Berkeley, D'mani is a two-time member of CAL Slam ( 2017 & 2018), earning the "Best Writing As a Team" accolade in 2018. He was a 2019 Pink Plastic House Resident, a 2019 WUS GOOD Black Hogwarts workshop participant, and will be a 2020 SHOW US YOUR SPINES resident. Their work can be found in Cerurove literary journal, MARY: A Journal of New Writing, and is forthcoming in Foglifter and elsewhere.

Caitlyn Tella is a theater artist, actor, and educator originally from the South Bay, whose writing exists on a spectrum of poetry and performance. Her poems have appeared in Nat. Brut, in the self-published chapbook Helena, and forthcoming in Witchcraft. As a theater-maker, her work has been supported by Cutting Ball Theater, Z Space, Theatre Bay Area, Hemera Foundation, and others. She received an M.F.A. in Contemporary Performance from Naropa University. More info at www.caitlyntella.com.

Liam Curley is a writer from Wallkill, New York and a graduate of Ithaca College. He works at Small Press Distribution and the Oakland Public Library. He is a board member of Aggregate Space Gallery and volunteers with 826 Valencia. He was the employee of the month in July of 2009 at a 24-hour McDonald’s on the southbound side of the New York State Thruway. He lives in Oakland, California