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Leila Chatti is a Tunisian-American dual citizen and the author of Deluge (Copper Canyon Press, 2020), winner of the 2021 Levis Reading Prize and the 2021 Luschei Prize for African Poetry, as well as of the chapbooks Ebb  (New-Generation African Poets) and Tunsiya/Amrikiya (Bull City Press). Her poems have appeared in The New York Times Magazine, POETRY, The Nation, The Atlantic, Ploughshares, Tin House, American Poetry Review, Best New Poets (2015 & 2017), and other journals and anthologies. She currently serves as the Consulting Poetry Editor at the Raleigh Review and teaches at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she is the Mendota Lecturer in Poetry. From 2018 to 2020, she was the inaugural Anisfield-Wolf Fellow in Writing and Publishing at Cleveland State University.  

Julie Marie Wade is the author of thirteen works of poetry, prose, and hybrid forms, including Telephone: Essays in Two Voices (2021), a lyric essay collaboration with Brenda Miller, selected by Hanif Abdurraqib as winner of the CSU Poetry Center's Essay Collection Competition. A recipient of the Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Memoir and grants from the Kentucky Arts Council and the Barbara Deming Memorial Fund, Wade teaches in the creative writing program at Florida International University. She is married to Angie Griffin and lives in Dania Beach. 

Tobias Wray is the author of No Doubt I Will Return a Different Man, selected by Randall Mann as winner of the CSU Poetry Center's Lighthouse Poetry Series. His writing has appeared in journals including Blackbird, Bellingham Review, Meridian, Third Coast, and The Georgia Review as well as The Queer Nature Anthology and The Queer Movement Anthology of Literatures. He served as a poetry editor for Cream City Review and holds an MFA in Poetry and Translation from the University of Arkansas.