Hussain Ahmed is a Nigerian poet and environmentalist. He holds an MFA in poetry from the University of Mississippi and is currently a PhD student at the University of Cincinnati. His poems are featured in Poetry magazine, the Kenyon Review, A Public Space, American Poetry Review and elsewhere. He is a winner of the 2022 Orison Poetry Prize, the Gordon Square Review Contest, finalist for Auburn Witness Poetry Prize and several others. He is the author of Harp in a Fireplace (Newfound, 2021) and Soliloquy with the Ghosts in Nile (Black Ocean Press, 2022).

Stella Corso is the author of Green Knife (Rescue Press, 2023) and TANTRUM (Rescue Press, 2017) along with chapbooks Taboo Vivant (Blush, 2022) and Wind & the Augur (Sixth Finch, 2021). She is a founding member of the Connecticut River Valley Poets Theater (CRVPT) and is currently the Managing Editor of Denver Quarterly.