Zach Savich is the author of nine books of poetry and nonfiction, including the poetry collection Momently (Black Ocean, 2024) and the memoir Diving Makes the Water Deep (Rescue Press, 2016). His work has appeared in the American Poetry Review, Boston Review, Kenyon Review, and elsewhere. He teaches at the Cleveland Institute of Art.

Guggenheim Fellow Joyelle McSweeney is the author of ten books of poetry, drama and prose. McSweeney's recent book Toxicon and Arachne (Nightboat Books, 2020) was called "frightening and brilliant" by Dan Chiasson in the New Yorker and earned her the Shelley Memorial Prize from the Poetry Society of America. Her essay collection The Necropastoral: Poetry, Media, Occults is widely regarded as a visionary work of eco-criticism. With Johannes Göransson, McSweeney is a co-founder of Action Books, an international press which has built readerships for vital poets from around the world. McSweeney teaches at Notre Dame, lives in South Bend and joins us to celebrate the release of her newest poetry collection, Death Styles.

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.