Talicha J. is a Black, queer poet, and workshop facilitator. Her work has been featured in several literary magazines and on the popular Button Poetry YouTube channel.

Find her at talichajpoetry.com

Kristen Brida’s poetry has appeared in Fairy Tale Review, New Delta Review, The Journal, Notre Dame Review, and elsewhere. Currently, she runs a BookTok account dedicated to showing poetry is for everyone.

Find her on TikTok @booksby_kb

Danielle Mitchell is an intersectional feminist, poet, and teaching artist. She is host of The Poetry Lab Podcast and an artist for the California Creative Corps. Her poems have appeared in Hayden’s Ferry Review, Vinyl, Transom, and others.

Find her at imaginarydani.com

Karen Zheng is a first-generation, queer, Chinese-American. Her poetry has been featured in Emerson Review, Sine Theta Magazine, Honey Literary, The Wave, and elsewhere.

Find more at karenzheng.com

Keimhaney Carlisle is a writer and poet currently based in Philadelphia, originally from California. She was a Get Lit-Words Ignite Fellow in the Summer of 2021 and served as an AmeriCorps member. Keimahney is passionate about human expression and social advocacy.

hr souffrant is a Chicago-based Haitian American writer, producer, and facilitator. souffrant's literary work has been featured in numerous online literary publications at Oberlin College, Hair Trigger Issue 41, Medium, Picture This Post, and Sixty Inches from Center.

Find her on Instagram @dat_haytian

Annie Freshwater is a lover of mythology, exotic houseplants, and dinosaur fossils. Her work explores the ways in which we populate our inner and outer landscapes with ghosts of our own making.

Find her on Instagram @onewingedflaw

Angela Yeh is an East Coast Canadian native who grew up a stone’s throw from Stephen King’s Maine and graduated with a BA in Psychology and Literature at Mount Allison University. She lives in Texas now with her two lovely children.

Find her on Instagram @thatpluckygirl

Allison Baldwin is a poet and disability advocate. Her work has been published in print and online, most recently in the Right to Life anthology, published by Folkways Press.

Find her on Instagram @the_awakened_poet

Leonora Simonovis is a Venezuelan American poet, editor and educator. Her debut poetry collection, Study of the Raft, won the 2021 Colorado Prize for Poetry. Leonora is the Reviews Editor at Ecotheo Review and the Currents Editor at terrain.org.

Find her at leonorasimonovis.com

Yomalis Rosario is a Black Dominican poet & teacher who was born and raised in Washington Heights, NYC. She has poems forthcoming in The Marbled Sigh and Hot Pot Magazine and writes about creativity, spirituality, & liberation in her monthly newsletter Letters From the Root.

Find her at yomalisrosario.com

Bridget Kriner is a community college professor in Cleveland, Ohio. Her work has appeared in Rattle (Poets Respond), Book of Matches, Shelia-Na-Gig, Whiskey Island and Split this Rock, where she won First Place in the Abortion Rights Poetry Contest in 2012.

Find her on Instagram @bridgetakriner