Adura Ojo is the author of a full poetry collection, Life is a woman breaking eggs, and Mania, a chapbook published in August 2020. Her work is featured at Slice, The Rialto, Cultural Weekly, Acumen, and a host of other publications both online and in print.

lexandria Peary serves as New Hampshire Poet Laureate. She is the author of nine books, including the poetry collections Control Bird Alt Delete, The Water Draft, Lid to the Shadow, Fall Foliage Called Bathers & Dancers, and, forthcoming in 2021, Battle of Silicon Valley at Daybreak. Her work has received an Academy of American Poets Laureate Fellowship, the Iowa Poetry Prize, the Slope Editions Book Prize, the Joseph Langland Prize, a Best of New Hampshire, and three Best of the Net nominations. Alex specializes in mindful writing: she is the architect and host of the popular mindful writing webinar at the National Council of Teachers of English as well as the author of Prolific Moment: Theory and Practice of Mindfulness for Writing and the TEDx talk, “How Mindfulness Can Transform the Way You Write.”

Amela Kovacevic is a writer living in Louisville, KY.

Bobbi Buchanan is the author of Tiny Little Beauty, Listen: Essays on Living the Good Life, and coauthor of Higher Love: The Miraculous Story of a Family. With multiple grants awarded by the Kentucky Foundation for Women, she has led therapeutic writing workshops for inmates and in the community since 2013. Buchanan launched and ran the literary journal New Southerner for more than 10 years and has edited and published seven volumes of creative works by inmates. She teaches English in Shepherdsville at Bullitt Central High School.

Bucky Sinister is a poet, self-help author, and comedian. He has published four books of poetry and two self-help books, including Get Up: A 12-Step Guide to Recovery for Misfits, Freaks, and Weirdos. His journalism, film reviews, and short stories have appeared on The Rumpus, The Bold Italic, and a number of other online and print publications.

Caryl Pagel is the author of an essay collection, Out of Nowhere Into Nothing (FC2), and two books of poetry: Twice Told (University of Akron Press) and Experiments I Should Like Tried at My Own Death (Factory Hollow Press). Her poems and essays have appeared in Conduit, The Iowa Review, New American Writing, The Paris Review, and The Rupture. Caryl is a co-founder and publisher at Rescue Press and a poetry editor at jubilat. She teaches creative writing at Cleveland State University and in the NEOMFA program.

Chanice Hughes-Greenberg is a poet, Capricorn, & playlist enthusiast hailing from upstate New York by way of Long Island. Her work has appeared in Studio Magazine, No, Dear Magazine, The Recluse, The Believer Magazine online & other publications. She has participated in readings with The Poetry Project, Cave Canem, Brooklyn Museum, Poets & Writers, Montez Press Radio, & The Freya Project. Chanice received a BFA in Writing from Pratt Institute, was the recipient of a 2019 Brooklyn Poets Fellowship, & was a Best of the Net nominee for 2020. Find her online: chanicehughesgreenberg.com.

Clare Needham is the author of the novella Bad Books, published by Ploughshares Solos in 2015. Her fiction and poetry have appeared in The Stinging Fly, New York Tyrant, Grub Street, Catapult, Bodega Magazine, and elsewhere. Her poems have also been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and The Best American Poetry series, and her work has received support from MacDowell, the Vermont Studio Center, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and Yaddo. She is currently working on a novel

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David Greenspan is the author of One Person Holds So Much Silence, forthcoming from Driftwood Press. He’s a PhD candidate in Creative Writing at the University of Southern Mississippi and earned an MFA from UMass Amherst. His poems have appeared, or will soon, in places like Bellevue Literary Review, Crab Creek Review, DIAGRAM, Prelude, Sleepingfish, and others.

David Ishaya Osu is a poet, memoirist, editor, street photographer and is an associate poetry editor of Plenitude Magazine, the photography and arts editor of Cọ́n-scìò magazine, and the poetry editor of Panorama: The Journal of Intelligent Travel. He is a board member of Babishai Niwe Poetry Foundation based in Uganda, and the author of the poetry chapbook When I’m Eighteen (WRR, 2020) and the hybrid chapbook of poetry/prose/photography Once in a Blue Life (2020).

Destiny O. Birdsong is the author of the poetry collection, Negotiations (Tin House Books, 2020), and the triptych novel Nobody’s Magic (Grand Central, 2022).

Dia Felix is an experimental writer and producer. She wrote the Lambda-nominated experimental novel Nochita (2014, City Lights/Sister Spit) and the poetry chapbook YOU YOU YOU (2017, Projective Industries), and programmed the pan-genre literary performance series GUTS at Dixon Place. By day she is a media producer with a focus on artists and artworks.

Dimitri Reyes is a Boricua multidisciplinary artist, content creator, organizer, and educator from Newark, NJ. His first chapbook, Every First & Fifteenth won the Digging Press 2020 Chapbook Award and is currently in its second printing.. Some of his work is published in Vinyl, Kweli, Entropy, Cosmonauts, Obsidian, & Acentos. He is the Marketing & Communications Director at CavanKerry Press and an Artist-in-Residence with NJPAC. Find out more at dimitrireyespoet.com

Ellen van Neerven (they/them) is an award-winning author, editor and educator of Mununjali (Yugambeh language group) and Dutch heritage. They write fiction, poetry, and non-fiction on unceded Turrbal and Yuggera land. van Neerven’s first book, Heat and Light (UQP, 2014), a novel-in-stories, was the recipient of the David Unaipon Award, the Dobbie Literary Award and the NSW Premier’s Literary Awards Indigenous Writers Prize. van Neerven’s poetry collection Comfort Food (UQP, 2016) won the Tina Kane Emergent Award and was shortlisted for the NSW Premier’s Literary Awards Kenneth Slessor Prize. Throat (UQP, 2020), van Neerven’s latest poetry collection, and recipient of the inaugural Quentin Bryce Award, is now available

Emily Borgmann is a poet, essayist, and writing educator in Omaha, Nebraska. They are the recipient of an Academy of American Poets Prize, a Champion of Youth advocacy award from Youth Emergency Services, and recipient of a Nebraska Arts Council Individual Artist Fellowship in Literature. They are a creative writing instructor at the University of Nebraska at Omaha, where they also serve as Medical Humanities Faculty and teach in the TRAC Program and the Thompson Learning Community. Emily’s poems and essays have appeared or are forthcoming in such journals as Waxwing, Copper Nickel, The Laurel Review, Green Mountains Review, Salamander, and Alligator Juniper.

“James Hoch’s most recent collections are Radio Static (Green Linden Press 2022) and Last Pawn Shop in New Jersey (LSU 2022).

John Stanford Owen writes poetry and essays that appear in Chicago Quarterly Review, storySouth, Third Coast, and the Southeast Review, among other magazines. He received his MFA from Southern Illinois University, where he also taught English classes. These days, JSO lives in Louisville, Kentucky with his wife and dog. Write to him at jstanfordowen@gmail.com.

Joseph Earl Thomas is a writer from Frankford whose work has appeared or is forthcoming in Philadelphia Stories, Gulf Coast, The Offing, and The Kenyon Review. He has an MFA in prose from The University of Notre Dame and studies English in the PhD program at the University of Pennsylvania. His memoir, Sink, won the 2020 Chautauqua Janus Prize and he has received fellowships from Fulbright, VONA, Tin House, and Bread Loaf. He’s writing the novel God Bless You, Otis Spunkmeyer, and a collection of stories: Leviathan Beach, among other oddities.

Joseph Mains was born and raised in the Sonoran Desert and now lives in Portland, Oregon. josephmains.com

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K. Desireé Milwood is a Brooklyn born Panamanian American poet and author, whoseworks include Poems for My Namesake in 2016, A Womb of Violet: An Anthology in 2019. Her work has been featured on Def Poetry Jam: An Evening of Healing, Power & Poetry. K. Desireé is also front woman for The Band Called Fuse, with albums such as Sucker Punch Gospel, Impossible Dream& the Rise Together Live album & concert movie.

Linda Vilhjálmsdóttir (b. 1958) is a poet, novelist, playwright and screenwriter. Her first collection, Bláþráður (Hanging by a Thread) was published in 1990, followed by Klakabörnin (The Children of Ice) in 1992. In 2003 she published a semi-autobiographical novel: Lygasaga (Story of Lies). Her plays have been staged at the Reykjavik City Theatre as well as other venues, and she has received two literary awards from the daily newspaper DV, the Jón-úr-Vör Poety Award and the Icelandic Booksellers’ Prize for the best volume of poetry in 2015, among others. The volume frelsi (liberty) was also nominated for the Nordic Council's Literature Prize (2017).

Lindsey Anne Baker lives, writes, and edits in Omaha, Neb. Her poetry has appeared in journals such as Sugar House Review, Sweet: A Literary Confection, and Slope’s Left Facing Bird. Her first chapbook, Fine Warm Pulse, was published in 2013 by dancing girl press. In 2015, Lindsey received an Individual Artist Fellowship from the Nebraska Arts Council. Her most recent full-length collection, This is Bad, was published in a limited run in 2019 by Gibraltar Editions.

Louis-Philippe Dalembert (born December 8, 1962 in Port-au-Prince, Haiti) is a Haitian poet and novelist, who writes in both French and Haitian creole. His works have been translated into several languages. He now divides his home between Paris and Port-au-Prince.

He has received several prizes and awards for his work, among them, a residency at the Villa Medicis in Rome, the Prix de la langue française, Polish and Swiss Goncourt Choice 2019, Goncourt des lycéens shortlist for The Mediterranean Wall and the Prix Orange du livre 2017, Grand Prix du roman de l’Académie française short list and Prix Médicis short list for his novel, Avant que les ombres s’effacent. He is also known to be an avid soccer fan.

Trained in literature and journalism, Dalembert first worked as a journalist in his homeland before leaving in 1986 for France where he obtained his Ph.D. at the Sorbonne in comparative literature and a masters in journalism from the Ecole Supérieure de Journalisme de Paris. Since then, he has
traveled widely as a teacher and visiting poet, and has taught briefly at the University of Wisconsin, the Freie Universität (Berlin) and the University of Bern and currently holds the Writer-in-Residence Chair at Sciences Po Paris.

His poetry has been published in several major literary journals in the US, and Dalembert was a contributor to the recently released anthology And We Came Out and Saw the Stars Again:Writers from Around the World on the COVID-19 Epidemic.

Spanish poet Luis Alemañ Tenas lives in Elche (Spain). He is a mentor teacher of pedagogy at the National University of Distance Education (UNED). He coordinated the annual poetry and performance festival Poe-kráticos from 2012 to 2016. He has presented his poems in poetry festivals throughout Spain, such as Edita, NoSomosTanRaros, Voces del Extremo, Festival Chilango Andaluz, Vociferio, etc. Bibliography: Injured Animals. Amarante, 2019, and About Body and Memory. Franz, 2020.
Photo by David Salas.

Lynnell Edwards is the author of five collections of poetry, most recently This Great Green Valley(Broadstone 2020) and the forthcoming The Bearable Slant of Light (Ren Hen Press, 2023). She is Associate Programs Director for the Spalding University Graduate School of Writing and MFA program, and book reviews editor for Good River Review.

Mara Vahratian lives in Boulder, CO and is originally from Michigan.

Marina Carreira is a queer Luso-American writer and multimedia artist from Newark, NJ. She is the author of “Save the Bathwater” (Get Fresh Books, 2018) and “I Sing to That Bird Knowing It Won’t Sing Back” (Finishing Line Press, 2017). Marina is a recipient of the Sundress Academy for the Arts Summer 2021 Residency fellowship and a finalist in the Platypus Press Broken River Prize 2020

Mary Jo Bang is the author of eight books of poems—including A Doll for Throwing and Elegy, which received the National Book Critics Circle Award—and translations of Dante’s Inferno, illustrated by Henrik Drescher, and Purgatorio. She teaches at Washington University in St. Louis.

Michael Joseph Walsh is the author of Innocence (CSU Poetry Center, 2022) and co-editor of APARTMENT Poetry. His poems, reviews, and translations from the Korean have appeared in the Brooklyn Rail, Denver Quarterly, DIAGRAM, Guernica, FOLDER, Fence, jubilat, and elsewhere. He lives in Denver.

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Nathalie Khankan is the author of QUIET ORIENT RIOT (2020, Omnidawn), winner of the 2021 California Book Award in Poetry. She straddles Scandinavian, Arabic, and American homes and hemispheres.

PJ Lombardo is a poet and essayist from northern New Jersey. He’s received an MFA from the University of Notre Dame and has worked as a publishing assistant for Action Books. His work is forthcoming from or has recently appeared in Dream Pop Journal, Protean Magazine, DREGINALD, Lana Turner Journal and the Brooklyn Rail.

Rebecca Macijeski is Creative Writing Program Coordinator and Assistant Professor at Northwestern State University in Louisiana. Her poems have appeared in The Missouri Review, Poet Lore, Barrow Street, Nimrod, The Journal, Sycamore Review, The Cincinnati Review, Fairy Tale Review, Puerto del Sol, and many others.

Saddiq Dzukogi (@SaddiqDzukogi) is the author of Your Crib, My Qibla, forthcoming from the University of Nebraska Press in 2021. His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Oxford Review of Books, Kenyon Review, Oxford Poetry, Salamander, Southeast Review, and Obsidian, among others. His chapbook Inside the Flower Room was selected by Kwame Dawes and Chris Abani for the APBF New-Generation African Poets Series. He was a finalist for the 2017 Brunel International African Poetry Prize. Saddiq is currently a PhD student in English at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln.

Simon Voigt is a musician based in Denmark. In 2019 he founded the interdisciplinary platform ØRENLYD, which hosts and creates projects orbiting around sonic exploration, supporting communities and raising awareness for the natural environment through sensuousness. During the COVID-19 pandemic, as all activities and performances were suspended, Simon found a new home in reading and writing poetry. Action, Spectacle is the first magazine to publish his work. Simon is currently working on his first full length poetry manuscript.

T.J. DiFrancesco is a writer living in St. Louis. A resident of New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina, he went on to earn an MFA in Poetry from the Iowa Writers' Workshop. He's currently a marketing copywriter. His work has been published in Rattle, Best New Poets, The National Poetry Review, Columbia Poetry Review and elsewhere.

Tomaž Šalamun (1941-2014) published more than 55 books of poetry in his native Slovenian. Translated into over 25 languages, his poetry received numerous awards, including the Jenko Prize, the Prešeren Prize, the European Prize for Poetry, and the Mladost Prize. In the 1990s, he served for several years as the Cultural Attaché for the Slovenian Embassy in New York, and he held visiting professorships at various universities in the U.S.

Zach Peckham is a writer, musician, and educator. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in jubilat, Territory, Poetry Northwest, on the Academy of American Poets website, and elsewhere. He currently teaches at Cleveland State, the Cleveland Institute of Art, and is managing editor at Cleveland Review of Books.