Originally from Oxford, Ohio, Ava Hofmann is a trans writer currently living and working in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. She has poems published in or forthcoming from Poetry Daily, Black Warrior Review, Fence, Anomaly, Best American Experimental Writing 2020, The Fanzine, Datableed, and elsewhere. Her latest chapbook is "that i want", published by Above/Ground press. Her full length collection "[...]", was published in November 2021 by Astrophil Press. Her next book is forthcoming from Inside the Castle in 2022.. She also edits SPORAZINE, a magazine of experimental writing written by trans people. Her website is www.nothnx.com and her twitter is @st_somatic

David Joez Villaverde is an interdisciplinary artist who lives in Detroit. His visual work has appeared in THRUSH, The Rumpus, ctrl + v, and elsewhere. He can be found at schadenfreudeanslip.com

Frances Cannon is a writer and artist who teaches at the Vermont College of Fine Arts and The Vermont Commons School. She is the author and illustrator of several books of hybrid text and artwork: Walter Benjamin: Reimagined, The Highs and Lows of Shapeshift Ma and Big-Little Frank, Tropicalia, Predator/Play, and Uranian Fruit.
Website: frankyfrancescannon.com
Instagram: @frankyfrancescannon
Twitter: @francesartist

Junie Désil is a poet. Born of immigrant (Haitian) parents on the Traditional Territories of the Kanien’kehá:ka in the island known as Tiohtià:ke (Montréal), raised in Treaty 1 Territory (Winnipeg). Junie’s debut poetry collection Eat Salt|Gaze at the Ocean (TalonBooks, 2020) was a finalist for the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize. Credit for author pic: Joy Unaegbu


Larissa Lai has written eight books, including Salt Fish Girl, The Tiger Flu, and Iron Goddess of Mercy. Recipient of the Duggins Novelist's Prize, the Lambda Literary Award, the Astraea Award, and finalist for the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize and eight more, she is active in cultural organizing, experimental poetry and speculative fiction communities. She holds a Canada Research Chair at the University of Calgary where she directs The Insurgent Architects' House for Creative Writing.

Hiromi Goto is an emigrant from Japan who gratefully resides on Lekwungen Territory. Her novels include, Chorus of Mushrooms, The Kappa Child, and Half World. Her most recent publication, Shadow Life, is a graphic novel with artist Ann Xu. She can be found on IG @hiromigotowrites.

Handa is a cartoonist, animator and educator.

In addition to making comics, Jake Kwon is an accomplished painter.

Kalen is a compulsive cartoonist, and ingenious character designer and world builder.

Layla Benitez-James is a 2022 NEA fellow in translation and the author of God Suspected My Heart Was a Geode but He Had to Make Sure, selected by Major Jackson for Cave Canem’s 2017 Toi Derricotte & Cornelius Eady Chapbook Prize and published by Jai-Alai Books in Miami. Layla has served as the Director of Literary Outreach for the Unamuno Author Series in Madrid and is the editor of its poetry festival anthology, Desperate Literature. Poems and essays can be found at Black Femme Collective, Virginia Quarterly Review, Latino Book Review, Poetry London, Acentos Review, Hinchas de Poesia. Audio essays about translation are available at Asymptote Journal and book reviews of contemporary poetry collections can be found at Poetry Foundation's Harriet Books.

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Marc Palm is an Eisner nominated cartoonist who likes to observe the highs and lows of the multiverse.

Maldita is a printmaker, cartoonist, street artist and recluse. She can be contacted on instagram at @maldita.soy

Meg Reynolds is a poet, artist, and teacher in Burlington, VT. Her work has appeared in PANK, Mid-American Review, Fugue, Sixth Finch, The Offing, Inverted Syntax, and the anthology Monster Verse: Poems Human and Inhuman as well as With You: Withdrawn Poems of the #Metoo Movement. Her poetry comic collection entitled, "A Comic Year," is forthcoming from Finishing Line Press in October 2021.

Rachel J Fenton is a working-class writer living in Te Waipounamu. Shortlisted for the Text Publishing Prize, she won the Auckland University of Technology Graphic Fiction Prize, was awarded a Creative New Zealand Arts Grant to research, write, and draw a graphic biography of Mary Taylor, and a chapbook of poems about the research process, Beerstorming with Charlotte Brontë in New York, is published by The Ethel Zine and Micro Press. I live in a little town called Oamaru, in North Otago.

Sandra Santana the author of four books of poems: Es el verbo tan frágil (Pre-Textos, 2008), Y ¡PUM! un tiro al pajarito (Arrebato, 2014), Marcha por el desierto (Pregunta Ediciones, 2004/2020) and La parte blanda (Free Poetry of Russia, 2020; forthcoming from Pre-Textos in Spain). Translations of her poems into various languages (including English, German, Portuguese, Dutch, Russian, Romanian, Armenian, and Chinese) have appeared in magazines and anthologies, including Forrest Gander's Panic Cure: Poetry from Spain for the 21st Century (Shearsman, 2013, UK; Otis Books, 2014, US). She's also the author of the critical volume El laberinto de la palabra: Karl Kraus en la Viena de fin de siglo (Acantilado, 2011) for which she received the City of Barcelona Essay Prize. Her translations include books by Ernst Jandl (Si no puede hacer nada por su cabeza, al menos arréglese la gorra, Arrebato, 2019), Karl Kraus (Palabras en versos, Pre-textos, 2005) and Peter Handke (Vivir sin poesía, Bartleby Ediciones, 2009), and others. In 2019, her poems were selected by Jenny Holzer to be projected in an installation at the Bilbao Guggenheim. She currently teaches Aesthetics and Theory of Art at the University of La Laguna on Tenerife.

Tara Black is an Aotearoa cartoonist and art school drop-out. She can often be found in the front row of book events, illustrating authors and their ideas. You can find her work on The Sapling, Stasis Journal, The Spinoff, The Suburban Review and her website, taracomics.com. Her first graphic novel, This Is Not a Pipe, was published by Victoria University Press in 2020.