PORSHA MONIQUE ALLEN is a native and resident of Richmond, Virginia. She received her MFA from Queens University of Charlotte. Her work has appeared and is forthcoming in The Scene & Heard Journal, Scalawag Magazine, Obsidian, Rattle, & FEED. She was selected as a semi-finalist for Naugatuck River Review’s 12th Annual Narrative Poetry Contest. You can find her on Twitter @porshamallen.

ROBERT BEVERIDGE (he/him) makes noise (xterminal.bandcamp.com) and writes poetry in Akron, OH. Recent/upcoming appearances in Stone of Madness, Thirteen Myna Birds, and Caustic Frolic, among others.

GERARD CABRERA (he/him/his) is a gay Puerto Rican writer originally from Springfield, Massachusetts. He holds degrees from Brandeis University (1985), Hunter College School of Public Health (1995), and Northeastern University School of Law (1999). He has represented people with HIV in housing and family court, practiced health and regulatory law, and served in New York City government. Currently he works as a court attorney in child protective proceedings in the New York State Family Court system. His work has appeared in literary journals such as ACENTOS REVIEW, JONATHAN, and KWELI. He has attended Bread Loaf, The Writers Studio, and completed a residency at The Camargo Foundation in Cassis, France. In 2019 he was interviewed about his novel Homo Novus on CNN en Español.

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JOANNA CLEARY (she/her) is an emerging artist and recent graduate of University of Waterloo interested in using poetry to explore the intersection of sexuality, shame, and the body. Her work has previously appeared or is forthcoming in The /tƐmz/ Review, The Hunger, Gordon Square Review, Every Pigeon, Always Crashing and Subterranean Blue Poetry, among others. Follow her on Instagram @joannacleary121.