Will Stanier lives in Tucson, where he's an MFA candidate in poetry at the University of Arizona. Before Tucson, he lived in Athens, Georgia, where he co-hosted the reading series Dude, Where’s My Poetry? His chapbook, Fakie, is out byInvalid Press.

Tyler Friend is (a) an apricot/human hybrid; (b) from Tennessee; (c) the author of Ampersonate; (d) avoiding choosing a preferred pronoun. https://tylerfriend.ink/ 

Philip Schaefer’s first collection of poems Bad Summon won the Agha Shahid Ali Poetry Prize from the University of Utah Press and will be released Summer 2017. He is the author of three chapbooks, two of which were co-written with friend and poet Jeff Whitney. He won the 2016 Meridian Editor’s Prize in poetry and has work out or due out in Kenyon Review, Prairie Schooner, Thrush Poetry Journal, Guernica, The Cincinnati Review, Salt Hill, Bat City Review, The Adroit Journal, Baltimore Review, and Passages North among others. He tends bar in Missoula, MT.

Prairie M. Faul is a flagrant transsexual and the author/designer of Burnt Sugarcane (GloWorm Press). Her work can be found in TAGVVERK, Apogee, Reality Beach, Cosmonauts Ave. and elsewhere. She is running from something. 

Erin Elizabeth Smith is the Creative Director at the Sundress Academy for the Arts and the author of two full-length poetry collections, The Naming of Strays (Gold Wake Press 2011) and The Fear of Being Found, which was rereleased from Zoetic Press in 2016. Her poetry and nonfiction have appeared in numerous journals, including Ecotone, Mid-American, Florida Review, 32 Poems, Willow Springs, Third Coast, and Crab Orchard Review. She also teaches in the English Department at the University of Tennessee where she is also the Jack E. Reese Writer in the Library and serves as the Managing Editor for Sundress Publications and The Wardrobe. 

Terrance Wedin is a professional bartender and an adjunct instructor at Columbus College of Art and Design. His work has appeared in Esquire, Ninth Letter, Hobart, New World Writing, Smartish Pace, and other publications.

James Croal Jackson is the author of The Frayed Edge of Memory (Writing Knights Press, 2017). His poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in FLAPPERHOUSE, Rust + Moth, The Bitter Oleander, and elsewhere. He edits The Mantle and is a former winner of the William Redding Memorial Poetry Contest. Find him in Columbus, Ohio or at jimjakk.com.
 

Ashley Mares is the author of Maddening Creatures (Aldrich Press, forthcoming), The Deer Longs for Streams of Water (Flutter Press) A Dark, Breathing Heart (dancing girl press), and Killer (Ghost City Press, forthcoming). Her poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in Stirring, Whiskey Island, Sugar House Review, Glass Poetry Press, Prelude, PANK, and others. She is currently completing her J.D. in Monterey, Ca, where she lives with her husband. Read more of her poetry at ashleymarespoetry.wordpress.com and follow her @ash_mares2. 

Ariana Turiansky graduated from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas with an MFA in poetry. Her work has appeared in Leveler, ILK Journal, Likewise Folio, and elsewhere. She currently lives and writes in Las Vegas.

Kailey Tedesco's books She Used to be on a Milk Carton (April Gloaming Publications) and These Ghosts of Mine, Siamese (Dancing Girl Press) are both forthcoming. She is the editor-in-chief of a Rag Queen Periodical and a performing member of the NYC Poetry Brothel. Her work has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize. You can find her poetry featured or forthcoming in Prelude, Prick of the Spindle, Bellevue Literary Review, Vanilla Sex Magazine, and more. For more information, please visit kaileytedesco.com. 

Stacey Gruver is a poet and artist who lives and works in Baltimore, Maryland. In 2014, she was a recipient of the Maryland Individual Artists Award. Her work has appeared in Strange Horizons, Eye to the Telescope, and The Puritan.