Lucien Darjeun Meadows was born in Virginia and raised in West Virginia. Author of In the Hands of the River (Hub City Press, 2022), he has received awards from the Academy of American Poets, American Alliance of Museums, and American Association of Geographers. Meadows works as the managing editor for Legacy Magazine and serves as a volunteer ranger assistant on the unceded Arapaho, Cheyenne, and Ute lands of northern Colorado. 

Brenda Iijima is a poet, novelist, playwright, choreographer, and visual artist. She is the author of nine books of poetry and the novel Presence (Georgia Review Books, 2024). Her involvements occur at the intersections and mutations of genre, mode, receptivity, and field of study. Her current work engages submerged and occluded histories, other-than-human modes of expression, and telluric awareness in all forms. Iijima is the founding editor-publisher of Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs. She lives in Brooklyn. 

Siobhan Hart is a lesbian writer from Queens, New York. Their poetry has appeared in New Delta Review, Tupelo Quarterly, and Bullshit Lit, and has been nominated for the annual Best of the Net anthology. Their critical work has appeared in The American Poetry Review and Fugue. She holds an MFA in poetry from Rutgers University–Newark.