Haley Lasché is the co-founder and co-editor of the poetry press Beauty School Editions and the founder editor and designer of the literary magazine Concision Poetry Journal. She teaches writing and literature courses at colleges and universities in and around St. Paul. She also has two poetry chapbooks: Where It Leads (Red Bird Chapbooks, 2016) and Blood and Survivor (Locofo Chaps, 2017), and her premier poetry collection, One, is due out in fall 2023.

Chelsea B. DesAutels is the author of A Dangerous Place (Sarabande Books, 2021), named a New York Times Editors’ Choice. Her work appears in Adroit Journal, Copper Nickel, Massachusetts Review, Missouri Review, Ninth Letter, Ploughshares, and elsewhere, and has been featured on The Slowdown podcast. Chelsea has received support from the Anderson Center at Tower View, Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, Inprint, and Tin House Summer Workshop. She lives with her family in Minneapolis.

Joshua Gottlieb-Miller received his PhD and MFA in Poetry from the University of Houston, where he also served as Poetry Editor and Digital Nonfiction Editor for Gulf Coast. Joshua has published poetry, essays, scholarship, hybrid, and multimedia writing, and been awarded fellowships from the MacDowell Colony, the Tent Writing Conference at the Yiddish Book Center, and elsewhere. Newer poetry appears in Brooklyn Rail, miCRo, Concision, and elsewhere. His debut collection, The Art of Bagging, won Conduit’s Marystina Santiestevan First Book Prize, and his second book, Dybbuk Americana, is forthcoming from Wesleyan University Press. Joshua lives in Houston with his wife and son. http://www.joshuagottliebmiller.com/