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Suzanne Frischkorn is a poet and essayist. She is the author of four poetry books, most recently Whipsaw (Anhinga Press, 2024), and Fixed Star (JackLeg Press 2022), as well as five chapbooks. She's the recipient of The Writer's Center Emerging Writers Fellowship for her book, Lit Windowpane, the Aldrich Poetry Award for her chapbook, Spring Tide, selected by Mary Oliver, a Connecticut Individual Artist Fellowship, and a 2023 SWWIM Residency Award at The Betsy. Her writing has recently appeared, or is forthcoming in Denver Quarterly, North American Review, Salamander, South Dakota Review, Latino Poetry: A Library of America Anthology, edited by Rigoberto González, Braving the Body, and A Mollusk Without a Shell: Essays on Self-Care for Writers. She is an editor at $ – Poetry is Currency, and serves on the Terrain.org editorial board.

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Thaddeus Rutkowski grew up in Central Pennsylvania and is the author of eight books of prose and poetry, most recently Safe Colors: A novel in short fictions (2023). His novel Haywire won the Asian American Writers' Workshop's members' choice award, and his memoir Guess and Check won an Electronic Literature award for multicultural fiction. He teaches at Medgar Evers College and Columbia University and received a fiction writing fellowship from the New York Foundation for the Arts. He has been a resident writer at Yaddo, MacDowell and other colonies, and has been a sponsored reader in Berlin, Hong Kong, and Singapore. He lives with his wife in Manhattan.

Michael Czyzniejewski is the author of four collections of stories, most recently The Amnesiac in the Maze (Braddock Avenue Books, 2023). He serves as Editor-in-Chief of Moon City Press and Moon City Review, as well as Interviews Editor of SmokeLong Quarterly. He has received a fellowship from the National Endowment of the Arts and two Pushcart Prizes.

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jason b. crawford is a writer born in Washington, DC, and raised in Lansing, MI. Their debut full-length Year of the Unicorn Kidz is out from Sundress Publications. crawford holds a Bachelor of Science in Creative Writing from Eastern Michigan University. They are a 2023 Lambda Literary Emerging LGBTQ Voices fellow. Their work can be found or is forthcoming in POETRY Magazine, Beloit Poetry Journal, and The Journal, among others. They hold an MFA in poetry from The New School. Their second collection YEET! was the winner of the 2023 Omnidawn 1st/2nd Book Prize and will be published in Fall 2025.

Jennifer Litt is author of the poetry collection Strictly from Hunger (Accents Publishing, 2022) and the chapbook, Maximum Speed Through Zero (Blue Lyra Press, 2016). Her work has been published in ellipsis…literature & art, Blue Earth Review, Gulf Stream, Jet Fuel Review, Naugatuck River Review, South Florida Poetry Journal, Stone Canoe, SWWIM Every Day, and Witchery. She lives in Fort Lauderdale with her cat Tiger Lily and works part-time as a freelance editor.

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