J. A. Lee is the author of the chapbook Words That (Airfoil), and has written about art for a number of periodicals, exhibition catalogues, and books, including The LAND/an art site (The LAND/an art site, Inc.) and Land Art / New Mexico (Radius). He has been a bookseller in Albuquerque, New Mexico, for more than thirty years.

Aaron Lelito is a writer and editor from Buffalo, NY. His micro-chapbook, Secret Meetings, was published by Ghost City Press in 2025, and his poetry collection, The Half Turn, was published in 2023. His work has appeared in Sage Magazine, Door Is A Jar, Stonecoast Review, Barzakh, SPECTRA Poets, and Santa Fe Review. He is EIC of Wild Roof Journal. Instagram: @aaronlelito / Bluesky: @aaronlelito.bsky.social

Andrés López is an undergraduate writer studying English and Women & Gender Studies at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Andrés’s work covers intersection of queerness and latinidad in America and beyond and has been published in Laurus Literary Magazine and will be published in forthcoming issues of Nude Bruce Review and J Journal. Andrés is now an editor for Laurus and will be editor-in-chief next year. Instagram: @theandreslopez.poetry

LindaAnn LoSchiavo, a native New Yorker, is a member of BFS, HWA, SFPA, and The Dramatists Guild. Released three titles in 2024: Always Haunted: Hallowe’en Poems, Apprenticed to the Night, and Felones de Se: Poems About Suicide. Forthcoming: Cancer Courts My Mother and Vampire Verses. Accolades: Elgin Award, Chrysalis BREW Project Awards, The World’s Best Magazine’s Book of Excellence Award, and Spotlyts Story Award. Bluesky: @ghostlyverse.bsky.social / X: @Mae_Westside

Lydia Lunch is passionate, confrontational, and bold. Whether attacking the patriarchy, turning the sexual into the political, or whispering to the brokenhearted, her fierce energy defines her work. The Queen of No Wave—writer, musician, poet, and performer—has released countless projects, collaborated widely, published books translated into nine languages, and spent decades touring, teaching, and simply refusing to just shut up. Website: lydia-lunch.net / Instagram: @lydia.lunch.official

Al Maginnes is the author of fifteen collections of poetry, most recently Second Line (Redhawk Publications 2025) and Fellow Survivors (Redhawk 2023). His new collection What There Is will be published by Seed Bed Press. He lives in Raleigh, NC.

Vanessa Matic is a multi-talented artist, and curator and host of Agape Lodge Poetry Society. You will find her work in Romance & Revolution, issued by Tough Poets Press, and again in American Dreams in Havoc Heaven, from Hat & Beard Press. Instagram: @miamatixx

Maisie May is a passionate pencil artist inspired by various themes such as portraiture, social issues, anime and street photography. From childhood wall doodles to sketching stick figures and watching Art Attack, her love for art bloomed early. Featured in Threads of Home, she celebrates African heritage and identity, while cherishing meaningful connections with art enthusiasts and creative souls. Instagram: @maisie_m.arts

Gillian McCain is the co-author (with Legs McNeil) of Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk, which has been translated into twelve languages. She is also the author of three books of poetry: Tilt, Religion, and Descent of the Dolls (with Jeffery Conway and David Trinidad). Instagram: @gmcfries

Bruce McRae, a Canadian musician, is a multiple Pushcart nominee with poems published in hundreds of magazines such as Poetry, Rattle, and the North American Review. The winner of the 2020 Libretto prize and author of four poetry collections and seven chapbooks, his next book, Boxing In The Bone Orchard, came out in the Spring of 2025 via Frontenac House.