Darrell Dela Cruz [he/him] is just a middle-aged chubby gay Filipino/Japanese dude who writes poetry and has a poetry analysis blog: ddcpoetry.blogspot.com. He has a poetry collection This is a Love Poem, Listen (Tourane Poetry Press, 2024).

Anaís is an artist, organizer and body-worker whose practice is informed by somatic experiencing, body-mind centering, dance, Traditional Chinese Medicine and their spirituality. She supports QTBIPOC with their mind/body/spirit attunement as a source of calm, power, inspiration and resilience. Their writing is informed by their mixed Dominican background and familial Afro-Dominican spiritual practices.They believe in the collective revolutionary potential of our bodies as a point of radical care, rest and resistance. They have performed at Baby's All Right, Judson Memorial Church and published in BOMB Magazine (September 2023), a gathering together (Fall 2023 edition) and the Dominican Writers’ Association (Spring 2025). 

Vikesh Kapoor is a multidisciplinary artist from rural Pennsylvania. His poems have appeared in The Normal School. He has received scholarships from Poets House, Kundiman and Grub Street. In 2024, Kapoor attended the Tin House Winter Workshop. He was a finalist for The Kenyon Review 2024 Poetry Contest and a Brooklyn Poets 2024 Fellowship. He can be reached at vikeshkapoor.com

C. Ree (Christina Ree) is a visual artist, writer, film programmer, and plant addict based in California. Her notable co-authored writings include "A Glossary of Haunting" (2013) with Eve Tuck and "Before Dispossession, or Surviving It” (2016) with Angie Morrill, Eve Tuck, and Super Futures Haunt Qollective (SFHQ) - one of several artist collaboratives Ree co-founded.  

 Her individual and collaborative work with SFHQ and artist Reanne Estrada has exhibited nationally and internationally including at the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego. Her work has also been written about in multiple publications including Radical Futurisms by TJ Demos, (Sternberg Press, 2023). Ree’s current projects combine historical research with themes of collaboration, dissonance, the speculative, and play.

 One of Ree’s most meaningful obsessions is programming alongside a group of wild-eyed mad scientists at the San Diego Asian Film Festival, one of the largest and longest running showcases of Asian and Asian American film in North America.

Amy Roa (she/her) is a Dominican American writer and naturalist. She is the author of the poetry collection Radioactive Wolves (Steel Toe Books, 2023). Her work has appeared in The Yale Review, The Cincinnati Review, Gulf Coast, Salamander, Copper Nickel, and ANMLY, among others. Originally from New York City, she currently calls the San Francisco Bay Area home.

Mamiko Suzuki is a bilingual Japanese-American poet from New York City. Her pronouns are she/her. She lives and teaches Japanese language and culture in Houston. She is currently working on a collection of poems that play with multilingualism and nonsense. She is co-parent to four cats and has stretched her mild Japanese palette to include Southern Indian food cooked by her partner.

Irene Villaseñor has received support from Atlantic Center for the Arts, Lambda Literary, Lighthouse Writers Workshop, and the Santa Fe Art Institute. Her manuscript, Get Lost Colonizer: Erasures from the Future, was a runner up for The Center for Book Arts' 2024 Annual Chapbook Contest.

Ariel Zhang (she/her) is a Chinese-American writer from California. She believes in poetry as a form of resistance and joy. Her work has been recognized by the ruth weiss Foundation, Girls Write Now, and more. She is fond of sunsets, photographs, and bagels with cream cheese.