ISSAM ZINEH is author of Unceded Land (Trio House Press, 2022), an Editors’ Selection and finalist for the Medal Provocateur, Housatonic Book Award, and Balcones Prize for Poetry. His most recent writing appears or is forthcoming in AGNI, Gulf Coast, Prairie Schooner, The Yale Review, and Columbia Journal, and the anthology Heaven Looks Like Us: Palestinian Poetry (Haymarket Books). He lives on Paskestikweya land (Baltimore, MD). www.issamzineh.com.

STEVEN LEYVA was born in New Orleans, Louisiana and raised in Houston, Texas. His poems have appeared in Smartish Pace, Scalawag, Nashville Review, jubilat, The Hopkins Review, Prairie Schooner, and Best American Poetry 2020. He is a Cave Canem fellow and author of the chapbook Low Parish, as well as author of The Understudy’s Handbook, which won the Jean Feldman Poetry Prize from Washington Writers Publishing House. His second book of poems, The Opposite of Cruelty, is forthcoming from Blair Publishing in Spring 2025 Steven holds an MFA from the University of Baltimore, where he is an associate professor at the Klein Family School of Communications Design.

SYLVIA JONES lives in Baltimore, MD. She works as a creative writing adjunct for Goucher College and George Washington University and as poetry editor at Black Lawrence Press. She earned her MFA from American University. She also serves as a reader for the journal Ploughshares. She recently served as a 2021-22 Stadler Fellow at Bucknell University. Her writing appears in DIAGRAM, Smartish Pace, the Santa Clara Review, Shenandoah, R & R Journal, The Hopkins Review, Poet Lore and other notable publications. Her first book, Television Fathers, is forthcoming from Meekling Press in October 2024.