Stella Wong is a poet with degrees from Harvard and the Iowa Writer's Workshop. Wong's poems have appeared or are forthcoming in POETRY, Colorado Review, Missouri Review, Indiana Review, Cortland Review, Tupelo Quarterly, BOAAT, Narrative, Poetry Northwest, and the LA Review of Books. She is the winner of the 2016 Academy of American Poets University Prize and the 2018 Two Sylvias Press Chapbook Prize judged by Danez Smith.

Kay Ulanday Barrett is the author of the poetry collection When The Chant Comes (Topside Press, 2016). Their poems also appear in the anthologies Subject To Change (2017), Outside the XY: Queer Black & Brown Masculinity (2016), and Writing the Walls Down: A Convergence of LGBTQ Voices (2015), and in magazines such as The Margins and EOAGH. Barrett has spoken, performed, or facilitated workshops at several colleges, including Princeton University and the University of Pennsylvania; museums, including the Brooklyn Museum and the Chicago Historical Society; and in social justice communities. They have been the recipient or finalist for many honors, including the Gwendolyn Brooks Open Mic Award, the Windy City Times Pride Literary Poetry Prize and their Chicago’s LGBTQ 30 Under 30 award, and were named a Filipino American History Month Hero by 18 Million Rising. They have received fellowships from the Home School, Drunken Boat, and Lambda Literary.

A graduate of The Iowa Writers’ Workshop, Devon Walker-Figueroa serves as co-founding editor of Horsethief Books and as an editor at Killscreen. Her poetry has recently appeared in The Nation, Poetry, American Poetry Review, Ploughshares, and Berfrois.