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Laura Booth lives in San Francisco and restores habitat in Marin County’s Tennessee Valley. She hosts an open mic at Black Bird Books San Francisco and edits for Trail Crew Stories. Her poems have appeared in Emocean.Surf, West Marin Review and Poets Reading the News. She was raised on five acres in southeastern Pennsylvania.

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Kate Burnham works for the Sicangu Lakota teaching English and foundational writing courses at Sinte Gleska University. She researches in Indigenous literature, foodways, ecology, and activism while continuing to write since completing her MFA in creative writing through Arcadia University. She lives with her partner, Pat, and their son, Bob, in Mission, South Dakota. 

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Christine Deakers is a poet who lives in San Francisco. Her poems have been published in Berkeley Poetry Review, The Attic (Trinity College Dublin), Poets Reading the News, and others. Christine was awarded the Ina Coolbirth Poetry Prize at UC Berkeley in 2012. She publishes poems weekly at deakhaus.substack.com. 

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Anangsha Haldar (she/her) is from India and is pursuing a postgraduate degree in Psychology. Poetry has almost always been her refuge whenever she needs to escape the drudgery of life. Her work has appeared in student publications like Bath Time and journals like the Sante Fe Literary Review.

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Christine Lias is a longtime California resident, who lives in Sonoma County. She earned a BS in Journalism from San Jose State University and MPA from San Francisco State University. Christine has been a news editor, reporter and grant writer, among other hats. She studied poetry writing at Berkeley City College and has been published.

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Jasmine Marshall Armstrong is a writing teacher, journalist and poet. She has published poetry in Cathexis Northwest Press, America Magazine, Poets Reading the News and numerous anthologies. Her full-length collections, The School Custodian’s Daughter and Emergence have been finalists for several book awards. She holds an MFA in Poetry from Fresno State University, and an MA in World Cultures/Humanities from the University of California. She lives in Bozeman, Montana. 

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Susana Praver-Pérez is the author of two full-length collections of poetry. Hurricanes, Love Affairs, & Other Disasters received the 2022 PEN Oakland Josephine Miles Award. Return Against the Flow was chosen by both Ms. Magazine and NYU’s Latinx Project as one of their top 30+ poetry picks for 2023-24. susanapraverperez.com

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Guillermo Rebollo Gil is a writer, translator, attorney and professor in Puerto Rico. His poems have appeared in BOMB, Fence, Poetry Northwest, The Hopkins Review, and elsewhere. He has a poetry collection scheduled for publication with Gasher Press in 2025. Es el papá de Lucas Imar y Elián Iré.

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Susan J. Wurtzburg received 1st place in the Land of Enchantment Award, and the Save Our Earth Award, (National Federation of State Poetry Societies) 2024; and was a semi-finalist in the Crab Creek Review’s Poetry Competition, 2022, and the Naugatuck River Review’s Narrative Poetry Contest, 2022. Her poetry book, Ravenous Words (co-author Lisa Lucas) is under contract.