Linda Michel-Cassidy writes criticism and reviews for venues such as The Rumpus, Electric Literature, Heavy Feather Review, and Tupelo Quarterly, where she is senior reviews editor. For many years, she was a contributing editor at Entropy Magazine. Her writing appears in Rattle, Catamaran, Tahoma Review, No Tokens, Sky Island, and others. She is a metalsmith, installation artist, and teacher. Her story collection When We Were Hardcore, is forthcoming in early 2024. She holds an MFA in visual arts from the California College of the Arts, another in fiction from the Bennington Writing Seminars, a third in poetry from Vermont College, as well as a J.D. from McGeorge, which she rarely uses. Her story collection When We Were Hardcore, is forthcoming in early 2024. She lives on a houseboat in Northern California. More at: lmichelcassidy.com Koss is a queer writer and artist with over 220 publications in journals such as San Pedro River Review, Beaver Mag, Sage Cigarettes, diode poetry, Bending Genres, Five Points, Chiron, Prelude, Anti-Heroin Chic, Petrichor, Cincinnati Review (miCro), Gone Lawn, Outlook Springs, Spillway, and many others. They had work in Best Small Fictions 2020, Bending Genre's Get Bent, and diode's Beyond the Frame. They've received numerous Pushcart and BoTN nominations in poetry, CNF, fiction, and art. Find out more about them at https://koss-works.com. Yael Valencia Aldana is the author of the forthcoming poetry collection, Black Mestiza from the University Press of Kentucky in 2025, and of the chapbook, Alien(s) from Bottlecap Press. She is the winner of the University Press of Kentucky New Poetry and Prose Series Prize 2023 in poetry. She is an Associate Editor at West Trade Review, a Guest Editor at Palette Poetry, Frontier Poetry, and Craft Literary. She lives in South Florida with her son and too many pets. You can find her online at YaelAldana.com. Her chapbook is available here https://yaelaldana.com/chapbook/