Molly Bendall is the author of five books of poetry, most recently Watchful from Omnidawn. Lately poems have appeared in Bennington Review, Datableed, Volt, and Lana Turner. She teaches at the University of Southern California.

Chia-Lun Chang is the author of One Day We Become Whites (No, Dear/Small Anchor Press, 2016). Recent work appears in the Brooklyn Poets, Poetry Society of America, Pinwheel, Apogee, and Sink Review. She has received support from Jerome Hill Artist Fellowship, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Tofte Lake Center, Vermont Studio Center and Poets House. Born and raised in New Taipei City, Taiwan, she lives in New York City.

Audrey Deng was born in Texas and now lives in New York. In school she studied comparative literature and creative writing. Please reach her @6iji4d3.

Shyanne Figueroa Bennett is a Brooklyn poet with roots in Panama, Jamaica, and Puerto Rico. Her work has been published in Oversound, The Acentos Review, and Queen Mob's Tea House, among other places. Currently, she is an MFA candidate at Columbia University, where she is a recipient of a Chair's Fellowship and a Creative Writing Teaching Fellowship.

Alan Gilbert is the author of two books of poetry, The Treatment of Monuments and Late in the Antenna Fields, as well as a collection of essays, articles, and reviews entitled Another Future: Poetry and Art in a Postmodern Twilight.

Anastasios Karnazes is author of Rainbow Sonnets 20 (The Song Cave) and editor of Theaphora.

Sofia Majstorovic is a waitress based in Morongo Valley, CA. She wore her graduation gown unzipped with a dress from the fast fashion retailer "Cider" during Columbia University's massively tardy MFA commencement in May 2021. Her work has appeared in Cinema Scope, Forever Magazine, Tilted House, and Downtime Magazine, among others. She is the co-founder and editor of RECLINER.

Sawako Nakayasu is an artist working with language, performance, and translation – separately and in various combinations. She has lived mostly in the US and Japan, briefly in France and China, and translates from Japanese. Her books include Some Girls Walk Into The Country They Are From (Wave Books), Pink Waves (forthcoming, Omnidawn), and The Ants (Les Figues Press), Texture Notes (Letter Machine Editions), and the translation of The Collected Poems of Chika Sagawa (Canarium Books), as well as Mouth: Eats Color – Sagawa Chika Translations, Anti-translations, & Originals (reprint forthcoming, Wave Books), a multilingual work of both original and translated poetry. She is co-editor, with Eric Selland, of an anthology of 20th Century Japanese Poetry (forthcoming, New Directions). She teaches at Brown University. Website: http://www.sawakonakayasu.net/

Three Poems from Some Girls Walk Into The Country They Are From

Ryan Petersen is a writer based in New York City. He's previously published in Hobart, The End Magazine, and Expat Press. IG and Twitter: @ryandpetersen.

Will Randick is a twenty-nine year old poet living in New York City.

Jimmy Symington IV's work can be seen in Cathexis Northwest Press, and in the bilingual Spanish press Fragments. Accepting donations @club_a_nyc.