HANNAH ENSOR writes poems in Tucson, Arizona. She is a member of the deep-ocean noise-pop duo Algae & Tentacles, a co-editor of textsound.org, and serves on the board of directors of Casa Libre en la Solana, a literary arts nonprofit. She received her MFA in poetry at the University of Arizona, and is from Ann Arbor, Michigan. You can find her poems and criticism elsewhere on the internet at Spork Press, Evening Will Come, Essay Daily, and Network Awesome.
CACONRAD is the son of white trash asphyxiation whose childhood included selling cut flowers along the highway for his mother & helping her shoplift. He is the author of A BEAUTIFUL MARSUPIAL AFTERNOON: New (Soma)tics (WAVE Books, 2012), The Book of Frank (WAVE Books, 2010), Advanced Elvis Course (Soft Skull Press, 2009), Deviant Propulsion (Soft Skull Press, 2006), & a collaboration with poet Frank Sherlock titled The City Real & Imagined (Factory School, 2010). He is a 2011 Pew Fellow, a 2012 Ucross Fellow, a 2013 Banff Fellow, & a 2013 MacDowell Fellow. Visit him online at http://CAConrad.blogspot.com.
LO KWA MEI-EN is the author of Yearling, winner of the 2013 Kundiman Prize and forthcoming from Alice James Books. Her poems can be found in Black Warrior Review, Crazyhorse, Gulf Coast, The Kenyon Review, West Branch, and other journals. She hails from Ohio.
JOE MILAZZO is the author of The Terraces (Das Arquibancadas) (Little Red Leaves Textile Series, 2012). His writings have appeared in Antennae, Everyday Genius, The Collagist, Drunken Boat, Black Clock, & elsewhere. Along with Janice Lee & Eric Lindley, he edits the online interdisciplinary arts journal [out of nothing] (http://www.outofnothing.org). Joe lives & works in Dallas, TX, & his virtual location is http://www.slowstudies.net/jmilazzo.
MATHIAS SVALINA is the author of three books, most recently The Explosions from Subito Press. With Alisa Heinzman, Hajara Quinn, & Zachary Schomburg he co-edits Octopus Books.
M. MACK lives with beast & bug in or around D.C. Ze is former managing editor of So to Speak: a feminist journal of language and art. Hir poems have appeared recently in Gargoyle & Wicked Alice. Mack is founding co-editor of Gazing Grain Press, an explicitly inclusive feminist chapbook press.