alex cruse is a writer and interdisciplinary artist living on Chochenyo Ohlone land. Since 2015 cruse has performed with Kevin CK Lo as DROUGHT SPA, an audio-visual-kinesthetic experiment/research platform. cruse serves as Board President of Artists' Television Access, a volunteer-run screening venue and gallery in San Francisco, and is a PhD. student in Film and Digital Media at UC Santa Cruz.

Poetry collections include CONTRAVERSE (Timeless, Infinite Light, 2017) and ZERO ENERGY EXPERIMENTAL PILE (Compline, 2020). Writing and visual art can also be found in SPAM Zine, SFMOMA Open Space, Tripwire: a journal of poetics, The Poetry Project, baest: a journal of queer forms & affects, CLOG Journal, Terrain: Art & Crisis in Downtown Oakland, The Los Angeles Times, Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, Technoscience, and elsewhere.

Benjamin Krusling is the author of Glaring (Wendy's Subway, 2020) and a forthcoming chapbook, It got so dark (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2022).

Violet Spurlock is a writer living in the Bay Area. She is the author of Alloyed Bliss (Eyelet, 2021) and VS VS VS (GaussPDF, 2021). Her first full-length book, In Lieu of Solutions, received the Other Futures Award and is forthcoming from Futurepoem.