Daniel Benjamin received his PhD in English and Critical Theory from the University of California, Berkeley. With Kevin Killian and Kelly Holt, he edited Even Strange Ghosts Can Be Shared: The Collected Letters of Jack Spicer (Wesleyan University Press, 2025). He is the author of an afterword to Jack Spicer's The Wasps (speCt! Books, 2016). With Eric Sneathen, he co-edited The Bigness of Things: New Narrative and Visual Culture (Wolfman Books, 2017), and with Claire Marie Stancek, he co-edited Active Aesthetics: Contemporary Australian Poetry (Tuumba Press/Giramondo, 2016). His academic articles have appeared in small axe, Contemporary Literature, and European Romantic Review. He teaches English at Abington Friends School in Jenkintown, Pennsylvania.

Juf is a curatorial and research project around contemporary art and poetry, directed by Bea Ortega Botas and Leto Ybarra, and now based between New York and Madrid. It has organized exhibitions, performances, readings, presentations, and publications at 99CANAL (New York), Judson Memorial Church (New York), Gasworks (London), SYSTEMA (Marseille), TABAKALERA (Donosti), La Casa Encendida (Madrid), NYU Tisch School of the Arts (New York), Hangar (Barcelona) or TBA21 Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary (Madrid).

Jane Gregory is the author of My Enemies and Yeah No, both published by The Song Cave, and a new chapbook called Working Title, put out by Three Count Pour. She co-edits Nion Editions and teaches middle school.

Gillian Osborne is a writer and educator, raised as a Quaker in a small village in upstate New York, trained as a poet and scholar of 19th-c. American and environmental literature, and living in San Francisco. She is the author of a weird book of essays and letters, Green Green Green (Nightboat, 2021), a chapbook of poems and drawings, basic research (oxeye, 2023), the co-editor of a collection of scholarship on ecopoetics, and a curriculum designer for educational projects connected to the PBS TV series, Poetry in America. Her poetry and essays have appeared broadly in popular and scholarly publications, and she has held recent teaching positions for Arizona State University, the Harvard Extension School, Bard College’s Institute for Writing & Thinking, & the UCSB Religious Studies Department. Since the birth of a second child and turning 40 almost three years ago, she has been writing fiction, and studying magic.

George Albon's most recent book of poetry is The Built World (2023). His book-length essay Lyric Multiples: Aspiration | Practice | Immanence | Migration was out from Nightboat in 2018. Chapbooks are forthcoming from Oxeye Press and Selva Oscura.

David Abel is a poet, editor, and interdisciplinary artist, and the proprietor of Passages Bookshop in Portland, Oregon. With a group of friends he founded the Spare Room reading series in 2002, still going strong in its twenty-fourth year. The author of numerous books, chapbooks, artist’s books, and text objects, his most recent publications are two chapbooks of poems, Strange Attractors, from Airfoil and Equifinality from Crane’s Bill. Forthcoming books include an expanded bilingual edition of the Eclipses, from Escandalar in Mexico City and Couch Press in Portland, a selection of early poems, After the Frontier, from Himal Press, and a first volume of the ongoing serial project Sweep, from Chax.

Elizabeth Robinson is the author of two forthcoming titles: Vulnerability Index (Northwestern University Press/Curbstone Books) and Being Modernists Together (Solid Objects).

Robinson has been the recipient of grants from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, the Fund for Poetry, and the Maison Dora Maar. Her book, On Ghosts, was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Award. Robinson lived briefly on the third floor of Fran Herndon’s Richmond neighborhood home and collaborated with her on several projects.

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Avery Burns has two collections forthcoming The Art of the Minimalist Sonnet vol II (lyric& 25) and Expectations Asunder (Magra Books 26). During the late 1980's and early 1990's, Avery volunteered at the SPT bookstore, followed by a spin on the Board. For the better part of two decades he was involved with the Canessa Park Reading Series. At the Canessa Park Gallery, Avery & Andrea curated two memorable solo shows for Fran Herndon.