Terrence Arjoon is the author of The Disinherited (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2025) and Acid Splash, or Into Blue Caves (1080PRESS, 2023). He is a poet, editor, and critic whose work can be found in Annulet, Tagvverk, The Poetry Project Newsletter, and Smooth Friend, among other publications. He is an editor at 1080PRESS and a bookseller.

Sophia Dahlin is a poet in Berkeley. She is the author of Natch (City Lights) and Glove Money (Nightboat). She leads generative poetry workshops and teaches youth creative writing, and curates, with seven other poets, a weekly reading series at Tamarack, Oakland.

Ronaldo V. Wilson, PhD, is the author of Narrative of the Life of the Brown Boy and the White Man (University of Pittsburgh, 2008), winner of the 2007 Cave Canem Prize., Poems of the Black Object (Futurepoem Books, 2009), winner of the Thom Gunn Award for Gay Poetry and the Asian American Literary Award in Poetry in 2010.  His latest books are Farther Traveler: Poetry, Prose, Other (Counterpath Press, 2015), finalist for a Thom Gunn Award for Gay Poetry and Lucy 72 (1913 Press, 2018). Co-founder of the Black Took Collective, Wilson is also a mixed media artist, dancer and performer. He has performed in multiple venues, including the Pulitzer Arts Foundation, UC Riverside’s Artsblock, Georgetown’s Lannan Center, Dixon Place, the Atlantic Center for the Arts, and Lousiana State University’s Digital Media Center Theater.  The recipient of fellowships from Cave Canem, the Djerassi Resident Artists Program, the Ford Foundation, Kundiman, MacDowell, the National Research Council, the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center, the Center for Art and Thought, and Yaddo, Wilson is Associate Professor of Creative Writing and Literature at U.C. Santa Cruz, serving on the core faculty of the Creative Critical PhD Program, and co-directing the Creative Writing Program.

Ebti is a multidisciplinary artist, a curator, a photographer and a translator living between Cairo and San Francisco.

She has an MA in translation and intercultural studies from Johannes Gutenberg Universitat, Mainz, and an MFA in Fine Art from California College of the Arts.

Ebti is part of the “Right Window” collective. She co-founded the “Off Hours” curatorial collective and sits on the curatorial council at Southern Exposure Gallery in San Francisco.

She is also part of the artist-run collective space Dream Farm Commons in Oakland. Her work has been shown in galleries across the US and Egypt.

She is a lecturer of photography in the Department of Art and Art History at UC Davis.

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Portrait: Charlotte Niel

Jacob Kahn is a poet, editor, and curator living on the territory of Huichin, within the homeland of the Chochenyo-speaking Ohlone people. He is the author of Mine Eclogue (Roof Books, 2022) and the chapbook A Is For Aegis (DoubleCross Press) and cofounder, along with Sophia Dahlin, of Eyelet Press. He works as a librarian at Berkeley Public Library.

Kristen E. Nelson is a queer writer, scholar, and performer. She is the author of two books In the  Away Time (Autofocus Books, April 2024) and the length of this gap (Damaged Goods, August 2018); and two chapbooks sometimes I gets lost and is grateful for noises in the dark (Dancing Girl, 2017) and Write, Dad (Unthinkable Creatures, 2012). Her recent and forthcoming creative and critical writing can be found in The Georgia Review, Feminist Studies, Working Titles, Bombay Gin, and Denver Quarterly. Kristen founded Casa Libre en la Solana, a non-profit writing center in Tucson, Arizona, where she worked as the Executive Director for 14 years and co-founded Four Queens, a platform for divinatory poetics with Selah Saterstrom. Kristen is currently a Ph.D. candidate and instructor of creative writing at the University of California – Santa Cruz in the Literature Department’s creative/critical writing concentration. Her current research centers on Creative Writing, Divinatory Poetics, Feminist Autotheory, and Witchcraft Studies.

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Photo: Julius Schlosburg