Contributors’ Notes

MICHAEL CHANG (they/them) is the author of many collections of poetry, including Synthetic Jungle (Northwestern University Press, 2023) & Employees Must Wash Hands (GreenTower Press, 2024). They edit poetry at Fence.

Born in 1996 in Brooklyn, New York, Zoraye Cyrus is a multidisciplinary studio artist whose work uses her Afro Caribbean heritage to search through the complexities and aspects of the self and the other. Zoraye Cyrus received her B.F.A. in Drawing and Illustration from the University of Central Florida in 2019, and M.F.A. in Painting and Drawing from Temple University in 2023. Cyrus was recently awarded the South Florida Cultural Consortium Visual and Media Artist Fellowship in 2021.

Charlie Kriege is a writer living in Santa Cruz. He earned a B.A. in Modern Literary Studies from the University of California, Santa Cruz. He is an editorial intern for Catamaran Literary Reader. He works at his family’s restaurant, and he writes in his car.

Larry Narron grew up in Southern California. His poems have appeared in Phoebe, Bayou, Booth, The Pinch, and Sugar House Review, among others. They’ve been nominated for the Best of the Net and Best New Poets.

Alexandra Romero’s work has been featured in Rust & Moth and is forthcoming in Kestrel. She holds an M.F.A. from Hunter College, where she served as poetry editor for Solar Journal. She lives in New York City.