Kira K. Homsher is a writer from Philadelphia. The winner of phoebe‘s 2020 Nonfiction Contest and a Pushcart nominee, her writing also appears in Passages North, Barrelhouse, and DIAGRAM.

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Joy Priest is the author of Horsepower (Pitt Poetry Series, 2020), winner of the Donald Hall Prize for Poetry. She is the recipient of an NEA fellowship, a Fine Arts Work Center fellowship, and the Stanley Kunitz Memorial Prize from the American Poetry Review. She is the editor of Once a City Said: A Louisville Poets Anthology, forthcoming from Sarabande Books in 2023.

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francine j. harris‘s third collection, Here Is the Sweet Hand from Farrar, Straus & Giroux, was a finalist for the Kingsley Tufts award and winner of the 2020 National Book Critics Circle Award. Her second collection, play dead, was the winner of the Lambda Literary and Audre Lorde Awards and finalist for the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award. She is Associate Professor of English at the University of Houston and serves as Consulting Faculty Editor at Gulf Coast.

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artist: Bhasha Chakrabarti