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SAMIYA BASHIR, called a “dynamic, shape-shifting machine of perpetual motion,” by Diego Báez, is a poet, writer, librettist, performer, and multi-media poet whose solo and collaborative work has been widely published, performed, installed, printed, screened, experienced, and Oxford comma’d from Berlin to Düsseldorf, Amsterdam to Accra, Florence to Rome, and across the United States.
Sometimes she makes poems of dirt. Sometimes zeros and ones. Sometimes variously rendered text. Sometimes light. Bashir is the author of three poetry collections, most recently Field Theories, winner of the Oregon Book Award.
Bashir’s honors include the Rome Prize in Literature, the Pushcart Prize, New York Council for the Arts and Oregon’s Regional Arts & Culture Council fellowships, among numerous other awards, grants, and residencies. A sought-after editor, Bashir most recently served as Associate Professor at Reed College, and executive director of Lambda Literary. Currently the June Jordan Visiting Scholar at Columbia University, Bashir lives in Harlem, NYC.
EDDY KOSIK received his MFA in Creative Writing from New York University where he was a Whitehill Fellow. Born and raised in central Pennsylvania, Eddy’s first novel is forthcoming.
JAY MARTEL is the pen name of husband and wife writing team Andy Bennett and Katy Helbacka. They’ve spent the past twenty years collaborating on everything from theatrical productions to escape rooms to their son, Theo. They live in northern Minnesota where the winters are cold, long, and the perfect excuse to stay inside and write novels together. Andy works in cybersecurity and has an MFA in creative writing from NYU and Katy is an award-winning theatrical producer, writer, actor, and director. Their debut YA novel is forthcoming with St. Martins Press.
DAVID NAIMON is the host of the literary podcast Between the Covers and co-author with Ursula K. Le Guin of Ursula K. Le Guin: Conversations on Writing, a finalist for the Hugo Award and winner of the 2019 Locus Award in nonfiction. His writing can be found in Orion, AGNI, Boulevard, and Black Warrior Review, has received a Pushcart prize, been reprinted in Best Spiritual Literature and The Best Small Fictions and been cited in Best American Mystery & Suspense, Best American Travel Writing and Best American Essays.
MARIA ZOCCOLA is a queer Southern writer with deep roots in the Mississippi Delta. She has writing degrees from Emory University and Falmouth University. Her work has previously appeared or is forthcoming in Ploughshares, Kenyon Review, The Iowa Review, ZYZZYVA, and elsewhere. Her debut poetry collection, Helen of Troy, 1993 will be published in 2025 with Scribner.