Uche Nduka: is an itinerant poet and essayist presently living in New York City. He is the author of 14 volumes of poems of which the latest are Scissorwork and Bainbridge Island Notebook. His work has been translated into Finnish, German, Romanian, Arabic, Italian, Turkish, and Dutch. He teaches at the New School’s Eugene Lang College and Queens College, CUNY.

Martha McCollough: lives in Amherst, Massachusetts. She has an MFA in painting from Pratt Institute. Her collection of poems, Wolf Hat Iron Shoes, is available from Lily Poetry Review Press. Her chapbook, Grandmother Mountain, was published by Blue Lyra Press in October 2019. Her videopoems have appeared in Triquarterly, Datableed, and Atticus Review.

Nathan McClain: (he/him) is the author of two collections of poetry: Previously Owned (Four Way Books, 2022), longlisted for the Massachusetts Book Award, and Scale (Four Way Books, 2017). He is a recipient of fellowships from The Frost Place, the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, and Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference and is a Cave Canem fellow. He earned an MFA from Warren Wilson College. His poems and prose have appeared in Plume Poetry 10, The Hopkins Review, Guesthouse, Poetry Northwest, and Zócalo Public Square, among others. He teaches at Hampshire College and serves as poetry editor of the Massachusetts Review.

Gerald McCarthy: his newest book is Hitchhiking Home from Danang: A Memoir of Vietnam, PTSD and Reclamation; McFarland Publishers.