Gerard Malanga: is a poet, photographer, and filmmaker. From 1963 to 1970 he was the right hand of Andy Warhol, with whom he created Interview magazine in 1969 and collaborated on the famous 3–minute silent Screen Tests. The New York Times referred to him as “Warhol’s most important associate. A large number of his candid portraits are internationally known images, such as Mick Jagger, Velvet Underground, Edie Sedgwick, and Iggy Pop. He is the author of fourteen books of poetry spanning a nearly 50–year period, including Cool & Other Poems (2019) and The New Mélancholia & Other Poems (January 2021). He lives in the shadow of the Catskill Mountains in upstate New York with his three cats.

Yonghong Gu: is from Suzhou, China and is currently a visiting scholar at UMass Boston. Her poems have appeared in U.S. publications such as spoKe, canwehaveourballback, and Boog City. She has studied history, literature, and business. Being Exiled is her novel in progress. She and Joseph Torra are currently translating the book into English.

Sandee Gertz: is a native of Western Pennsylvania, now living in Nashville. She is the author of The Pattern Maker’s Daughter (Poems, Bottom Dog Press, 2012) and her credits in poetry and memoir include Gargoyle, Cathexis Northwest Press, Northern Appalachia Review, Green Mountains Review, and Poet Lore, among others. She has been a finalist for the Porch Prize in Fiction and Poetry and is currently writing her first novel. She has an M.F.A. from Wilkes University and teaches at Cumberland University.

Stephen Ellis: grew up in the quorum of a hardwood forest along the long shoreline of open sea. From seeing light through the shade it causes, he has developed a feeling for the geography of the human heart, and this so being, knows equally that the primary task of poetry is to prevent open and free expression and invention from falling to the oppressive confines of state synecdoche. His poems in Russian translation by Gali–Dana Singer were published by Free Poetry in 2020.