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Lisa Marie Basile is a poet, essayist and editor living in New York City. She’s the founding editor-in- chief of Luna Luna Magazine, an online magazine & community dedicated to literature, magical living and idea. Most recently, she is the author of LIGHT MAGIC FOR DARK TIMES (Quarto Publishing/Fair Winds Press), a collection of practices and rituals for intentional and magical living. Her newest poetry collection, NYMPHOLEPSY, co-authored by Alyssa Morhardt-Goldstein, was also recently released via Inside The Castle press. It was a finalist in the 2017 Tarpaulin Sky Book Awards and selections from it are being featured in the Best American Experimental Writing 2020 anthology. She has been nominated for several Pushcart Prizes (most recently for her work in Narratively), and has appeared in Best Small Fictions—selected by Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Robert Olen Butler. She studied English and psychology as an undergraduate at Pace University, and received a Masters in writing from NYC’s The New School.

Su Cho received her MA in English Literature and MFA in Poetry from Indiana University. She currently serves as Managing Editor of Cream City Review after serving as Editor-in-Chief of Indiana Review. Her poems are forthcoming and/or found in Pleiades, The Journal, Crab Orchard Review, BOAAT, Thrush Poetry Review, PANK, Sugared Water, and elsewhere. She is a recipient of a National Society of Arts and Letters Award, the Guy Lemmon Award in Public Writing, the Writer in South Asia Fellowship, and the Martha’s Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing Poetry Fellowship. She is pursuing a PhD at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.

Emily Kendal Frey is the author of Sorrow Arrow (Octopus Books, 2014). She teaches at The Independent Publishing Resource Center, Marylhurst University, Portland Community College, and Portland State University. She lives in Portland, Oregon.

Brookes Moody holds a BA in English from Colby College and an MFA in Creative Writing from The New School. A Jersey girl with Rhode Island roots, her poems have appeared in magazines like Barnstorm, The Northern New England Review, and Silver Needle Press. She is currently pursuing her PhD in English with a concentration in Creative Writing at University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee where she teaches creative writing and literary journal production. A founding editor of the online poetry magazine The Mackinac, Brookes has also served as the Development Manager for Cream City Review and co-coordinated the Eat Local::Read Local poetry series.

Kiely Sweatt is a trainer, teacher, facilitator and artist. For over 15 years, she’s worked to help Fortune 500 companies, tech startups, social impact organizations, leading consultancies and universities to unlock human potential. In addition to her consulting work, Kiely is also the co-founder of The Wild, an organization that facilitates connection, learning and growth for individuals, teams and organizations through unique experiences. Kiely started Prostibulo Poetico and is the editor of Libro Rojo. Her poetry has been in the Best American Poetry blog, Shampoo, La Fovea, BCN Ink and Vimeo among others. Origin of, her first book, was published in 2012 by Patasola Press and “A Home Big Enough for Remembering,” with Dancing Girl Press.

Julia Clare Tillinghast is from Michigan. She studied poetry at Sarah Lawrence College and Virginia Tech, where she received her MFA. She has spent a number of years, on and off, living in Istanbul, Turkey, and is Co-Translator, with Richard Tillinghast, of Dirty August, a Selected Poems of the experimental 20th-century Turkish poet Edip Cansever. In addition to translations in Agni, Guernica, Arts & Letters, The Boston Review & others, she has her own poems in Fence Magazine, Salt Hill, Public Pool, H_NGM_N, Toad, The Leveler, Pleiades, Tin House, Rattle, 3:AM Magazine, Passages North, Sou’Wester, Pank, and The Bakery. Her first chapbook, Basic Instructions Before Leaving Earth, is out from Snoot Books. Julia is also a contributing editor for Gramma Press.