Sara lacovelli is a poet and a preschool teacher based in upstate NY. She has gone to rad school too many times, though never for writing; she holds degrees in comparative iterature and special education. She was the recipient of the 2024 Dawn Prize for Poetry and a finalist for the 2025 Driftwood Press In-House Poetry Contest. Her work has appeared in Milk Press, The Writer's Foundry Review, Pine Hills Review, Prairie Home Magazine, and others.

Karen is a writer and seventh-grade English teacher based in Newton, Massachusetts. Her first novel, JUST LIZZIE, was published in November 2023 and went on to become a Lambda LGBTQ+ Award finalist and a Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection.