Amritha Selvarajaguru is a first-year grad student working towards her MFA in Poetry at the School of the Arts Institute of Chicago, who aspires to be an English teacher one day. She is deeply inspired by her time student teaching, tutoring, and working with children. Selvarajaguru admires the works of writers such as Ada Limón, Louise Glück, and Ocean Vung, is terrified of cockroaches, and always eats M&Ms in rainbow order from red to brown.

Dr. Stevie Edwards is an Assistant Professor at Clemson University and Poetry Editor of The South Carolina Review. Stevie’s poems have appeared in Poetry, American Poetry Review, TriQuarterly, The Southern Review, and elsewhere. She is the author of Quiet Armor (Northwestern University Press, 2023), Sadness Workshop (Button Poetry, 2018), Humanly (Small Doggies Press, 2015), and Good Grief (Write Bloody Publishing, 2012).

Sally O'Brien teaches at a public high school in Philadelphia; she lives with her husband & son within earshot of the Market-Frankford Line. Her poetry has previously appeared in Apiary, Duende, and Psaltery & Lyre. She is around on Bluesky @sallyohbrien.bsky.social.

Shea Socrates (they/them) is a teacher and emerging writer. Their work has appeared in HAD, Passages North, and JAKE. They live in Detroit with their partner Felicia and three pets, Vashti, Coney, and Vern.