EDITORAyanna Uppal (she/her) is a Punjabi poet and a junior at Germantown Friends School. From Philadelphia, she is a graduate of UVA Young Writers and Kenyon Young Writers Workshop. She is a co-president of her school’s poetry club and, in her spare time, enjoys translating and reading Punjabi works.

EDITORQetsi’ah Joachim-Baggott (any pronouns) is a disabled agender lesbian poet, writer, and crazy person from the south of England. They unequivocally support the fight for Palestinian liberation. They were shortlisted for the 2022 Merky Books New Writers prize, and made the longlist of the 2023 BBC young writers award. Their poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in The Machine, Acedia, Manywor(l)ds, Fish Barrel Review, and Heathline Zine, among others. They can be found on twitter @iamgoingtocry15, tweeting about nonsense, and they run a substack called Qetsi’ah&Answers, where they interview disabled creatives and write whatever they want. Outside of writing, they enjoy ranting to people about snakes, firing steam engines, and causing small-scale havoc.

READERJenna Nesky (she/her) is an autistic poet. She has words in Eunoia Review, Substantially Unlimited, and other literary magazines. She has participated in writing programs at Kenyon College and in Iowa. She is a co-founder and co-president of Young Poets Workshop, where she leads workshops for teen writers.

READERAbby Austin (she/her) is a neurodivergent writer from coastal California. She is an alum of the 2023 Fir Acres Writing Workshop at Lewis And Clark College in poetry. Her poetry is published or forthcoming in luvsick mag, The Eyre and The Inceptive Lit. Besides writing, she enjoys watching sports, falling into internet rabbit holes about her hyperfixations, losing track of time playing Minecraft and causing mischief.