Claudia Castro Luna is an Academy of American Poets Poet Laureate fellow (2019), WA State Poet Laureate (2018 – 2021) and Seattle’s inaugural Civic Poet (2015-2018),

Matthew Dickman is the award-winning author of Wonderland, Mayakovsky’s Revolver, and All-American Poem. His forthcoming poetry collection, Husbandry, will be published by W.W. Norton & Co. in spring 2022. Winner of

A poet and multimedia artist, Diana Khoi Nguyen is the author of Ghost Of (Omnidawn 2018) and recipient of a 2021 fellowship from the National Endowment for

MAYA MARSHALL, a writer and editor, is cofounder of underbelly (underbellymag.com), the journal on the practical magic of poetic revision. As an educator, Marshall has

Elizabeth Bradfield is the author of Toward Antarctica, Once Removed, Approaching Ice, and Interpretive Work as well as Theorem, a collaboration with artist Antonia Contro. Her work has been published in The New

Molly McCully Brown is the author of the essay collection Places I’ve Taken My Body (Persea Books, 2020), which was named one of Kirkus’ best nonfiction titles of 2020, and

Alexandra Teague is most recently the author of the poetry collection Or What We’ll Call Desire (Persea, 2019), described in The New York Times as “passionate, quirky, and righteously outraged.” Her prior books are The Wise

 Tobias Wray’s debut collection, No Doubt I Will Return a Different Man, won the Lighthouse Poetry Prize (Cleveland State University Press, 2021). His work has found homes

Ching-In Chen is a genderqueer Chinese American hybrid writer, community organizer and teacher. They are author of The Heart’s Traffic and recombinant (winner of the 2018 Lambda Literary Award

Brittney Corrigan is the author of the poetry collections Breaking, Navigation, 40 Weeks, and most recently, Daughters, a series of persona poems in the voices

Jessica (Tyner) Mehta, born and raised in Oregon and a citizen of the Cherokee Nation, is a multi-award-winning interdisciplinary author, artist, and storyteller. She is

Amelia Díaz Ettinger is a ‘Mexi-Rican,’ born in México but raised in Puerto Rico. A BIPOC poet and writer, she has two full-length poetry books

Jennifer Perrine is the author of four award-winning books of poetry: Again, The Body Is No Machine, In the Human Zoo, and No Confession, No Mass. Their recent short stories

More than 30 of Lyn Coffin’s books (poetry, fiction, drama, non-fiction, translation, a children’s book) have been published by Doubleday, Ithaca House, Poezia Press and

Rena Priest is a poet and member of the Lhaq’temish (Lummi) Nation. She has been appointed to serve as the Washington State Poet Laureate for