Tom Andes 

Tom Andes is the author of detective novel Wait There Till You Hear from Me from Crescent City Books. His stories have appeared in publications such as Best American Mystery Stories 2012, Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, and Santa Monica Review. He lives in Albuquerque, where he is a working musician, performing solo and with several bands. He is also a freelance editor, writing coach, teaches, picks up catering shifts, and pet sits. His two acclaimed EPs of original songs will be rereleased on vinyl by Southern Crescent Recording Co. in 2025.

Marisa P. Clark

Marisa P. Clark grew up on the Mississippi Gulf Coast and came out in Atlanta, Georgia, in the bars where the Indigo Girls got their start. Her prose and poetry appear in many literary magazines, including Shenandoah, Cream City Review, Nimrod, Epiphany, Foglifter, Free State Review, Sundog Lit, Texas Review, and Verse Daily. Marisa has taught creative writing at the University of New Mexico since 1999. A proud member of the queer community, she makes her home with two parrots, a standard poodle, and whatever wildlife and strays chance to visit. Her first name is pronounced Ma-REE-sa. BIRD is her debut poetry collection.

Joanna Fuhrman

Joanna Fuhrman is an Assistant Teaching Professor in Creative Writing at Rutgers University and the author of seven books of poetry, including Data Mind (Curbstone/Northwestern University Press) and To a New Era (Hanging Loose Press 2021). Her poems have appeared in many journals, including The Believer, The Baffler, Conduit, Fence, The Georgia Review, and Plume, as well as on the Poetry Foundation and the Academy of American Poets (poem-a-day) websites, and in various anthologies. Poems have also appeared in Best American Poetry (2023 and 2025), The Pushcart Prize anthology and The Slowdown podcast. In 2022, she became a co-editor of Hanging Loose Press.