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" Hymas parses rare and transforming energies in this extraordinary eco-poetic excavation the hispering " Multi-media artist-poet Sarah Hymas has been shortlisted for numerous awards including the New Media Writing Prize, Ivan Juritz Prize for Creative Experiment. Her second poetry collection melt is published by Waterloo Press, 2020.

" McKinney crafts an acerbic, hip hop hymnal to ask father Forgive me in poems that are fearless, wounding and tender " Deshawn McKinney holds an MA in Creative Writing from the University of East Anglia. A performer and poet, he has headlined at events across the US and his work has appeared in journals including Lolwe and Glass.

" Startling and deft, loving the alien ricochets between worlds, tongue and selves " Rabha Ashry is the winner of the Brunel International African Poetry Prize, 2020. She has published her work in Oyez Review, Collected 2018, Airport Road, Electra Street and Strange Horizons. She helms Second Draft Press.

" Wry, funny and raw, Prokott's distinctive poetry spins out from the personal into the public in The Birthday Effect " Jean Prokott is the winner of the AWP Intro Journals Award. She has published work in numerous journals including Rattle, Arts & Letters, Midwestern Gothic, Quarterly West, RHINO, Red Wheelbarrow and Sierra Nevada Review. She teaches in Rochester, Minnesota.

In these 29 poems, Effiwatt's deft and delicate poetics uses language as cursor to map conclusions drawn from a series of mutating, karmic life cycles. Marlene Effiwatt is from Tucson Arizona. She holds an MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop, where she was a Provost fellow. She is currently the recipient of a Pflughaut Fellowship in Poetry. Her work has appeared in PromptPress and The Iowa Review.

In these 20 poems, addressed to the Soviet dog who perished in space, Laika threads moments of love and loss into an astonishing lyric lament on isolation, queerness, coming of age and womanhood.Maggie Olszewski is from Columbia South Carolina. She was named a Top 15 Foyle young Poet of the Year by the UK Poetry Society with her winning poem 'At The Funeral'. Her text 'Gap' won a national gold medal from Scholastic Art & Writing Awards in 2019 and her work has appeared in Jasper magazine. She is currently studying English at Smith College.