Jessica Hincapie is a poet, writer, and teacher from South Florida. Her work has received various honors, including a 2021 Pushcart Nomination, finalist for Radar Poetry's 2020 Coniston Prize judged by Ada Limon, a 2022 Cuttyhunk Writers’ Residency and more. She has work out in numerous publications, including Narrative Magazine, Gulf Coast, Sonora Review, Indiana Review and many others. She holds an MFA in poetry from the University of Texas where she received the Michael Adams Prize in Poetry, judged by Camille Rankine. Currently she lives in Austin, Texas where she is Program Director of the Writing Barn and teaches creative writing to children and adults.

Issam Zineh is a Palestinian-American poet and scientist. He is the author of the chapbook The Moment of Greatest Alienation (Ethel, 2021). His poems often engage with territory as both demarcated physical and psychological spaces and explore associated concepts: boundaries, identity, power, subjugation, resistance, and reconciliation. Much of his current work contends with the politics of place and accounts for the marks of the past in poems that tangle with love and intimacy. The son of immigrants, he was born in Los Angeles and has lived in New England, the Mid-Atlantic, and Southern U.S. He currently lives on the ancestral homeland of the Paskestikweya people. His poems appear or are forthcoming in AGNI, Pleiades, Nimrod, Tahoma Literary Review, Tinderbox Poetry Journal, Glass: A Journal of Poetry (Poets Resist), Poet Lore, and elsewhere. Find him at issamzineh.com or on Twitter @izineh.