Vernon Jordan, III is a Philly-born ‘n raised writer, filmmaker, poet, and teaching artist. He expands upon African American memories, dreams, hauntings, queer kinship, and intimate fluidity; his priority is the merging of the visual and the musical: a Visual Lyricist.
Twitter: @afrojediii
Work by @IreneSenor appears in Nat.Brut, decomp journal, Longleaf Review, NonBinary Review, Jelly Bucket, Journal of Latina Critical Feminism, Yellow Medicine Review, and elsewhere.
Kou Thao (he/him) is a queer Hmong-American who writes to transmute trauma into healing. 2021 Loft Creative Nonfiction Fellow / 2014 White House Champion of Change. Find him meditating or hugging a tree. @CosmicKou
Chrysanthemum is a poet, performance artist & community historian based in Providence, RI. A lifelong lisper & full-fledged fruit, she moonlights from the underbelly of queer & trans health systems.
(@chrysanthemvm_)
hanta t. samsa is a genrequeer poet, writer and editor by way of Zhigagoong/Chicago. He holds an MFA in Fiction from Bennington College and an MFA in Poetry from Virginia Tech. His writing appears or is forthcoming in Aster(ix) Journal, Boston Review, Kenyon Review, the minnesota review, Salt Hill Journal and elsewhere, mostly under his dead name. He is @hanta.tala.samsa on IG and @hantatalasamsa on Twitter.
Jawni Han (@kimchimarx) is a transgender filmmaker from Seoul, now based in Brooklyn. Her work incorporates both narrative storytelling and avant-garde aesthetics in order to interrogate life under capitalism.
Gin To (she/they) is a writer, visual and performing artist currently based in San Diego to pursue an MFA in Creative Writing at UCSD. Her writing can be found on KALEIDOSCOPED and diaCRITICS (by DVAN). Connect with Gin on Instagram @gintonic2912.
Alexandra Fallgren (she/her) writes about queer girls doing hard things and has far too many degrees. She works with teens in Chicago, where she spends her free time playing cello and spoiling her cat. (@alexfallgren)
Max Pasakorn/@62purcenthomo (he/she/they) is a Thai-born, Singapore-based essayist and poet. Honestly, Max is here to fuck shit up and have a good time. Read Max’s work in Speculative Nonfiction, Chestnut Review & more.
Si-Min Chong (Min) grew up in the industrial west of Singapore, where the air smells of cacao. She makes work about vessels: women, trees, and snakes. She holds an MFA in Literary Arts from Brown University.
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