Erin Reese Alexander is a writer from Birmingham, Alabama. Her short stories, poetry, and essays have appeared in Flash Fiction Magazine, Voices & Visions, Folio, Quarto, Laurel Moon, 4×4, and elsewhere. For her writing, Reese was awarded the 2025 Howard M. Teichmann Prize and the 2024 Helen Marie Carlson Prize. She graduated cum laude from Barnard College in 2025, where she studied English literature. Currently, Reese is pursuing her MFA in Literary Arts at Brown University. 
 

Hunter A. Allund is an MFA candidate in fiction at Brown University. They currently write, paint, and live in Providence RI with their partner, two cats, and an imaginary greyhound named Gauss.

Zaynab Iliyasu Bobi, a Cave Canem Fellow in 2025, is a poet, a multidisciplinary artist, and a medical laboratory scientist from Bobi, Nigeria. She is the author of the chapbooks Cadaver of Red Roses (2024), which won the 2024 Derricotte/Eady Chapbook Prize, and Uncensored Snapshots (2025). Zaynab is a Literary Arts MFA candidate at Brown University and her debut full-length which won the 2025 Futurepoems Other Future Award is forthcoming in 2027. X @ZainabBobi and Instagram @zaynab_iliyasu_bobi. 

Jomar Canales Conde is a writer, poet and photographer from Carolina, Puerto Rico. He holds an Erasmus Mundus Joint Master's Degree in European Literary Cultures from the Universities of Bologna and Lisbon, and a Bachelor's Degree in Hispanic Studies from the University of Puerto Rico. He currently lives in Providence, Rhode Island, where he is a Literary Arts MFA candidate at Brown University.

Jency Crookston is a fiction writer originally from Utah and currently living in Providence, Rhode Island. She is a lover of all things creepy, horrifying, and macabre and is currently focusing her efforts on her MFA work at Brown University writing short horror fiction. Her passion for writing is centered uniquely on queer representation outside of the romance genre, and when she is not writing she can be found exploring the outdoors, stalking the birds outside her apartment, and getting to know the ocean.

Beatrix Liv Delcarmen is a poet and artist from Minneapolis, who has spent their adult life living on the East Coast, where they received their BA from Temple University for Creative Writing. Their work often searches their own lineages of migration through themes of departure, haunting, heritage, water and erasure, weaving together multiple time paths in order to question contemporary structures of colonization. Their work can be found in The Academy of American Poets. They currently reside in Providence, pursuing their MFA in Poetry at Brown University.

Sara Hendricks is a writer and editor from Virginia. She writes fiction, which has been published and rejected by journals of varying prestige. She has also held staff positions at Men’s Fitness, USA Today, Refinery29, and other publications, where she primarily covered health and fitness. She is constantly moving in and out of New York City, and now lives in Rhode Island, where she is an MFA candidate at Brown University. 

Adeniyi Odukoya is a Nigerian Poet and Essayist. He holds a B.A. Ed degree in Education and English from the Obafemi Awolowo University in Nigeria. His works appear/are forthcoming in the Guardian UK, National Museum of Language, Maryland, USA, Palette Poetry, The Cincinnati Review, and so many more. He’s currently an MFA Graduate Student at the Literary Arts Department in Brown University, living in Providence, Rhode Island.

Del Ziegman is a filmmaker, performance artist, and writer from the high alpine desert of Colorado. They hope that their work challenges hierarchies and explores the dimensions of identity, magic, and labor. They are currently an Literary Arts MFA candidate at Brown University in the cross-disciplinary track.