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Toby Altman is the author of Jewel Box (Essay Press, 2025), Discipline Park (Wendy’s Subway, 2023), and Arcadia, Indiana (Plays Inverse, 2017). He has held fellowships from the Graham Foundation for Advanced Study in the Fine Arts, MacDowell, and the National Endowment for the Arts, where he was a 2021 Poetry Fellow. He teaches at Michigan State University, where he is Assistant Professor in the Residential College in the Arts and Humanities (RCAH) and Director of the RCAH Center for Poetry.
Laura Jaramillo is a poet and critic. Born to Colombian parents in Queens, New York, she now lives in Durham, North Carolina. Her books include Material Girl (subpress, 2012) and Making Water (Futurepoem, 2022). She holds a PhD in critical theory from Duke University. She co-runs the North Carolina-based reading and performance series Paradiso.
Aristilde Kirby is like Gena Rowlands meets Kelly Rowland. She is a poet & performance artist responsible for the book Daisy & Catherine² (Auric Press, 2022). She has performed at Basilica Soundscape, The Poetry Project, Smack Mellon, Triple Canopy & the Volksbuhne, amongst others. Recent work can be found on Poets.org, Ethics, Blush Lit, Suds, Dirty Mag, We Are In The Shop vol.3, & soon enough with Spiral Editions & Creative Writing Department. She helps to edit Abobo Zine, a publication dedicated to raising funds for abortion via creative writing. You can call her Aris, like Paris without the P.
