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Dong LI is a multilingual author who translates from Chinese, English, French, and German. A Translator in Residence at Princeton University for Fall 2025, his latest full-length English translation is the forthcoming PEN/Heim-winning The Ruins (Deep Vellum, 2025) by the Chinese poet YE Hui. His debut poetry collection, The Orange Tree (University of Chicago Press, 2023), was the inaugural winner of the Phoenix Emerging Poet Book Prize and a finalist for the Poetry Society of America’s Four Quartets Prize.
Bianca Rae Messinger is a poet and translator living in New York State. Her most recent chapbooks include “The Love of God” (Inpatient Press, 2016) and “parallel bars” (Center for Book Arts, 2021). She has published translations of mauricio gatti/comunidad del sur, Juana Isola and Ariel Schettini. Her first full-length book of poems, pleasureis amiracle, was recently published by Nightboat.
Morgan Võ (b. 1989) is a poet and librarian concerned with resonance, contingency, difficulty understanding, and the presence of the dead among the living. They are the author of The Selkie (The Song Cave, 2024). His poems were anthologized in Pathetic Literature (Grove Atlantic, 2023), and have most recently appeared in A Perfect Vacuum, Makhzin, and Changes Review. Originally from coastal Virginia, they live now in Brooklyn, New York.