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Gia Gonzales is a poet based in New York City, where she was born. From 2023–2024 she was an Emerge-Surface-Be fellow at the Poetry Project. The author of the chaplet From Gia Gonzales (Belladonna* Collaborative) and the chapbook RENDER SLEAZE (Portable Press @ Yo-Yo Labs), her full-length, self-titled book Gia Gonzales won the 2024 Carolyn Bush Award and is forthcoming from Wendy’s Subway. Currently, she is an editor at large for Nightboat Books.
Kyle Okeke is a writer from Sugar Land, Texas, who has appeared in POETRY, Narrative Magazine, and the Sewanee Review, among other literary journals. He was awarded the Evaristo Prize in African Poetry and the Poetry Society of America Chapbook fellowship. He obtained an MFA in creative writing at UT Austin's New Writers Project.
Rachelle Rahmé’s translations of Georges Bataille were published as 27 Poems on Death by o-blēk and have appeared or are forthcoming in the journals Fieldnotes, Hot Pink, and Little Mirror. She is a recipient of The Poetry Project's Emerge-Surface-Be Fellowship and has published chapbooks with 72 Press, Blush, Wonder Press, Belladonna Collective, and Spiral Editions, among others. Her first collection of poems, Mercurial, or Is that Liberty?, was published by Fonograf Editions in 2025. Her second collection is forthcoming from 1080Press in late 2026. Rahmé teaches in Culture & Media Studies at Eugene Lang College in NYC. Born in Lebanon, she currently resides in the Hudson Valley.
