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Christine Shan Shan Hou is an artist, poet, and author of several books and chapbooks of poetry. Recent publications include A Promise (b l u s h 2025) and Evolution of the Bullet (Bottlecap Press 2023), written in collaboration with Vi Khi Nao. Their artwork has been exhibited at White Columns and featured in The New York Times. In addition to their artistic efforts, Christine is a yoga instructor and community organizer for immigrant rights in New Jersey.
Gilad Jaffe’s poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Bennington Review, Harvard Review, Image, The Iowa Review, POETRY, and The Yale Review, among others. He received an MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop, teaches at LaGuardia Community College, and currently serves as a senior editor at Conjunctions.
Rachel Mannheimer was born and raised in Anchorage, Alaska, and lives in Brooklyn, New York, where she works as an international literary scout. Her first book, Earth Room, was selected by Louise Glück as the inaugural winner of the Changes Book Prize and published in 2022, and recent work has appeared in The Paris Review and Kismet Magazine.
