Avi Ben-Zeev

he/him

Avi Ben-Zeev is a gay trans man, high school failure, and Yale Ph.D. His story, Angel, won the 2023 UK’s Transgender Short Story Prize, and his anthology Trans Homo … Gasp! was a Lambda Award Finalist. Avi lived in the Middle East, Milan, and San Francisco and calls London home.

Aly Allen

she/her

Aly Allen is a trans poet and parent. Her book Paying for Gas with Quarters is available from Middle West Press. Her recent works appear in Consequence and Two Hawks Quarterly. She earned a BA creative writing from University of Houston and an MFA creative writing at Oklahoma State University, where she teaches composition.

Barbara Marie Minney

she/her

Barbara Marie Minney (she/her) is a transsexual woman, award-winning poet, teaching artist, and quiet activist. She has been extensively published. Barbara is the author of If There’s No Heaven, the Poetic Memoir Chapbook Challenge, and Dance Naked With God. Barbara lives in Tallmadge, Ohio. 

Dmitra Gideon

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Dmitra Gideon is a writer, educator, and activist in Pittsburgh, PA. A graduate of Chatham University’s MFA Program, they serve as Write Pittsburgh’s Director of Youth Programs and Abolitionist Law Center’s Disability Justice Advocate. Their work has appeared in PANK Magazine, Cold Mountain Review, and Pink Panther Magazine, among others.

Barbara Marie Minney

she/her

Barbara Marie Minney (she/her) is a transsexual woman, award-winning poet, teaching artist, and quiet activist. She has been extensively published. Barbara is the author of If There’s No Heaven, the Poetic Memoir Chapbook Challenge, and Dance Naked With God. Barbara lives in Tallmadge, Ohio. 

Binx River Perino

he/they

Binx River Perino is a queer poet from Texas. He holds a MFA in Creative Writing from Emerson College and is the author of his debut chapbook, “Pure Light” (Bottlecap Press, 2023). A nominee for the 2023 Mass Poetry Community Award, his work has appeared in new words {press}, Variant Literature, Mixed Magazine, Cold Mountain Review, and elsewhere, and is forthcoming in Beyond Queer Words: A Queer Anthology. He lives and works in Chicago with his dog, Maya.

S.R. Nickoloff Warren

she/they

S.R. Nickoloff Warren’s (she/they) work has been published in Room to Grow, Quarantine Content, Honeysuckle Media, and Letting Go: A Community Zine—the last of which has raised over $1,000 for abortion resources. When they’re not writing, S.R. enjoys reading, rock climbing, and film photography.

Luna Yin

she/they

(she/they) is a 16-year-old writer caught between cultures and questions. When they aren’t escaping into words and stories, they spend their time at the piano. 

EG Harcourt

he/him

EG Harcourt is an artist who uses words and images to explore and construct his identity as an Asian trans man. Most of his work includes themes of religion, cultural identity, and social alienation.

Dmitra Gideon

Dmitra Gideon is a writer, educator, and activist in Pittsburgh, PA. A graduate of Chatham University’s MFA Program, they serve as Write Pittsburgh’s Director of Youth Programs and Abolitionist Law Center’s Disability Justice Advocate. Their work has appeared in PANK Magazine, Cold Mountain Review, and Pink Panther Magazine, among others.

Stephen Mills

he/him

Stephen S. Mills (he/him/his) is the author of the Lambda Award-winning book He Do the Gay Man in Different Voices (2012) as well as A History of the Unmarried (2014) and Not Everything Thrown Starts a Revolution(2018) all from Sibling Rivalry Press. His work has appeared in The American Poetry Review, Columbia Poetry Review, The Antioch Review, PANK, The New York Quarterly, The Los Angeles Review, The Rumpus, and others. He is also the winner of the 2008 Gival Press Oscar Wilde Poetry Award and the 2014 Christopher Hewitt Award for Fiction. Two of his books were placed on the Over the Rainbow List compiled yearly by the American Library Association. An excerpt from his play Men Like Us was featured as part of Pride Plays in June of 2020. He lives in New York City with his partner and two schnauzers.

Binx River Perino

Binx River Perino is a queer poet from Texas. He holds a MFA in Creative Writing from Emerson College and is the author of his debut chapbook, “Pure Light” (Bottlecap Press, 2023). A nominee for the 2023 Mass Poetry Community Award, his work has appeared in new words {press}, Variant Literature, Mixed Magazine, Cold Mountain Review, and elsewhere, and is forthcoming in Beyond Queer Words: A Queer Anthology. He lives and works in Chicago with his dog, Maya.

T Molnar

they/them

T Molnar (they/them) currently lives in Brooklyn. Their work has appeared in University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee’s undergraduate literary arts magazine, Furrow, in Lakeland College’s literary journal, Stoneboat, Inlightenment: Discovering the Sacred Within ezine, and was the featured poet in Dark and Narrow Spaces. T, alongside their BA in Poetry and Literature, received an MSW from NYU. They currently work as a psychotherapist working alongside queer and trans clients. When they aren’t reading or in their feelings, they are freediving. 

Astra Pierson

she/they

Astra Pierson (she/they) is a fiction writer and MFA candidate at Goddard College. She lives in Maine with her fiancé and two dogs, Frankie and Rey. 

Jude Rosen

they/them

Jude Rosen (they/them) is a Jewish nonbinary poet, floating somewhere in the gender perception of a forest dwelling entity. They are currently a student in the MFAW program at Goddard College with a concentration in poetry. During their free time, they are playing guitar, communing with their two cats, or just taking time for themselves. You can follow them at their growing art/poetry account on instagram @jude.rosenart.