Andrea Abi-Karam is an arab-american genderqueer punk poet-performer cyborg. They are the author of EXTRATRANSMISSION (Kelsey Street Press, 2019), Villainy (Nightboat Books, September 2021), and with Kay Gabriel, they co-edited We Want It All: An Anthology of Radical Trans Poetics (Nightboat Books, 2020). They are a leo obsessed with queer terror and convertibles.  

Elmaz Abidnader’s most recent poetry collection, This House, My Bones, was The Editor’s Selection for 2014 from Willow Books/Aquarius. Her books include a memoir: Children of the Roojme, A Family’s Journey from Lebanon, a book of poetry, In the Country of My Dreams… which won the Oakland PEN, Josephine Miles Award. Elmaz is one of the co-founders of The Voices of Our Nations Arts Foundation (VONA/Voices). She teaches at Mills College, and  is an instructor at the Oakland Y. 

Romaissaa Benzizoune is from New York City and from-from Morocco. Her personal essays have appeared in outlets including Buzzfeed, McSweeney’s, Teen Vogue, and The New York Times. Her current obsession is TikTok the app. 

Tarik Dobbs is an Arab American queer writer and text artist born in Dearborn, Michigan. Visual poems by Dobbs can be found in American Poetry Review, Best of the Net, & Poetry Magazine. Dobbs edits at Poetry.onl and is a writer-in-residence at InsideOut Literary Arts Detroit. Dobbs’s poetry chapbook, Dancing on the Tarmac, was selected by G. Calvocoressi (Yemassee, 2021)

Nour Kamel (she/they) is perfectly lit and writes/edits things in Egypt. Kamel writes about identity, language, sexuality, queerness, gender, oppression, femininity, trauma, family, lineage, globalization, loss, and food. Their chapbook Noon is part of the New-Generation African Poets series.