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Originally from Pittsburgh, Allison Adair now lives in Boston, where she teaches literature and creative writing courses at Boston College and Grub Street. Her poems and flash pieces have appeared in American Poetry Review, Best American Poetry (2018), Best New Poets, Boston Review, Gulf Stream, Missouri Review, and Shenandoah, among other journals. She has been awarded the Pushcart Prize (2019), top prize in the Mid-American Review Fineline Competition, the Orlando Prize from AROHO, and the Florida Review Editors' Award.

Malcolm Friend is a poet originally from the Rainier Beach neighborhood of Seattle, Washington. He is the author of the chapbook mxd kd mixtape (Glass Poetry, 2017) and the full-length collection Our Bruises Kept Singing Purple (Inlandia, 2018), winner of the 2017 Hillary Gravendyk Prize. Find him online at malcolmfriend.com.

Ayesha Chatterjee’s poetry has appeared in journals across the globe and on the official website of Canada’s Parliamentary Poet Laureate, George Elliott Clarke. She has two poetry collections, The Clarity of Distance (2011) and Bottles and Bones (2017), both published by Calgary-based Bayeux Arts. Chatterjee is past president of the League of Canadian Poets. She lives in Toronto. You can follow her on Twitter at @profoundpapaya or visit her website at ayeshachatterjee.com.

Julie Marquez lives in Pittsburgh. She is a senior at Braddock Hills High School.