Rainer Diana Hamilton is the author of God Was Right (2018), The Awful Truth (2017), and Okay, Okay (2012). They write, broadly, about the forms that dreams, art, and love have taken. They received a PhD in Comparative Literature from Cornell University, where they worked on the idea of style. They were born in Terre Haute, Indiana, and they live in Sunset Park, Brooklyn, with a large cat named both Monster and Émile.
Violet Spurlock is the author of In Lieu of Solutions (2023), which was the recipient of the Other Futures Award. She lives in the Bay Area, where she is currently a PhD student in English at the University of California, Berkeley.
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Evan Kennedy is a poet and bicyclist. He is the author of Metamorphoses (City Lights), I Am, Am I, to Trust the Joy That Joy Is No More or Less There Now Than Before (Roof Books), Jerusalem Notebook (O’clock Press), The Sissies (Futurepoem), Terra Firmament (Krupskaya), Shoo-Ins to Ruin (Gold Wake Press), and Us Them Poems (Book*hug). He runs the occasional press, Dirty Swan Projects, and was born in Beacon, New York, in 1983. He lives in San Francisco.