Marcella Durand’s book, A Winter Triangle, is the 2024 Poetic Justice Institute Prize Winner and will be published by Fordham University Press in Fall 2025. She is the co-editor with Jennifer Firestone of Other Influences: The Untold History of Avant-Garde Feminist Poetry, published by MIT Press in Fall 2024, and the 2021 recipient of the C.D. Wright Award in Poetry from the Foundation of Contemporary Art. She is currently working on a few new projects with various titles, including Circles for Wheelmakers, No Trees, Prosthetic Tongue, and Would Have. 

Katie Naughton is a poet living in Brooklyn, NY. She is the author of the chapbooks Study (above/ground press, 2021), A Second Singing (Dancing Girl Press, 2023), and Debt Ritual (forthcoming from Bunny/Fonograf Editions, 2025). Her poetry has been published or is forthcoming in Fence, Bennington Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, Tupelo Quarterly, and elsewhere. She holds an MFA in creative writing from Colorado State University and is a doctoral candidate in the Poetics program at State University of New York at Buffalo. She is an editor at Essay Press, the HOW(ever) and How2 Digital Archive Project, and Etcetera, an online journal of poetry and poetics.

Soham Patel is the author of all one in the end—/water (Delete Press, 2023), ever really hear it (Subito Press, 2018), winner of the Subito Prize, and to afar from afar (The Accomplices, 2018). Their next poetry collection, The Daughter Industry, will be published by Nightboat Books in 2026.