Ariel Zhang is a student from California who believes that words are a form of bearing witness to the world and each other.

Asma Al-Masyabi is a poet from Colorado who often uses poetry as a way to process the world.

MK Chavez is an Afro-Latinx writer, educator, and multi-disciplinary artist.

Emi Yamashiro-Hergert is a writer currently attending high school in Santa Monica. She has been reading and writing as long as she can remember and discovered her love of poetry over the pandemic as a way to express the emotions beginning to overflow from her mind.

J. Everett Wilson is a Tennessean poet, whose writing centers mostly on mental health and advocacy. They care deeply about giving a voice to those who have been silenced.

Arami Walker is a musician, author, and activist focused on empowering women and people of color.

I consider myself a wordsmith, cosmic scribe, performance artist, and sound shape shifter.

Megumi Jindo is a NYC high school senior and a spoken word poet and activist.

Kimberly Jae (she/her) is an award-winning, Pushcart nominated, and published Crip Poet ranked among the top 30 slam poets in the world by PSI in 2018.

Amanda Dutkiewicz is a writer and museum worker in the South Jersey/Philly area. Her fiction dictates the shifting creases of the mind, the body, and the present spirituality of water as a source of self-creation and self-expression, particularly where contradictions form as horror--but also joy.

Kristal Phillips is a poet from Hertfordshire, England. She got her MA in Writing from the University of Warwick as part of the Warwick Writing Programme.

Jen Schneider is a community college educator who lives, works, and writes in small spaces in and around Philadelphia. She writes poetry, fiction, and creative non-fiction, with an emphasis on hybrid forms.

Ava Chen is a poet and high school senior based in Massachusetts.

Selene Jiang-Qin explores and grows, she returns to creating art to celebrate her inner child.

Claudia Angelillo is a life-long artist, poet, and writer in the New York City area. Her work promotes neurodiversity, ancestry, and viti/viniculture. She is honored to be acknowledged by The ruth weiss Foundation for her work.

E.M. Collins has been writing poetry for nearly three decades.