Michael Klein

Michael Klein has written two memoirs and five books of poetry, including The Early Minutes of Without: New & Selected Poems, and he is a five-time finalist and two-time winner of the Lambda Literary Award for poetry. His new book, Happiness Ruined Everything: Essays, has just been published by Galileo Press. He has taught writing at Sarah Lawrence College, Binghamton University, Hunter College, the Fine Arts Work Center Summer Program and for more than 20 years as part of the MFA-in-Writing faculty at Goddard College.

Gillian Osborne

Gillian Osborne is a writer, educator, and editor. She is the author of a book of essays, Green Green Green (Nightboat 2021), a chapbook of poems and drawings, basic research (oxeye, 2023), and the co-editor of a collection of scholarship on ecopoetics. Trained as a poet and scholar of 19th-c. American and environmental literature at UC-Berkeley, she’s been the recipient of fellowships from the Harvard University Center for the Environment, the American Antiquarian Society, and the Emily Dickinson International Society, and has held teaching appointments at Bard College, Harvard Division of Continuing Education, UC-Santa Barbara, and elsewhere. Raised as a Quaker in a small village in upstate New York, she lives in The Bay Area, where her current interests include conversation, essays, gardens, kitchens, poetry, stories, and magic.

Kristina Ten

Kristina Ten is the author of Tell Me Yours, I’ll Tell You Mine (2025, Stillhouse Press). Her stories appear in The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy, We’re Here: The Best Queer Speculative Fiction, The Best Weird Fiction of the Year, and elsewhere. She has won the McSweeney’s Stephen Dixon Award for Short Fiction, and has been a finalist for the Shirley Jackson Award, the Locus Award, and the Conjunctions Residency. Ten is a graduate of Clarion West Writers Workshop and the University of Colorado Boulder’s MFA program in fiction, and has received fellowships from the Ragdale Foundation and the Martha’s Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing.

John Sibley Williams

John Sibley Williams is the author of nine poetry collections, including Scale Model of a Country at Dawn (Cider Press Review Poetry Award), The Drowning House (Elixir Press Poetry Award), As One Fire Consumes Another (Orison Poetry Prize), Skin Memory (Backwaters Prize, University of Nebraska Press), skycrape (WaterSedge Poetry Chapbook Contest), and Summon (JuxtaProse Chapbook Prize). His book Sky Burial: New & Selected Poems is forthcoming in translation from the Portuguese press do lado esquerdo. A thirty-five-time Pushcart nominee, John serves as editor of The Inflectionist Review, Poetry Editor at Kelson Books, and founder of the Caesura Poetry Workshop series. Previous publishing credits include Best American Poetry, Yale Review, Verse Daily, North American Review, Prairie Schooner, and TriQuarterly.

Lauren Krauze

Lauren Krauze is a writer, editor, and writing educator based in San Francisco. Her essays, short fiction, and poetry have appeared in Tricycle: The Buddhist Review, Hobart, Painted Bride Quarterly, The Seventh Wave, and elsewhere. She was raised in New York’s Hudson Valley and lived in New York City for over 20 years. During that time, she received her MFA in Creative Nonfiction from The New School and taught writing at Parsons School of Design and Pratt Institute. Lauren currently teaches writing classes in the Bay Area and also works with individual writers and artists.

Ray Hsu

Ray Hsu is author of Anthropy (winner of the Gerald Lampert Award) and Cold Sleep Permanent Afternoon (winner of the Alcuin Award) and 150+ written works in literary journal/magazine publications. Over 20+ years of teaching, Ray has taught creative writing at the SFU Writer’s Studio, the UBC Creative Writing Program, the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity and a Wisconsin prison.

Amy G. Latham

Amy G. Latham holds an MFA in Fiction from San Francisco State University, where she has taught in the College of Liberal Arts and the College of Business. She is Associate Editor at Chariot Press, and her literary work has appeared in Gulf Coast, Epiphany, Greensboro Review, Camera Obscura, Fourteen Hills, and other journals. She has been recognized with The Dillydoun Review short story prize and the Wilner Award for short fiction, and her story “Combustion” was adapted for a short film by Quiet Lightning. She is currently at work on a collaborative audiodrama with sponsorship from Independent Arts & Media and a debut novel.

Cate Lycurgus

Cate Lycurgus’s writing has appeared in Best American Poetry, ZYZZYVA, The American Poetry Review, Ploughshares, Kenyon Review, and elsewhere. She has also received scholarships from Bread Loaf and Sewanee Writers’ Conferences and 2nd place in Narrative’s Poetry Contest; her chapbook Seacliff is forthcoming from Bull City Press in 2025. Cate lives in San Jose, California, where she interviews for 32 Poems and teaches writing.

Ann Guy

Ann Guy is a writer and recovering engineer who was born in the Philippines, grew up among the cornfields and cow patties of Western Michigan, and now lives in Oakland, California with her husband and two kids. She writes fiction and creative nonfiction, and her work has been featured in Riverteeth, Hippocampus, CRAFT Literary, Southeast Review, Sweet Lit, Entropy, MUTHA, Ekphrastic Review, Literary Mama, and Motherwell. A graduate of MIT, UC Berkeley, and San Francisco State University, her favorite spaces are learning environments. She has taught creative writing classes at San Francisco State University and private workshops in the East Bay.

Kuang Lee

Kuang Lee is a writer and filmmaker. Kuang’s narrative feature, BUDDY SOLITAIRE, starring Golden Globe Award Winner Sally Kirkland, was distributed by Gravitas Ventures and licensed by Hulu. His second feature, BEST MOM, won Best Family Feature at the Hollywood Film Festival. Kuang’s shorts have screened worldwide in film festivals such as NBC Shortcuts, Cinequest, and Dances with Films. He is the founder of Satellite Films, an Addy Award winning production company specializing in commercial films and documentaries.