Gabriel Ojeda-Sagué is a poet and writer living in Chicago, author of four books of poetry, most recently Madness, finalist for the Four Quartets Award, and Losing Miami. He is a PhD candidate in English at the University of Chicago where he works in the study of sexuality.
Xan Forest Phillips is a poet and visual artist from rural Ohio. He is the author of the poetry collection Hull, winner of the 2020 Lambda Literary Award for Trans Poetry, and the chapbook Reasons for Smoking, selected by Claudia Rankine for the Seattle Review Chapbook Contest.