Cyrée Jarelle Johnson is a poet and writer from Piscataway, NJ. His collection SLINGSHOT won a 2020 Lambda Literary Award in Gay Poetry, and his forthcoming collection WATCHNIGHT won the 2023 James Laughlin Award by the Academy of American Poets. Johnson is a recipient of a 2023 Creative Writing Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts.
Eric Sneathen is a poet and queer literary historian living in Alameda, California. He is the author of Snail Poems and Don’t Leave Me This Way. He and Lauren Levin edited the selected fictions of Camille Roy, Honey Mine.