Joshua Escobar, born and raised in Fontana, California, is the author of the chapbooks CALIFORKYA VOLTAGE and XXOX FM, and a book of poems BAREBACK NIGHTFALL (Noemi Press). Poet Leila Ortiz describes his work as "out of context and close to the heart." His forthcoming novel, Demons of Eminence, will be published by Publication Studio as part of the Fellow Travelers Series.
Artem Mozgovoy is the author of Spring in Siberia (a gay coming-of-age story set in that remote industrialized part of Russia), published in 2023 and praised by Ocean Vuong and Sir Stephen Fry.
Raegan Bird lives in Salem Massachusetts and co-runs the publishing project Blue Arrangements with her husband Nathan Dragon. Her fiction has been published by New York Tyrant, Joyland, and Blimp Biannual. She is working on a novel about motherhood, agriculture, and the illusion of control.
DL Alvarez is a visual artist whose work including drawing, film, installations, and prose. Their writing has been published in the anthologies Biting the Error: Writers Explore Narrative, Sluts, and Thomas Gunn: A Prismatic Portrait. Born in California's Central Valley, Alvarez later lived and studied in San Francisco, Paris, New York, Berlin, and Los Angeles. They taught Narrative Art and Film Studies at the San Francisco Art Institute and The California College of the Arts.