Ari Linder
Ari Linder is a mixed Latine writer, artist, and scholar fascinated by the auto-theoretical and creative-critical. They earned their BA in Writing & Literature from UC Santa Barbara, where they were recognized as an M. Garren Tinney Fellow for their creative work, as well as a Chicano Studies Institute Undergraduate Research Fellow and Critical Contributions Award Recipient for their work as a research assistant to Dr. Amrah Salomón on Regeneración Lab projects. If you can't find Ari, they're probably walking their three-legged dog, Argo.
Arien Wolf
arien is a second year poet who keeps trying
to remember how to write again. their work is preoccupied by gaps and silences
Camila Valle
Camila Valle is a writer, editor, translator, horticulturalist, and abortion doula. She loves crosswords, karaoke, and repurposing jars. She is the translator of Set Fear on Fire: The Feminist Call that Set the Americas Ablaze by the Chilean feminist art collective LASTESIS (Verso Books, 2023) and Ant Days by the Cuban poet Martha Luisa Hernández Cadenas (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2026).
Cheri Mae Jocson
Cheri Mae Jocson is a poet and artist from San Bernardino, CA. She holds a BA in Creative Writing from CSULB, where she received the 2024 William Shadden Memorial Award for Poetry. She is the author of All Out of Confessions (Curious Publishing, 2023). Her poetry has been exhibited at several galleries as camcorder poems, on cyanotype, and printed on paper. Currently, she’s figuring out how to get poems onto stone.
Francisco García
Francisco is a poet and visual artist based in Los Angeles.
Haley Marks
Haley is a poet from San Jose, California. She holds a BA in English from UCLA.
Isabel Mesko
Isabel is a poet and filmmaker based in Los Angeles.
keayva mitchell
keayva mitchell is a black queer coda (child of deaf adults) living in long beach. they hold a degree in american sign language linguistics & interpreting. they write most often on the various margins of identity, place, & the rituals of desire. you can find them talking with their hands & doing everything, everywhere.
Kiyani Carter
Kiyani Carter is a writer and melancholic idealist in Southern California with a BA in Psychology. She loves turning off the big light, finding roommates that own cats, and defying mundane expectations.
Lora Mathis
Lora Mathis is a writer and artist from Southern California and Québec. They play with poetry, performance, video, sound, and sculpture. They are the author of The Snakes Came Back (Metatron, 2023) and have released work with Hello America Stereo Cassette, Burn All Books, the HIRS Collective, and Party Trick Press. Before this, they lived in Oakland, where they worked as a civil rights paralegal.
Mishal Syed
Mishal is a poet and fiction writer. She holds a BA in English and cognitive science from UCLA, where she received the Fred and Edith Herman Memorial Prize from the Academy of American Poets, as well as the May Merrill Miller awards in both poetry and fiction, and the Clara Rusk Hastings scholarship. She is working on a poetry collection. For fiction, she is represented by Azantian Literary Agency.
Ray Reidenbaugh
Ray: A narrow beam of light or a line
extending infinitely.
Ryan Riffenburgh
Ryan Riffenburgh is a writer and musician in Los Angeles. His work has appeared in Cult Mag, The Big One, High Horse Review, and elsewhere.
Vidhisha Mahesh
Vidhisha is a writer and filmmaker based in Los Angeles.
Xuân Tran
Xuân is a curious poet from Santa Ana, California. She achieved her BA in English with a minor in Creative Writing at UCI. Currently, she's a poetry section editor for The Ear.
