Brittany Rogers is a poet, mother, educator, and native Detroiter. She is Co-Editor-in-Chief for Muzzle Magazine, and has work published in Vinyl Poetry and Prose, Freezeray Poetry, Tinderbox Poetry, and The BreakBeat Poets: Black Girl Magic Anthology. Brittany is a fellow of VONA/ Voices, The Watering Hole, Poetry Incubator, and Pink Door Writing Retreat. Additionally, she is co-creator of A Real Poetry Unit, which brings professional development to Chicago and Detroit educators.

Raena Shirali is the author of GILT (YesYes Books, 2017), which won the 2018 Milt Kessler Poetry Book Award. She is Co-Editor-in-Chief for Muzzle Magazine, and is the recipient of a Pushcart Prize, a VIDA scholarship, a Philip Roth Residency at Bucknell University, and a “Discovery”/Boston Review Poetry Prize. She has also received poetry prizes from Cosmonauts Avenue and Gulf Coast. Shirali’s poems & reviews have appeared widely in American Poetry Review, Academy of American Poets’ Poem-A Day, The Nation, The Rumpus, & elsewhere. Shirali lives in Philadelphia, where she recently co-organized We (Too) Are Philly--a summer poetry festival highlighting voices of color--and is an Assistant Professor of English at Holy Family University.