Read House of Leaves? Again? In 9 Days? Challenge accepted, Eldritch Cat. With the power of March Break and caffeine on my side I bet I can clear the extra Whalestoe Letters from the standalone version too

JORDAN ALEJANDRO RIVERA (he/him) is a 24-year-old queer Xicano writer. Jordan is passionate about mutual aid and wants to see a free Palestine in his lifetime. His work is featured in Writers Resist, HAD, and more. Read more at jordanarivera.wordpress.com or @jordinowrites.bsky.social.

DAMEN O'BRIEN is a multi-award-winning Australian poet. His prizes include The Moth Poetry Prize and the Peter Porter Poetry Prize. Damen's poems can be found in Aesthetica Magazine, Arc Poetry Journal and other journals. Damen's latest book is Walking the Boundary (Pitt Street Poetry, 2024).

SUSAN WISMER (she/they) is a queer poet who is grateful to live on Treaty 18 territory at the southern shore of Manidoo-gitchigami (Georgian Bay) in Ontario, Canada with two human partners and a very large dog. Hand Shadows, a chapbook, was published in December 2024 by Wintergreen Press.

JAMES DUNNIGAN is a writer, scholar and editor from Montreal and author of five poetry chapbooks. His creative and critical work appears—or is scheduled to appear—in The New Quarterly, The Fiddlehead, Event Magazine, CV2, Maisonneuve Magazine, Hamilton Arts and Letters and The Miramichi Reader.

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Natalia Prusinska (she/her) is a queer poet. Her work has been featured in Passages North, Cream City Review, petrichor, and elsewhere. She lives with her partner in Los Angeles.

Haley Magrill is a Canadian writer. Her work has previously appeared in Flash Fiction Magazine, The Anti-Languorous Project, The Cabinet of Heed, Dissections Magazine, Canadian Stories, and the Queen’s Quarterly. In 2020, her short story "Flyer" was shortlisted for the Staunch Short Story Prize.

@shanaross.bsky.social is a recent transplant to Edmonton, Alberta and Treaty Six Territory. Qui transtulit sustinet. Her work has recently appeared in Great Weather for MEDIA, FreeFall, Yolk, Ninth Letter, and more. She prefers walking in the woods to social media, and budgets her time accordingly.

ALEX CARRIGAN (he/him) is a Pushcart-nominated editor, poet, and critic. He is the author of "Now Let’s Get Brunch: A Collection of RuPaul’s Drag Race Twitter Poetry" (Querencia, 2023) and "May All Our Pain Be Champagne: A Collection of Real Housewives Twitter Poetry" (Alien Buddha, 2022).