Vera Blossom is a proud transfemme Filipina. She was born in the Bay Area, forged in Las Vegas, and currently lives in Chicago. Her work explores desire, pleasure, gender, spirituality, art, and death with explicit vulgarity and frank humor.
Vera’s writing has been supported by TinHouse, PEN America, and the Ann Friedman Weekly. Her work as an audio journalist includes Season 2 of The Anti-Trans Hate Machine which focused on the disinformation ecosystem constructed by the Christian Nationalist movement, as well as Black Mountain Radio, an artist-driven, community-focused audio project published in collaboration with Black Mountain Institute and the Believer magazine. Vera was a producer and co-owner of Your Magic, a mystical podcast that featured celebrity tarot readings and deep-dives into contemporary spiritual practices.
She is the loser of many other fellowships, accolades, and awards. She does not have a post-secondary education. She is, however, very serious about playing around.

Lee Ann Brown is the author of Other Archer, In the Laurels, Caught, Crowns of Charlotte, The Sleep That Changed Everything, and Polyverse.
Lee Ann Brown has produced multimedia poetry events and performances through the Poetry Project, the Segue Foundation, Torn Page, and The French Broad Institute (of Time & the River) and has shown her films at Anthology Film Archives, the Collective for Living Cinema and other venues. Her poetry has been translated into French, Swedish, Slovenian, and Serbian. Editorial projects include Far from the Centers of Ambition, a tribute anthology for Black Mountain College (Lorimer Press, 2013) and guest editorships with journals Open City and West Coast Line. In 1989, Brown founded the award-winning Tender Buttons Press, which is dedicated to publishing experimental women’s poetry.
Brown has held poetry fellowships with the New York Foundation for the Arts, Teachers & Writers Collaborative, Yaddo, Djerassi, the MacDowell Colony, Centre International de Poésie Marseille, Fondation Royaumont and the Howard Foundation. She has taught poetry at Brown University, Naropa University, Bard College, and The New School.