Nina Puro is a poet, human, & queer weirdo whose writing is in The Atlas Review, Guernica, the PEN/ America Poetry Series, & others. A member of the Belladonna* Collaborative; author of two chapbooks (Argos Books and dancing girl press); recipient of fellowships from the MacDowell Colony, the Brooklyn Community Pride Foundation, & Syracuse University (MFA, 2012), Nina cries and works in Brooklyn.

Cassandra Neyenesch is the author of Euphemia Fan: Spy Girl and has written for Art in America, the Brooklyn Rail, Public Books, and The International Herald Tribune. She lives in Brooklyn with a monkey and a miniature goat.