Ashley Young is a Queer feminist poet, author and teacher. Her work has been published in three anthologies and she is a contributor at Elixher magazine. She has also been featured in various online magazines, such as Autostraddle, Rvkvry Journal and more. She is a 2010 Voices of Our Nation’s Foundation Poetry Fellow and a 2011 Lambda Literary Foundation Nonfiction Fellow, to return summer of 2016. She has taught her biomythography workshop at the Fire and Ink Conference in 2015 and at the Northeast Queer and Trans Conference at NYU. She is currently working on a collection of poetry and prose entitled Chronicles of Bipolar Living and is completing her first novel, a biomythography entitled The Liberation of the Black Unicorn. Ashley lives in New York City with her wife, four wild cats and her sweet service dog.

Tom Capelonga is a 28 year old native of New York City. His work has appeared in FourTwoNine Magazine, Podium, the HIV Here & Now Project, and the Lambda Literary Poetry Spotlight. He is working on completing his first chapbook, titled The Christopher Street Reader.