Trace Howard DePass, a Poets House Fellow, is the author of ‘Self-portrait as the space between us’ (PANK Books 2018) and editor of Scholastic’s Best Teen Writing of 2017. He served as the 2016 Teen Poet Laureate for the Borough of Queens. His work has been featured on BET Next Level, Billboard, Blavity, NPR’s The Takeaway, and also resides in literary homes: Anomalous Press (fka Drunken Boat), Entropy Magazine, Split This Rock!, The Other Side of Violet, Best Teen Writing of 2015, & the East Coast Voices Anthology. Trace aims to blur the lines between the narrative arc and what is percussive.

Laura Buccieri‘s work has appeared in Metatron, Prelude, Lambda Literary, Cosmonauts Avenue, and elsewhere. She is the Publicist at Copper Canyon Press & holds an MFA in poetry from The New School.