Dawn Tefft's first full-length poetry book, Once Upon a Riot, is available through Match Factory Editions (June 2025).  Her chapbooks include Gosling (Anhinga Press), Fist (Dancing Girl Press), and Field Trip to My Mother and Other Exotic Locations (Mudlark).  Her poems appear in Fence, Denver Quarterly, and Witness.  She earned a PhD in English at University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, volunteers as an editor for Packingtown Review, and works as a union representative in Chicago.

Paul Martinez Pompa's first book, My Kill Adore Him, was selected for the Andres Montoya Poetry Prize. His most recent book, Domestic Corpse, is slated for publication on Match Factory Editions. His work has been widely anthologized, including in What Saves Us: Poems of Empathy and Outrage in the Trump Era, and in The Breakbeat Poets: New American Poetry in the Age of Hip-Hop. His poetry was commissioned for a Chicago Public Radio project called In Verse, which aimed to explore the emotional weight of gun violence. He is currently edits for Packingtown Review and teaches at Triton College.