Stephanie Niu, Steven Duong, Olatunde Osinaike, & Amanda Killian

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Stephanie Niu is a poet and writer from Marietta, Georgia. She is the author of I Would Define the Sun, which won the inaugural Vanderbilt University Literary Prize, and chapbooks the Survived By (Host Publications, 2024) and She Has Dreamt Again of Water (Diode Editions, 2022). Her work has appeared in The Georgia Review, The Missouri Review, Literary Hub, Copper Nickel, Ecotone, and elsewhere. She lives in Brooklyn, NY.

Steven Duong is a writer from San Diego. He is the author of the debut poetry collection At the End of the World There Is a Pond (W. W. Norton, 2025). His poems have appeared in the American Poetry Review, Guernica, and the Yale Review, among other publications, and his short fiction is featured in Catapult, The Drift, and The Best American Short Stories 2024. He is the creative writing fellow in poetry at Emory University. He lives in Atlanta, Georgia.

Originally from the West Side of Chicago, Olatunde Osinaike is a Nigerian-American poet, essayist, and software developer. Selected as the 2024 Georgia Author of the Year in Poetry, his first collection, Tender Headed (Akashic Books), was named a winner of the National Poetry Series and shortlisted for the Society of Midland Authors Award in Poetry and Nossrat Yassini Poetry Prize. Other honors include winner of the Lucille Clifton Poetry Prize, semifinalist for the Discovery Poetry Prize, and honorable mention for the Ploughshares Emerging Writer's Award in Poetry. His work has appeared, or is forthcoming, in Literary Hub, The Slowdown, Poetry Daily, Best New Poets, 20.35 Africa, Obsidian, Hunger Mountain, and elsewhere. He now lives in Atlanta with his wife and would like to thank you.

Amanda Killian is a writer and interdisciplinary artist from Upstate New York. They are the author of Elegy Ekphrasis: Studies for Destruction, a collection of speculative prose poems about the destruction of works of art. Their work explores the boundaries of attachment to art, creating alternative histories, and how language shapes or limits our world. They have been published by the Buffalo-Niagara LGBTQ History Project, the Rose Books Hotline, Strapped Magazine, and in various fanzines, podcasts, and DIY creations. Currently, they live in Atlanta, GA with their wife, two pets, and many books. You can find Amanda on Instagram @eroscestlavie or at www.amandakillian.work

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