DIANA ARTERIAN is the author of the recent poetry collection Agrippina the Younger (Northwestern UP). Her first volume, Playing Monster :: Seiche, received a starred review in Publishers Weekly and was a Poetry Foundation Staff Pick. Diana’s co-translation of Nadia Anjuman's poetry, Smoke Drifts, is shortly forthcoming from World Poetry Books. A Poetry Editor at Noemi Press and twice-finalist for the National Poetry Series, Diana’s work has been featured by The Academy of American Poets, BOMB, LARB, NPR, New York Times Book Review, and Poetry, among others. She writes "The Annotated Nightstand" column at LitHub and lives in Los Angeles.
PAUL MARTINEZ POMPA is a papa, poet and professor who earned degrees from The University of Chicago (B.A.) and Indiana University (M.F.A). His first book, My K*ll Adore Him (University of Notre Dame Press), was selected for the Andres Montoya Poetry Prize. His most recent book, Domestic Corpse, is slated to be published by Match Factory Editions in fall 2025. His work has been widely anthologized, including in What Saves Us: Poems of Empathy and Outrage in the Trump Era, and The Breakbeat Poets: New American Poetry in the Age of Hip-Hop. Chicago Public Radio commissioned his poetry for a project called "In Verse," which aimed to explore the emotional weight of gun violence. He is currently on the editorial board at Packingtown Review.
DAWN TEFFT'S poems appear in Bennington Review, Denver Quarterly, and Fence. Once Upon a Riot, her first full-length poetry book, came out through Match Factory Editions in June 2025. Her chapbooks include Gosling (Anhinga Press), Fist (Dancing Girl Press), and Field Trip to My Mother and Other Exotic Locations (Mudlark). 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.
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