Samuel Ace is a trans/genderqueer writer and sound artist. His most recent books are I want to start by saying (CSU Poetry Center, 2024), Our Weather Our Sea (Black Radish), and Meet Me There: Normal Sex & Home in three days. Don’t wash. (Belladonna*). Ace is the recipient of the Astraea Lesbian Writer Award and the Firecracker Alternative Book Award in Poetry, as well as a repeat finalist for both the Lambda Literary Award and the National Poetry Series. Recent work can be found in Personal Best: Makers on Their Poems that Matter Most, Essential Queer Voices of U.S. Poetry, Fence, BathHouse, The Texas Review, Poetry, We Want it All: An Anthology of Radical Trans Poetry, Best American Experimental Poetry, and many other journals and anthologies.

Julie Patton is the author of The Flower Poem (Tender Buttons) and Teething on Type (Rodent Press). A special issue of Chicago Review devoted to Julie’s poetic/performative/visual and land main/tenance project launches October 2024. Her work has appeared in About Place Journal, ((eco (lang)(uage(reader)),  Other Influences: An Untold History of Feminist Avant-Garde Poetry, and the seminal Aloud: Voices from the Nuyorican Poets Cafe. Julie is a recipient of a 2012 Doan Brook Association Watershed Hero Award, the Cleveland Arts Prize, a Museum of Fine Arts Houston Core Resident Fellowship, and a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship. Her sound/text installation, Womb Room Tomb, was a 2018 Front Triennial hit. Julie, a sound-poet that composes with non-conventional instruments, has performed at Arts for Arts, the Stone, Artists Space, Center for Book Arts in NYC and in other noted venues here and abroad. She enjoys collaborating with Abou Farman, Janice Lowe, drummer Nasheet Waits. An award-wining educator,  Julie has taught at NYU, the Jack Kerouac School/Naropa, Schule fur Dichtung, and in her own backyard. Wherever that may be.