Franny Choi is a poet and essayist. They are the author of the essay collection We Radiant Things: Notes on Being Alien and Becoming Cyborg (forthcoming in 2026 from Ecco) and three collections of poetry, including The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On (Ecco, 2022) and Soft Science (Alice James Books, 2019). They also co-edited the anthology We the Gathered Heat: Asian American and Pacific Islander Poetry, Performance, and Spoken Word (Haymarket Books, 2024), and their work has appeared in the New York Times, the Atlantic, Paris Review, and elsewhere. Franny is a member of the Literature Faculty at Bennington College and the founder of Brew & Forge, a project building connections between writers and social justice movements.

Cameron Awkward-Rich is the author of three collections of poetry, most recently An Optimism (Persea Books, 2026), as well as The Terrible We: Thinking with Trans Maladjustment (Duke University Press, 2022), which was awarded the Sylvia Rivera Award in Transgender Studies. His most recent project, Time Also Will Make It Interesting (Nightboat, 2026), is an edited volume of the journals of the late Red Jordan Arobateau, a Bay Area-based trans writer and painter. Presently, Cam is an Associate Professor in the Department of Women, Gender, Sexuality Studies at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.