Davey Davis
is the author of Casanova 20: Or, Hot World, X, and the earthquake room. They live in Brooklyn.

Lauren Cook
is a naturalist and the author of I Love Shopping (Glo Worm Press, 2019;

Nightboat Books, 2025) and Sex Goblin (Nightboat Books, 2024). He is from upstate New York.

Miriam Atkin
is a Catskills-based poet. She has written three chapbooks, most recently, Inclination Drawing (Beautiful Days Press, 2024). She is cofounder of Pinsapo, an international publishing collective, and Verbatim Text Sound Expo, an annual small press and record label fair in the mountains. Her podcast, Specific Objects: Talks on Art in the Catskills, airs quarterly on WGXC 90.7.

Stacy Szymaszek
is the author of Journal of Ugly Sites and Other Journals (Fence Books), winner of the Ottoline Prize and a Lambda Literary Award finalist, The Pasolini Book (Golias Books), and Essay (Krupskaya Books, 2025). Starving Is the Energy (Antiphony) and About the House (Rescue Press) are forthcoming in 2026. She is currently pursuing a Master’s degree in Anthrozoology with a focus on farmed animal welfare.MORE