Nathan Lipps is the author of Built Around the Fire and the chapbook the Body as Passage. Born and raised along the rural coast of western Michigan, he currently lives in Ohio and works as an Assistant Professor at Central State University. His work has been published in the Best New Poets, Colorado Review, Cleaver, EcoTheo Review, North American Review, and elsewhere.

Leah Umansky is the author of three collections, including her most recent book, Of Tyrant (Word Works Books, 2024). She earned her MFA in Poetry at Sarah Lawrence College and has curated and hosted the COUPLET Reading Series in New York City since 2011. Her creative work has been featured in The American Poetry Review, The New York Times, Poem-a-Day from the Academy of American Poets, Poetry magazine, and elsewhere.