Todd Fredson is a poet, a critic, and a translator of West African literature. He is the author of several books of poetry and poetry in translation. His most recent, the double-translation Zakwato & Loglêdou’s Peril (Action Books, 2023), was a finalist for the 2023 National Book Critics Circle’s Barrios Book in Translation Prize. His translation Polo kouman / Polo speaks is forthcoming from the University of Wisconsin Press (2027). Fredson has been supported by Fulbright and NEA fellowships, a Virginia G. Piper Fellowship for Cultural Exchange, and other kindnesses.

Jeff Friedman has published eleven collections of poetry and prose, including his most recent, Broken Signals (Bamboo Dart Press, August 2024). His work has appeared in Best Microfiction , New Republic, Flash Fiction Funny, Poetry, and American Poetry Review. He has received an NEA Literature Translation Fellowship and numerous other awards.

Nadia Jacobson was born in London and currently lives in Jerusalem. She holds an MA in English Literature and Creative Writing from Bar-Ilan University, an MA in Philosophy from University College London, and a BA in Ancient Greek Literature and Philosophy from Cambridge University. Her fiction has appeared in The Miramichi Review, The Waking, Meniscus, Annalemma, The Binnacle, Every Day Fiction and others. She is currently working on two interweaving novels.

Taylor Johnston-Levy  holds a postdoctoral fellowship in foreign literatures at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev and teaches US literature and creative writing at Bar-Ilan University. Her fiction and literary critical work appear in Ninth Letter, Twentieth-Century Literature, Critique, Arizona Quarterly, and The Raymond Carver Review.  She received her PhD in Comparative Literature and MA in Creative Writing from UC Berkeley. 

Karen Marron is the author of the fiction chapbook BASS 1998, published in 2020 by Gold Line Press. Her work has also appeared in The Bellingham Review, Entropy, and Unbroken Journal, among others. She has an MA in Creative Writing from Bar-Ilan University and currently lives in Queens. Find her at karenmarron.com.

Jane Medved is the author of Wayfarers  (2024), and Deep Calls To Deep (winner of the Many Voices Project). Her translation of Wherever We Float (by Maya Tevet Dayan) won the Malinda A. Markham Translation Prize from Saturnalia Books. Recent work appears in Bending Genres, ONE ART,  Ruminate, The North American Review and The Contemporary Jewish Poetry Anthology.   Her translations appear in Hala, Hayden’s Ferry Review and Copper Nickel.  Find her at janemedved.net.

Octavio Quintanilla is the 2025 Texas Poet Laureate and the author of the poetry collections If I Go Missing (Slough Press, 2014), The Book of Wounded Sparrows (Texas Review Press, 2024), which was longlisted for the National Book Award, and Las Horas Imposibles / The Impossible Hours, winner of the 2024 Ambroggio Prize of the Academy of American Poets (University of Arizona Press, 2025). He is the founder and director of the literature & arts festival, VersoFrontera, publisher of Alabrava Press, and former Poet Laureate of San Antonio, TX. His poetry and Frontextos (visual poems) have been published and exhibited widely and can be found in public spaces such as at the San Antonio Labor Plaza and at Poet’s Pointe. Octavio is also the recipient of the Nebrija Creadores Scholarship which allowed him a month-long residency at the Instituto Franklin at Alcalá University in Alcalá de Henares, Spain. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of North Texas and teaches at Our Lady of the Lake University in San Antonio, Texas. He was recently inducted into the Texas Institute of Letters. Website: https://www.octavioquintanilla.com/

Marcela Sulak is the author of five poetry collections, most recently, The Fault (2024) and the National Jewish Book Award Finalist, City of Sky Papers (2021). Her five translated collections of poetry from the Czech, French, and Hebrew have been recognized by the NEA and PEN. She has co-edited the 2015 Rose Metal Press title, Family Resemblance: An Anthology and Exploration of 8 Hybrid Literary Genres.  https://marcela-sulak.weebly.com

Sherre Vernon (she/her/hers) is the award-winning author of Green Ink Wings, The Name is Perilous, and Flame Nebula, Bright Nova. Sherre has been published in journals such as Tahoma Literary Review and The Chestnut Review, nominated for Best of the Net and Pushcart prizes, and anthologized in several collections including Fat & Queer and Best Small Fictions.

Yoni Hammer-Kossoy is a poet, translator, and educator whose first poetry collection, “The Book of Noah”, was published by Grayson Books in April 2023. His translations include  “Ana Samar — I am Samar” (2023) and “Forbidden to Write About Happiness” (2024) by Zmira Poran Zion.