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Richard Lucyshyn, Adam Tedesco, Anna Gurton-Wachter and Lynne DeSilva-Johnson (Elæ)

Anna Gurton-Wachter is a writer, editor and archivist. Her first full length book, Utopia Pipe Dream Memory, is just out from Ugly Duckling Presse. Anna helps makes letterpress chapbooks with DoubleCross Press, is a curator for the Segue Reading Series and puts some writing and art online at counterpoetry dot com. Anna lives in Brooklyn, NY a few blocks away from the home in which she was born. More info at annagw.com/ @anna.as.metaphor

ELÆ [Lynne DeSilva-Johnson] is an multimodal creator and scholar, addressing intersections between bodies, language, technology, and system change. Recent and forthcoming features include Big Echo, Tagvverk, Matters of Feminist Practice, &Now, Ars Electronica, Performing Knowledge and The Exponential Festival. The hybrid collection Sweet and Low : Indefinite Singular as well as Boddy Oddy Oddy, a collaborative ekphrastic book with painter Georgia Elrod, are forthcoming. They teach at Pratt Institute, and are Founder/Creative Director of The Operating System. A door: @thetroublewithbartleby

Richard Lucyshyn is the author of I MADE FOR YOU A NEW MACHINE AND ALL IT DOES IS HOPE, a full-length poetry collection published by The Operating System, and Geoffrey Tungsten's Grievesome River, a chapbook of poems and illustrations from Sybil Press. His poems have appeared in Reality Beach, Drunk in a Midnight Choir, Gramma, Sprung Formal, and elsewhere. He teaches poetry and creative writing at The College of William and Mary and lives in Richmond, VA with his spouse and two children.

Born in Upstate New York, Poet and video artist Adam Tedesco is a founding editor of REALITY BEACH, a journal of new poetics. His work has been screened at MoMA PS1, &Now: A Festival of Innovative Writing, No Nation Gallery, New Hampshire Poetry Festival, and has appeared or is forthcoming in Conduit, Diagram, Fence, jubilat, Laurel Review, and elsewhere. He is the author of several chapbooks, most recently Misrule (Ursus Americanus, 2019). His first full-length poetry collection, Mary Oliver, was recently published by Lithic Press