Poets
JC Andrews (Website) is a lesbian poet from Springfield, Arkansas with an interest in poems that work as an un-ing, poems that hold questions as a form of caretaking. Her work can be found in Gulf Coast, The Massachusetts Review, Salt Hill Journal, and elsewhere. Most recently, her manuscript, Of an Ilk, was a finalist for the 2024 National Poetry Series, and her poem, “Gargoyle,” was the first runner-up of the Palette Poetry 2024 Sappho Prize for Women Poets, judged by Megan Fernandes.
Abbigail Baldys collects paperclips in Boston, MA. She studied writing & poetics at the University of Pittsburgh and Saint Mary’s College of California, where she was named the Judith Lee Stronach scholar in 2014. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in peel lit, Feral Dove Magazine, the Driftwood Press Anthology, The Creative Writing Department, RHINO, The Laurel Review, BlazeVOX, ANMLY, and elsewhere. A chapbook manuscript—Some Experiments Stretching out the Song—was a finalist for the 2024 Driftwood Press Chapbook Competition. She writes, produces, & performs electronic avant-pop music under the moniker vaste.
Callista Buchen is the author of the full-length collection Look Look Look (Black Lawrence Press), and the chapbooks The Bloody Planet (Black Lawrence Press) and Double-Mouthed (dancing girl press). Her work has appeared in Jet Fuel Review, Harpur Palate, Puerto del Sol, Fourteen Hills, and many other journals.
Bo Hee Moon (Website) is a South Korean adoptee. Born in South Korea, she was adopted at three-months-old. Her poems have appeared in AGNI, Poetry, swamp pink, The Margins, and others. Omma, Sea of Joy and Other Astrological Signs, published by Tinderbox Editions, is her debut collection of poems. She previously published under a different name. Her second collection of poems, Birthstones in the Province of Mercy, won the 2024-2025 Jake Adam York Prize. She has received the Inprint Brown Foundation Fellowship.
Jenna Rozelle (Substack) is a Maine writer, forager, hunter, angler, homesteader, and wild foods teacher. Her writing has been published in Orion Magazine and Rustica Journal, and work is forthcoming in the anthology Cape Cod to Nova Scotia: Poetry, Art, Ecology of the Gulf of Maine, by Storey Press. Her weekly newsletter, Appetites, can be found at jennarozelle.substack.com.
Lisbeth White (Instagram) is an enchantivist writer based in the Pacific Northwest. She is the author of American Sycamore (Perugia Press, 2022), and co-editor of Poetry as Spellcasting: Poems, Essays, and Prompts for Manifesting Liberation and Reclaiming Power (North Atlantic Books, 2023). Her nonfiction chapbook, A Most Natural Thing: An Elemental Memoir (Red Mare Press, 2025), won The Master’s Review Open Chapbook contest. She has received support for her work from Artist Trust, VONA, Callaloo, Tin House, Roots.Wounds.Words., The Watering Hole, and Bread Loaf Environmental Writers Conference. She is a 2025 Periplus fellow and is at work on her first novel.
Visual Artists
Desirée Alvarez (Website) is an award-winning painter and poet. She has received grants, awards, and fellowships from New York Foundation for the Arts, American Academy of Arts and Letters, Foundation for Contemporary Art, European Capital of Culture, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, and Poets House. Alvarez shows in museums and galleries nationally and internationally. Her second book, Raft of Flame, received the Lake Merritt Poetry Prize from Omnidawn. Devil’s Paintbrush received the May Sarton New Hampshire Poetry Prize. She has published in journals including Boston Review, Fence Magazine, Poetry Magazine, and The Slowdown Podcast. Alvarez teaches at New York City College of Technology, CUNY, and The Juilliard School. Oyster Saloon, her third poetry collection, will be published by Omnidawn in fall 2026.
Nancy Cohen’s (Website, Instagram, PBS State of the Arts Profile) work in handmade paper and glass examines resiliency in relation to the environment and the human body. Recent exhibitions include Nancy Cohen: The State We’re In at Kathryn Markel Fine Arts in Chelsea, NY, Yvette Molina: A Promise to the Leaves at the Tang Museum in Saratoga Springs, NY, and Transgressing Lands: Eleven Contemporary Artist Reimagine a Horizon at The Boiler in Brooklyn, NY. Current exhibitions include Legacies in Paper: Nancy Cohen, Sara Garden Armstrong and Helen Heibert at the Museum of Papermaking in Atlanta, GA and New Acquisitions at the New Jersey State Museum in Trenton, NJ. Nancy Cohen is a 2025 MacDowell Fellow and a 2024 recipient of the Jersey City Artists & Culture Trust Fund. In Spring of 2024, Cohen had a collaborative residency with Anna Boothe at Wheaton Arts in Millville, NJ. In 2022, she was a recipient of the Murray Reich Distinguished Artist Award from New York Foundation for the Arts, a Works on Paper Fellowship from the NJ State Council on the Arts, a Denbo Fellowship in papermaking from Pyramid Atlantic Art Center, and a Studio Residency grant in papermaking from Women’s Studio Workshop. Museum collections include Asheville Art Museum, Bergstrom Mahler Museum of Glass, Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, Montclair Art Museum, Smith College Museum of Art, Tang Teaching Museum, Weatherspoon Art Gallery, and Yale University Art Gallery. Watch the video profile Legacies in Paper: Nancy Cohen from the Robert C. Williams Museum of Papermaking.
Anna Dibble’s (Website, Instagram) paintings have been featured in solo, group, and invitational exhibitions in museums, cultural centers, and galleries for over 40 years: Spaces include the Portland Museum of Art, Portland, Maine; George Marshall Store Gallery, York, Maine; Cynthia Winings Gallery, Blue Hill, Maine; Caldbeck Gallery, Rockland, Maine; PULP gallery, Holyoke, Massachusetts; Edgewater Gallery, Middlebury, Vermont; Gallery B, Castine, Maine; Elizabeth Wilson Museum, Manchester, Vermont; Sarah Doyle Gallery of Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island; Atrium Gallery of Bard College, Great Barrington, Massachusetts; Strathmore Gallery, Bethesda, Maryland; ICA at Maine College of Art & Design, Portland, Maine; and A.P.E. Gallery, Northampton, Massachusetts. Dibble’s work is in private collections all over the United States.
Alexa Frangos (Website, Instagram) is a photo-based artist from Chicago, Illinois. Utilizing cut paper, photographic ephemera and found objects, Alexa creates constructed realities that seek to reflect on psychological states and identity. Alexa studied Visual Communications and Photography at Washington University in St. Louis before receiving her M.F.A. from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where her multimedia work evolved into a photographic practice. She then attended law school and practiced law for many years before returning to a full-time art practice. She has been showing work nationally and internationally since 2012. In 2021 she won a Julia Margaret Cameron award for her series *Ghosts of Displacement*. In 2024, she was one of Photolucida’s Top 200. Alexa is a member of Perspective Group and Photography Gallery in Evanston, Illinois.
Cheryl Gross’ (Website, Instagram) work has appeared in numerous films, TV shows, publications, and graces the walls of many corporate and museum collections, including: Zebra Poetry Film Festival, Berlin; the New York Times; Riverside Museum, Riverside, California; The Museum of The City of New York; Mississippi Museum of Art; Laforet Harajuku Museum, Tokyo, Japan. Artist-In-Residency, Kunstlerhaus, Saarbruken, Germany. Finalist Elizabeth Hulings Foundation, 2014, Artist-In-Residency Program, Dilsberg, Germany, 2015, four-time recipient Eileen Kaminsky Family Foundation Residency, Jersey City, 2018-2020.
For more than 30 years, Dolores Poacelli (Website, Instagram) has had an art studio in the heart of the Italian Market in Philadelphia. Among many awards, in 2024 and 2011, she was the recipient of the New Jersey State Council on the Arts Fellowship for Painting, and in 2000, she was awarded the Samuel Fleisher Challenge Exhibit in Philadelphia. Her work has been exhibited widely and is a part of many public and private collections, such as SAP Software in Germany; Bank of America in Delaware; Cooper Anderson Hospital in Camden, NJ; New York Presbyterian Children’s Hospital in NY; Park Towne Place in Philadelphia; Liberty Properties in Malvern, PA; Murano Condominiums in Philadelphia; the Psychology Department of Princeton University; and the State of New Jersey. She studied at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia, the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, and Fleisher Art Memorial, and has worked for many years as a graphic designer. She has been teaching art for 14 years at the Perkins Center for the Arts.