B. K. Fischer is the author of Ceive, a finalist for the 2021 National Book Critics Circle Award, and four previous collections of poetry—Radioapocrypha, My Lover’s Discourse, St. Rage’s Vault, and Mutiny Gallery. She is also the author of a critical study, Museum Mediations, and her work has appeared in The New York Times, The Nation, The Paris Review, Kenyon Review, Poetry International, Poetry Northwest, Los Angeles Review of Books, and elsewhere. A former poetry editor of Boston Review, she teaches The Comma Sutra, a cross-genre seminar on grammar and syntax for creative practice, in the Writing Program at Columbia University’s School of the Arts. She was the inaugural Poet Laureate of Westchester County from 2021-2023, and an Academy of American Poets Laureate Fellow in 2022. Her newest book of poems, Disaster Porn, is forthcoming from BOA Editions. You can find her @bk_on_hudson or www.bkfischer.com.
Adam Hughes is a poet, writer, teacher, and performer living in Bedford, Virginia. Originally from central Ohio, he received an MFA in Creative Writing from Randolph College. Pluck (BOA Editions, 2025) is his fifth full-length poetry collection. In addition to his poetry, he is also the author of This Is Rugby, a non-fiction book about American rugby culture. Adam has been a pastor, a hospice grief coordinator, a college professor, a rugby player, an actor, a director, and is currently a high school English teacher. Most importantly, he is a husband and a father. He can be found on Instagram at @onwardrugby, on BluSky at @adamhughespoetry, and on tiktok at @onwardonstage.