May 16, 2024

Dion O’Reilly is the author of Sadness of the Apex Predator, Ghost Dogs, and Limerence, a finalist for the John Pierce Chapbook Competition, forthcoming from Floating Bridge Press. Her work appears in The Sun, Rattle, The Slowdown, Narrative, and elsewhere. She is a podcaster at “The Hive Poetry Collective,” leads poetry workshops, and is a reader for Catamaran Literary Quarterly. She splits her time between a ranch in Soquel, California, and a residence in Bellingham, Washington. Visit https://www.dionoreilly.com/. 

Francesca Bell is the author of Bright Stain, finalist for the Washington State Book Award, and What Small Sound, short-listed for the Eric Hoffer Award Grand Prize, and the translator of Max Sessner’s Whoever Drowned Here. She is the poet laureate of Marin County, the events coordinator for the Marin Poetry Center, a translation editor at the Los Angeles Review, and the arts program coordinator for the Friends of the San Quentin Prison Library. Visit https://www.francescabellpoet.com/.