Summer Bowie is the managing editor of Autre magazine. As a former dancer and educator, she brings her studies in movement and language to her assessment of culture at large.

Anna Dorn is the author of the novels Perfume & Pain (Simon & Schuster, 2024) and Exalted (The Unnamed Press, 2022), which was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. Her next book, American Spirits, is forthcoming from Simon & Schuster.

Francisco Javier Garcia is a poet and visual artist who is currently pursuing an MFA at UC Irvine.

Pete Hsu is the author of the short story collection If I Were The Ocean, I’d Carry You Home (Red Hen Press, 2022). He teaches creative writing at the UCLA Extension Writers Program and hosts events at the historic Vroman’s Bookstore in Pasadena.

Elaine Kahn is the author of Romance or the End (Soft Skull Press, 2020) and Women in Public (City Lights Booksellers & Publishers, 2015). She is founder and instructor of Poetry Field School.

Alex Moreno’s debut poetry book, Sticky Time, is out with Sunflower Station Press on November 15. You can also find her writing in Spectra Poets, Lit Angels, and Dream Boy Book Club.