Zach Savich is the author of seven collections of poetry, including Momently (Black Ocean, 2024), and several chapbooks, limited-edition volumes, and books of prose. His work has received the Iowa Poetry Prize, the Colorado Prize for Poetry, the CSU Poetry Center’s Open Book Award, and other honors, including residencies from the Vermont Studio Center, ArtPark, and the Chautauqua Institution. His writing has appeared in journals and anthologies including American Poetry Review, Best New Poets, Boston Review, Poetry Northwest, and elsewhere. Savich teaches at the Cleveland Institute of Art and serves as co-editor of Rescue Press’s Open Prose Series. He is a 2025 recipient of a fellowship in Creative Writing from the National Endowment for the Arts.

Michael Loughran is the author of a memoir, Windower (Cleveland State University Poetry Center).

Caryl Pagel is the author of four books, most recently Free Clean Fill Dirt (University of Akron Press) and Out of Nowhere Into Nothing (FC2). She was the recipient of the 2025 Lorine Niedecker Fellowship and makes books at Rescue Press.