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Hannah Piette is a poet who lives in New Haven. She received an MFA in poetry from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. She was 2023-2024 CLAS Visiting Writer in Poetry at the University of Iowa, and is currently a PhD student in English at Yale University. Hannah’s poems have appeared in Chicago Review, Works & Days, Guesthouse, The Spectacle, and Paperbark Magazine.

Scout Turkel was born in California and lives in western Massachusetts. Scout’s first book, Solitude & Society, is forthcoming from Nightboat Books. 


Samira Abed is a poet from California currently living in Iowa City. She is Palestinian-American and committed to Palestinian liberation. Her work has appeared in Kismet, Annulet, Dialogist, and Noir Sauna.