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by Court Ludwick Mixed media, digital collage; scanned linocut and charcoal layered on found paper. Court Ludwick is the author of These Strange Bodies and the founding editor-in-chief of Broken Antler . Her work has been nominated for Best of the Net, the Pushcart Prize, and Best Microfiction, and can be found in EPOCH , Washington Square Review , Denver Quarterly , and elsewhere. Court is currently based in Minneapolis, where she is working on a novel, a poetry collecti

by Jessamyn Smyth Digital hybrid: X-ray and digital photograph hand-painted with nail polish and ink Jessamyn Smyth's poetry and prose have appeared in many journals and anthologies, and her books The Inugami Mochi (2016) and Gilgamesh/Wilderness (2021) are from Saddle Road Press. Skaha , Kitsune , and Koan Garden are available on her website: jessamynsmyth.net. Jessamyn was founding Editor in Chief of Tupelo Quarterly , and Founder/Director of Quest Writer's Conference.

by Jessamyn Smyth Digital hybrid: layered and hand-painted photographs - clear lacquer and chrome nail polish Jessamyn Smyth's poetry and prose have appeared in many journals and anthologies, and her books The Inugami Mochi (2016) and Gilgamesh/Wilderness (2021) are from Saddle Road Press. Skaha , Kitsune , and Koan Garden are available on her website: jessamynsmyth.net. Jessamyn was founding Editor in Chief of Tupelo Quarterly , and Founder/Director of Quest Writer's Con

by Jessamyn Smyth Digital hybrid: X-ray and photograph, digitally hand-painted Jessamyn Smyth's poetry and prose have appeared in many journals and anthologies, and her books The Inugami Mochi (2016) and Gilgamesh/Wilderness (2021) are from Saddle Road Press. Skaha , Kitsune , and Koan Garden are available on her website: jessamynsmyth.net. Jessamyn was founding Editor in Chief of Tupelo Quarterly , and Founder/Director of Quest Writer's Conference. She has a deep interes

by Jill Khoury Acrylic on canvas Jill Khoury (she/her) is a queer, disabled poet and artist. She holds an MFA from The Ohio State University and edits Rogue Agen t, a journal of embodied poetry and art. Her artwork has appeared in Killjoy , Brevity , and the Pittsburgh Art Vending Machine. Winner of the Gatewood Prize, her second full-length poetry collection earthwork is available from Switchback Books. Connect with her at jillkhoury.com or on Instagram @sun.day.gray.

Liv Mammone’s new collection, Fire in the Waiting Room , faithfully documents the intersections between disability, queerness, and identity. She traces her experience through moments of childhood, dating, and daily life, approaching each subject with unmistakable candidness. She resists the societal expectation that marginalized voices edit out pieces of themselves — a resistance illustrated in choices such as writing about pleasure alongside pain. Her poems are seeped in nua

In his new book of poetry, What’s Left is Tender , Travis Chi Wing Lau documents the numerous faces of tenderness as it intersects with disability, queerness, and culture. Lau traces the experiences of complex love, despite enduring violence that is both malicious and perpetrated in the name of protection. Love permeates this collection as Lau reveals the ways we can become tender despite violence, and the ways we can honor those who have passed by telling their stories. Almo

In her latest book, The Devil’s Castle: Nazi Eugenics, Euthanasia, and How Psychiatry's Troubled History Reverberates Today , Susanne Paola Antonetta traces over 200 years of history through Germany’s Sonnenstein Castle asylum, uncovering how one of the most enlightened psychiatric care programs in Europe eventually became a site for the Nazi’s eugenic Aktion T4 euthanasia program which murdered hundreds of thousands of disabled people against their will. From the early 1800s

Travis Chi Wing Lau’s latest poetry collection, What’s Left is Tender , examines tenderness in all its form—a gentle touch, a state of softness after violence, a youthfulness, an exchange, a bodily ache. Across these experimental poems, Lau guides the reader through a lyric exploration of the pains and joys of caring for others and being cared for as a disabled and queer person of color, asking the question of how we can move forward to make a more sustainable, caring world.

With a voice that is at once lyrical, intimate, and unapologetically confrontational, Liv Mammone explores the intersections of disability, queerness, and identity in her new book Fire in the Waiting Room (Game Over Books, 2025). This collection of poems challenges readers to confront society’s tendency to push disabled bodies to the margins by demanding that readers recognize the fullness of disabled lives, including their capacity for pleasure. Mammone disrupts cultural no