Aracelis Girmay is the author of the poetry collections Teeth (Curbstone Press) and Kingdom Animalia (BOA), for which she was awarded the GLC A New Writers Award and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award respectively. Kingdom Animalia was also a finalist for the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award. Girmay also wrote/collaged the picture book changing, changing (George Braziller). Her poems have appeared in Granta, The Prairie Schooner, The Wide Shore, and Indiana Review, among other places. Her honors include a Whiting Writers Award and fellowships from Cave Canem, Civitella Ranieri, and the NEA. She teaches in Hampshire College’s School for interdisciplinary Arts and Drew University’s low-residency MFA program in poetry.

Ariana Fields is a graduate of SFAI (printmaking) and the City College Masters of Landscape Architecture program. She is interested in visual modes of storytelling, representations of movement, and works on paper (from drawings and printmaking to mapping and design). Ariana is currently working on garden design projects in Brooklyn and New York State. She is interested in root systems and the relationships between fungi and plants, and thinks of her work in spatial design as an extended study of adaptations that organisms and bodies make in our ever-changing environments. When she’s not working on projects, she spends a lot of her time skating, surfing and climbing, and is interested in the movements inspired by those practices.