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Darrel Alejandro Holnes is a native of Panama and currently based in New York City, he is a recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowship in Poetry, the Drinking Gourd Poetry Prize from Northwestern University Press and the Andres Montoya Poetry Prize from Letras Latinas and University of Notre Dame Press, both of his prize-winning collections are forthcoming in 2021. His poems have previously appeared in American Poetry Review, Poetry Magazine, The Caribbean Writer, Callaloo, Best American Experimental Writing, and elsewhere in print and online. Holnes is a Cave Canem and a CantoMundo fellow. His poetry has also earned him scholarships to the Bread Loaf Writers Conference, the C.P. Cavafy Poetry Prize from Poetry International, and residencies nationwide including a MacDowell Arts Colony residency. He is an Assistant Professor at Medgar Evers College and he teaches at New York University. @blackboytraveljoy -- www.darrelholnes.com

Tom Angelo is a Brooklyn based librarian by day, singer/songwriter by night. In addition to music, he writes fiction, and is currently working on something he hopes is not a memoir.