Julie Marie Wade's recent collections include Other People's Mothers (University Press of Florida, 2025), The Mary Years (Texas Review Press, 2024), selected by Michael Martone for the 2023 Clay Reynolds Novella Prize, and Quick Change Artist: Poems (Anhinga Press, 2025), selected by Octavio Quintanilla for the 2023 Anhinga Prize in Poetry and 2026 Silver Medalist in the Florida Book Awards. A finalist for the National Poetry Series and a winner of the Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Memoir, Wade teaches in the creative writing program at Florida International University in Miami and makes her home with Angie Griffin and their two cats. 

Ana María Caballero is a Colombian-American multidisciplinary artist and poet whose work critically examines how biology shapes cultural and societal structures, particularly the gendered ideal of sacrifice. Through a practice spanning poetry, performance, sculpture, and digital installation, Caballero challenges entrenched narratives, revealing the often-silenced emotional and existential costs of care. Her work also explores memory and the evolution of the book into the contemporary and digital world. 

Caballero's innovative fusion of literature and technology has positioned her at the forefront of digital poetry. Along with co-founding digital poetry gallery theVERSEverse, she is the first living poet to sell a poem at Sotheby’s, the first artist ever to receive a triple Lumen Prize finalist nomination, and the author of eight books. Her work is in the collections of the Reina Sofia Museum, MACBA Barcelona, the Ashmolean Museum, HEK Basel, Francisco Carolinum Museum, the Arab Bank Switzerland, Spalter Digital, and MAD Arts. 

She’s performed live at the Venice Biennale Vernissage, Art Basel, Art Genève, Fundación Telefónica, and Fundación Juan March. Her work is often featured in outlets like Artnet, The Art Newspaper, Poetry International, BOMB, El País, Monopol, Weltkunst Magazine, El Espectador, Elle UK, and NPR. In 2025, she won the Lumen Prize and was named one of Forbes' Top 50 Latin Women to Follow, recognizing her significant contributions to contemporary art and literature.