Harry Josephine Giles is a writer and performer from Orkney, living in Leith. Her verse novel Deep Wheel Orcadia was published by Picador in October 2021 and was a Poetry Book Society Winter Selection. She has a PhD in Creative Writing from the University of Stirling, her show Drone debuted in the Made in Scotland Showcase at the 2019 Edinburgh Fringe and toured internationally, and her performance What We Owe was picked by the Guardian’s best-of-the-Fringe 2013 roundup – in the “But Is It Art?” category.

Find out more at: www.harryjosephine.com

Simba Alik, also known as Simba The Poet, is a Black, Queer, Trans, Spoken word artist, slam champion, and professional speaker from Nashville, TN. He has been performing for over a decade and will speak until everyone’s voices are heard. Forever sounds good. Simba’s greatest achievements are becoming a husband and father. He has a BS in Journalism and Sociology, a Masters in Organizational Leadership, and is pursuing a MS in Public Relations. Also, he hates writing bios.

Ava Dadvand is an Iranian-American transgender poet originally hailing from Los Angeles but currently pursuing a B.A. in Classics at Yale University. Her work has been featured in the New Orleans Review and the Yale Literary Magazine among other publications. Ava writes for trans women above all else. One day she will write a modern-American trans epic with Homeric influences and her work will be inaugurated into the corpus of 21st century transfeminine literature. Until then, her raunchy and contemplative poetry about the trans experience should suffice.