Krystal Languell was born in South Bend, Indiana. Two chapbooks are forthcoming: LAST SONG from dancing girl press in 2014 and another from Argos Books in 2015. She was a recipient of The Poetry Project’s Emerge Surface Be Fellowship, during which she worked with Anselm Berrigan.

Emily Skillings is a dancer poet poet dancer. Skillings dances for the A.O. Movement Collective and The Commons Choir (Daria Faïn and Robert Kocik) and presents her own choreography in New York. She lives in Brooklyn, where she is a member of Belladonna* Collaborative, a feminist poetry collective and event series. She recently co-curated the exhibit John Ashbery Collects: Poet Among Things with Adam Fitzgerald at Loretta Howard Gallery.