Miguel M. Morales and Emily Everett

Miguel M. Morales grew up in Texas working as a migrant and seasonal farmworker. Selected as a finalist for the 2023-2026 Poet Laureate of Kansas, he is a two-time Lambda Literary Fellow and an alum of VONA/Voices and of the Macondo Writers Workshops. He co-edited the anthologies Pulse/Pulso: In Remembrance of Orlando and Fat & Queer: An Anthology of Queer and Trans Bodies and Lives. His work has been published in Duende Journal, Acentos Review, Green Mountains Review, Texas Poetry Review, Hawai’i Review, and World Literature Today, among other journals. Follow him at @TrustMiguel on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.

Emily Everett is managing editor of The Common. Her debut novel is forthcoming from Putnam Books, and her fiction has appeared in Electric Literature, Kenyon Review, and Best Small Fictions, among other journals. She grew up on Hemenway Hill Farm in Western Massachusetts.