Emily Hockaday's newest book is In a Body (Harbor Editions 2023), which touches on chronic illness, ecopoetry, and parenthood. Her debut collection, Naming the Ghost, came out with Cornerstone Press in 2022. Emily is a local poet with six chapbooks and poems appearing in anthologies and literary journals in print and online, including Electric Literature, the North American Review, and Poets of Queens. She is the editor of Heartbeat of the Universe (Interstellar Flight Press 2024). Emily writes about ecology, parenthood, the urban environment, and chronic illness. She can be found online at www.emilyhockaday.com and @E_Hockaday.
Jackie Sherbow is a Queens, NY writer, editor, and publisher. They are the author of the chapbook Harbinger (Finishing Line Press, 2019), and their poems have appeared or are forthcoming in places like Sierra Nevada Review, Coffin Bell, Luna Luna, and Day One. Their short stories have appeared in Mystery Magazine and The Beat of Black Wings anthology. Jackie is the senior managing editor for Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine and Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, the publisher at THRASH press, and on the board of directors of Newtown Literary—the literary journal dedicated to the borough of Queens. www.jackiesherbow.com