Mieke Strand is a documentary photographer and poet based in Berlin. She grew up in a small town in Minnesota that was known for having more colleges than movie theaters, and more movie theaters than stoplights. In her photography and writing, she explores the way that our experience and memory of place shape us. Her favorite season in Berlin is winter.

Chinyere Enyinna is a Berlin-based Lagosian poet whose work orbits lineage, motherhood and the sometimes wild memories the body holds on. Her poems linger in spaces where names are misheard, language is fractured and love leaves deep marks.

Alison Rhoades is a writer, artist, and Queen of Cups. Hailing from the cornfields of North Central Illinois, her writing concerns itself with unruly feminine archetypes, language(s) of embodiment, and motherhood. She lives in Berlin.

Chad Young is a Brooklyn-born, Berlin-based cultural researcher, writer and emerging poet. A child of Jamaican parents with little record of their lineage, his poems explore loss as a pathway to earthly and ancestral connection.

Collin Brennan is a writer from California’s San Fernando Valley. He has organized and moderated poetry workshops from Chicago to Berlin. His own poems engage with the history of form and the spiritual ambivalence of contemporary life.

Tracy Fuad is a poet and writer based in Berlin. Her second collection of poetry, PORTAL, won the Phoenix Emerging Poets’ Prize and was published by the University of Chicago Press in 2024. A 2023 National Endowment for the Arts Fellow, Fuad’s poems have appeared in The Paris Review, The Yale Review, Poetry Daily, and elsewhere, and have been translated into German, Kurdish, Turkish and Spanish. She lives in Berlin, where she teaches poetry and directs the Berlin Writers’ Workshop.