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JP Infante is the author of On the Tip of Your Mother’s Tongue and Aquí y Allá: Winston Vargas Photographs the Dominican Community in Washington Heights. He is the winner of PEN’s Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize and Thirty West’s Chapbook contest. His writing has appeared in Kweli, The Poetry Project, Rigorous, A Gathering of the Tribes, and elsewhere. He has been awarded scholarships and fellowships from Baldwin for the Arts, PEN America, The Center for Fiction and elsewhere. He holds an MFA from The New School.

Olatunde Osinaike is a Nigerian-American poet, essayist, and software developer. Selected as the 2024 Georgia Author of the Year in Poetry, his first collection, Tender Headed (Akashic Books, 2023), was named a winner of the National Poetry Series and shortlisted for the Society of Midland Authors Award in Poetry and Nossrat Yassini Poetry Prize. Other honors include winner of the Lucille Clifton Poetry Prize, semifinalist for the Discovery Poetry Prize, and honorable mention for the Ploughshares Emerging Writer’s Award in Poetry. His work has appeared, or is forthcoming, in Literary Hub, The Slowdown, Poetry Daily, Verse Daily, Best New Poets, 20.35 Africa, New Poetry from the Midwest, Obsidian, Wildness, and elsewhere. Originally from the West Side of Chicago, he now lives in Atlanta with his wife and would like to thank you.

Jean Grae is a multidisciplinary artist, humorist, and former rapper with over 25 years of experience in the entertainment industry. She’s collaborated with influential musicians including The Roots, and Robert Glasper and her prolific body of work is featured at the National Museum of African American History and Culture. In 2019, the Public Theater commissioned her one-person show, Jeanius, which played for a limited time to sold-out audiences in New York City. She currently resides in Baltimore with her shared-custody cat, Littles. In My Remaining Years is her first book.