Laurence Lillvik is the editor of Skullcrushing Hummingbird, an international arts and literature zine. He’s published several collections of poetry including “Criterion” on Greying Ghost Press (a twice featured small press at Powell’s Books, Portland, OR.) Laurence founded KalloHumina (SkullHum in Finnish) as a musical collective for solo work, as well as live and studio improvised collaborations.

Music: KalloHumina featuring Dan Gonzalez and Laurence Lillvik

Cover image: “Skirnir” (1924), from the Tanzmasken of Lavinia Shulz & Walter Holdt

Cano is the squiggly lines that fit no box. The sagebrush bohemian, Welsh-Chicano, has made his own movies, produced his own plays, exhibited video in galleries and has had poems published in anthologies. For a decade or so he was a modern dancer. A teacher for ten years he’s been a teaching artist for thirty and will do kind things until he gets his wings.

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Ethan Fortuna is a trans writer and visual artist. He is a Postdoctoral Faculty Fellow at New York University and received his PhD in Creative Writing and Literature from the University of Houston as a Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center for the Arts Interdisciplinary Fellow. He was selected as a finalist by Wendy’s Subway for the 2023 Carolyn Bush Award book prize, and his work has been published by Chicago Review, Black Sun Lit, beestung, TAGVVERK, bæst: a journal of queer forms and affects, and elsewhere. More can be found on his site.

Cover image: “Nervous Structure” from Dr. Alesha Sivartha’s Book of Life (1898)

Maura Modeya is a poet from rural Minnesota. Their work focuses on dykes with insomnia, the ghost of Sappho, U.S. empire violence, queer ecologies, and the reclamation of public space through wheatpasting. Their chapbooks include Only Interested in Everything (Meekling Press) and Sleepwalking (New American Press), selected by Angela Peñaredondo for a MAYDAY poetry prize. She holds an MFA from Naropa’s Jack Kerouac School and currently lives in Atlanta.

Cover image: The Nightmare, by Henry Fuseli (1781)

Hillary Leftwich is a neurodivergent writer and the author of Ghosts Are Just Strangers Who Know How to Knock (Agape Editions, 2023, new edition), Aura (Future Tense Books and Blackstone Audio Publishing, 2022), and Saint Dymphna’s Playbook, (forthcoming from Limit Zero, 2025). She owns Alchemy Author Services and Writing Workshop and teaches writing at several universities and colleges along with Lighthouse Writers, a local nonprofit for adults and youth. Her latest work can be found or forthcoming in The Sun, Best Small Fictions, Santa Fe Writers Project, The Rumpus, and Denver Quarterly. On the outskirts of the writing world, she is also a professional tarot reader and speaks with the dead. She lives in Denver.

Feature Image: Polychrome Woodblocks of Itō Jakuchū Birds – “Golden Pheasant in the Snow”

Michael Becker is a poet and an artist.

Feature Image: Maria Sibylla Merian’s Metamorphosis Insectorum Surinamensium (1705), detail of Arsenura armida, moths of the Saturniidae family, and Erythrina fusca, a species of flowering tree.

NOTE: A video poem engagement with an Aleppo Pine in the harbor of Cassis, France; a crip drift, with attention to mobility, disability, interdependence, temporality, pulse and sun song. Crip drifts are methods for moving through the world as a disabled artist living with pain: touching, being-with, sensing in a world that is likewise disabled, compromised, thriving in complexity. A collaboration between Petra Kuppers and the tree. Shot while in residence at the Camargo Foundation, Cassis, France, 2024.

Petra Kuppers (she/her) is a disability culture activist, a scooter user, and a community performance artist. Her fourth poetry collection, Diver Beneath the Street, investigates true crime and ecopoetry at the level of the soil, bringing together life and death (2024).  Her previous collection, Gut Botany (2020), was named one of the top ten US poetry books of 2020 by the New York Public Library and won the Creative Book Award by the Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment. She teaches at the University of Michigan and was a 2023 Guggenheim Fellow. She is currently at work on Planting Disabled Futures, a virtual reality/community performance project, as a Just Tech Fellow (2024-2026).

Gregg Williard is a writer and visual artist based in Madison, Wisconsin. His fiction and non-fiction have appeared in Conjunctions, Diagram, New England Review, The Iowa Review, Shenandoah, Sweet Lit and others. His animations have been featured in the Mills Folly Microcinema Series at Art and Literature Lab in Madison, Wisconsin. He also does a long-running late night book reading hour on WORT FM (wortfm.org). 

Feature Image: A Remembrance of Aerial Forms: Odilon Redon’s À Edgar Poe (1882)

Hugo Gallo is a Brazilian media artist, filmmaker and actor based in São Paulo. Constantly drawing from his experience in theater and cinema, and holding an MFA in Image and Text, his projects have been published/exhibited at venues such as Rhizome DC, FOAM Magazine, the New York Art Book Fair, and Teatro Centro da Terra. His current work includes expanded cinema projects, theatrical plays, experimental clowning, writing, and photography.

Feature Image: A still from Paul Fejos’ Lonesome (1928)