Funto Omojola is a Nigerian American writer, performer, and artist. Their work considers the ways death and visioning—as understood through West African folkloric systems of belief—are contextualized in relation to Western medical understandings of the (Black) body. Omojola is the author of If I Gather Here and Shout (2024), winner of the 2022 Nightboat Poetry Prize. Their writing has appeared in American Poets Magazine, The Baffler, Boston Review, Ghost Proposal, and The Offing, among other publications. They have received fellowships from Cave Canem, MacDowell, Millay Arts, and the Poetry Project, and presented their work at A.I.R. Gallery, Brooklyn; Gladstone Gallery, New York; Silver Eye Center for Photography, Pittsburgh; and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York. They live in New York.

Adrien Howard is an artist based on the west coast of Scotland. They work both independently and collaboratively to produce projects which are often embodied through writing, printed matter, voice, sound and performance. Adrien’s work has been presented at readings, events and exhibitions internationally. Most recently for Prototype 7, Prototype Publishing, London (2025); Edinburgh Art Festival, Scotland; Glasgow International, Glasgow (both 2024); The Brooklyn Rail, New York (2023); and TULCA Festival, Ireland (2021). In 2025, Adrien was selected as one of the Foyle’s Artists in Residence at Hospitalfield House. There, he explored possible modes of expression for a project Models, an ongoing project which included a solo exhibition at Glasgow Project Room. Adrien has an MFA from Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts, Bard College, New York and is a co-founder and director of Rosie’s Disobedient Press.