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Roberto Carlos Garcia is a 2023 NJ State Council of the Arts Fellow. He is the author of five books, including four poetry collections—Melancolía (Cervena Barva Press, 2016); black / Maybe: An Afro Lyric (Willow Books, 2018); [Elegies] (FlowerSong Press, 2020); What Can I Tell You: The Selected Poems of Roberto Carlos Garcia (Flowersong Press, 2022)—and one essay collection, Traveling Freely, (Northwestern University Press 2024).

Sara Dudo is an adjunct professor of writing at Stockton University and Rowan University, the Associate Editor for Palette Poetry, and a recent MFA graduate from University of Nevada Las Vegas. She has received nominations for the Pushcart Prize, Best of the Net, and Best New Poets. She also received the International Merit Award in the Atlanta Review 2024 International Poetry Competition, and was a finalist in the 2024 Iowa Review Award in Poetry. Her work has recently been published in The Iowa Review, The Minnesota Review, The Atlanta Review, The Cincinnati Review, The Notre Dame Review, The Idaho Review, The Portland Review, and The Oakland Review, and she has work forthcoming in Denver Quarterly and Oxford Poetry. She currently lives in New Jersey with her husband.    

Lynne McEniry, MFA, is the author of the poetry collection, some other wet landscape.

Her poems, which appear in numerous journals and anthologies, have been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and have been twice-recognized for the Allen Ginsberg Poetry Award.  

They have been widely published in journals and anthologies and have been used in collaboration with other creative arts projects. 

She screens and edits manuscripts for Get Fresh Books, individual poets, and various journals, and leads poetry workshops upon request. Born in Yonkers, NY, Lynne lives in Morristown, NJ, where she also teaches at Saint Elizabeth University.

Allison Bird Treacy is a poet and literary critic whose work contends with the history and representations of disability in literature, explores fictional ecologies, and draws on somatic practices as a source of inspiration. 

Bird's work has appeared in or is forthcoming from Cider Press Review, Pilgrimage, Room, and others, and her essay "Aut Lit by Neurotypicals; or, Another Case of 'Where Are the Women?'" was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Bird lives in Western Massachusetts with her wife and too many cats, and bakes a lot of gluten-free bread.

Sean is a poet and writer from Baltimore, Maryland, where he served as the founding writer-in-residence at the Johns Hopkins Children’s Centre. His poetry and reviews have appeared in Pleiades, Urbanite, bath magg, and Trumpet, among others. Sean currently resides in Dublin, Ireland.

Juan Wynn, Jr. was a poet living in New Jersey. He previously served as a consultant at the Bloomfield College Writing Center and as an educator in West Nyack, NY at a school you wish you went to as a kid. His three poems in Banyan Review were his debut publication. We lost Juan suddenly, but we remember his passion for poetry and his enthusiasm for GFB with gratitude.