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Rachel Lance

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Rachel Lance was notoriously bad at playing with dolls as a child. Luckily, as she approached adulthood, she realized that her alternative hobby of disassembling and rebuilding things could actually form a valid career. She is now an injury biomechanist with a PhD in biomedical engineering, and she spends her days at the office studying the various ways that the machine of the human body can be injured or break down. Dr. Lance is an Assistant Consulting Professor at the Duke University Center for Hyperbaric Medicine & Environmental Physiology, where she researches the various ways that human beings are affected...

Hanif Abdurraqib

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Hanif Abdurraqib is a poet, essayist, and cultural critic from Columbus, Ohio. His poetry has been published in Muzzle, Vinyl, PEN American, and various other journals. His essays and music criticism have been published in The FADER, Pitchfork, The New Yorker, and The New York Times. His first full length poetry collection, The Crown Ain't Worth Much, was released in June 2016 from Button Poetry. It was named a finalist for the Eric Hoffer Book Prize, and was nominated for a Hurston-Wright Legacy Award. With Big Lucks, he released a limited edition chapbook, Vintage Sadness, in summer 2017 (you cannot get it anymore...