In his work, poet and graphic designer chaun webster contends with the spatial, temporal, and interpretive limitations of writing to represent blackness outside of regimes of death and dying. His work has appeared in numerous journals including Obsidian, The Academy of American Poets, The Rumpus, Angel City Review, Tilted House, and Social Text. He is the author of Gentry!fication: or the scene of the crime and Wail Song: wading in the water at the end of the world. Both books received the Minnesota Book Award for poetry. His first work of nonfiction, Without Terminus, will be published by Graywolf in June 2026.

Carmen Giménez is the director and publisher of Graywolf Press. She is the author of numerous poetry collections, including Milk and Filth, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, and Be Recorder, a finalist for the National Book Award, the PEN Open Book Award, the Audre Lorde Award for Lesbian Poetry, and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. She has been awarded the Academy of American Poets Fellowship Prize and a Guggenheim Foundation fellowship, and she served as the publisher of Noemi Press for twenty years.