Akhim Alexis is a writer currently pursuing an MA in Literatures in English and teaches part-time at the University of the West Indies, St. Augustine. His poetry and creative non-fiction has appeared in The McNeese Review, Moko Magazine, Juked, Moth Magazine, Blue Earth Review, The Caribbean Writer, and others. He was a finalist for the 2020 Brooklyn Caribbean Lit Fest Elizabeth Nunez Award for Writers in the Caribbean for his short story ‘Gone America.’ He was a finalist for the 2021 Johnson and Amoy Achong Caribbean Writers Prize.
Ide Amari Thompson (he / they) is a poetry MFA candidate at UMass Amherst, where he received honorable mentions for the Daniel and Merrily Glosband MFA Fellowship in Poetry and the Skofield Goeckel Award in 2021. His written work has appeared in the PREE online journal, in Onyx magazine a creative journal for diasporic black writers based in the UK and in the NE9 exhibition “The Fruit & The Seed” and “REFUGE” (2019) both exhibited by the National Art Gallery of The Bahamas, Stellium Literary Magazine and most recently in Maple Tree Literary Supplement.
Tanicia Pratt is a Bahamian poet, artist and performer hailing from Nassau, New Providence. Her work often reimagines the Anglo-Caribbean landscape through a feminist lens of history, culture, language and memory.
Thus far, Tanicia's writings have graced the publications of Bad Form, Decorating Dissidence, PREE, Lungs Project, Rewrite London, amongst others. In 2019, her debut artist book, I Dream Baby Not Fish, was collected by The National Poetry Library of England. She has performed for Write About Now, The Central Bank of The Bahamas Art Gallery, and The National Art Gallery of The Bahamas.
Tanicia is the proud alumni of The University of The Bahamas in (BA) Marketing. She is also a graduate of Royal Holloway, University of London with studies in (MA) Poetic Practice.