Zack Lesmeister
is a poet, performer, playwright, and filmmaker from St. Louis, Missouri. They are the Poetry Editor for Hayden’s Ferry Review. Zack's writing has been supported by Lambda Literary, Tin House, & OMAI First Wave. Their writing is published in The Missouri Review, Foglifter, The Offing, The Margins, Nimrod International, and elsewhere. Zack has written and performed for venues including The Lincoln Center, Washington University in St. Louis, Nuyorican Poets Café, Maui Arts Cultural Center, Brave New Voices, The Theatre Communications Group National Conference, and elsewhere. Their debut film was published by the Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center.
Adrian Petrosian
is an Armenian American award winning Cinematographer. Refusing visual complacency, he chases psychedelic landscapes questioning the relationship between narratives and imagery. His work spans the globe through narrative film and music videos.
Kaleb Helle
is an Optical Alchemist walking the tightrope between visual absurdity and technical clarity. He draws his inspiration from the 20th hour of consciousness. traversing insomnia he actualizes the shadows. He is waiting.
Noah Kiernan
is a first generation American light based artist. A founding partner of the Neon Museum of St. Louis and Momus Lighting House. The son of a motorcycle mechanic & neon artist. His artistic journey illuminates the harmony between blue-collar precision and the panoptic pressures of cinematic evolution.
Koju Abé
is a Trans Korean-American Visual Artist. Focusing on the cultivation of community Abé creates space for those on the borders of society. Subverting Cis-Hetero norms through his visual portrayals of the human body and its surroundings he imagines a future where we have the same ability to transform that we once held in the womb.
is a First generation Filipino American raconteur. His visual prose spirals in Fibonacci sequence, obsessing over clarity within nuance. Spawning from the vat of his shadows Richard challenges the contemporary urge to reveal.