Ditmas Lit

Josh Boardman is from Michigan. He is the author of the chapbooks Colossal (2025-present), Plantain (West Vine Press, 2018), and the Latin translation project We, Romans (2015). His work was shortlisted in the 2025 Leopold Bloom Prize for Innovative Narration, selected as a finalist in the 2024 Fugue Prose Prize, and his stories have appeared in journals such as New York Tyrant, Catapult, and Dandruff Magazine. He lives in Brooklyn, New York, where he is working on his second novel and a collection of stories about his hometown.

Ry Cook is a Brooklyn-based poet/performer who is interested in the aesthetic potential of cringe. Their work has been published in the New Republic, the Baffler, Brooklyn Rail, Peel Lit, BOMB, Iterant, Archway Editions, and others. Their first chapbook, Freak of Nature, came out through Choo Choo Press this past year,  Their second, ASUSHUNAMIR, is out early next year through Blue Bag Press. 

Xochitl Gonzalez is the New…