Han VanderHart (they/them)

Co-Editor, River River Books
Han VanderHart is a genderqueer, Southern writer living in Durham, North Carolina, under the loblolly pines. Han is the author of the poetry collections Larks, winner of the Hollis Summer Poetry Prize (Ohio University Press, 2025), the chapbook Hawk & Moon (Bottlecap Press, 2025), What Pecan Light (Bull City Press, 2021), and the micro chapbook Hands Like Birds (Ethel Zine Press, 2019). They have poetry and essays published in The Boston Globe, Kenyon Review, Poetry Foundation, The American Poetry Review, The Rumpus, Poet Lore, Poetry Northwest, AGNI, and elsewhere. Han hosts Of Poetry podcast and edits Moist Poetry Journal. Their aim is to live, edit, and write with transparency, care, and warmth. They love rescue pitbulls, and send a hello to your dog.

Amorak Huey (he/him)

Co-Editor, River River Books
Amorak Huey is author of five books of poems, including Dad Jokes from Late in the Patriarchy (Sundress Publications, 2021), the forthcoming Mouth (Cornerstone Press, 2026). His chapbook Extinction Level was recently published by Tram Editions. Co-author with W. Todd Kaneko of the textbook Poetry: A Writer’s Guide and Anthology (Bloomsbury, 2018) and the chapbook Slash/Slash (Diode, 2021), Huey teaches in the BFA and MFA programs at Bowling Green State University in Ohio. His previous books are Boom Box (Sundress, 2019), Seducing the Asparagus Queen (Cloudbank, 2018), and Ha Ha Ha Thump (Sundress, 2015). He is recipient of a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, and his poems appear in the Best American Poetry anthology, Academy of American Poets’ Poem-A-Day, the Norton Critical Edition of The Odyssey, and many print and online journals.