Annar Veröld (she/her) serves as managing editor and arts director for Host Publications, and co-hosts the literary podcast The Host Dispatch. She is a Honduran-American writer and artist living in Austin, Texas. Before her journey at Host Publications, she championed and celebrated Austin musicians as an entertainment journalist and interned at Wave Books. In 2015, she founded the I Scream Social reading series. She sometimes makes movies and plays horn with the local Austin orchestra.
Claire Bowman (she/her) is the Senior Editor at Host Publications, where she also produces the literary podcast, The Host Dispatch. She is the author of Dear Creatures (Sutra Press, 2017) and her poetry has been published in Narrative Magazine, PANK, Black Warrior Review, A Dozen Nothing, and elsewhere. She was the recipient of a fellowship from the Michener Center for Writers, where she served as Assistant Poetry Editor for the Bat City Review. She moonlights as a tarot reader, teacher and membership coordinator with Typewriter Tarot.