Mudfish 24 is "thick and handsome," as Donald Hall said of all its issues in his book, Notes Nearing Ninety, and this issue lives up to Mudfish's stellar reputation for beauty, intensity, originality and excellence. Each poem is a miniature novel, a universe. Poems by Tim Nolan (the winner of the 17th Mudfish Poetry Prize judged by Deborah Landau) and by the two Honorable Mentions, Doug Smith and Francis Klein are featured, along with Dell Lemmon, Jonas Kyle, Stephen Ackerman, Rodger Moody, Paul Schaeffer, Richard Fein, Joyce Wang, the poetry in the fiction of Stephanie Emily Dickinson, and artist-writers Alexander Iskin, and Paul Wuensche, and a wide variety of art by Jasper Krents, Ben La Rocco, Alaiyo Bradshaw, Mary Flinn and many others.

The founding editor Jill Hoffman's first book of poems, Mink Coat, was published by Holt, Rinehart and Winston in 1973. Her first novel, Jilted, was published by Simon & Schuster in 1993. She founded Box Turtle Press in 1983 and has since published 44 books: 24 issues of Mudfish, starting with Mudfish 1984 and 20 issues of Mudfish Individual Poet Series. Kimono with Young Girl Sleeves is Mudfish Individual Poet Series #20. Before that, Box Turtle Press published her collection black diaries (poems) in 2000 and The Gates of Pearl (a book-length poem) in 2018. In 2023, a second novel, Stoned, was published (Mudfish Fiction Series 1). She is also a painter and has painted the covers for many of these books.

Hoffman has a BA from Bennington, a Master's degree from Columbia and a Ph.D. from Cornell. She received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1974 to 1975. She has taught at Columbia University, Brooklyn College, Bard, The University of North Carolina, The New School, and other institutions. Presently she teaches a Mudfish Writing Workshop on Zoom from her Tribeca, New York studio.