Sabine Brigette, a writer, educator, and core faculty member at Blackfeet Community College, is dedicated to decolonizing literary landscapes and amplifying Indigenous voices. She is an MFA graduate of Bennington College and a former Gilman scholar at Oxford. Across her fifteen-year teaching career, she has centered narratives pushed to the margins, with her postgraduate ecofeminist research further informing those margins. Her poetry and prose echo the wild, intact ecosystems of her northwest Montana home, demanding space for stories that disrupt systems of power while softening readers to care. Guided by Toni Morrison’s down-to-earth callout—“If there’s a book you really want to read but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it”— Brigette finds great joy in supporting students to occupy storytelling landscapes with their nuanced voices and grandmother tongues, asserting them as the only ones who can tell their own sovereign histories and lived experiences.

Tim Raymond writes from the in-between places: between teaching and learning, research and story, technology and tradition, grief and becoming. He is the Human Studies Department chair and FAST Lab director at Keweenaw Bay Ojibwa Community College, where his work brings together psychology, human factors, and emerging technology. His writing returns to questions of memory, belonging, healing, and what it means to build a life with the pieces we inherit.

Nels Christensen is a writer and environmental science student at Fort Lewis College in Durango, Colorado. He is from Fairbanks, Alaska, with cultural and familial ties to the larger interior region spanning from Lower Tanana Dene lands to the Yukon Flats. Christensen incorporates little pieces of home into each of his poems and short stories, not shying away from what makes Alaska and himself unique. He plays a few instruments poorly, and strives to live on a boat and surf after his college years of crawling around the desert.

Cierra Taylor (Farst) is a current graduate student at the Institute of American Indian Arts, where she is in her second year of the MFA in creative writing program. Focusing on speculative fiction, she is anticipating the publication of her first novel sometime in 2027.

Sarita Jain is a poetry enthusiast whose work explores resilience, positivity, and the human experience. She wants to give voice to personal reflection while fostering empathy and meaningful connection, and believes that when emotions cannot be expressed verbally, they often find their truest voice through poetry.