Lisa C. Moore is the founder and editor of RedBone Press, which publishes award-winning literature celebrating the cultures of black lesbians and gay men, and promoting understanding between black gays and lesbians and the black mainstream.

Samiya Bashir’s books of poetry are Field Theories, Gospel, and Where the Apple Falls. Sometimes she makes poems of dirt. Sometimes zeros and ones. Sometimes variously rendered text. Sometimes light. A magic cat occasionally crashes her classes and poetry salon programs at Reed College.

Sharon Bridgforth is a 2016 Doris Duke Performing Artist Awardee and is recipient of the 2016 Creative Capital and 2014 MAP Fund awards. Widely anthologized, Sharon is the author of love conjure/blues and the Lambda Literary Award-winning the bull-jean stories.

Dr. Ana-Maurine Lara is a national award-winning poet and fiction writer. She is author of the novel Erzulie's Skirt, When the Sun Once Again Sang to the People, and Kohnjehr Woman (forthcoming). She is a professor of anthropology at the University of Oregon.

G. Winston holds a BA from Columbia University, an MFA in fiction from Brooklyn College and is the author of the Lambda Literary Award and Ferro-Grumley Award–finalist collection Shaming the Devil: Collected Short Stories and coeditor of Spirited: Affirming the Soul and Black Gay/Lesbian Identity.