David Weiden is associate professor and director of the Native American studies program at Metropolitan State University of Denver. He has published fiction in various literary magazines as well as literary criticism and a nonfiction book.

Sarah Rafael García, the author of Las Niñas, was awarded an artist in residence for her literary project Santana's Fairy Tales, supported in part by The Andy Warhol Foundation. She's a Macondo Fellow as well as the founder/editor of Barrio Writers and coeditor of the pariahs anthology.

Ruby Hansen Murray attended the Institute of American Indian Arts and Warren Wilson College. She teaches writing in tribal and community settings. A prizewinning fiction writer and poet, she is a VONA, Jack Straw, and VCCA fellow. Her work appears in various literary journals.

Misty Shipman Ellingburg is a Shoalwater Bay Tribal member with an interest in film, storytelling, and Indigenous women, and representation in the media. She received her MFA from the University of Idaho.

Alexandria Delcourt received her MFA from the Stonecoast MFA Program in 2014. She is a lecturer in the languages and literatures department at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater. Her work has appeared in Written River, Poetry Quarterly, As/Us, Kalyani Magazine, FULCRUM, Aster(ix), and other places.