Chris Santiago, a poet and fiction writer, was recently appointed assistant professor of English at the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minnesota. His stories, poems, and nonfiction have appeared in FIELD, Pleiades, the Asian American Literary Review, and elsewhere.

Craig Santos Perez is a native Chamoru from the Pacific Island of Guåhan/Guam. He is the author of three books, most recently from unincorporated territory [gumaʻ], which received the American Book Award. He is an associate professor in the English department at the University of Hawai’i, Mānoa.

Aimee Suzara is a Filipino-American poet, playwright, and performing artist based in Oakland, California. Her accomplishments include a Willa-Award finalist book of poems, Souvenir, a YBCAway award and AROHO Spirited Woman Award. She is currently on the faculty of language arts at De Anza College.

Poet Heid E. Erdrich is author of seven books including Curator of Ephemera at the New Museum for Archaic Research and National Monuments. She also makes poem films with fellow Ojibwe and indigenous artists. Heid teaches in the low-residency MFA program at Augsburg College.

Brandon Som is the author of Babel's Moon and The Tribute Horse, winner of the 2015 Kate Tufts Discovery Award. A former fellow at the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center, he is an assistant professor in the literature department at the University of California, San Diego.