Tobi Harper is the founder and editor of the queer publishing series, Quill, and serves as director of operations at Red Hen Press. Tobi has completed a BA in English with a minor in LGBTQ studies at UC Santa Barbara, and a MA in English literature at San Francisco State University.

Celeste Gainey is the author of the poetry collection, The GAFFER, and the chapbook, In the Land of Speculation & Seismography. The first woman admitted to the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees as a gaffer, she has spent many years working with light in film and architecture.

Ryka Aoki is the author of the performance, prose, and poetry collection, Seasonal Velocities, a Lambda Literary Award Finalist; the novel, He Mele a Hilo: A Hilo Song; and the poetry book, Why Dust Shall Never Settle Upon This Soul. She is a professor at Santa Monica College and Antioch University.

Martha K. Davis is the 2016 winner of the Quill Queer Prose Award for her novel, Scissors, Paper, Stone. The recipient of an MFA from Columbia University, she has published short fiction and essays in River Styx, StoryQuarterly, The Gay & Lesbian Review, CALYX, and elsewhere.

David Brendan Hopes