Kimiko Hahn is the author of nine poetry collections, including the recent collection Toxic Flora. A recent Guggenheim fellow, she teaches in the MFA Program in Creative Writing & Literary Translation at Queens College, CUNY.

Luis J. Rodriguez has published fifteen books in poetry, children's literature, the novel, short stories, memoir, and nonfiction. He is best known for Always Running, La Vida Loca, Gang Days in L.A. He is also editor/founder of Tia Chucha Press and cofounder of Tia Chucha's Cultural Center & Bookstore.

Michael Warr’s most recent book of poems is The Armageddon of Funk. His literary awards include the Gwendolyn Brooks Significant Illinois Poets Award, NEA Creative Writing Fellowship, PEN Oakland Award for Excellence in Literature, and Black Caucus of the American Library Association Honor Award.