Maria Miranda Maloney is the founder of Mouthfeel Press and author of The City I Love. She is a former writer and literary event organizer for the Smithsonian Latino Virtual Museum, and she is the current poetry editor for BorderSenses.

Arisa White is a Cave Canem fellow, the author of Post Pardon, Hurrah’s Nest, and A Penny Saved, and she is an advisory board member for Flying Object and co-editor for Her Kind, an online literary community powered by VIDA: Women in Literary Arts.

JP Howard aka Juliet P. Howard is a Cave Canem graduate fellow and co-founder of Women Writers in Bloom Poetry Salon, a monthly literary salon in New York, which nurtures women writers of all levels. Her poems have been published widely, including in Muzzle magazine and The Best American Poetry Blog.

Xánath Caraza’s bilingual poetry and short story collections are Conjuro, Corazón Pintado, and What the Tide Brings. She writes the column, "US Latino Poets en español," and teaches at the University of Missouri-Kansas City. She is an advisory circle member of the Con Tinta literary organization.

Erica Eller is the organizer of the Hazel Reading Series in San Francisco. She has published fiction in Everyday Genius and the Otolith.