Julia Leslie Guarch's poems appear in The Marquis, Rain Party & Disaster Society, The Vending Machine, Sunset Liminal, Pulse/Pulso Anthology, Impossible Archetype, and Triadæ Magazine. She was a finalist for the Iceland Writers Retreat Alumni Award and cowinner of the MacKnight Black Poetry Award.

Thomas Dane is a New York/Florida based playwright and actor. Several of his one act plays have been produced nationally. He holds a BA from the International Fine Arts College in Miami. Currently he writes for The Social Edge, as well as  on the sites of Knowable and Guacamoley.

Jess Silfa is an Afro-Latinx disability and LGBTQ rights advocate. They are working on their first novel about an immigrant community in the South Bronx. 

Deanna M. Rasch, a recent graduate of the Mile High MFA in Creative Writing Program (Fiction and Poetry) is the author of a young adult fiction novel, Freedom's Cost, and a chapbook, Things I Won't Deny.