Rachel M. Simon is the author of the poetry collection Theory of Orange and the chapbook Marginal Road. She works as the Associate Director of Multicultural Affairs and LGBTQQ Coordinator at Pace University. She teaches college courses at Bedford Hills Women's Prison and SUNY Purchase College.

Olivia Worden holds an MFA in Writing from Sarah Lawrence College. She has taught writing and diversity workshops at Roger Williams University, Sarah Lawrence College, Andrus, Westchester County Correctional Facility, and Pace University. She is the Director of the Social Justice Intensive at SLC.

Seth Michelson teaches at Washington and Lee University. His most recent books of poetry are Swimming Through Fire (2017) and Eyes Like Broken Windows (2012). He edited Dreaming America: Voices of Undocumented Youth in Maximum-Security Detention (2017), and he has translated eight books of poetry.

Melissa Febos is the author of the memoir, Whip Smart, and the essay collection, Abandon Me. She serves on the Board of Directors for VIDA: Women in Literary Arts, and is Associate Professor of Creative Nonfiction at Monmouth University and MFA faculty at the Bennington Writing Seminars.

Syreeta McFadden is a writer and professor of English at the Borough of Manhattan Community College, City University of New York. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, Rolling Stone, BuzzFeed News, Brooklyn Magazine, Feministing and The Guardian, where she had been a regular contributor.