Anna Ling Kaye’s fiction has been published internationally and short-listed for The Journey Prize. Former editor at PRISM International and Ricepaper magazines, she guest edited The New Quarterly's issue #143. She sits on the board of Project Bookmark Canada and directs Hapa-palooza Festival.

David N. Odhiambo is the author of three novels: diss/ed banded nation, Kipligat's Chance, and The Reverend's Apprentice. His next novel, Smells Like Stars, will be published in the Fall. He is an Assistant Professor of English at the University of Hawai'i, West O'ahu.

Ranjan Adiga is a fiction writer whose stories have appeared in Story Quarterly, South Asian Review, and 34th Parallel, among others. His upcoming story collection explores the nature of desire and tradition in changing societies of Kathmandu, Nepal. He teaches creative writing at Westminster College.

Leanne Dunic is a biracial multi-disciplinary artist and musician, and the author/composer of the trans-media work To Love the Coming End. In 2018, she received the Ema Saiko Poetry Fellowship. Leanne leads the band The Deep Cove and is the artistic director a Japanese Canadian arts organization.

Khaty Xiong is the author of Poor Anima, which is the first full-length collection of poetry published by a Hmong American woman in the United States. A recipient of the MacDowell Colony fellowship, Xiong has been featured in Poetry, the Academy of American Poets, the New York Times, and elsewhere.