Ismail Khalidi's plays include Truth Serum Blues (Pangea World Theater), Tennis in Nablus (Alliance Theatre), Foot (Teatro Amal), Sabra Falling (Pangea), and adaptations of Returning to Haifa (Finborough Theate), and The Corpse Washer (Actors Theatre of Louisville). He holds an MFA from NYU Tisch.

George Abraham is a Palestinian American poet, activist, and PhD candidate at Harvard. He is the author of two chapbooks: the specimen's apology  and al youm. His writing has appeared in Tin House, Boston Review, The Rumpus, Puerto del Sol, and Nepantla.

Nathalie Handal’s most recent books include the flash collection The Republics, lauded as “one of the most inventive books by one of today’s most diverse writers,” and the critically acclaimed Poet in Andalucía. She is a professor at Columbia University and writes the column The City and the Writer.