M Thomas Gammarino is the author of the novels King of the Worlds and Big in Japan: A Hungry Ghost Story, as well as the novella Jellyfish Dreams. He teaches literature and creative writing at Punahou School in Honolulu.

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.

Zack Davisson is an award winning translator, writer, and folklorist. He is the author of Yurei: The Japanese Ghost and translator of Showa: A History of Japan. He contributed to exhibitions at the Wereldmuseum Rotterdamn and appeared on National Geographic's Okinawa: The Lost Ghosts of Japan.

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.