Dr. Darcie Little Badger is a Lipan Apache scientist and writer. Her short fiction has appeared in multiple places, including Love Beyond Body, Space, and Time: An Indigenous LGBT Sci-Fi Anthology, Strange Horizons, The Dark, Mythic Delirium, Cicada Magazine, and Lightspeed.

Nino Cipri is a queer and trans/nonbinary writer, researcher, and editor, and an MFA candidate at the University of Kansas. Nino's work has appeared in Nightmare Magazine, Tor.com, Strange Horizons, Publishers Weekly, Autostraddle, In the Fray, Interfictions, Fireside Magazine, and other venues.

R. Lemberg's debut poetry collection Marginalia to Stone Bird was a Crawford Award finalist in 2017. They also edited two LGBTQIA+ and feminist speculative poetry anthologies. As R. Perelmutter, they are an associate professor of Slavic and Jewish Studies at the University of Kansas.

Nicole Rivas is author of the flash fiction chapbook A Bright and Pleading Dagger. She teaches writing courses at Georgia Southern University.