Ahimsa Timoteo Bodhrán, an AWP WC&C Scholar, is a multimedia artist and author of two poetry collections, Antes y después del Bronx: Lenapehoking and South Bronx Breathing Lessons. A widely published nonfiction writer, he is editor of Yellow Medicine Review's international queer Indigenous issue.

Lisa Suhair Majaj, Palestinian, is author of the poetry book, Geographies of Light; children's book, Naila Shares a Story; and various autobiographical and critical essays. She is coeditor of three academic anthologies focused on Arab and Arab American women writers and international women writers of color.

Katherine Toukhy is a visual artist whose work has been shown in Brazil, Argentina, and the US, including the Arab American National Museum and Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History. She is the recipient of awards from the Brooklyn Arts Council, Laundromat Project, Puffin, WAH Center, and Rema Hort Mann Foundation.

Rasha Abdulhadi is a cultural organizer and author of the poetry chapbook, Shell Houses. A queer Palestinian textile artist, she is a Maryland State Arts and Poetry Foundation Incubator Fellow. Her work appears in Mizna, Mslexia, and Luminescent Threads: Connections to Octavia E. Butler.

Micaela Kaibni Raen is a columnist for DC's lesbian/bi/trans publication, Tagg Magazine; activist/community organizer; and Radius of Arab American Writers, Inc. life member. A nonfiction/fiction writer and poet, her work appears in Mizna, Yellow Medicine Review, and The Poetry of Arab Women.