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.

Kristiana Kahakauwila, Kanaka Maoli, is author of This is Paradise: Stories, a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Selection. Associate Professor of English at Western Washington University, she was the 2015–16 Lisa Goldberg Fellow at Harvard University's Radcliffe Institute of Advanced Study.

Storme Webber, Voices Rising: LGBTQ of Color Arts & Culture founder, is author of the books/CDs Diaspora and Blues Divine and of the performances Buddy Rabbit, Noirish Lesbiana, and Wild Tales of Renegade Halfbreed Bulldagger. Her solo exhibition, Casino, received the James W. Ray Venture Project Award.

Amir Rabiyah is author of the poetry book, Prayers for My 17th Chromosome, and coeditor of Writing the Walls Down: A Convergence of LGBTQ Voices. A VONA fellow, their writing appears in Mizna; The Asian American Literary Review; and Troubling the Line: Trans and Genderqueer Poetry and Poetics.

No'ukahau'oli Revilla, Hawaiian/Tahitian, is author of two chapbooks, Say Throne and Permission to Make Digging Sounds, the latter in Effigies III. Former Hawai'i Review poetry editor, she is cofounder of Nolu Ehu: A Queer Nesian Arts Collective. Her work appears in Poetry, Literary Hub, and 'Ōiwi.