Miguel M. Morales grew up in Texas working as a migrant/seasonal farmworker and child laborer. A Lambda Literary Fellow and an alum of the Macondo Writers Workshop, Miguel's work appears in several anthologies and literary journals. He is the coeditor of Pulse/Pulso: In Remembrance of Orlando.

Brian Kornell’s essays have appeared in The Rumpus, The Kenyon Review Online, The Poetry Foundation’s Harriet Blog, Ninth Letter and elsewhere. He holds an MFA in Creative Writing. He wrote Fat and Queer, a five-part series, for Queen Mob's Teahouse. He has been awarded fellowships to VCCA and FAWC.

Valerie Wetlaufer holds a PhD from the University of Utah, and an MFA from Florida State University. She is the author of Call Me by My Other Name and the Lambda Award-winning poetry collection Mysterious Acts by My People. She is an Adjunct Professor of English at Mount Mercy University in Iowa.

Sarah Einstein is an Asst. Professor of Creative Writing at University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. Her book Mot: A Memoir was selected for the AWP Prize in creative nonfiction for 2014. She's the Special Projects Editor for Brevity and her work has appeared in The Sun, Ninth Letter, and other journals and been awarded a Pushcart Prize.

Baruch Porras Hernandez is based in San Francisco. He is the voice for Shipwreck, an erotic fanfiction competition show and podcast, and a Lambda Literary Fellow in Poetry as well as in Playwriting. He is the founder of the Latinx literary series Donde Esta Mi Gente?, and regularly hosts literary shows for KQED.