Khadijah Queen is the author of five books, most recently I'm So Fine: A List of Famous Men & What I Had On. Her verse play Non-Sequitur won the Leslie Scalapino Award for Innovative Women Performance Writers. She is an Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at University of Colorado, Boulder.

Prageeta Sharma is the author of four poetry collections: Bliss to Fill, The Opening Question, Infamous Landscapes, and the recent Undergloom. She was a recipient of the 2010 Howard Foundation Award. She is a professor of English at the University of Montana.

TC Tolbert’s works of poetry include Gephyromania, I: Not He: Not I, and territories of folding. S/he is coeditor of Troubling the Line: Trans and Genderqueer Poetry and Poetics. Tucson's Poet Laureate, s/he has been a member of Movement Salon, a compositional improvisation ensemble, since 2007.

Michelle Whittaker is the author of the poetry collection Surge. She was awarded a 2017 NYFA Fellowship in Poetry. She is an Assistant Professor in the Program of Writing and Rhetoric at Stony Brook University.

Christina Olivares is the author of No Map of the Earth Includes Stars, the chaplet Interrupt, and a forthcoming full-length volume. She is the recipient of two Jerome Foundation Travel and Study Grants and a LMCC Workspace Residency.