Poet and translator Rajiv Mohabir, translated I Even Regret Night (PEN/Heim Award), author of The Cowherd's Son, and The Taxidermist's Cut, is an Assistant Professor of poetry at Auburn University's creative writing program.

Allison Adelle Hedge Coke, is the author of Streaming, Off Season-City Pipe, Dog Road Woman, Burn, Blood Run, Rock Ghost Willow Deer, Sing: Poetry from the Indigenous Americas, Effigies I & II, is directing Red Dust (film), directs the Lit Sandhill CraneFest, and is Distinguished Professor of Creative Writing at UCR.

Angela Peñaredondo is a queer Pilipinx poet, artist, and educator based in southern California. Peñaredondo is the author of All Things Lose Thousands of Times (winner of the Hillary Gravendyk Poetry Prize) and the chapbook Maroon.

Hari Alluri is the author of The Flayed City and the chapbook The Promise of Rust. His work appears in anthologies, journals, and online. A VONA/Voices and Las Dos Brujas alum who holds an MFA from SDSU and has received several grants and awards, he is a a cofounding editor at Locked Horn Press.