Laurin DeChae is a queer poet of mixed-race creating and navigating liminal spaces. She received an MFA in poetry from the University of New Orleans and is currently working towards her PhD at the University at Albany in New York. Her work appears in Pretty Owl Poetry, and Tenderloin, among others.

Douglas Kearney, poet, teaches at the University of Minnesota. His most recent collection, Buck Studies, received the Roethke Memorial Poetry Prize, the CLMP Firecracker Award, and a California Book Award Silver Medal. He has also published a collection of libretti and writings on performativity.

Ytasha L. Womack is an award-winning author, filmmaker, and dancer who champions the imaginati. Her book Afrofuturism: The World of Black Sci Fi & Fantasy Culture is a leading primer. Other works include Rayla 2212, Post Black, and the films Couples Night and A Love Letter to the Ancestors From Chicago.

Victorio Reyes Asili is a PhD candidate in English at University at Albany, and he holds an MFA from Vermont College of Fine Arts. His poems have appeared in various publications, including the Acentos Review, Pilgrimage Magazine, Word Riot, Obsidian, and the anthologies It Was Written, Black Lives Have Always Mattered, and Chorus.

Jonah Mixon-Webster is a poet, sound artist, and educator from Flint, MI. His is the author of Stereo(TYPE) and a Ph.D. candidate in English Studies at Illinois State University. His work is featured in Callaloo, Best New Poets 2017, Best American Experimental Writing 2018, and elsewhere.