Shayla Lawson is the author of I Think I'm Ready to See Frank Ocean and the forthcoming essay collection Live Tonight Ms. Diana Ross. She serves as Writer-in-Residence at Amherst College.

Dao Strom is the author of You Will Always Be Someone From Somewhere Else, a bilingual poetry book, We Were Meant To Be A Gentle People, an experimental memoir and music album, and two books of fiction. She has received awards from the Creative Capital Foundation, NEA, and others.

Stephanie Adams-Santos is the author of Swarm Queen’s Crown (finalist for a Lambda Literary Award) and The Sundering (winner of Academy of American Poets New York Chapbook Fellowship). She is the founder of Ojo de la Selva Press and Tarot Obscuro.

Bianca Lynne Spriggs is an Assistant Professor of English at Ohio University. She is the author of Call Her by Her Name and The Galaxy Is a Dance Floor. You can learn more about her work at biancaspriggs.com.

Diana Khoi Nguyen’s debut collection, Ghost Of, was selected by Terrance Hayes for the Omnidawn Open Contest. She is a poet and multimedia artist based in Denver where she is pursuing a PhD in creative writing from the University of Denver.