Conchitina Cruz teaches creative writing and literature at the University of the Philippines in Diliman. Her books of poetry include Dark Hours, elsewhere held and lingered, and There Is No Emergency. She helps run the small press expo Better Living Through Xeroxography.

Kavita Das is a Pushcart Prize-nominated writer whose writing focuses on culture, race, gender, social change and their intersections. Her writing has been published in The Atlantic, Guernica, The Rumpus, and elsewhere. She is currently working on a biography about singer Lakshmi Shankar.

Conchitina Cruz teaches creative writing and literature at the University of the Philippines in Diliman. Her books of poetry include Dark Hours, elsewhere held and lingered, and There Is No Emergency. She helps run the small press expo Better Living Through Xeroxography.

Renée Byrd is an Assistant Professor at Humboldt State University, currently working on two books, including a creative writing and intersectionality textbook with Janelle Adsit. Her writing can be found in Social Justice, Abolition, and her blog Persistent Connections.

David Mura is author of the memoirs Turning Japanese, Where the Body Meets Memory, the novel Famous Suicides of the Japanese Empire, and four poetry books including The Last Incantations. His latest book is A Stranger's Journey: Race, Identity & Narrative Craft in Writing. He teaches at the Loft and VONA Writers’ Conference.