Angel Nafis is the author of BlackGirl Mansion. With poet Morgan Parker, she is The Other Black Girl Collective, an internationally touring Black Feminist poetry duo. Nafis was a recipient of the 2016 Ruth Lilly & Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation and a 2017 NEA.

Hieu Minh Nguyen is a Kundiman fellow, a National Endowment for Arts Literature Fellow, a poetry editor for Muzzle Magazine, & the author of This Way to the Sugar, and Not Here. His poems have appeared in publications such as Poetry Magazine, Guernica, Indiana Review, and elsewhere.

Leigh Lucas has a BA in Creative Writing from Stanford and an MFA in Creative Writing from Warren Wilson. She is a regular contributor to literary journal A Women's Thing and is part of comic-making duo Sqid Inc with illustrator David Lanham. She is working on her first book.

Michael Goetzman is an editor at the Los Angeles Review of Books and a graduate of Warren Wilson MFA Program for Writers.