Samantha Mabry is the author of the novels All the Wind in the World, which was longlisted for the National Book Award in 2017, and Tigers, Not Daughters, forthcoming in spring 2020. She teaches English and Latinx literature at El Centro Community College in Dallas, Texas.

Nova Ren Suma is The New York Times bestselling author of The Walls Around Us, and more. She has an MFA from Columbia University and is a MacDowell and Yaddo fellow. She is coeditor of Foreshadow: A Serial YA Anthology and teaches at Vermont College of Fine Arts and the University of Pennsylvania.

Jennifer Mathieu is a writer and high school English teacher. She is the author of five young adult novels including The Liars of Mariposa Island, The Truth about Alice, and Moxie, soon to be a film for Netflix directed by Amy Poehler.

Ann Dávila Cardinal

Liara Tamani