Richard Yañez is the author of a book of stories, El Paso del Norte, and an award-winning novel, Cross Over Water. His work has been anthologized in Hecho en Tejas: Texas-Mexican Literature, U.S. Latino Literature Today, and New Border. He teaches in the Pasos Program at El Paso Community College.

Yasmin Ramirez is a 2018 Dickinson House Fellow. Her fiction/creative nonfiction works have appeared in Cream City and Huizache, among others. She completed her first collection of creative nonfiction narratives titled Por Un Amor and is professor of English and creative writing at El Paso Community College.

Arturo Valdespino is an assistant professor of English at El Paso Community College. His primary areas of research include Chicana/o Literature and YA Literature. He currently serves as the online/dual credit coordinator for English.

Minerva Laveaga Luna is a Mexican writer living in the US. She holds an MFA in creative writing from UTEP. She is a cofounding editor and publisher of Veliz Books and she is an associate professor at El Paso Community College. Her fiction and creative nonfiction is anthologized in Argentina and the US.