Sokunthary Svay is the author of Apsara in New York. She has received fellowships from Poets House, American Opera Projects, Willow Books, and the CUNY Graduate Center, where she is a doctoral student in English. Her first opera premiered at the Kennedy Center in January 2020.

Kimiko Hahn finds material from disparate sources: identity, current events, Japanese zuihitsu, nature, science (Brain Fever). She explores iterations of Foreign Bodies in her latest book. Awards include a Guggenheim. She teaches in the MFA Program in Creative Writing and Translation, Queens College-CUNY.

Lee Briccetti is the long-time executive director of Poets House, a national poetry library and literary center in New York City. She has been the recipient of a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in Poetry. Her most recent book of poetry is Blue Guide.

Kazim Ali is a poet, translator, essayist, and fiction writer. His books include Inquisition, Bright Felon, and Silver Road: Essays, Maps & Calligraphies. He is a professor of cultural studies and comparative literature at the University of California, San Diego.

Marilyn Chin's award-winning poems and tales have become Asian American classics and are taught all over the world. Her latest book—A Portrait of the Self as Nation: New and Selected Poems—celebrates thirty years of activist writing. She serves as a chancellor of the Academy of American Poets.