Tania Pabón Acosta holds an MA in English from the University of Puerto Rico and an MFA from Sarah Lawrence College, where she is an administrator. Her work has appeared in Pigeon Pages, Entropy, Cosmonauts Avenue, among others, and is forthcoming in The Los Angeles Review and Great River Review.

Patricia Dunn has an MFA from Sarah Lawrence College, where she teaches and is senior director of The Writing Institute. Author of Rebels by Accident, her writing has appeared in Salon.com, CSM, the Nation, and Love, InshAllah: The Secret Love Lives of American Muslim Women, among others.

Tori Weston is the founder and assistant director of the Arts & Communication Pre-College Programs at Emerson College. She received a BFA in writing and publishing and a MFA in creative writing from Emerson College.

Sylvia Chan is the author of We Remain Traditional. She serves as court advocate for foster kids in Pima County and nonfiction editor for Entropy, where she curates a domestic violence series. She teaches in the writing program at the University of Arizona.

Seth Michelson teaches at Washington and Lee University. His most recent books of poetry are Swimming through Fire and Eyes Like Broken Windows. He edited Dreaming America: Voices of Undocumented Youth in Maximum-Security Detention, and he has translated eight books of poetry.