Jennifer Moore is an associate professor at Ohio Northern University, where she teaches creative writing and coordinates the English department reading series. Her first book is The Veronica Maneuver.

Claudia Cortese's first book, Wasp Queen, won the Devil's Kitchen Award in Emerging Poetry from Southern Illinois University. Cortese was awarded an OUTstanding faculty ally of the year certificate from Montclair State's LGBTQ+ Center. She is an associate editor at Tupelo Quarterly.

Roy G. Guzmán is pursuing a PhD in cultural studies and comparative literature at the University of Minnesota, where they also received an MFA in creative writing. They are a 2019 NEA fellow and a 2017 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellow.

Diane Goettel is a writer, teacher, and the executive editor of Black Lawrence Press. She coedited the anthologies Feast and Art and Understanding. Diane holds degrees in writing and literature from Sarah Lawrence College and Brooklyn College.

Uchechi Kalu is a poet and web designer. She studied poetry with the late June Jordan at UC Berkeley. and is the author of Flowers Blooming against A Bruised Grey Sky. Her work has been published in Spanish and mentioned in Forbes. Her next book, Resembling the Sea, is forthcoming.