Esther Lin lived in the United States as an undocumented immigrant for 21 years. She is the author of The Ghost Wife, winner of the 2017 PSA Chapbook Fellowship. She organizes for the Undocupoets, and is a 2020 Fine Arts Work Center fellow at Provincetown, and a 2017–19 Wallace Stegner fellow.

Jan-Henry Gray lived undocumented in the US for more than thirty-two years. His work can be found in many journals and is also included in Nepantla: An Anthology for Queer Poets of Color. His first book, Documents, was the winner of the 17th annual Poulin Poetry Prize judged by D.A. Powell.

Jesus I. Valles is a queer, Mexican immigrant, educator, storyteller, and performer. Jesus was a semi-finalist for the Write Bloody 2016 poetry contest, a recipient of the 2018 Undocupoets Fellowship, and a 2018 Tin House scholar.

Aline Mello is a writer and editor living in Atlanta. She's an immigrant from Brazil and spends much of her time volunteering with immigrant students. She is an Undocupoet fellow and her work has been published or is upcoming in On She Goes, St. Sucia, Saint Katherine Review, and elsewhere.

Frankie Concepcion is a writer, educator, and community organizer from the Philippines. A former high school English teacher, she is the founder of the Boston Immigrant Writer's Salon and an editor for Winter Tangerine and Boston-based food publication GRLSQUASH.