Tamiko Beyer is the author of two poetry collections, Last Days (forthcoming) and We Come Elemental, and two chapbooks. She is a Kundiman and VONA fellow and a Hedgebrook alum. A social justice communications writer and strategist, she spends her days writing truth to power.

Kenji C. Liu is the author of Monsters I Have Been  and Map of an Onion, national winner of the 2015 Hillary Gravendyk Prize. He has received fellowships from Kundiman, VONA/Voices, Djerassi, and the Community of Writers.

Sun Yung Shin is the author of Unbearable Splendor; Rough, and Savage; and Skirt Full of Black. She co-directs Poetry Asylum in Minneapolis. The editor of A Good Time for the Truth: Race in Minnesota and Outsiders Within, and author of Cooper's Lesson, she is widely published in multiple genres.

Tatiana Figueroa Ramirez holds a BA in English literature and is a VONA Voices alumna. She performs and teaches poetry workshops in the Washington, DC, area, having done so in New York, Philadelphia, Miami, Puerto Rico, and the Dominican Republic. She is the author of Coconut Curls y Café con Leche.