Melissa Matthewson's essays have been published in numerous literary journals including DIAGRAM, Guernica, American Literary Review, Mid-American Review, and Bellingham Review, among others. She is the author of the memoir, Tracing the Desire Line. She teaches at Southern Oregon University.

Emily Arnason Casey is the author of Made Holy: Essays. Her writing has appeared in the Normal School, The Rumpus, Hotel Amerika, Briar Cliff Review, Mid-American Review, and elsewhere. She teaches writing at the Community College of Vermont. www.emilyarnasoncasey.com

Mary-Kim Arnold is the author of Litany for the Long Moment and The Fish & The Dove (forthcoming). A former arts administrator, she now teaches in the Nonfiction Writing Program at Brown University.

Thirii Myo Kyaw Myint is the author of the novel The End of Peril, the End of Enmity, the End of Strife, a Haven, which won the Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature, and the family history project Zat Lun, which won the 2018 Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prize.

Katherine Agard is a writer and artist. Her first book, of color, will be published in early 2020. A dual citizen of Trinidad & Tobago and Ghana, she lives in San Francisco.