Katherine Arnoldi (Fulbright, Paraguay 2008–2009), created the graphic novel The Amazing True Story of a Teenage Single Mom and All Things Are Labor: Stories. Awards: two New York Foundation of the Arts Awards, DeJur, Henfield, Juniper, Newhouse.

Daniel Peña is a Pushcart Prize–winning writer and assistant professor in the Department of English at the University of Houston-Downtown. Formerly, he was a Fulbright-Garcia Robles Scholar in Mexico City where he finished his first novel, Bang. He's a regular contributor to the Ploughshares Blog.

Elisa M. Gonzalez is a Puerto Rican writer raised in Ohio. Her work appears in Harvard Review, Hyperallergic, the New Yorker, and elsewhere. A 2016–2018 US Fulbright scholar in Poland, she has also received fellowships from Yale University, the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, and Rolex Foundation.

Serena Chopra is a teacher, writer, dancer, filmmaker, soundscape designer, and visual and performance artist. She has a PhD in creative writing from the University of Denver and was a 2016–2017 Fulbright Scholar (Bangalore, India). She has two books and two films.

Eireene Nealand’s stories, poems, and translations have appeared in ZYZZYVA, Catamaran, WHR, Sidebrow, Absent, elimae, and The St. Petersburg Review, among other places. She has won multiple awards including a Fulbright Fellowship and a Elizabeth Kostova Fellowship to write and teach in Bulgaria.