Sheila O’Connor writes and publishes across genres and audiences. Her six books include her recent hybrid text Evidence of V: A Novel in Fragments, Facts, and Fictions. She teaches at Hamline University and serves as fiction editor of Water~Stone Review.

Hai-Dang Phan is the author of Reenactments: Poems and Translations. A recipient of a 2017 NEA creative writing fellowship, he teaches at Grinnell College.

Victoria Blanco's field research and writing focuses on Rarámuri migration from the Sierra Madre mountains of western Mexico to Chihuahua. She also writes about her family's five generations on the U.S.-Mexico borderlands. She received her MFA from the University of Minnesota.

LeAnne Howe (Choctaw) is a novelist, poet, and filmmaker. Her latest book is Savage Conversations. Awards include a United States Artist Ford Fellowship, and an American Book Award. She's the Eidson Distinguished Chair in English at UGA, Athens.