Tisa Bryant is the author of Unexplained Presence and Residual (forthcoming), cocreator of the Black Book visual mixtape series, and co-founder of the Encyclopedia Project. Focused on experimentation and Black feminist thought, she teaches at the California Institute of the Arts.

Bridgett M. Davis is the author of the memoir The World According to Fannie Davis: My Mother's Life In The Detroit Numbers, a New York Times Editors' Choice, and the novels Into the Go-Slow and Shifting Through Neutral. She is a professor at Baruch College, CUNY, where she teaches creative writing.

Emily Bernard is the author of Black Is the Body: Stories from My Grandmother's Time, My Time, and Mine. Her work has been published in O Magazine and the American Scholar, among other forums. She is the Julian Lindsay Green and Gold Professor of English at the University of Vermont in Burlington.

Artress Bethany White is a poet, essayist, and literary critic. She is the author of two poetry collections, the most recent, My Afmerica. Her essay collection, Survivor's Guilt: Essays on Race and American Identity, is forthcoming. Her work has appeared in Pleiades, Hopkins Review, and Ecotone.