Alison Kinney is the author of Hood and of essays for the Paris Review Daily, the New Yorker, Harper’s, Lapham’s Quarterly, and the New York Times. In 2019 she became Assistant Professor of Writing (Nonfiction) at Eugene Lang College at the New School.

Michelle Villegas Threadgould is a Chicana journalist covering Latinx issues and resistant art movements. Her work has been published in CNN, Pacific Standard, and KQED, and her essays were featured in the music anthology, Women Who Rock. Her book Why Rage Against the Machine Matters comes out 2020.

Dianca London Potts earned her MFA from The New School and is the former online editor of Well-Read Black Girl. Her words have appeared in The Village Voice and elsewhere. She is a 2015 Pushcart Prize nominee and a Kimbilio Fiction fellow. Her memoir is forthcoming.

Yasmin Dalisay fronts two indie rock bands and is primary songwriter for the Minettes’ EP Party’s Over and Tuffy’s LP Lighting Things on Fire. She teaches rhetoric and composition as well as creative writing at John Jay College. She is currently writing a science fiction novel.

Shanon Lee