Catherine Barnett is the author of Human Hours, The Game of Boxes, and Into Perfect Spheres Such Holes Are Pierced. Recipient of the Believer Book Award, the James Laughlin Award, and a Guggenheim, she's an independent editor, lectures at Hunter College, and is core faculty in NYU's writing program.

Tarfia Faizullah is the author of Seam and Register of Illuminated Villages. She is the recipient of three Pushcart Prizes, a Fulbright fellowship, and a GLCA award, among other honors, . She is a visiting artist-in-residence at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

francine j. harris is the author of play dead, winner of 2017 Lambda Literary and Audre Lorde Awards. She has received fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, is a Cave Canem poet, and is the 2018/2019 Rona Jaffe Foundation Fellow at the Cullman Center at New York Public Library.

Ilya Kaminsky lives in San Diego, CA.

Valzhyna Mort is the author of Factory of Tears and Collected Body. A recipient of several American and European awards and fellowships, including the Lannan Literary Fellowhsip, she teaches at Cornell University and writes in English and Belarusian. Her new book is forthcoming.