José Antonio Rodríguez is the author of House Built on Ashes: A Memoir and the poetry collections Backlit Hour and The Shallow End of Sleep. He is a fellow of CantoMundo and Macondo and teaches writing at The University of Texas-Rio Grande Valley.

Sarah Pape teaches English and works as the managing editor of Watershed Review at California State University, Chico. She curates community literary programming and is a member of the Quoin Collective, a local letterpress group.

Sarah Jefferis is an author, editor, and mentor. Her business, Write. Now., offers generative creative writing workshops, and editing services. Her poetry books include What Enters the Mouth and Forgetting the Salt.

Barrett Bowlin teaches at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. His essays and short stories appear in places like Ninth Letter, Hobart, Michigan Quarterly Review, The Rumpus, Salt Hill, and Bayou, which awarded him the James Knudsen Prize in Fiction.