Ricardo Hernandez is the recipient of fellowships from Poets House, Lambda Literary, and The Vermont Studio Center, and program associate of the Readings & Workshops program (East) at Poets & Writers, Inc.

Kelly Harris is a Cave Canem Fellow and the author of Shame on Her: Poems & Essays. She received her MFA from Lesley University. Kelly is the Poets & Writers Literary Coordinator in New Orleans and serves as the lead programming curator for Words & Music Festival in the city.

Lupe Mendez (educator/writer/activist) has prose work in the Kenyon Review and Sudden Fiction Latino as well as poetry that appears in Huizache, Luna, The Texas Review, Tinderbox, Hunger Mountain, Glass Poetry, and Gulf Coast. His book is Why I Am Like Tequila.

Justin Rogers is a Black poet from Detroit, Michigan. Rogers shares poems surrounding living and praying as a Black man in America and explores fantasy through pop culture. He is the author of micro-zine Nostalgia as Black Matilda and Black, Matilda.