Jess Rizkallah is a Lebanese American writer and illustrator. Alumna of Lesley University, MFA candidate at New York University, and founding editor of Pizza Pi Press. Her collection The Magic My Body Becomes won the 2016 Etel Adnan Award from RAWI and University of Arkansas Press.

George Abraham is a Palestinian American poet and bioengineering PhD candidate at Harvard. He is the author of Birthright and the specimen's apology. His writing has appeared in the Paris Review, Tin House, Boston Review, The Rumpus, and Mizna.

Hazem Fahmy is a poet, playwright, and critic. He is an honors graduate of Wesleyan University's College of Letters, where his senior thesis play, Barzakh, received High Honors. His poetry has been recognized by a Best of the Net nomination as well as by the Watering Hole.