Autumn Hayes is a freelance writer and poet. She has taught reading, writing, public speaking, math, drama, and vocational welding in Los Angeles, Houston, and the Mississippi Delta. She holds an MFA in poetry from Texas State University, where she is an assistant director at the Writing Center.

Emanuelee Outspoken Bean is a 2017 Houston Mayor's Office of Cultural Affairs resident artist and 2016 Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts and The Idea Fund recipient. Bean is a performance poet, writer, mentor, entertainer, and educator. 

Sonya Bilocerkowycz is the author of the essay collection On Our Way Home from the Revolution, winner of the 2018 Gournay Prize. She has served as a Fulbright grantee in Belarus, an educational recruiter in the Republic of Georgia, and an instructor at Ukrainian Catholic University in Lviv.

Javan Howard is a poet and writer who truly believes that the lived experience is the ultimate teaching tool and uses poetry as a social forum to foster discourse about love, culture, and identity. He has facilitated workshops across NYC.

Matty Layne Glasgow is the author of deciduous qween, winner of the 2017 Benjamin Saltman Award. He is a PhD candidate in creative writing at the University of Utah, where he is a Vice Presidential Fellow & Coordinator for Writers in the Schools. He has taught with WITS Houston since 2013.