Ramiza Shamoun Koya writes fiction and nonfiction and is the director of youth programs at Literary Arts in Portland, Oregon. She has an MFA from Sarah Lawrence College and her book The Royal Abduls is forthcoming in spring 2020.

Roberto Tejada is a visual arts writer, translator, and poet whose books include Full Foreground, Exposition Park, and Mirrors for Gold; as well as the art histories National Camera: Photography and Mexico’s Image Environment and A Ver: Celia Alvarez Muñoz.

Renee Simms is a Bread Loaf and NEA fellow who teaches at University of Puget Sound and the Rainier Writing Workshop. Her debut story collection, Meet Behind Mars, was a Foreword Indies Finalist for Short Stories and listed by The Root as one of 28 brilliant books by black authors.

Devin Samuels is a poet educator who has spent years cultivating youth arts spaces throughout New England. Now in Detroit, Samuels works with Inside Out Literary Arts supplying poetry programming to youth throughout the city.

Kathryn Savage is a recipient of the 2018 Academy of American Poets James Wright Prize, with work appearing in American Short Fiction, Poets.org, the Guardian, and Poets & Writers, among others. She has served as a program manager at the Loft Literary Center for six years and teaches at MCAD.