Loyce Gayo is a Tanzanian-born creative, teaching artist, and organizer based in Houston, TX. Her work has been featured in Button Poetry, Badilisha Poetry, and PBS. Gayo founded Paza Sauti, a literary arts org in Tanzania, and is the Youth and Community Programs Manager for Writers in the Schools.

Monica Sok is the author of A Nail the Evening Hangs On. She was awarded a 92Y Discovery Prize and fellowships from Kundiman, NEA, and Jerome Foundation. She is a Stegner Fellow at Stanford University and teaches at the Center for Empowering Refugees and Immigrants and Banteay Srei in Oakland.

Paul Tran is a Ruth Lilly & Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Fellow and Discovery/Boston Review Poetry Prize winner. Their work appears in The New Yorker and Poetry. Paul is the first Asian American since 1993 to win the Nuyorican Poets Cafe Grand Slam.

Adrienne Perry is a Kimbilio Fellow and Hedgebrook alumna teaching nonfiction at Villanova University. Adrienne's work appears in multiple journals and has received funding from the Elizabeth George Foundation and Friends of Writers. From 2014–2016, she served as editor in chief of Gulf Coast.

Monica Prince is an assistant professor of activist and performance writing at Susquehanna University and the managing editor of the Santa Fe Writers Project Quarterly. Her focus is in choreopoems and performance poetry.