Travis Hedge Coke is a writer, editor, and teacher, working with Along the Chaparral to story interred veterans at the Riverside National Cemetery. He is the former writer of the Hugo-nominated Pop Medicine column and current author of the weekly Patricia Highsmash, from Comic Watch.

Oscar Hokeah is a regionalist Oklahoma writer and the author of a forthcoming debut novel, Calling for a Blanket Dance. He is an enrolled member of Cherokee Nation and the Kiowa Tribe of Oklahoma, and he has Latinx heritage. He has fiction published in American Short Fiction, Yellow Medicine Review, and other journals.

Tanaya Winder is a writer and artist from the Southern Ute, Duckwater Shoshone, and Pyramid Lake Paiute Nations. She has a BA in English from Stanford University and a MFA from the University of New Mexico. She blends storytelling, singing, and spoken word to teach about different expressions of love.