Olga Livshin is the author of A Life Replaced: Poems with Translations from Anna Akhmatova and Vladimir Gandelsman. Her work explores finding a place as a queer refugee. She is the co-organizer of From Across the Waters: Voices for Immigration.

Mariya Deykute is a teacher, writer, performing artist, and translator. Mariya received her MFA from University of Massachusetts Boston and has taught at University of Massachusetts, the OLLI Institute, PEN New England, and Tohatchi High School. She currently teaches creative writing at Nazarbayev University in Kazakhstan.

Lana Spendl, a Bosnian American writer, is the author of the chapbook We Cradled Each Other in the Air. Her work focuses on displacement, trauma, and queer identities and has appeared in The Rumpus, New Ohio Review, The Greensboro Review, Zone 3, Epiphany, and Baltimore Review.

Larissa Shmailo is a poet, translator, novelist, and writing coach. She is leader of the workshop Writing Resilience for writers affected by trauma, addiction, and/or mental illness. She is the original English-language translator of the avant-garde opera Victory over the Sun by Alexei Kruchenych.

Anna Halberstadt is a poet, translator, and author of two poetry collections in English—Vilnius Diary and Green in a Landscape with Ashes—and two in Russian—Transit and Gloomy Sun—as well as American poetry translations Selected Selected by Eileen Myles and Nocturnal Fire by Edward Hirsch.