Jameelah Lang is an assistant professor at Rockhurst University. Her work appears in the Kenyon Review, Cincinnati Review, Pleiades, and more. She has received awards from Bread Loaf, Sewanee Writers Conference, VCCA, and HUB-BUB. She's a board member for Radius of Arab American Writers.

Glenn Shaheen is the author of four books, most recently, the fiction collection Carnivalia. He teaches at Prairie View A&M University and is the executive dIrector of the Radius of Arab American Writers.

Aiya Sakr is completing an MFA in poetry at Purdue University, where she serves as poetry editor for the Sycamore Review. She has a master’s degree in literature and writing from Utah State University. Her poems have appeared in Palette Poetry and Mizna.

George Abraham is a Palestinian American poet. His debut Birthright (Button Poetry, 2020) won the Arab American Book Award, and he was a Lambda Literary Award nominee. He is a Kundiman fellow, a board member for the Radius of Arab American Writers, and a Litowitz MFA+MA candidate at Northwestern.

Angie Mazakis is a PhD student in creative writing at Ohio University. Her first book of poetry, I Was Waiting to See What You Would Do First, was chosen by Billy Collins as a finalist for the Miller Williams Poetry Prize. She is a former staff member of AWP and is a member of RAWI.