Petra Kuppers is a disability culture activist, a community performance artist, and a professor of English, women's studies, theatre, and art and Design at the University of Michigan. She also teaches on the low-residency MFA in interdisciplinary arts at Goddard College.

Megan Kaminski is a poet and essayist and the author of three books of poetry, most recently Gentlewomen, and Prairie Divination, a forthcoming illustrated collection of essays and oracle deck (with artist L. Ann Wheeler). She is an associate professor in English at the University of Kansas.

Vidhu Aggarwal's book of poems, The Trouble with Humpadori, takes mobile forms in video, comics, and performance. She teaches postcolonial/transnational literature and creative writing at Rollins College.

Stephanie Heit is a queer/disabled poet, dancer, teacher, Zoeglossia Fellow, and member of Olimpias, a disability performance collective. She codirects Turtle Disco, a somatic writing space in Ypsilanti, Michigan, and is the author of Psych Murders (forthcoming) and The Color She Gave Gravity.

Teresa Carmody's books include The Reconception of Marie and Maison Femme: A Fiction. With Shameka Cunningham, she cohosts Today Must Be Sunday at Four Queens. A cofounding editor of Les Figues Press, she now lives in Florida, where she directs Stetson University's low-res MFA program.