Derek Scheips is a multigenre writer and instructor who has taught and coached writing students at a variety of institutions, including University of Washington and University of Pennsylvania. He also has significance experience as a communications consultant for global advertising agencies.

Ahimsa Timoteo Bodhrán is author of Archipiélagos; Antes y después del Bronx: Lenapehoking; and South Bronx Breathing Lessons. A CantoMundo, Macondo, RAWI, and Lambda Fellow, he is editor of Yellow Medicine Review's global queer Indigenous and Movement Research Performance Journal's Native issues.

Belinda Kremer, a poet and the poetry editor of Confrontation, holds an MFA in poetry from the Univ. of Michigan. A Lecturer in UC Berkeley’s College Writing Programs, Belinda teaches composition and creative writing, and serves on the Chancellor’s Advisory Committee on LGBTQ+ Communities at Cal.

K. Ka'imilani Leota Sellers received her MFA from Eastern Kentucky University. A queer Samoan multigenre writer, her writing appears in Yellow Medicine Review and Nepantla: An Anthology Dedicated to Queer Poets of Color. She teaches in Hawai'i and serves on the LGBTQ Writers Caucus leadership team.

Erin Sharkey is a cultural producer and the editor of A Darker Wilderness: Black Nature Writing from Soil to Stars. She is cofounder of Free Black Dirt, an experimental production collective, and steward of The Fields at Rootsprings, a retreat centering BIPOC and LGBTQ+ folks in central Minnesota.