Tom Hart is the author / artist of the New York Times #1 bestselling graphic memoir, Rosalie Lightning, and the executive director of The Sequential Artists Workshop, an organization and school for comics and graphic novels in Gainesville, Florida, which also offers extensive online courses.

Mita Mahato is a Seattle-based cut paper, collage, and comics artist whose work is published in Iterant, Shenandoah, Coast/No Coast, ANMLY, AModern, Illustrated PEN, and Drunken Boat. Her collection of poetry comics, In Between, is published by Pleiades.

Sharon De La Cruz is a storyteller, educator, and activist from New York City. Her research and practice are rooted at the intersection of STEM pedagogy, art, and social justice. Publishers Weekly described her debut graphic novel as “a potent graphic memoir about the forming of one woman’s queer identity."

Nick Francis Potter is a writer, cartoonist, and educator. He is the author of two books, Big Gorgeous Jazz Machine and New Animals. He serves as the director of undergraduate studies for the School of Visual Studies at the University of Missouri, where he teaches a range of hybrid writing courses.

Mira Jacob is the author and illustrator of Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations. Her critically acclaimed novel, The Sleepwalker’s Guide to Dancing, was a Barnes & Noble Discover New Writers pick, and shortlisted for India’s Tata First Literature Award.