Victorio Reyes Asili is a PhD candidate in English at UAlbany and holds an MFA from VCFA. His poems have appeared in various publications, including: The Acentos Review, Pilgrimage magazine, Word Riot, Obsidian ,and the anthologies It Was Written, Black Lives Have Always Mattered, and Chorus.

Kenning (AKA Kenyatta) JP García is a performer, antipoet, humorist, and diarist. JP is the author of innovative diary collections such as OF (What Place Meant), Furthermore, and Slow Living. JP is also an organizer for the St Rocco's Reading Series and is an editor at Rigorous and Dream Pop Press.

Daphne Maysonet is a Caribbean-American writer with poetry in Southern Indiana Review, Chautauqua, and The Acentos Review. She has read at the New Orleans and New York City Poetry Festivals. She received her MFA from the University of Memphis and is currently working on a collection of poetry.

Raina J. León is cofounder and editor in chief of The Acentos Review, and the author of three poetry books: Canticle of Idols, Boogeyman Dawn, and sombra: (dis)locate. She is a member of the Cave Canem, CantoMundo, Macondo, and Carolina African American Writers Collective communities.

Holnes is the author of Stepmotherland and Migrant Psalms; his poetry has appeared in Poetry, American Poetry Review, Callaloo, and elsewhere. He is the winner of the Andres Montoya Poetry Prize and others. He is an assistant professor for CUNY and he teaches at NYU.