Rachel M. Simon is the author of the poetry collections Theory of Orange and Marginal Road. She works in diversity, equity, and inclusion at Pace University. She has taught at Bedford Hills Women's Prison, as the director of the Social Justice Collective at Sarah Lawrence College, and many others.

Noah Arhm Choi is the author of Cut to Bloom, the winner of the 2019 Write Bloody Prize. A Lambda Literary Writer in Schools, their work appears in The Rumpus, Split this Rock, and elsewhere. A Kundiman fellow, they received an MFA from Sarah Lawrence and the Ellen Conroy Kennedy Poetry Prize in 2021.

Melissa Faliveno is the author of the essay collection Tomboyland, named a best book of 2020 by NPR, New York Public Library, and O, The Oprah Magazine. The former senior editor of Poets & Writers Magazine, she is an assistant professor of creative writing at University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill and on the MFA faculty at Vermont College of Fine Arts.

Colin Hosten's work has appeared in The Essay Review, Essay Daily, The Gay & Lesbian Review, Spry Literary, OUT Magazine, and the Brevity blog. A former children's book editor, he currently teaches at Fairfield University and is a founding editor of Woodhall Press.