Lisa Briana Williams is the author of three books of poems and a recipient of a Barnard Women Poets Prize. She teaches and directs creative writing at Centre College in Danville, Kentucky. Since 2014 she has served as series editor for the University Press of Kentucky New Poetry and Prose Series.

Rion Amilcar Scott is the author of story collections, The World Doesn't Require You and Insurrections, which won the 2017 PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Fiction. He earned an MFA from George Mason University and teaches English at the University of Maryland.

Dr. Manini Nayar Samarth teaches literature and writing at Penn State, University Park. Her award-winning stories are published in periodicals in the US, Canada, India, and England, and broadcasted on the BBC. Her collection Being Here was recently published by the University Press of Kentucky

Yvette Lisa Ndlovu is the author of Drinking from Graveyard Wells (University Press of Kentucky, Spring 2023). She earned her BA at Cornell University. Her work has been supported by fellowships from the Tin House Workshop, Bread Loaf Writers' Workshop, and George R. R. Martin.

Serkan Görkemli’s fiction has recently appeared in Ploughshares and the Iowa Review. He’s the author of Sweet Tooth and Other Stories (forthcoming) and Grassroots Literacies: Lesbian and Gay Activism and the Internet in Turkey. Originally from Turkey, he’s an associate professor of English at UConn.