Jameelah Lang is an assistant professor at Rockhurst University. Her work appears in the Kenyon Review, Cincinnati Review, Pleiades, and more. She has received awards from Bread Loaf, Sewanee Writers Conference, VCCA, & HUB-BUB. She's a board member for Radius of Arab American Writers.

Caridad Moro-Gronlier is the author of Tortillera (Texas Review Press 2021). She is a contributing editor of Grabbed: Writers Respond to Sexual Assault (Beacon Press 2020) and associate editor for SWWIM Every Day. A career educator, she is an English professor in Miami, Florida, where she resides.

George Abraham is a Palestinian American poet. His debut Birthright (Button Poetry, 2020) won the Arab American Book Award and was a Lambda Literary Award nominee. He is a Kundiman fellow, a board member for the Radius of Arab American Writers, and a Litowitz MFA and MA candidate at Northwestern.

Jenny Molberg is the author of the poetry collections Marvels of the Invisible, Refusal, and The Court of No Record. An NEA fellow, she is associate professor at the University of Central Missouri, where she edits Pleiades: Literature in Context and directs Pleiades Press.

David Stuart MacLean is a PEN America award-winning essayist. He is the author of the memoir, The Answer to the Riddle is Me, and the novel, How I Learned to Hate in Ohio. The New York Times called David an "exceedingly entertaining psychotic." He lives and teaches in Chicago.