Darien Hsu Gee is the author of five novels published in eleven countries. Her collection of micro essays won a bronze IPPY award, and her craft book on writing memoir won the Hawaiʻi Book Publishers award. Darien is a Poetry Society of America Chapbook Fellow.

CMarie Fuhrman is the author of Camped Beneath the Dam: Poems (Floodgate 2020) and coeditor of Native Voices (Tupelo 2019). CMarie is director of Elk River Writers Workshop and faculty in the graduate program in creative writing at Western Colorado University.

Anastacia-Reneé (She/They) is a writer, educator, interdisciplinary artist, TEDx Speaker and podcaster. Reneé is the author of (v.) (Black Ocean) and Forget It (Black Radish). Side Notes from the Archivist forthcoming from Amistad (an imprint of HarperCollins) March 2023.

Preeti Parikh is an Indian American poet and essayist based in Ohio. A Kundiman Fellow, Preeti is the recipient of a 2023 Sustainable Arts Foundation grant award and has received support for her work from Millay Arts, the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, and the AWP Writer to Writer program.

Karina L. Agbisit is a Latina writer and editor. Her writing has been published by Woodhall Press, Cleis Press, Haunted Waters Press, Ruminate Magazine, and Oregon Humanities. She holds an MFA in creative writing and MA in book publishing from Portland State University. She is working on a memoir.