Linda N. Masi is the author of the novel Fine Dreams, winner of the Juniper Prize for fiction. Some of her other work appear in Tupelo Quarterly, BlackBerry: A Magazine, and elsewhere. She holds an MFA from the University of Mississippi and is completing a PhD at Texas Tech University.

Osahon Ize-Iyamu is a Nigerian writer of fiction that explores the effect of environmental degradation in Nigeria. His story “More Sea than Tar,” which highlights the flooding crisis in Nigeria, has been included in educational materials globally. He has also spoken at Berlin’s 2022 Climate Cultures Festival.

Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki is an African speculative fiction writer, editor, and publisher from Nigeria. He has won the Nebula, as well as the Nommo, British and World Fantasy awards. He has also been a finalist in the Hugo, Locus, Sturgeon, British Science Fiction and NAACP Image awards.

Author Aya de León teaches creative writing at UC Berkeley. She is acquiring editor at Fighting Chance Books, seeking climate justice fiction. She produced the online conference Black Literature vs. the Climate Emergency, (available on YouTube) and works on climate with the Movement for Black Lives.

Bibiana O. Ossai, a Nigerian born writer, is the winner of the Equinox Journal 2019 Poetry Contest and a recipient of the Marilyn Boutwell Creative Writing Award from Long Island University's humanities department. Her works appear in The River, Book Smuggler's Den, Refractions.