Edward Vidaurre is an award-winning poet and author of nine collections of poetry. He is the 2018–19 City of McAllen, Texas Poet Laureate, a 2022 inductee to the Texas Institute of Letters, and publisher of FlowerSong Press.

Xochitl-Julisa Bermejo is the author of Posada: Offerings of Witness and Refuge (Sundress Publications) and is a former Steinbeck Fellow and Poets & Writers California Writers Exchange winner. She is the creator of the quarterly reading series Hitched and a cofounder of Women Who Submit.

Luivette Resto is an award-winning poet and mother. She was born in Aguas Buenas, Puerto Rico, but proudly raised in the Bronx. She is a CantoMundo and Macondo Fellow and a Pushcart Prize nominee. She has three books of poetry with Tia Chucha and FlowerSong Press. She lives in the Los Angeles area.

Adrian Ernesto Cepeda is an Los Angeles poet and author of Flashes & Verses… Becoming Attractions from Unsolicited Press; Between the Spine from Picture Show Press; La Belle Ajar and We Are the Ones Possessed from CLASH Books; Speaking con su Sombra from Alegría Publishing; and La Lengua Inside Me from FlowerSong Press.

Vincent Cooper is the author of Infidelis, Zarzamora, and Where the Reckless Ones Come to Die. His poetry can be found in Huizache, Riversedge, Somos En Escrito, and Issued. He is a member of the Macondo Writers Workshop.