Soleil David is a poet and translator. An alumna of the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conferences, Community of Writers, and VONA and the recipient of a PEN America Emerging Voices Fellowship, she has received awards from the Barbara Deming Fund, Peter K. Jansen Memorial Travel Fellowship, and the Don Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards.

janan alexandra is an Arab American writer who was born in Nicosia, Cyprus. She received her MFA in poetry from Indiana University and has spent the last decade working as a literary activist and educator. You can find her work in Gulf Coast, Ploughshares, The Rumpus, Mizna, and elsewhere.

S. J. Ghaus is a Pakistani American writer and artist. Their work is published or forthcoming on poets.org, Poetry Daily, Hayden's Ferry Review, Ecotone, and elsewhere. A Tin House resident and VONA alum, they hold an MFA from Indiana University where they were poetry editor of the Indiana Review.

Amanda L. Andrei is a playwright, literary translator, and theater critic residing in Los Angeles by way of Virginia/DC. She writes epic, irreverent plays that center concealed, wounded places of history from the perspectives of diasporic Filipina women, and she cotranslates from Romanian to English.