Namrata Poddar is the author of the award-winning debut novel Border Less, an essayist, interviews editor for Kweli, and faculty of writing & literature at UCLA. Her work has appeared in Longreads, Literary Hub, Kenyon Review, Poets & Writers, L.A. Times, The Best Asian Short Stories, and elsewhere.

Pragya Agarwal is a professor of social inequities, visiting scholar at Oxford University, Fulbright Scholar, and author of four nonfiction books including (M)otherhood: On the choices of being a woman. Her writing has appeared in Literary Hub, The Guardian, Scientific American, and Wired, among others.

Amaris Castillo is a journalist, mother-writer, and the creator of Bodega Stories. Her writing has appeared in La Galería Magazine, Aster(ix) Journal, and several anthologies. Her short story, "El Don," was a prize finalist for the 2022 Elizabeth Nunez Caribbean-American Writers' Prize.

Cassandra Lane is author of We Are Bridges: A Memoir (Feminist Press) and winner of the Louise Meriwether First Book Prize. She received her MFA from Antioch University. Her stories have appeared in the New York Times, L.A. Times, and elsewhere. She is editor in chief of L.A. Parent magazine.

Vanessa Martir is the founder of the Writing Our Lives Workshop and the Writing the Mother Wound Movement. A 2021 Letras Boricuas fellow, her work has appeared in the New York Times, the Guardian, Washington Post, The Rumpus, Longreads, and the anthologies Not That Bad and So We Can Know among others.