Kamil Ahsan is currently a doctoral student in History at Yale University, with a prior doctorate in biology from the University of Chicago. Originally from Lahore, Pakistan, he is also a freelance journalist, critic, and the editor of South Asian Avant-Garde (SAAG). He lives in New Haven, Connecticut.

Abeer Y. Hoque is a Nigerian-born, Bangladeshi-American writer and photographer. Her books include a monograph of travel photographs and poems (The Long Way Home, 2013), a book of linked stories, poems, and photographs (The Lovers and the Leavers, 2015), and a memoir (Olive Witch, 2017).

Hananah Zaheer is the author of Lovebirds (Bull City Press, 2021). She serves as fiction editor for Los Angeles Review, a fiction editor for South Asian Avant Garde: a dissident literary anthology, and is the founder of Dubai Literary Salon.

Aditya Desai's stories, essays, and poems have appeared in Taco Bell Quarterly, Tropics of Meta, B O D Y, The Rumpus, The Millions, The Margins, and others. He received his MFA in fiction from the University of Maryland, College Park. He is the literature programs officer for Maryland Humanities.