Daiva Markelis is the author of White Field, Black Sheep: A Lithuanian-American Life. Her work has appeared in the New Ohio Review, Crab Orchard Review, American Literary Review, Cream City Review, Oyez, [PANK], and many other journals. She is a professor of English at Eastern Illinois University.

Bayo Ojikutu is the author of the critically acclaimed novels 47th Street Black and Free Burning. His short work has appeared in ACM, USA Noir: Best of the Akashic Noir Series, TriQuarterly, Fifth Wednesday, McNeese Review, Other Voices, and the Chicago Reader, amongst other publications.

Achy Obejas is the author of the acclaimed novels Ruins, Days of Awe, and three other books of fiction. She has translated works (English/Spanish) by Junot Diaz, Wendy Guerra, F.G. Haghenbeck, Eduardo Halfon, and many others. She is currently the Distinguished Visiting Writer at Mills College in Oakland.

M. Evelina Galang, author of One Tribe, Her Wild American Self, and Angel de la Luna and the 5th Glorious Mystery, received the Gustavus Myers Outstanding Book Award for advancing human rights, and is an advocate of WWII comfort women. She directs the MFA in Creative Writing at the University of Miami.

Helène Aylon describes her multimedia work as a rescue of Body, Earth, and G-d from patriarchal designations. It has been shown at the Betty Parsons Gallery, the Whitney Museum, The Warhol, The Jewish Museum, and SFMOMA. Her memoir is Whatever Is Contained Must Be Released.