Rachel M. Simon is the author of the poetry collection Theory of Orange and the chapbook Marginal Road. She teaches writing, gender studies, and film classes at Purchase College, State University of New York; Pace University; Bedford Hills Correctional Facility; Poets House; and others.

Chloe Yelena Miller is the author of Unrest, a poetry chapbook. Her work has been published in Narrative and the Cortland Review, among others. She teaches writing at Politics & Prose Bookstore in Washington, DC, online at Fairleigh Dickinson University, and privately.

Hila Ratzabi was selected by Adrienne Rich for a National Writers Union Prize. She is the editor-in-chief of the literary journal Storyscape. Ratzabi founded the Red Sofa Salon & Poetry Workshop and the Red Sofa Reading Series in Philadelphia. She holds an MFA from Sarah Lawrence College.

Shradha Pravin Shah is a poet, visual artist, and physician. She practices emergency medicine in the Bay Area. She holds an MFA in poetry from New York University and MD from Wayne State School of Medicine in Detroit, Michigan.

Mary Austin Speaker is the author of Ceremony; The Bridge; 20 Love Poems for 10 Months; and a play, I Am You This Morning You Are Me Tonight. In Minneapolis, she runs a small book design studio. This summer she will teach creative writing at the Jackson Hole Writers Conference.