Britt Haraway is a fiction writer whose stories have appeared in the South Dakota Review, Natural Bridge, Moon City Review, New Madrid, and others. His poetry has appeared in BorderSenses. He teaches at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, where he edits the fiction for RiverSedge magazine.

elena minor is founding editor and publisher of Palabra and the author of Titulada. Her work also has been published in Jacket2, MAKE, Hot Metal Bridge, RHINO, Puerto del Sol, Switchback, and Mandorla, among others, and has been included in the anthologies Angels of the Americlypse and BAX Writing 2015.

Diana López is the author of several novels including Sofia’s Saints, Confetti Girl, Choke, and Nothing Up My Sleeve. She teaches at the University of Houston-Victoria and is the managing director of CentroVictoria, an organization devoted to promoting Mexican American literature.

Maria Miranda Maloney is the founder of Mouthfeel Press and author of The Lost Letters of Mileva. She is the educational outreach organizer for the Smithsonian Latino Virtual Museum. She is the current poetry editor for BorderSenses. Maloney has an MFA in bilingual creative writing from UT El Paso.

Raina J. León, Cave Canem and CantoMundo Fellow and member of the Carolina African American Writers Collective, has three collections of poetry: Canticle of Idols, Boogeyman Dawn, and sombra: (dis)locate. She cofounded the Acentos Review.