Leslie Salas teaches multimodal composition and creative writing at Full Sail University and serves on the masthead of Sweet. She writes prose, poetry, and comics, and her work has been published in the Southeast Review, SmokeLong Quarterly, and more. Her anthology, Other Orlandos, is forthcoming.

Danita Berg directs the English department at Full Sail University and is the founder and nonfiction editor for Animal: A Beast of a Literary Magazine. She coedited Creative Composition with Multilingual Matters and published in Redivider, Literary Mama, and Black Market Review, among others.

Nicole Oquendo is a gender-fluid writer, artist, editor, educator, and translator specializing in multimodal composition. She is the author of Some Prophets, Self is Wolf, Telomeres, and We, Animals. You can learn more about her and view sample writing and art at nicoleoquendo.com.

Kirsten Holt graduated with her MFA in poetry from the University of Central Florida in 2013. She currently teaches at Valencia College in Florida, and seeks to expand the role of video games in higher learning. Her chapbook is Overwintered.

Christine Bailey holds an MFA in creative writing and a PhD in composition. Her first YA novel, Girl in the Middle, was released last year; her second, Waking Under Water, releases in September. Before teaching university writing courses, Bailey worked as a journalist, a marketing writer, and a book editor.