Dr. Guadalupe Garcia Montano teaches Chicana and Native American Women's literature at California State University Dominguez Hills and serves on the East Los Angeles Women's Center's Board of Directors. Her research interests focus on college access programs and Chicanas/Latinas in politics.

Xochitl-Julisa Bermejo is the 2013 poetry winner of the Poets & Writers California Writers Exchange. She has work published in American Poetry Review, CALYX, and Acentos Review. She is the creator and curator of the quarterly reading series Hitched and a cofounding member of Women Who Submit.

Anel I. Flores, lesbiana, tejana, chicana artivista is the author of Empanada, a Lesbiana Story en Probaditas. She is a member of Sandra Cisneros’ Macondo Writer’s Workshop and NALAC. Currently she is working on two children's books and a novel, Cortinas de Lluvia.

Emmy Pérez is a member of the Macondo Writers’ Workshop and she was an inaugural CantoMundo fellow. She's the author of the poetry collections, With the River on Our Face (forthcoming) and Solstice. Currently, she is an associate professor in the MFA program at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley.

Laurie Ann Guerrero is the 2016 Texas Poet Laureate and author of A Tongue in the Mouth of the Dying and A Crown for Gumecindo. Her work has appeared in Women's Studies Quarterly, Borderlands, Texas Monthly, and others. She holds degrees from Smith College and Drew University.