Kristiana Kahakauwila is a 2015–16 Fellow at Harvard's Radcliffe Institute of Advanced Study and an assistant professor at Western Washington University. The author of This is Paradise: Stories, she has most recently published in Off the Path: An Anthology of 21st Century Indigenous Writing.

Deborah A. Miranda (Ohlone-Costanoan Esselen Nation), is the author of Bad Indians: A Tribal Memoir, Indian Cartography, The Zen of La Llorona, and coeditor of Sovereign Erotics: A Collection of Two-Spirit Literatures. She is full professor of English at Washington and Lee University.

Greg Sarris received his PhD in modern thought & literature from Stanford University, where he is a Walter Gore Awardee for excellence in teaching. He is the FIGR Endowed Chair at Sonoma State University where he teaches, and 7th term elected chairman of the Federated Indians of Graton Rancheria.

Casandra Lopez is a Chicana and California Indian writer who teaches at North Seattle College. She has degrees from Cornell University and University of New Mexico. She has served as a writer in residence at the School of Advanced Research and is a founding editor of As/Us.

Odilia Galván Rodríguez, poet, writer, activist, and coeditor of Poetry of Resistance a multicultural anthology, is the author of five volumes of poetry, also widely anthologized on and offline. She facilitates creative writing workshops nationally and coordinates Poets Responding to SB 1070.