Rochelle Spencer is co-editor of All About Skin: An Anthology of Short Fiction by Award-Winning Women Writers of Color (2014). She is founder of Harlem Works, a co-working space/collective, co-founder of ImagiTeach, and a Board Member of the Hurston-Wright Foundation.

Jina Ortiz received her MFA in Creative Writing at Pine Manor College. Her poetry has been published in the Afro-Hispanic Review, Calabash, Green Mountains Review, Worcester Review, the Caribbean Writer, and Solstice literary magazine. She has received fellowships from the Ledig House, VCCA, and Vermont Studio Center.

Xu Xi is author of nine books of fiction & essays. Recent titles are Access Thirteen Tales and the novel Habit of a Foreign Sky, a finalist for the Man Asian Literary Award. She is currently Writer-in-Residence at City University of Hong Kong where she directs an international, low-residency MFA.