Alex Espinoza is the author of Still Water Saints and The Five Acts of Diego León. He has written for the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, the Virginia Quarterly Review, and NPR. The recipient of an NEA fellowship and an American Book Award, he is visiting associate professor at CSULA.

Noel Alumit is the author of the novels Letters to Montgomery Clift and the Los Angeles Times bestseller Talking to the Moon. His awards include the Stonewall Book Award, the Violet Quill Award, and the James Duggins Mid-Career Prize.

Felicia Luna Lemus is the author of the novels Trace Elements of Random Tea Parties and Like Son. She been an assistant professor at California State University, San Bernardino, a visiting assistant professor at Pitzer College, and associate faculty at Antioch University.

Myriam Gurba wrote Dahlia Season, Wish You Were Me, Sweatsuits of the Damned, and Painting Their Portraits in Winter. She works as a teacher in Long Beach, California.

Frederick Smith is author of three novels, Play It Forward, Right Side of the Wrong Bed (a Lambda Literary finalist), and Down for Whatever. He works with college students around cultural and gender identities, and is a doctoral student in education leadership for social justice.