Cathy Arellano is a Queer Chicana with poetry and prose in various anthologies and journals. She earned her MFA at the University of Iowa. She won an SF Art Commission's Literary Arts Grant and a Taos' Hispanic Writer Award. Currently, she teaches in the English department of American River College.

Andrea J. Serrano has been writing and performing poetry since 1994. She is published in Lowriting: Shots, Rides and Stories from the Chicano Soul; Malpais Review; the Mas Tequila Review; and ¡Ban This! BSP Anthology of Xican@ Literature. She has also written and produced two short plays.

Jennifer Givhan is an NEA fellow, PEN/Rosenthal Emerging Voices Fellow, DASH Literary Journal Poetry Prize winner, Blue Mesa Review Poetry second-prize winner, and Andrés Montoya Poetry Prize finalist. She teaches at Western New Mexico University and the Rooster Moans Poetry Coop.

Reyna Grande is the author of the novels Across a Hundred Mountains and Dancing with Butterflies, for which she received several awards including an American Book Award. Her third book, The Distance Between Us, is a memoir about her life before and after illegally immigrating from Mexico to the US.

Tanaya Winder is a writer, artist, and educator from the Southern Ute, Duckwater Shoshone, and Pyramid Lake Paiute Nations. She has a BA in English from Stanford University and a MFA in creative writing from UNM. She currently serves as the editor in chief of As/Us: A Space for Women of the World.