Harriet Levin Millan's poetry books include The Christmas Show, winner of the Barnard New Women Poets Prize, and Girl in Cap and Gown. Her debut novel, How Fast Can You Run, spans three continents. She directs the program in writing and publishing at Drexel University.

Dina Elenbogen, a widely published and award-winning writer, is author of the memoir, Drawn from Water: An American Poet, an Ethiopian Family, an Israeli Story, and the poetry collection, Apples of the Earth. She has a poetry MFA from the Iowa Writer's Workshop and teaches at the University of Chicago.

Fabienne Josaphat is the author of Dancing in the Baron’s Shadow, a novel published in 2016. She is from Haiti and holds an MFA in creative writing from Florida International University. She writes fiction, nonfiction, and poetry, as well as screenplays.

Kelvin Christopher James