Andrea Rexilius is the author of New Organism: Essais, Half of What They Carried Flew Away, and To Be Human Is to Be a Conversation.

Adrianne Kalfopoulou is the author of two collections of poetry. Her book of essays, Ruin, Essays in Exilic Living engages with issues of transnational identify and critical inquiries into late capitalism's austerity-ravaged Greece. She directs the writing program at Deree College in Athens, Greece.

Natalia Sylvester is the author of Chasing the Sun and a forthcoming novel, Everyone Carries Their Own Water. She is a faculty member of the low-res MFA program at Regis University. Her work has appeared in Latina magazine, Writer's Digest, and NBCLatino.com. Her Twitter and Instagram handle is @NataliaSylv.

J. Michael Martinez's first book was awarded the Walt Whitman Award from the Academy of American Poets. His second book is In the Garden of the Bridehouse. He is currently a PhD candidate at the University of Colorado, Boulder.

Helen Thorpe's magazine work has been published in the New York Times, the New Yorker, and Texas Monthly. Her first book is Just Like Us, and her second book is Soldier Girls. Time named it the number one nonfiction book of the year.