Emily Pérez is the author of the poetry collection House of Sugar, House of Stone, and the chapbook Backyard Migration Route. A CantoMundo Fellow, she has received funding and support from Bread Loaf, the Artist Trust, Jack Straw Writers, and the Community of Writers at Squaw Valley.

Sun Yung Shin is the author of Unbearable Splendor; Rough, and Savage; and Skirt Full of Black. The editor of A Good Time for the Truth: Race in Minnesota, a coeditor of anthology Outsiders Within, and author of Cooper's Lesson, she is widely published in multiple genres.

Nina McConigley is the author of the short-story collection Cowboys and East Indians, winner of the PEN Open Book Award. She teaches at the University of Wyoming and at the Warren Wilson MFA Program for Writers.

Ammon Medina is a MFA poetry candidate at the University of Wyoming. His chapbook Ragged Red Voice won the 2013 Florence Kahn Memorial Award. He has received a fellowship from the Norman Mailer Writing Center. His work has appeared in Kweli Journal, Western Confluence, and Warp & Weave.

Glenn Shaheen is the author of the poetry collections Predatory and Energy Corridor, and the flash fiction collection Unchecked Savagery.