Chantel Acevedo's most recent novel, The Distant Marvels, was a Booklist Editors Choice pick. Her other novels include A Falling Star and Love and Ghost Letters. She is an associate professor and teaches in the MFA Program in Creative Writing at the University of Miami.

Cecilia Rodríguez Milanés is the author of two short story collections—Oye What I’m Gonna Tell You and Marielitos, Balseros and Other Exiles, as well as Everyday Chica, the 2010 Longleaf Press Poetry Prize winner. She teaches literature and fiction in the MFA program at the University of Central Florida.

Pablo Cartaya is the author of the forthcoming novels, The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora and Marcus Vega Doesn’t Speak Spanish, and a contributor to a 2016 anthology about Latino authors. Pablo directs the Escribe Aquí/Write Here literature festival at The Betsy-South Beach and is MFA faculty at SNC Tahoe.

Hana Alharastani is an MFA student specializing in fiction at the University of Central Florida. She is the assistant fiction editor and social media coordinator at the Florida Review.

Ana Menéndez is the author of four books of fiction: In Cuba I Was a German Shepherd, Loving Che, The Last War, and Adios, Happy Homeland! For eighteen years, Ana worked as a journalist in the United States and abroad, lastly as a prizewinning columnist for The Miami Herald. She has lived in New Delhi, Istanbul, Cairo, Amsterdam, and Maastricht, where she recently developed a creative writing minor for Maastricht University.