Alyss Dixson is an award winning writer-producer. She studied comparative literature at Yale, film at Columbia University, and creative writing at SFSU. She won the Joseph Henry Jackson award, fellowships from Cave Canem Foundation and Callaloo Workshop, and she has been published in Callaloo, Day One, and the Atlantic.

Jacqueline Jones LaMon is the author of two collections, Last Seen, a Felix Pollak Poetry Prize selection, and Gravity, U.S.A., recipient of the Quercus Review Press Poetry Series Book Award; and the novel, In the Arms of One Who Loves Me. She teaches at Adelphi University.

Sanderia Faye is a PhD student at the University of North Texas. She received an MFA in creative writing/fiction from Arizona State University, Mourner's Bench, a novel, and she is the cofounder of Kimbilio.