Cameron Carter is a fiction writer and educator from Atlanta, Georgia.

Sharon Browning, born and raised in St. Louis, MO, never imagined living in Tucson, AZ, where a river flows underground, or people wait for the monsoon to bring rainfall, or she would have to lose a staredown with a javelina to avoid it from ramming her car.

Stacia Brown is a writer and award-winning audio storyteller based in Chapel Hill, NC.

H.B. Asari is a Niger Deltan prose and poetry writer. Her work explores current and possible future climate realities, complicated familial bonds and the nuances of queer coming-of-age.

Donnetrice C. Allison, Ph. D currently serves as Professor of both Communication Studies and Africana Studies at Stockton University in Galloway, NJ.

Adesuwa Agbonile is a Nigerian-American writer and host of the Audible podcast Backlash: The Myth of Political Progress.

PK Damilare Abiodun is a Nigerian writer. He recently earned an MFA from Brown University, where he was awarded the Feldman Prize in fiction.

Jalen Giovanni Jones is a Black and Filipino writer from Los Angeles.

M Shelly Conner is an Associate Professor of creative writing at the University of Central Arkansas where she co-directs the MFA Program for Writers.