Rutendo Chidzodzo is a writer from Harare, Zimbabwe.

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.

George Kevin Jordan is a writer and artist based in Washington, D.C. He is the author of two novels, That Moment When (2006) and Hopeless (2007), and holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Antioch University.

Kivel Carson is a storyteller, daydreamer, and organizer whose fiction is concerned with Black life, labor, and empire.

Thea is a writer working on her first novel.

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.

Omaria Sanchez Pratt Omaria Pratt (they/them) is a Black trans writer from North Carolina. They hold an M.F.A. from the University of Kentucky where they were a recipient of the 2018 Nikky Finney Fellowship. They have received fellowships from Periplus Mentorship Collective, Kimbilio for Black Fiction, Lambda Literary,  Roots. Wounds. Words. and the Hurston/Wright Foundation. Their work can be found in Taint Taint Taint Magazine, StoryMagazine issue 9, and the Anthology of Appalachian Writers–VolumeXII, where they were nominated for a Pushcart Prize.

Mary unearths characters’ footsteps and voices to bring collective fulfillment to as many ancestors and contemporaries as her daily 4 a.m. rising allows.

JM Holmes is a father of two, whose family was displaced by the Eaton Canyon Fire in LA. He used to write for TV but now organizes full time with the All African People’s Revolutionary Party and Black Men Build. He has an old collection of stories with Little, Brown and a forthcoming debut novel from Common Notions Press.

Jason Harris is a Baltimore based writer, futurist and educational technologist.