Sam Cha was born in Korea. He earned his MFA in poetry at UMass Boston, and has published widely as a poet, essayist, and translator. Sam is the author of a chapbook, American Carnage (Portable Press @ Yo-Yo Labs), and a full length collection, The Yellow Book, forthcoming from [PANK] Books. He lives, writes, and works in Cambridge, MA.

Poupeh Missaghi is a writer, a translator both into and out of Persian, and an educator. Her debut novel trans(re)lating house one was published by Coffee House Press in 2020. Her nonfiction, fiction, and translations have appeared in numerous journals, and she has several books of translation published in Iran. She is currently a faculty at the Department of Writing at the Pratt Institute, Brooklyn.

Eboni J Dunbar (She/her) is a queer, black woman who writes queer and black speculative fiction. She lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with her partner. She received her BA from Macalester College in English and her MFA in Creative Writing from Mills College. She is a VONA Alum, a former associate editor for PodCastle, a managing editor for FIYAH Literary Magazine, and a freelance reviewer.

Her work can be found in FIYAH Literary Magazine, Drabblecast, Anathema: Spec from the margins and Nightlight Podcast. She also has a novella out now from Neon Hemlock, order here.

Audra Puchalski is a queer dabbler and an ex-Catholic quasi-witch living in Oakland, California. She is the author of a chapbook about how gay the saints are, and some zines. She also enjoys taking walks, putting stickers on things, and playing with rhinestones on Zoom.