Jamaica Baldwin is the author of the poetry collection, Bone Language, was published by YesYes Books in June 2023. Her work has appeared, or is forthcoming, in Guernica, World Literature Today, Ploughshares, Prairie Schooner, Poetry Northwest, and The Missouri Review. She is the recipient of a 2023 Pushcart Prize, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, a RHINO Poetry editor's prize, a Glenna Luschei Prairie Schooner Award, as well as the San Miguel de Allende Writers Conference Contest Poetry Award. Her writing has been supported by Aspen Words, Storyknife, Hedgebrook, Furious Flower, and the Jack Straw Writers program. Of Baldwin’s debut collection, Kwame Dawes said this: “It contains a lament for the inadequacy of dreams in our world. Yet hope is found in her beautiful writing and deeply sophisticated thinking. Her language is spare and her many voices communicate with an arresting strangeness that is at once elegant and disquieting. … a fully-formed and extremely important poet.”

Farah Peterson is an essayist and poet. Her essays have appeared in Ploughshares, The American Scholar, The Threepenny Review, and The Atlantic and her work has been collected in The Best American Magazine Writing. Her nonfiction, including personal essays, art criticism, and social commentary, has appeared or is forthcoming in Ploughshares, The American Scholar, The Best American Magazine Writing, The Threepenny Review, and The Atlantic. Her works were selected as Notable Essays in the Best American Essays in 2018 and 2022, and she was a finalist for a National Magazine Award in 2021. Her scholarship on statutory interpretation and constitutional law has appeared in the Yale Law Journal, Columbia Law Review, and the Virginia Law Review.

Jamella Hagen is the author of the poetry collection, Kerosene, published by Nightwood Editions. In addition to Alaska Quarterly Review her poems have been published in Canadian Literature, The Globe and Mail, Ploughshares, Arc, Event and The Malahat Review as well as in the anthologies Unfurled: Collected Poetry from Northern BC Women: New and Selected Poems and The Best Canadian Poetry in English. Her work has won The Fiddlehead’s Ralph Gustafson Poetry Prize. A Canadian, Jamella lives on the traditional territory of the Kwanlin Dün First Nation and the Ta’an Kwäch’än Council in Whitehorse, Yukon, Canada. Of her collection, Harbor Publishing observed: "Hagen has mastered the trick of animating fleeting moments with an elegant touch that evokes both familiarity and wonder."