Christine No is a Korean American poet, filmmaker and daughter of immigrants. She is a Sundance Alum, VONA Fellow, two-time Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net Nominee. Christine is interested in the power of storytelling at the intersection of health, healing and community. Her first full length poetry collection “Whatever Love Means” is available via Barrelhouse Books. You can find her on the internet at @iamchristineno

antmen pimentel mendoza (he + she) is a writer currently based in Oakland, CA. His poetry is published in Cosmonauts Avenue, Underblong, and Lantern Review and is anthologized in Peach Mag’s Worlds In Which: Speculative Mix. Nomadic Press will publish her debut chapbook, MY BOYFRIEND APOCALYPSE, in 2023.

Keana Aguila Labra (they/she) is a Cebuana Tagalog Pilipinx poet. She works to provide a safe space for underserved & underrepresented communities as the co-Editor-in-Chief of literary magazine, Marias at Sampaguitas & co-Founder of the BIPOC/LGBTQIA+ focused publishing press, Sampaguita Press. She served as one of the Honorary Santa Clara County Poets Laureate in Oct. '21 alongside Lorenz Mazon Dumuk.

Diana Fu is a playwright, essayist, and Pushcart-nominated poet. Her work has been published in Spark: A Creative Anthology, Yemassee, and Sky Island Journal, and more. She has written, produced, and co-directed an original play about gentrification in Oakland, California’s Chinatown titled "Tears at the Margins". Diana is a passionate advocate for environmental justice and equitable access to the arts.

Susan Calvillo is a Chinese/Mexican-American mother of 2020 twins and the author of Excerpts From My Grocery List (Beard of Bees). Her short works have appeared in Nightmare Magazine, Parenting Stories Gone Speculative, Zyzzyva, New American Writing, West Wind Review, and other charming magazines. Keep reading at susancalvillo.com, follow on TikTok @thatbeardlessbard, or simply watch her eat cake and plant cacti on Instagram @susan_calvillo.

Aaron Fai (""fay"") / 費頌倫 is a graduate of the creative writing programs at UCLA, UC Davis, and the University of Oregon, and he serves as associate editor of Grand Journal. A first-generation queer Hong Kong Chinese-American, he lives in Davis, CA, and works at the Consortium of Humanities Centers and Institutes and the Dean’s Office of Arts & Humanities at UC Berkeley.

The daughter of Chinese immigrants, Jen Soong grew up in New Jersey and now lives in Northern California. An alum of Tin House and VONA, her writing has appeared in The Washington Post, The Audacity, Jellyfish Review, Cosmonauts Avenue and Waxwing. She received her MFA in creative writing from UC Davis. Her memoir-in-progress is a reckoning of myths and migration.