Shelley Wong is the author of As She Appears (YesYes Books), winner of the Pamet River Prize and the Lambda Literary Award and longlisted for the National Book Award. She lives in San Francisco.

Alder Duan Hurley (he/they) is a poet based in the East Bay, on Ohlone land. They performed work in APAture 2022 as well as for Theyfriend, a nonbinary performance art festival, and at the 2022 QTAPI week celebration at the Legion of Honor. He is currently a student at SFSU in the graduate Creative Writing program.

Nicola Andrews (Māori, Pākehā) is a poet and educator living on Ramaytush Ohlone territory. Their work has been supported with workshops from VONA, SF Writer's Grotto, and The Kenyon Review. They are the winner of the 2023 AAALS Indigenous Writers Prize for Poetry, and their debut chapbook MĀORI MAID DIFFICULT will be published this year with Tram Editions.

Rowena Leong Singer was born in Manila, grew up in Los Angeles, and lives in Oakland. She has been published in Narrative Magazine, The New York Times, and KQED’s Perspectives. She won the grand prize in literary fiction for the Book Pipeline Unpublished Contest, and was a semi-finalist for the James Jones First Novel Fellowship Contest. An accidental discovery about a family secret linked to WWII led to her novel in progress set during the Japanese occupation of the Philippines.

Lucie Pereira (she/her) is a multiracial writer and educator. Her work has appeared in Honey Literary, Yes Poetry, the Aurora Journal, and Zone 3, among others. She lives in San Francisco, where she teaches at Children's After School Arts and co-hosts the reading series Kitchen Table.

Danica Li is a union lawyer based in the San Francisco Bay Area. She won the Eisner Prize in Prose as an undergraduate at UC Berkeley, the institution where she also earned her law degree. Her writing has been published in the Missouri Review, the Iowa Review, and the California Law Review, and has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize. She's currently on sabbatical from her law career and at work at completing a draft of her first novel.

K. Dulai lives in the Bay Area of California where she works in nonprofit. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in The Citron Review, Feral: A Journal of Poetry and Art, Glass: A Journal of Poetry, Pretty Owl Poetry, So to Speak, The Eastern Iowa Review, Drunk Monkeys, trampset and other publications. She is a 2022 VONA/Voices (Voices of Our Nation Arts Foundation) alum and participated in the Kenyon Review Writers Workshop for poetry in 2021. She can be found on Twitter and Instagram as @kjdulai