Saa’un Bell (she/her) is a Queer Black Filipino/Bisayan writer, organizer, and creator. Her writing and community organizing are deeply rooted in her Eastside Long Beach, working class, Black Southern, Pentecostal, and rural Philippine Immigrant roots.

Layhannara Tep is a daughter of Cambodian refugees. She is currently pursuing her master's in Asian American Studies at UCLA, where she is working on a collection of short stories about the Cambodian American diaspora. Layhannara enjoys stories and art in all forms. In her free time, you can find her at the movies, enjoying live music, or getting lost in a museum. Layhannara enjoys ice cream on rainy days and iced coffees in any weather. She has a growing to-be-read pile. If you see her at a bookstore, please remind her of her new year's resolution - she's not allowed to buy a new book until she finishes one she already owns. Seriously.

Angel Trazo is a visual artist and PhD student in Cultural Studies at UC Davis. She received her MA in Asian American Studies from UCLA in 2020. She is also the author and illustrator of the children's book We Are Inspiring: The Stories of 32 Inspirational Asian American Women.

Julian Parayno-Stoll (he/him) is a mixed/mestizo Pilipinx American whose writing has been or will be performed at De Anza College's virtual Euphrat Museum, Flash Fiction Forum, San José Poetry Center's Bauchhaar, and Play On Words San José. He received a BA in Philosophy from UC Santa Cruz. Raised on Kumeyaay land (San Diego), he currently resides on the unceded ancestral lands of the Tamien Ohlone people (San José, California).

Hairol Ma is a Taiwanese-American writer and editor from the Bay Area.

Joy Ding writes, acts, sings, and generally, makes a wicked fool of herself. She nurtures things invisible/emotional, concrete/edible, serious/seriously tacky. She earned a masters in creative writing at UC Davis, where she studied writing and theatre. As maybe you can tell already, she loves to combine things and see what happens.

Jiexi (jeh-shee) is a writer, poet, computer programmer born and raised in Los Angeles, based in San Francisco. Right now, she's thinking about sustainability, serendipity, and surreality. She likes wandering around the internet and through her neighborhood, meeting and dancing with strangers, and sharing languid meals with friends. <3

Dorothy R. Santos is a queer gender-nonconforming Filipinx American writer, artist, and educator whose academic and research interests include feminist media histories, critical medical anthropology, technology, race, and ethics. She is a Ph.D. candidate in Film and Digital Media at the University of California, Santa Cruz as a Eugene V. Cota-Robles fellow. Her creative writing explores queer desire, kinship, and ancestral knowledge and lineages.

Tiffany Huang is Taiwanese American and the founder of Hong Kong-based Spill Stories, an independent publisher run by Asian and Black women that has released three books and is working on a fourth. As a writer, Tiffany enjoys writing creative nonfiction. She has spent half her life in the States and half her life in Asia. In December 2020, she moved from Hong Kong to California. She lives in Los Angeles.

Keana Aguila Labra is a Cebuana-Tagalog Filipino poet based in San Jose, or stolen Ohlone Tamien land. She is the author of 2 collections, Natalie and No Saints, with her 3rd collection, Mohilak, forthcoming Sept. 2021. She is also the founder and editor-in-chief of the literary magazine, Marias at Sampaguitas.

Nureena Faruqi is a South Asian visual artist and emerging writer from North Carolina. She studied studio art at UNC-Chapel Hill and is a VONA alum. Her writing interests include creative nonfiction, poetry, and comics. She is currently creating a chapbook around anticipatory grief.

Yaminah Abdur-Rahim is a poet and essayist from Oakland California. Her essay, A Place Between Two Waters, appears in the anthology of QTPOC writers, Still Here (Foglifter, 2019). She is a Rooted and Written fellow and a past Show Us Your Spines queer archives resident with Radar Productions and the San Francisco Public Library. She is currently working on her first book of poetry.

VANESSA YEE (she/her) is a third generation Angeleno and Chinese American filmmaker and storyteller. She created the documentary feature The Laundromat to tackle issues of suicide and depression within the AAPI community and destigmatize discussions of mental health. Her current work spans fiction and non-fiction, television, graphic novels, and documentary, while continuing to focus on the narratives theme of healing from trauma.

Preeti Kaur Rajpal is a poet and grew up in California’s San Joaquin Valley. Her poems can be found in The Lantern Review, Tupelo Quarterly, and the anthology The World I Leave You: Asian American Poets on Faith and Spirit. Her first book of poems is forthcoming.