Eden Julia Sugay is a writer and editor based in Oakland. They hold a BA in Creative Writing from Mills College and MFA in Writing from University of San Francisco. Their work has been supported by Berkeley Poetry Festival, The Writers Grotto, Folkways Press, Four Leaf Collective, Kissing Dynamite, and The Walrus. They were a finalist in Foglifter Press and Still Here San Francisco’s 2026 Start a Riot! Poetry Chapbook Prize. Their work is forthcoming in Foglifter Press and Destapled Literary Magazine.

Christine Phan is a storyteller, craft girl, and community researcher. She’s a second-generation Vietnamese American from Tacoma, Washington and the Bay Area — and mostly writes about some variety of intersections of those experiences and identities. 

Danielle Shi is a Chinese-born writer and photographer. She studied English and creative writing at UC Berkeley before pursuing a Master’s in the Humanities at the University of Chicago. Her work on Asian America has received support from The Ruby, Winslow House Project, PLAYA Summer Lake, and the Prelinger Library, and has been nominated for the PEN/Robert J. Dau Prize and Best New Poets. She writes for zyzzyva.

Ashley Sojin Kim’s poems appear in 32 Poems, Literary Matters, Gulf Coast, Nimrod, Raleigh Review, and elsewhere. Her work has received support from Kundiman, the Napa Valley Writers’ Conference, Kearny Street Workshop, and the Vermont Studio Center. She lives in San Francisco and is working on her first full-length poetry collection. You can find her at ashleysojin.com. 

Isabel Li is a Chinese-Kiwi painter, writer, and creativity researcher from the beaches of Tāmaki Makaurau. After studying computer science, creative writing, and new media at UC Berkeley, they have mostly been documenting the dog breeds at Alamo and heaving against Chinatown inclines. Some of their recent work can be found at The New River, Seventh Wave, and QueerAF. 

Nisa Khan is a journalist based in San Francisco. She has contributed to NPR, KQED, Michigan Public, the Detroit Free Press, and ProPublica. She is dedicated to producing responsible journalism that tells complex stories, ranging from criminal justice investigations to data deep dives to cultural features. Her fiction work has appeared in a limited display at the Asian Art Museum. She also loves film, fiction, pop culture, and internet rabbit holes.

Maggie Lam is a multi-genre writer based in San Francisco. She holds an MFA in Fiction from Antioch University-Los Angeles and a BA in Rhetoric from UC Berkeley. She is a recent alum of McCormack’s Writing Workshop (formerly Tin House). Her essay “We Never Needed Each Other” is forthcoming in the Rumpus. 

Alyson Sagala is a writer from San Jose, CA currently based in Mendocino County. Her writing explores the intersection of identity, desire, relationships, and connection to Land. Her background is in non-profit and international development, and she spent the last half of the 2010s living and working abroad. She is currently at work on her first novel.

Karla Myn Khine is a Filipina-Burmese writer from South Texas. She is an MFA graduate from SFSU where she was a recipient of the Daniel Langton Poetry Prize, an Academy of American Poets Award, and a Marcus Graduate Scholar. She currently resides in Oakland. Her work has appeared in Poetry Online, Driftwood Press, ANMLY, The Pinch, Sho Poetry Journal, and Radar. She is currently working on her debut poetry collection. Her poetry chapbook Quasi-metalloid is forthcoming from Diagram Press.

Lynse Cooper  is an artist whose work concentrates on themes of death & grief, decay & preservation, loss, isolation, and memory. Her practice is often a way to honor, revere, or memorialize those most important to her. She primarily works in photography, but is venturing into writing as a means to expand her practice. Her photography has been shown at Root Division, Slash Art, The Berkeley Art Center, and SF Camerawork.

She is currently based in San Francisco

Elise Liu is an immigrant third-culture kid poet, writer, and interaction artist from the model-minority-to-corporate-gristmill pipeline. Among other places, her work has been curated by Rattle, The Found Poetry Review, Thought Catalog, The Millions, and digital trashcans around the world, and has been supported by Bread Loaf, the Writers Grotto, Decentered Arts, and her tech job in artificial intelligence. Elise holds a BA from Harvard and is pursuing her MFA in fiction at Warren Wilson. You can find more of her work at eliseliu.com.