Catherine Lu is pursuing her MFA in poetry at the University of Houston’s Creative Writing Program, where she is the Inprint Mary Gibbs and Jesse H. Jones Fellow. Her poetry has been published in Mom Egg Review and is forthcoming in the Texas Observer. She is also an arts writer, Emmy-nominated producer, and radio/TV announcer for Houston Public Media. She has contributed to NPR and is the founder of the independent arts blog, Houston Arts Journal.

Chris Crowder is from Flint, Michigan and earned his MFA at the Helen Zell Writers’ Program at the University of Michigan. Managing Editor for The Adroit Journal, his poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in Best New Poets, The Rumpus, TriQuarterly, Shenandoah, Indiana Review, Witness, the Poetry Foundation’s VS podcast, and elsewhere.

Chankrisna Tea (she/they) is a non-binary Khmer artist from Houston, TX. She is invested in the art of sequences, poetry and comics, and her work can be found in Infrarrealista Review, Sybil, and more.

Oais is a Sudanese writer and poet hailing from southeast Houston's suburbs. She frequents the stage as a spoken word artist: exploring questions of self, love, the pursuit of God, and the ever-long need to belong. When she isn't writing a poem, Oais spends her time working the mechanisms of fiction-writing, which she considers her first calling. Her work can be found at @oaisroha (Instagram) and @oaishala (TikTok)."