Tung-Hui Hu is the author of three books of poetry, most recently Greenhouses, Lighthouses (Copper Canyon Press, 2013), and two critical studies, A Prehistory of the Cloud (2015) and Digital Lethargy (2022), both from MIT Press. He is a NEA fellow, a Rome Prize winner, and associate professor of English at the University of Michigan. 

Nihal Osama is a Sudanese-American writer, educator, and performer whose work centers themes of identity, displacement, and Sudanese traditions. Nihal’s short fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction have appeared in Solidago, The Gordian Review, Copper Nickel, Mizna, Arkana, Qafiyah Review, midnight & indigo, and elsewhere.

Ellis Diep is a writer and creative from Houston, Texas. He holds a BA in English from the University of Houston and was a Rowan intern for Grackle and Grackle Literary Enterprises. A jack of trades, he seeks to find a story in anything. His poems can be found on allpoetry/EED.

Vannida S. Kol is a Khmer-American poet based in Texas. As a second-generation immigrant and eldest daughter of refugees, her writing navigates and merges Khmer diaspora culture with Buddhist metaphysicality. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in The Margins, Shō Poetry Journal, and The Rising Phoenix Review, among others.

Kol is an MFA candidate at Randolph College. She holds a BA in English, a Creative Writing Certificate in Poetry, and a Minor in Religious Studies from the University of Texas at Austin. She was a member of the Winter 2024 SEA Change Lab cohort, and has received fellowships from the Sundress Academy for the Arts and the Vermont Studio Center. She is the 2025 recipient of the University & College Prize for Randolph College from the Academy of American Poets.

Kol is an editorial board member of Revolute Literary Magazine (Lynchburg, VA) and Yanaguana (San Antonio, TX). She currently works in Supplemental Instruction as a Professional Writing Tutor at Northwest Vista College. She divides her time between Texas and Cambodia, her two motherlands.