Briana Gwin embraces multitudes as a queer, neurodiverse, Afro-Latina hybrid creative and multicultural Citizen. She has received fellowships from VONA, the ACES Society for Editors, Anaphora Arts, and Roots. Wounds. Words. Her words appear in Midnight & Indigo, Seventh Wave, Guernica, an anthology called “On Gaming,” and elsewhere. She currently lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota with three hairless cats and a plethora of books and houseplants.

Mai-Linh Hong is a Vietnamese American refugee poet, literary scholar, and sewist. Her poetry appears/will appear in Copper Nickel, Minnesota Review, ANMLY, Wildness, and elsewhere. Her debut collection, Continental Drift, is forthcoming. Raised in Virginia, she teaches at the University of California, Merced.

Keana Aguila Labra (they/them/she/her) is a queer Cebuana Tagalog Filipinx genre- and genderfluid/non-binary poet, editor, playwright, and writer in diaspora residing on stolen Ohlone Tamyen land. 

Vina Orden is a writer based in Lenapehoking/New York City whose work has appeared in Asian Journal, CUNY Forum, The FilAm, The Halo-Halo Review, hella pinay, Hyperallergic, and The Margins. As senior poetry editor at Slant’d magazine, Vina supports and amplifies other emerging Asian American writers. She is a 2025 VONA Poetry Residency Fellow and has received fellowships from the Asian American Writers’ Workshop, Kweli, Roots. Wounds. Words., and Tin House. She also is working on her first novel for young adults.