Devi S. Laskar is the author of The Atlas of Reds and Blues, winner of 7th annual Crook’s Corner Book Prize (2020) for best debut novel set in the South, winner of the 2020 Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature; and among other awards, selected by The Georgia Center for the Book as a 2019 book “All Georgians Should Read.” The novel was named by The Washington Post as one of the 50 best books of 2019. Laskar's second novel, CIRCA, will be published in Spring 2022 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Laskar holds an MFA from Columbia University and an MA from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. In 2017, Finishing Line Press published two poetry chapbooks, Gas & Food, No Lodging and Anastasia Maps. A native of Chapel Hill, N.C., she now lives in California with her family.

Bio: Trinidad Escobar is a cartoonist from the Bay Area. Trinidad is a fellow of the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics, VONA, as well as the MFA Comics program at California College of the Arts. Her comics have been featured in literary journals and publications like NPR, The New Yorker, The Nib, and others. She was named one of YBCA's most influential artists of 2019 due to her comics-journalism rooted in gender and racial justice. In 2020, her comics were featured in the Eisner and Ignatz-winning anthologies Drawing Power (Abrams) and Be Gay, Do Comics! (IDW). Her comic on sexual violence against femmes will be on display at the first-ever Women in Comics exhibit in Italy in 2021. Her graphic novel Of Sea And Venom will be published by Farrar, Straus, and Giroux (Books For Young Readers) and her Queer aswang tale Tryst will be published in the Philippines by Gantala Press. She lives in Milpitas, California with her family.

Anthony Cody from Fresno, CA with lineage in both the Bracero Program and Dust Bowl. He is the author of Borderland Apocrypha (Omnidawn, April 2020), winner of the 2018 Omnidawn Open Book Contest selected by Mei-mei Berssenbrugge, a National Book Award in Poetry finalist, a PEN America / Jean Stein Book Award finalist, a LA Times Book Award in Poetry finalist, and longlisted for The Believer Magazine 2020 Editor's Award in Poetry. He is a 2020 Poets & Writers debut poet and a 2020 Southwest Book Award winner from the Border Regional Library Association. His poetry has appeared in The Academy of American Poets: Poem-A-Day Series, Gulf Coast, Ninth Letter, Prairie Schooner, TriQuarterly, The Boiler, ctrl+v journal, among others. Anthony co-edited How Do I Begin?: A Hmong American Literary Anthology. He is an MFA-Creative Writing graduate from Fresno State, where he continues to collaborate with Juan Felipe Herrera and the Laureate Lab Visual Wordist Studio. Anthony has received fellowships from CantoMundo, Community of Writers, and Desert Nights, Rising Stars Conference at Arizona State University. Anthony won the inaugural 2020 CantoMundo Guzmán Mendoza / Paredez Fellowship for his work-in-progress poetry manuscript, "The Rendering", selected by Aracelis Girmay. He serves as an associate poetry editor for Noemi Press and a poetry editor for Omnidawn. He is currently teaching Ecopoetry at Fresno State.