Anthony Cody

Anthony Cody is is the author of The Rendering and Borderland Apocrypha. For his work, he has been awarded a Whiting Award, an American Book Award, a Southwest Book Award, as well as named a Finalist for a National Book Award, a PEN/Jean Stein Book Award, and a Los Angeles Times Book Prize, among others. He was honored as a 2020 Poets & Writers debut poet. Anthony is from Fresno, California with lineage in the Bracero Program and Dust Bowl. Anthony is co-publisher of Noemi Press, a poetry editor for Omnidawn, and is currently visiting professor of poetry at Iowa’s Writers’ Workshop.

Shing Yin Khor

Shing Yin Khor is an Eisner and Ignatz Award–winning graphic novelist, IndieCade Award–winning game designer, and wooden marionette builder based in Los Angeles, CA, by way of Malacca, Malaysia. Their first full length graphic novel memoir, The American Dream? A Journey on Route 66, was one of NPR’s 2019 Best Books of the Year. Their second graphic novel, The Legend of Auntie Po was a National Book Award Finalist.

LaToya Watkins

LaToya Watkins's writing has appeared in A Public Space, The Sun, McSweeney’s, Kenyon Review, and elsewhere. She has received support for her work from The Camargo Foundation, MacDowell, Yaddo, and Hedgebrook. Her latest book is Holler, Child, which was Longlisted for the National Book Award for Fiction. 

Lacy M. Johnson

Lacy M. Johnson is a Houston-based professor, curator, activist, and is author of The Reckonings, The Other Side — both National Book Critics Circle Award finalists — and Trespasses. She is editor, with the designer Cheryl Beckett, of More City Than Water: A Houston Flood Atlas. She teaches creative nonfiction at Rice University and is the Founding Director of the Houston Flood Museum.