Paula Mendoza earned her MFA at the University of Michigan, and her Ph.D. at the University of Utah. Her work has appeared in Hayden's Ferry Review, Bennington Review, Seneca Review, and elsewhere. Her first book, Play for Time, was selected by Vijay Seshadri as the winner of the 2019 Gaudy Boy Poetry Book Prize. She is a Filipino-Canadian and lives and writes in Salt Lake City.

Rajiv Mohabir is an Indo-Caribbean American author of three acclaimed poetry collections, The Taxidermist’s Cut, Cowherd’s Son, and Cutlish (Four Way Books, 2021), which was a finalist for the 2021 National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry and longlisted for the PEN/Voelcker Award in Poetry. He is also the author of the hybrid memoir Antiman (Restless Books, 2021), finalist for the 2022 PEN Open Book Award and a 2022 Lambda Literary Awards Finalist in Gay Memoir/Biography.