Alex Stayer-Brewington was born and raised in Wilmington, North Carolina, and currently lives on Occaneechi Saponi land in present-day Durham with his wife Caroline, daughter Rowan Wilder, two dogs, and four banjos. He spends his days reading, going for walks, and serving as a pastor at Westminster Presbyterian Church and is passionate about Indigenous sovereignty, inter-tribal solidarity, healthy waterways, and prison abolition. He is a proud member of the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina.

Chika Unigwe is the author of Better Never than Late (Cassava Republic, 2020) and Night Dancer, On Black Sisters’ Street (Random House, 2012). Her work has been translated into several languages. Her stories and essays have appeared in The Guardian, the New York Times, Al Jazeera, Guernica, Kenyon Review, AGNI, and Mslexia. Born in Enugu, Nigeria, she has taught at Brown University and Emory University and is currently an assistant professor of writing at Georgia College and State University and the creative director of the Awele Creative Trust. Her next novel is forthcoming in 2023.

Suzi Ehtesham-Zadeh, an accomplished continent-hopper and culture-straddler, grew up in the Shah’s Iran, attended university in the post-Watergate United States, returned to Iran to witness the Islamic Revolution, and later spent large portions of her life in Spain. Paradoxically, her permanent home is a six-acre farm she owns in Woodstock, Georgia. A lifelong teacher, she holds a BA in philosophy from Stanford University and an MFA in creative writing from Boston University. Her work has appeared in Fiction International, Glassworks Magazine, Narrative Northeast, Mobius, Quiddity, and elsewhere.