Jina DuVernay is a librarian, archivist, and freelance writer. DuVernay has published several articles and book chapters that center around archives and librarianship. The California native currently resides in Atlanta, Georgia where she is pursuing a PhD in Humanities at Clark Atlanta University. You can find her on most platforms @jinaduvernay.

Sonia Alejandra Rodríguez (she/they) is an associate professor in the English Department at LaGuardia Community College, CUNY, where they teach composition, literature, and creative writing. They are a 2021 Mellon/ACLS Community College Faculty Fellow.  Sonia Alejandra received a Ph.D. in English from the Department of English at the University of California, Riverside. They have published fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction.

Sahar Delijani was born in Tehran, Iran in 1983 and migrated to California in 1996, where she graduated from the University of California, Berkeley in Comparative Literature. In 2006, she moved to Turin, Italy where she lived for over ten years and wrote her debut novel, CHILDREN OF THE JACARANDA TREE. Published in 2013, the novel has been translated into 30 languages and published in more than 75 countries. She currently lives in New York City, working on her second novel.

Kanwalroop (KUH-vl-roop) Kaur Singh is an attorney, emerging legal scholar, and writer. She has represented indigent people in the criminal justice system, defended asylum seekers in immigrant detention, and worked on high impact civil rights investigations and litigation. As a Punjabi Sikh daughter of immigrants and the first in her family to become a lawyer, her legal advocacy and written work is informed by her experiences growing up as a Sikh, post 9/11, in the United States. Her work has been published in Asian American Writers Workshop, Sikh Formations: Religion, Culture, Theory, and the UCLA Law Review.

Abbey Khambule lives in Johannesburg, South Africa. His work has appeared in Isele Magazine, Jalada Africa, Kalahari Review, Litro Magazine, New Coin, New Contrast, The Johannesburg Review of Books, The Pomegranate London, and elsewhere.

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