Patricia Colleen Murphy is the winner of the 2019 Press 53 Poetry Prize for Bully Love, and the 2016 May Swenson Poetry Award for Hemming Flames. She founded Superstition Review and teaches at Arizona State University.

A graduate of ASU’s MFA in creative writing program, Laura Cruser teaches composition, fiction, and business writing at ASU. Cruser's writing has appeared in Arts & Letters, The Greensboro Review, and other publications.

Rosemarie Dombrowski is the inaugural Poet Laureate of Phoenix, AZ, the founding director of Revisionary Arts, and the founding editor of rinky dink press, The Revolution (Relaunch), and ISSUED: stories of service.

Jenny Irish is the author of the collections Common Ancestor, I Am Faithful, and Tooth Box.

Bender is a first-year composition instructor at ASU.

Rachel Andoga is a poet from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in journals including Indiana Review, The Citron Review, Third Coast, Sundog Lit, and Arcadia.