James Reich is the author of five novels: Soft Invasions, Mistah Kurtz! A Prelude to Heart of Darkness, Bombshell, I, Judas, and The Songs My Enemies Sing. A regular contributor to Deep Ends: The J.G. Ballard Anthology, his work has also appeared in numerous international magazines. He is the founder and publishing editor of Stalking Horse Press, and a professor of philosophy and literature in Santa Fe. Born in England in 1971, he has been a resident of the US since 2009.
Barbara Robidoux is the author of the poetry collections Waiting for Rain, Migrant Moon, and The Storm Left No Flowers, the short story collection Sweetgrass Burning: Stories from the Rez, and the novella The Legacy of Lucy Little Bear. Her fiction has appeared in Denver Quarterly, Santa Fe Literary Review, and numerous anthologies. She holds an MFA in creative writing from the Institute of American Indian Arts. She lives in Santa Fe, where she is at work on a forthcoming book of poetry and stories.
Miriam Sagan is the author of thirty published books including the noir novel Black Rainbow and Geographic: A Memoir of Time and Space, which won the 2016 New Mexico — Arizona Book Award in Poetry. She founded and headed the creative writing program at Santa Fe Community College until her retirement in 2016.
Hida Viloria is a first-generation Latinx writer, author, and vanguard intersex and non-binary activist. S/he is a frequent op-ed contributor (the Daily Beast, the Huffington Post, the Advocate, Ms., CNN.com), consultant (Lambda Legal, UN, Williams Institute), and television and radio guest (NPR, BBC, The Oprah Winfrey Show, Al Jazeera, 20/20). He/r first book, Born Both: An Intersex Life, was nominated for a 2018 Lambda Literary Award and has been translated into German.
Candace Walsh is the author of the New Mexico — Arizona Book Award — winning Licking the Spoon: A Memoir of Food, Family, and Identity. She coedited Dear John: I Love Jane: Women Write about Leaving Men for Women and its sequel. She is the editor in chief of El Palacio magazine. Her essays have been published in Cactus Heart, Into, CRAFT Literary, and in various anthologies. She holds an MFA in fiction from Warren Wilson College.
Darryl Lorenzo Wellington is a poet, essayist, journalist, and performance artist. He initially became engaged by the plight of the homeless while participating in the Occupy Wall Street movement. His poetry, fiction, essays, and news reports have appeared in the Nation, the Washington Post, the Progressive, the Huffington Post, and Blood Tree Literature. His poetry chapbook Life’s Prisoners received the 2017 Turtle Island Quarterly Poetry Chapbook Award. He lives in Santa Fe.