Janice Gould was Koyoonk'auwi (Concow). She published four books of poetry and has been anthologized widely. Her scholarly work includes personal essays and an edited book on contemporary American Indian poetry.

Jennifer Elise Foerster, author of three books of poetry, teaches at the Rainier Writing Workshop and the Institute of American Indian Arts. A Mvskoke citizen, she lives in San Francisco.

Deborah A. Miranda (Ohlone-Costanoan Esselen Nation/Santa Ynez Chumash ancestry), author of Bad Indians: A Tribal Memoir and four poetry collections, is currently finishing an essay collection about the Rumsen elder Isabel Meadows.

Kim Shuck is the seventh poet laureate emerita of San Francisco and a visual artist. She is solo author of nine books and chapbooks and is a citizen of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma. Her most recent book is Pick a Garnet to Sleep In.

Lisa Tatonetti is a Coffman University Distinguished Teaching Scholar at Kansas State University and co-founder of the Kansas Land Treaties Project. Her most recent book is Written by the Body:Gender Expansiveness and Indigenous Non-cis Masculinities.

Marie-Elise Wheatwind has published poetry, interviews, articles, and flash prose in journals, magazines, and periodicals. She has been awarded a PEN Syndicated Fiction prize and Oregon Literary Arts Fiction Fellowship. She lives in Portland, Oregon.