Rachelle Cruz is from Hayward, CA. She's a part of the Kundiman, Emerging Voices, VONA and MMIX Los Angeles writing communities. She lives in Riverside.

Oliver de la Paz is the author of three books of poetry: Names Above Houses, Furious Lullaby, and Requiem for the Orchard. He is the co-editor of the forthcoming anthology, A Face to Meet the Faces: an Anthology of Persona Poems (University of Akron Press, 2012). He is the co-chair of the Kundiman advisory board and he teaches creative writing at Western Washington University.

Clara Changxin Fang has been been published in Permafrost, Runes, Adirondack Review, Cream City Review, Pebble Lake Review, Meridian Anthology of Contemporary Poetry, and Whistling Shade, among others. She received an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Utah. She lives in Albany, New York.

Kathleen Hellen is a poet and the author of The Girl Who Loved Mothra (Finishing Line Press, 2010). Her work has appeared in Barrow Street; Cimarron Review; the Cortland Review; The Evansville Review; the Hollins Critic; In Posse Review; Prairie Schooner; RHINO; Subtropics; among others; and on WYPR’s “The Signal.” Awards include the Washington Square Review, James Still and Thomas Merton poetry prizes, as well as individual artist grants from the state of Maryland and Baltimore City. She is a contributing poetry editor for The Baltimore Review.