Vikas K. Menon is a poet and playwright whose poems have appeared or are forthcoming in publications such as burntdistrict, diode, The Literary Review, and the New Delta Review. His poetry manuscript godflesh was a finalist for the 2010 Kinereth Gensler Award and semifinalist for the Beatrice Hawley award, both from Alice James Books. His poetry has been featured in Indivisible: An Anthology of South Asian American Poetry and is forthcoming in The HarperCollins Book of English Poetry by Indians. He is a board member of Kundiman, the first organization of its kind dedicated to supporting Asian-American poetry and is the Resident Playwright of Ruffled Feathers Theater company. He received his M.F.A (Poetry) from Brooklyn College and his M.A. in Literature from St. Louis University.

Pos L. Moua is a Hmong American writer, editor, English teacher at Merced College, and Hmong/English teacher at Merced High School. He and his family live in Merced, California. He has written several short poems about his childhood experience during the Vietnam War and about living in and around the Central Valley region. His chapbook, published by Swan Scythe Press, Towards the World Where the Torches Are Burning, gives “an account of love and family and identity in the poet's new land.” Additionally, his work has been included in How Do I Begin?: A Hmong American Literary Anthology (Heyday Books, 2010); Tilting the Continent: Southeast Asian American Writing (New Rivers Press); the UC Davis Poetry Review; and Sacramento's Poetry Now.