Emily Liebowitz's work has appeared in Lana Turner, The Iowa Review & various other journals. Her Chapbook In Any Map was recently published by The Song Cave. A graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, where she received the Alberta Kelly Prize, she has worked in arts communications for the Brooklyn Museum and the Academy of American Poets. She currently lives in Brooklyn, NY. 

David Lau has been involved in the poetry, art, and activist communities of Los Angeles and the Bay Area for the past decade. He is a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and editor of the journal Lana Turner. This is his second book after Virgil and the Mountain Cat: Poems (University of California Press, 2009).

Jibade-Khalil Huffman is an artist and the author of three books of poems, "19 Names For Our Band" (Fence, 2008), "James Brown is Dead" (Future Plan and Program, 2011) and "Sleeper Hold" (Fence, 2015). His work, spanning photography, video, performance, installation and writing has been exhibited or performed at the Hammer Museum, MoMA/PS1, and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, among others. His recent and forthcoming exhibitions include Portland Institute of Contemporary Art, The Jewish Museum, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions and The Studio Museum in Harlem. He was recently an Artist in Residence at the Studio Museum in Harlem.