Ximena Izquierdo Ugaz is a multimedia artist, curator, and educator born in Lima, Perú. Her work primarily touches on the imprint of inter-generational trauma within her own family in relationship to place and migration. She is the visual arts co-curator at Nat. Brut and co-curator of Brooklyn QTPOC reading series Maracuyá-Peach. Izquierdo Ugaz comes from a family of seamsters and has her own hand embroidery business and collection; Beso de Moza. In addition, Izquierdo Ugaz is the author of the self-published Standing in the Bathroom in the Dark Thinking About Green and El Mismo Pozo/The Same Well. Her work has appeared in FEELINGS and her first chapbook is titled Estoy Tristeza (No, Dear Magazine & Small Anchor Press, 2018). You can follow her @huacatayy and find out more at www.ximenaximena.com.

Katy Bohinc grew up in the outskirts of Cleveland and graduated from Georgetown University with degrees in pure mathematics and comparative literature, leaving her studies for a time to work in Beijing with the Chinese Urgent Action Working Group, a human rights organization. Since 2013 she has collaborated with Lee Ann Brown in directing Tender Buttons Press, a distinguished publisher of experimental women’s poetry for which she edited Tender Omnibus: The First Twenty-Five Years of Tender Buttons Press (2015) and Please Add To This List: A Guide To Teaching Bernadette Mayer's Sonnets and Experiments (2014). Bohinc is the author of Dear Alain (Tender Buttons, 2014), letters to the French philosopher Alain Badiou about poetry, philosophy, and love; Trinity Star Trinity (Scarlet Imprint, 2017), a book of poems about the divine feminine; and Scorpio (Miami University Press, 2018). She lives in New York City, where she works as a data scientist and marketer.

Mexican born Ratna Dakini Mariana is a poet, teacher, artist, and Buddhist yogini. She has been living for the past 3 years in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico where she has been guiding  Hatha Yoga and meditation classes to expats, and Mexican young male prisoners. Besides her writing and her service as a yogi, she is also a fluid artist and a mover sharing her practice through improv dance performances and intuitive drawing.  Her main topics of concern are the exploration of the nature of the mind from a Buddhist perspective, love relationships, and the contemplation of nature. All her writing is based in a profound love for life, and a commitment to honesty and simplicity. Since the publication of her book bird yes she has offered extensive poetry readings in San Miguel de Allende, Cholula, Puebla City, and Mexico City.  She also presented a solo poetry & drawing solo show named 'pointing at the moon' in San Miguel de Allende, and is writing poems to be published in a second book.