Marcella Marx, a fellow at the London Library Emerging Writers Programme, holds an MFA from Birkbeck. Her fiction has been recognized by the 4thWrite Prize, the Tennessee Williams & New Orleans Literary Prize, the Berlin Writing Prize, and the New Voices Award. Her short stories are forthcoming in Queer Life, Queer Love III, and the New Voices Anthology. She is currently working on her second novel.

E. Y. Zhao is a writer and editor from St. Louis. Her work appears in Conjunctions, Electric Literature, and Chicago Review of Books, among other journals. Her debut novel, Underspin, is forthcoming with Astra House in September 2025, and she edits fiction for Joyland Magazine.

Tony Hao is a Connecticut-based Chinese-to-English literary translator and writer. Authors he has translated include Taiwanese novelist Tong Wei-Ger, Taiwanese essayist Hsieh Chih-Wei, Chinese short-story writer Ban Yu, and Chinese essayist Xiao Hai. His words have appeared or are forthcoming in Granta, The Common, The Offing, Books from Taiwan, Florescence, MAYDAY Magazine, and elsewhere

Anthony Correale is a fiction writer and essayist living in Nashville, Tennessee. His work has appeared in The Journal, Redivider, The Core Review, and elsewhere.

Woo Dayoung is a Korean author of three story collections and a novella. She has received World Literature Magazine’s New Writers Award and been a finalist for the Hyundae Munhak Award and the Hankook Ilbo literature award. 

Gabrielle Lucille Fuentes is the author of the short-story collection Are We Ever Our Own, winner of the 2022 BOA Editions Short Fiction Prize, and the novel The Sleeping World (Touchstone/Simon & Schuster, 2016). She has received fellowships from Yaddo, Hedgebrook, Willapa Bay AiR, Millay Colony for the Arts, and Blue Mountain Center. She is an associate professor at the University of Maryland. Her newest novel, a literary mystery, is forthcoming from Flatiron Books in 2026.