Lan Samantha Chang’s new novel, The Family Chao, will be published by W.W. Norton in February, 2022. Her other works include Hunger, Inheritance, and All Is Forgotten, Nothing Is Lost. The recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, she is director of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop at the University of Iowa.

Faith Adiele is author of two memoirs, including Meeting Faith, an account of becoming Thailand’s first Black Buddhist nun that won a PEN Award, and co-editor of Coming of Age Around the World: A Multicultural Anthology. Media credits include My Journey Home, a PBS documentary about her search to find her father and siblings, Sleep Stories for the Calm meditation app, and A World of Calm, a new series from Calm and HBO. Named as one of Marie Claire Magazine’s “Five Women to Learn From,” Faith resides in Oakland, California and teaches around the world.

Mark Wunderlich is the author of four books of poems, the most recent of which is God of Nothingness, published by Graywolf Press in 2021. His other books include The Earth Avails, which received the Rilke Prize, Voluntary Servitude, and The Anchorage, which received the Lambda Literary Award. His poems, essays, reviews and interviews have appeared in the New Yorker, The Nation The New Republic, The Paris Reivew, The New York Times Magazine, and elsewhere, and his poems have been widely anthologized.  He is the director of the Bennington Writing Seminars graduate writing program, and lives in New York’s Hudson Valley.

Coburn Dukehart is the digital and multimedia director for the Wisconsin Center for Journalism, a non-profit news organization based in Madison, Wisconsin. Dukehart previously was a senior photo editor at National Geographic, the picture and multimedia editor at NPR, a photo editor at USATODAY.com and washingtonpost.com, and interned in the White House photo department. She has received awards from the National Press Photographers Association, Pictures of the Year International and the White House News Photographers Association. Her multimedia and photography work has been honored with a Webby, a Gracie, a Murrow, a duPont, and Milwaukee Press Club awards, and she was nominated for a national Emmy.