Dr. Ravi Shankar, called a "diaspora icon" by The Hindu, is a Pushcart-prize winning poet, editor, translator, professor, and most recently a memoirist, whose Correctional (University of Wisconsin Press) is a finalist for the 2022 Connecticut Book Awards. Author of more than 15 books and chapbooks, he has appeared on NPR, BBC, and PBS Newshour, been published in such places as The New York Times, The Paris Review, and The Daily Beast, won fellowships to the MacDowell Colony and the Corporation of Yaddo, and currently teaches creative writing at Tufts University and with New York Writers Workshop. 

Deedle Rodriguez-Tomlinson was born and raised in the Philippines. Her work has appeared in The Incompleteness Book and The Incompleteness Book II by the Australasian Association of Writing Programs (AAWP) about life during and after the Covid-19 lockdown. Her poems, reflecting her peripatetic life, appear in Wonderlust Travel, Silliman University Journal, as well as Tomas (University of Santo Tomas), and Live Encounters. Mom Egg Review published her short story touching on Philippine mythology. She is Project Manager for New York Writers Workshop and currently lives in Brooklyn.

Tim Tomlinson is the author of the chapbook Yolanda: An Oral History in Verse, the poetry collection, Requiem for the Tree Fort I Set on Fire, and the short story collection, This Is Not Happening to You. Recent work appears in Big City Lit, Columbia Journal, Flash Boulevard, and the anthology, Surviving Suicide: A Collection of Poems that May Save a Life. He is the director of New York Writers Workshop, and co-author of its popular text, The Portable MFA in Creative Writing. He lives in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, teaches in NYU’s Global Liberal Studies.