Khadijah Queen is author of six books, including I'm So Fine: A List of Famous Men & What I Had On, praised in O Magazine, The New Yorker, Rain Taxi, and elsewhere as "quietly devastating," and "a portrait of defiance that turns the male gaze inside out." An essay about the pandemic, "False Dawn," appears in Harper's magazine. Her latest book, Anodyne, won the William Carlos Williams Award for poetry. She holds a PhD in English from the University of Denver.

K. Ibura is a writer, editor, and artist from New Orleans--the original home of the Chitimacha Tribe. She writes essays about identity and gender, and fantastical fiction about ancient histories and future imaginings. She is author of two speculative fiction collections--Ancient, Ancient, winner of the James Tiptree Award, and When the World Wounds--and a novel for children When the World Turns Upside Down. Her ebooks examine the emotional underpinnings of the writing life. Learn more about her at kiburabooks.com and kibura.com.