Allison Adelle Hedge Coke descends from moundbuilders and is of Cherokee, Creek, Huron, Metis, French Canadian, Lorraine, Portuguese, Irish, English, and Scot ascendants. Raised in North Carolina, the Plains and Canada, she previously worked horses, fields, waters, and factories. A fellow of the Weymouth Center for the Arts & Humanities, Black Earth Institute (emeritus), Salon Ada, and The Center for Great Plains Institute.

Brandy Nalani McDougall is a poet of Hawaiian, Chinese and Scottish descent from the island of Maui. An award-winning poet, she has published in journals and anthologies throughout Hawai'i, the continental U.S. and the Pacific. Her first collection will be released in 2008. She is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in English from the University of Hawai'i at Manoa.

Craig is a Professor in the English Department at the University of Hawai?i, Manoa, where he teaches creative writing, eco-poetry, and Pacific literature. He is affiliate faculty with the Center for Pacific Islands Studies and the Indigenous Politics Program. He was the Director of the Creative Program (2014-2016 and 2019-2020) and the Chair of the Hawaiian, Asian, and Pacific Islander Board in the Office of General Education (2019-2020).

Kisha Borja-Quichocho-Calvo is a Chamoru writer, educator, activist, and mother from the village of Mangilao on the island of Guåhan, in the Mariana Islands. She is currently a PhD student in the Political Science graduate program (with a specialization in Indigenous Politics) at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa. Kisha's creative, academic, and community work are inspired by her Chamoru culture and history, local politics, motherhood, and the love for her home(is)land.

Dr. Jamaica Heolimeleikalani Osorio is a Kanaka Maoli wahine poet / activist / scholar born and raised in Palolo Valley to parents Jonathan and Mary Osorio. Heoli earned her PhD in English (Hawai'ian literature) with the completion of her dissertation entitled: "(Re)membering 'Upena of Intimacies: A Kanaka Maoli Mo'olelo Beyond Queer Theory." Currently, Heoli is an Assistant Professor of Indigenous and Native Hawai'ian Politics at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa. Heoli is a three-time national poetry champion, poetry mentor and a published author.

Tagi Qolouvaki was born and raised in Fiji, which is her home, and has lived in Utah, Nebraska, and California on the continent; currently, she lives with her love in Hawai'i. Her poetry has been published in Mauri Ola: Contemporary Polynesian Poems in English, The Yellow Medicine Review, VASU: Pacific Women of Power, and Ika Journal. Her art has been exhibited in Diasporadic 679 in Otahuhu, South Auckland, Aotearoa/New Zealand, and Down on the Sidewalk in Waikiki in Hawai'i.

No'u Revilla is a queer Indigenous poet and educator of Hawai'ian and Tahitian descent. Born and raised on the island of Maui, she has performed throughout Hawai'i as well as in Canada, Papua New Guinea, and at the United Nations. Her work has been published in Literary Hub, Poetry, Black Renaissance Noire, The Missing Slate, and Poem of the Week by Kore Press. She is currently finishing her Ph.D. in creative writing at the University of Hawai'i-Manoa.