Daniel W.K. Lee, New Orleans-based poet, former freelance market editor, infrequent fashion stylist, product manager, and creative director

Melanie Mitzner, screenwriter, journalist, and self-proclaimed “Fruit Lady” of Provincetown

Emory Easton, memoirist and survivor of much adversity and trauma

Samuel R. Delany (known affectionately to his friends as “Chip”), educator, memoirist, essayist, and critic who has penned dozens of titles

Jules Ohman, co-founder of the non-profit Free Verse and Literary Arts Writers in the Schools program coordinator

Annie Krabbenschmidt, essayist and media project consultant

Nevo Zisin, performer, activist and public speaker based in Melbourne

Shelley Wong, award-winning poet and self-avowed Xennial

Victor Evans, entertainment journalist, educator, documentary filmmaker, and world traveler

Jesse Xander, biological anthropologist who fancies archeology and J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle Earth