Christine Kandic Torres is the author of the novel, The Girls in Queens (HarperVia), which was selected for the American Library Association's 2023 Rise Feminist Booklist. Her Pushcart Prize-nominated short fiction has been published in outlets such as Wigleaf, The Offing, and Kweli, while her non-fiction has appeared in Literary Hub, Electric Literature, and The Rumpus. Christine currently lives in Fairfield, Connecticut where she is at work on her second novel.

Victoria Buitron is a writer who hails from Ecuador and resides in Connecticut. She received an MFA in creative writing from Fairfield University. Her debut memoir-in-essays, A Body Across Two Hemispheres (Woodhall Press), was the 2021 Fairfield Book Prize winner. 2023, she received the Artistic Excellence Award from the Connecticut Office of the Arts. She has been part of the team that edits the Connecticut Literary Anthology since 2023. Her debut poetry collection, Unburying the Bones, is 2025's VersoFrontera prize winner and will be published by Texas Review Press.

Frederick-Douglass Knowles II is a Professor of English at Connecticut State Community College: Three Rivers Campus. He is an Emeritus Poet Laureate of Hartford, CT. Knowles has been the recipient of the Nutmeg Poetry Award and the Connecticut of The Arts Fellow in Artist Excellence for Poetry/Creative Non-Fiction. He is a two-time Pushcart Prize nominee. Knowles is the author of BlackRoseCity and the upcoming collection Sinking in Moonlight Alone in 2026.