Jason R. Chun is a Chinese American writer whose fiction has appeared in The Cincinnati Review and The Offing. He holds an MFA in fiction from The New School. He is currently working on a story collection that explores the continuity between the past and the future. He can be found on Bluesky: @searchlightsoul.bsky.social

Rebecca Duras is a Croatian-American writer based between Zagreb, Croatia, and Niš, Serbia. her original writing has been featured in The Counter, Women Write the Balkans, Catapult, and Barzakh. She writes about generational cycles, the memory of Yugoslavia and home (wherever that may be).

Hana Inbar is an Israeli translator and the daughter of noted Israeli writer Yossel Birstein. Robert Manaster is a writer whose work has appeared in publications like International Poetry Review, Maine Review, and Spillway. He has also published book reviews in Colorado Review, The Rumpus, and Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review. Together, Inbar and Manaster have published two books of translations with White Pine Press and Dryad Press. They’ve published numerous co-translations of Israeli poet Ortsion Bartana in publications like the Massachusetts Review, Off the Coast, Columbia Journal, and Poet Lore.

Jennifer Murvin is the author of She Says (Small Harbor Publishing), False Alarm (forthcoming 2025 GreenTower Press), and Real California Living (forthcoming 2025 Braddock Avenue Books). Her essays, stories, and graphic narratives have appeared in literary journals such as Hayden’s Ferry Review, River Styx, The Southampton Review, The Pinch, december magazine, DIAGRAM, The Florida Review, Catamaran Literary Reader, Indiana Review, CutBank, Post Road, American Short Fiction, Phoebe, The Sun, Mid-American Review, and Cincinnati Review. Jen is an Assistant Professor of English at Missouri State University, a faculty member at the Solstice Low-Residency MFA in Creative Writing at Lasell University, and a faculty leader for the nonprofit community writing workshop River Pretty Writers Retreat. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Pacific University. Jen is also the owner of the indie bookstore Pagination Bookshop in Springfield, MO. Find more at https://www.jennifermurvin.com/.

Maja Solar is a poet, editor, and translator who is from Zagreb, Croatia, and is currently based in Novi Sad, Serbia. She has published three collections of poetry and authored over 40 texts on social theory. Solar has a PhD in philosophy, and her research interests include Marxism, theories of labor and luxury, and the history of socialism. Solar is the host of a podcast called “Mouthful of Poetry” and serves as an editor for Stvar, a philosophical magazine.

Ronny Someck is an Iraqi-born Israeli who has published over 15 volumes of poetry. His work has been translated into over 40 languages. Someck is the recipient of numerous literary accolades and recognitions, including the Hans Berghuis Prize for Poetry and the French Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters.