Alexander Weinstein is the founder and Director of the Martha's Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing and the author of the short story collections, Universal Love and Children of the New World, which was chosen as a New York Times Notable Book of the Year, and a best book of the year by NPR and Electric Literature. His fiction has appeared in Best American Science Fiction & Fantasy and Best American Experimental Writing. His short story, "Saying Goodbye to Yang," was adapted as the film After Yang by A24 Films, and was the recipient of the Alfred P. Sloan Prize at Sundance, the Boston Society of Film Critics Award, and Barack Obama's Best Films of 2022.

Kristina Marie Darling is a poet, essayist, and critic. She holds a doctorate from the Poetics Program at S.U.N.Y.- Buffalo, as well as terminal degrees in writing from Columbia University in the City of New York and New York University’s Paris Writing Program. A former Visiting Scholar at the University of Cambridge, Dr. Darling is the author of forty books, which include Look to Your Left: A Feminist Poetics of Spectacle; Stylistic Innovation, Conscious Experience, and the Self in Modernist Women’s Poetry; Collaborative Poetry in the New Century; Silence in Contemporary Poetry; Silent Refusal: Essays on Contemporary Feminist Writing; Daylight Has Already Come: Selected Poems 2014 – 2020; Angel of the North; two career retrospectives; Je Suis L’Autre: Essays & Interrogations, which launched from C&R Press and was named one of the “Best Books of 2017” by The Brooklyn Rail; and DARK HORSE: Poems, which received a starred review in Publishers Weekly.

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