Racquel Goodison has been a resident at various colonies, including Yaddo and the Saltonstall Arts Colony. She has been awarded an Astraea Emerging Lesbian Writer’s Grant and a scholarship to the Fine Arts Works Center. Her chapbook, Skin, is the winner of the 2013-14 Creative Justice Press Fiction Chapbook Competition. Follow her on Twitter @racquelgoodison.

Naomi Jackson is author of The Star Side of Bird Hill, published by Penguin Press in June 2015. She graduated from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, and lives in Brooklyn. Follow her @thenaomijackson or via her site.

Jacqueline Johnson, is a multi-disciplined artist creating in both writing and fiber arts. She is the author of "A Gathering of Mother Tongues" published by White Pine Press and is the winner of the Third Annual White Pine Press Poetry Award. She is a graduate of New York University and the City University of New York. Ms. Johnson is at work on several new projects: a novel “The Privilege of Memory” and a poetry book "A Woman’s Season." A native of Philadelphia, PA. an upSouth, Geechee woman, she resides in Brooklyn, New York.