Kirby Moses is an 19-year old Trinidadian writer and poet who has always had a keen interest in reading, immersive storytelling and writing her own short stories and poems from as early as 4 years old. She enjoys using the art of spoken word as a form of activism particularly for women’s rights and empowerment of BIPOC. She has been performing as an international spoken word artiste since the age of 14 and is currently a Literary Teaching Artist.

Jessica Le is an undergraduate student at Western University. Her work has been published or is forthcoming in Watch Your Head: Writers & Artists Respond to the Climate Crisis (Coach House Books, 2020), The Rumpus, Cold Strawberry Collective’s Alt Mag, and elsewhere. Her chapbook, The Nearest Sweetest Thing (Anstruther Press) is forthcoming in Fall 2021. She lives in Ottawa.

Born in Tokyo, half Japanese, Kathleen Hellen (she/her/hers) has won prizes from the Maryland State Arts Council, the Baltimore Office of Promotion & the Arts, as well as the H.O.W. Journal, Washington Square Review, and Washington Writers’ Publishing House for her collection Umberto’s Night. Hellen’s poems have appeared in Barrow Street, The Carolina Quarterly, Colorado Review, jubilat, New American Writing, New Letters, North American Review, Prairie Schooner, Subtropics, The Sycamore Review, Verse Daily, and West Branch, among others. Her credits include two chapbooks, The Girl Who Loved Mothra and Pentimento. Hellen’s latest poetry collection is The Only Country Was the Color of My Skin.