Rachelle Escamilla is a Chicana poet from the Central Coast of California. She has three collections of poetry, Imaginary Animal (Willow Books, 2015, 2nd Edition, 2021), Me Drawing a Picture of Me[n] (Willow Books, 2019), and Space Junk from the Heavenly Palace (Nomadic Press 2023).

Janice Lobo Sapigao is a Filipina American author from the San Francisco Bay Area. She was a Poet Laureate Fellow with the Academy of American Poets. She is an Associate Professor of English at Skyline College. She founded the Santa Clara County Youth Poet Laureate Program when she was the county Poet Laureate from 2020-2021.