Annette LePique is a freelance writer based in Chicago. She has contributed to the Cleveland Review of Books, Frieze, Momus, and ArtReview.

Jori Finkel writes about contemporary art with attention to gender issues. Her work appears regularly in The New York Times and The Art Newspaper.

Jessica Lanay is a hybrid poet, essayist, art historian, and art journalist. Her most recent reviews and interviews of artists can be found in BOMB Magazine and Art Review; she has also contributed writing to exhibition catalogs for The Andy Warhol Museum, Pen & Brush, and The Washington Project for the Arts.

Stephani Maari Booker is surviving the fire, plague and wrath of 2020s Minneapolis, MN, by creating works for the page and the stage in which she wrestles with her multiple marginalized identities: African American, lesbian, lower-class and nerdy.

José Santiago Pérez is an artist and educator based in Pittsburgh. Their work was recently exhibited at Tiger Strikes Asteroid (Chicago), the University Art Gallery at the University of Pittsburgh, and will be shown at Mindy Solomon Gallery (Miami) later this year.

Roger Q. Mason (they/them) is an award-winning playwright, performer and educator celebrated for visionary works like Lavender Men, which have earned prestigious accolades including the 2024 McKnight National Playwright Commission and the inaugural Dramatists Guild Foundation Catalyst Grant.

C. C. Ann Chen is an artist and educator based in Chicago, IL. Her work stems from architecture and landscape, exploring perceptual translations and misinterpretations of place and time.

Jean Shin is known for her sprawling and often public sculptures, transforming accumulations of discarded objects into powerful monuments that interrogate our complex relationship between material consumption, collective identity, and community engagement.